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| The Kaohsiung County Council Hearing Session’s Implementation Measures |
| Voluntarily filed as per a Ministry of the Interior ordinance, Ref. Taiwan (2000) Interior, Civil No. 8973506, dated May 29, 2000 |
| Article 1 |
The Kaohsiung County Council (the Council) has specifically drafted and finalized this measures in supporting of holding hearing sessions. |
| Article 2 |
The council, in search of reviewing or studying proposals, may stage hearings as motioned through the general assembly. |
| Article 3 |
The staging of a hearing shall have the spearheading board or a project taskforce draft an implementation plan, which is to be submitted for the council speaker’s approval before it is implemented. |
| Article 4 |
The hearing sessions, except otherwise motioned by the general assembly, shall be presided by the spearheading council or taskforce commissioner. The hearing session proceedings are as follows,
- An abstract of the hearing presented by the meeting chair.
- Description presented by relevant agencies.
- Opinions presented by contingent parties.
- Opinions presented by representatives of experts, scholars and relevant organizations.
- Debate, inquiry.
- Inquiry by council members.
- Conclusion by the meeting chair.
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| Article 5 |
The hearing may extend invitations to include experts, scholars, relevant agencies, organization representatives and contingent parties to be present, and the choice of the invitees shall take into account a fitting proportion of the favorable and unfavorable opinions, where members on the spearheading board or a project taskforce may be present at the hearing, and other council members may also be present at the hearing.
The foresaid contingent parties refer to the petitioner of a proposal, and the general public whose entitlements and obligations are impacted by the proposal directly or indirectly. |
| Article 6 |
The attendants of a hearing are to be notified by the council seven days before a hearing is to be staged, which shall record the following measures,
- The name of the hearing proposal.
- The abstract and premises of the hearing proposal.
- The hearing date, time and venue.
- The name of the spearheading board or a project taskforce.
- Any other essential measures.
The experts, scholars invited to attend as cited in par one may draw token attendance fee, meal and boarding expenditure, and travel stipend. |
| Article 7 |
Any contingent party, who should be unable to attend a hearing under extraordinary circumstances or unable to provide description adequately, and whom has been consented by the host of the hearing, may present whose deposition in writing or by an appointed representative.
Any invited expert, scholar, organization representative, who should be unable to attend the hearing, may submit whose written opinions. |
| Article 8 |
The invited participants are not limited to deposing whose own opinions, and may engage in mutual debate and questioning, and the attending council members may only question the participants on unclear facts or focal disputing points, but may not conclude a favorable or unfavorable expression, and the presiding council members may also express their opinions upon securing the meeting chair’s consent; however, the invited participants shall not engage in providing bogus or untrue statements. |
| Article 9 |
A hearing’s records shall record the following measures,
- The name of the proposal.
- The name of the spearheading board or a project taskforce.
- The attendees.
- The hearing date and venue.
- The content of the deposition and inquiries.
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| Article 10 |
The spearheading board or a project taskforce, upon concluding a hearing, shall review the proposal by referring to the hearing records, or compile a project report, which shall be submitted to the general assembly. |
| Article 11 |
The council, when rendering not to accept the results of the hearing, shall describe the reason why at the time of motioning. |
| Article 12 |
The measures are to be implemented following motioned through the general assembly, and subject to a voluntary filing with the Ministry of the Interior. |
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