APPLICABLE ARTICLES OF THE HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE.

1. A Hearing Board shall be chosen and appointed by the County Air Pollution Control Board as specified in Chapter 8, California Health and Safety Code except that if a vacancy occurs under Section 40802, the Board may appoint anyone to fill the vacancy except employees of any city, county, state or district.
2. The provisions of Division 26, Chapter 4, Article 2, of the State of California Health and Safety Code, as amended, respectively entitled "Variances" and "Procedure", are incorporated herein by this reference. 

CONTENTS OF PETITIONS.
Every petition shall state:

1. The name, address and telephone number of the petitioner, or other person authorized to receive service of notices;
2. Whether the petitioner is an individual, co-partnership, corporation or other entity; names and addresses of the partners if a co-partnership; names and addresses of the officers if a corporation; and the names and addresses of the persons in control, if other entity;
3. The type of business or activity involved in the application, and the street address at which it is conducted;
4. A brief description of the article, machine, equipment or other contrivance, if any, involved in the application;
5. The section or rule under which the petition is filed that is, whether petitioner desires a hearing;
   1. For a variance under Section 40828, Health and Safety Code;
   2. To revoke or modify a variance under Section 42356, Health and Safety Code;
   3. To review the denial or conditional granting of an Authorization to Construct, under Sections 54 and 55 of these Regulations.
6. Each petition shall be signed by the petitioner, or by some person on his behalf; and where the person signing is not the petitioner, it shall set forth his authority to sign. 

PETITION FOR VARIANCES.
In addition to the matters required by Section 112 petition for variance shall state briefly;

1. The section, rule or order complained of.
2. The facts showing why compliance with the section, rule or order is unreasonable.
3. For what period of time the variance is sought and why.
4. The damage or harm resulting, or which would result, to the petitioners from a compliance with such section, rule or order.
5. The requirements which petitioner can meet and the date when petitioner can comply with such requirements.
6. The advantages and disadvantages to the residents of the District resulting from granting a variance.
7. Whether or not operations under such variance, if granted, would constitute a nuisance. 

NOTICE OF HEARING.

1. The County Clerk shall mail or deliver a notice of the time and place of a hearing to the petitioner, the Air Pollution Control and upon the applicant, if any, not less than ten (10) days prior to such hearing.
2. The County Clerk shall also send notice of the hearing to every daily newspaper of general circulation in the District and to every person who requests such notice. The notice shall contain the time and place of the hearing and such other information as may be necessary to reasonably apprise the people with the District of the nature and purpose of the meeting.

EVIDENCE.

1. Oral evidence shall be taken only on oath or affirmation.
2. Each party shall have these rights: To call and examine witnesses, to introduce exhibits, to cross-examine opposing witnesses on any matter relevant to the issues even though that matter was not covered in the direct examination, to impeach any witness regardless of which party first called him to testify, and to rebut the evidence against him. If respondent does not testify in his own behalf, he may be called and examined as if under cross-examination.
3. The hearing need not be conducted according to technical rules relating to evidence and witnesses. Any relevant evidence shall be admitted if it is the sort of evidence on which responsible persons are accustomed to rely in the conduct of serious affairs regardless of the existence of any common law or statutory rule which might make improper the admission of such evidence over objection in civil actions. Hearsay evidence may be used for the purpose of supplementing or explaining any direct evidence but shall not be sufficient in itself to support a finding unless it would be admissible over objection in civil actions. The rules of privilege shall be effective to the same extent that they are not or hereafter may be recognized in civil actions, and irrelevant and unduly repetitious evidence shall be excluded. 

RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS. A record of all proceedings had before the Hearing Board shall be made. The record shall be prepared in accordance with one of the following methods:

1. A written summary of all the evidence, testimony and proceedings had and presented at the hearing shall be made be a person designated by the Hearing Board for that purpose.
2. By a magnetic tape recording.
3. Any interested person, including the Hearing Board or the District, may at his own cost provide a certified shorthand report satisfactory to the Hearing Board who shall prepare a verbatim transcript of all the evidence, testimony and proceedings had and presented at the hearing. The original and one copy of such transcript, each certified to by the reporter as to its accuracy, shall be filed with the Hearing Board within 30 day from the closing date of the hearing unless required by the Hearing Board prior to that time. No matter shall be deemed submitted under this Regulation until such transcript has been filed with the Hearing Board unless otherwise ordered by the Hearing Board.