KRS 341.440: Procedure on review -- Witness fees -- Finality of decisions.

(1) The manner in which appeals are presented and hearings and appeals

conducted shall be in accordance with regulations prescribed by the secretary

for determining the rights of the parties, and such hearings to be conducted in

a summary manner. A complete record shall be kept of all proceedings in

connection with any appeal. All testimony at any hearing upon an appeal shall

be recorded either stenographically or mechanically, but need not be

transcribed unless further appealed. No examiner, referee, or member of the

commission shall participate in any hearing in which he is an interested party.

(2) Witnesses subpoenaed pursuant to proceedings under KRS 341.420 and

341.430 shall be allowed fees in accordance with rates allowed by law. Such

fees and all expenses of proceedings before the Office of Unemployment

Insurance or commission involving disputed claims shall be deemed a part of

the expense of administering this chapter.

(3) In the absence of an appeal therefrom, decisions of the commission shall

become final thirty-five (35) days after the date they are made.