The party adversely affected by an order or a partial or final judgment may file a motion for reconsideration of such order or judgment within twenty (20) days from the filing date of the order or judgment. The agency shall consider the motion within fifteen (15) days from its filing. Should it deny it outright or fail to act on it within fifteen (15) days, the term to request review shall begin to elapse again from the date of notice of such denial or from the expiration of the fifteen (15)-day term, as the case may be. If a determination is made upon consideration, the term to petition for review shall begin to elapse from the filing date of a copy of the notice of the agency’s final judgment regarding the motion for reconsideration in the case record. Such judgment shall be issued and filed in the case record within ninety (90) days after the motion for reconsideration has been filed. If the agency accepts the motion for reconsideration but fails to act on it within ninety (90) days from its filing, it shall lose jurisdiction over the motion and the term to request judicial review shall begin to elapse once said ninety (90)-day term elapses, unless the agency, for just cause ays from its filing, it shall lose jurisdiction over the motion and the term to request judicial review shall begin to elapse once said ninety (90)-day term elapses, unless the agency, for just cause and within those ninety (90) days, extends the term to issue a judgment for a term that shall not exceed thirty (30) additional days.\nIf the filing date of the copy of the notice of entry of judgment or order differ from the date of mailing of said notice, the term shall be calculated from the mailing date.\nHistory —Aug. 12, 1988, No. 170, § 3.15; Aug. 5, 1989, No. 43, § 6; Dec. 25, 1995, No. 247, § 4, eff. May 1, 1996; Dec. 15, 2013, No. 132, § 2, eff. 30 days after Nov. 15, 2013.
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