10-5-3: Hearing; testimony.

Within five days after such suspension or within such reasonable time as the person suspended may request, the secretary of finance and administration shall conduct a hearing for the person suspended. At such hearing the person suspended may show cause why such suspension should not be continued. The state auditor, and the employees of his office or the auditors employed by the state auditor to conduct the audit upon which suspension was based, shall appear at the hearing and give testimony.