S.C. Code Regs. 81-32. Action by Board

The Board shall, with all convenient dispatch, proceed to hold a hearing or hearings, take evidence concerning the petitioner’s character and his claim of rehabilitation and make findings of fact and a decision. Reasonable notice of all such hearings before the Board shall be given to the petitioner or his counsel and to the President of the local medical association or associations in the county or counties in which the petitioner resides and in which he proposes to maintain an office in the event of his reinstatement. Such hearings may, in the discretion of the Board, be public and shall be public if the petitioner so requests in writing. Any interested person, any physician and any member of the local medical association or associations may appear before the Board in support of, or in opposition to, the petition.