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Executive Director or Board of Appeals deems necessary for the
effective administration of this article. Information thus
obtained shall not be published or be open to public inspection
(other than to public employees in the performance of their
public duties) in any manner revealing the employing unit's
identity, but any claimant at a hearing before a special
examiner, [a referee] AN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE A HEARING
EXAMINER or the Executive Director or Board of Appeals shall be
supplied with information from such records to the extent
necessary for the proper presentation of his claim. Any employee
of the Executive Director or Board of Appeals who violates any
provision of this section shall be fined not more than $1,000.00
or imprisoned for not longer than one year, or both.

16.

(b) No individual claiming benefits shall be charged fees
of any kind in any proceeding under this article by the Board of
Appeals or its representatives or by any court or by any officer
thereof. Any individual claiming benefits in any proceeding
before a special examiner, [referee] ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE
HEARING EXAMINER or the Board of Appeals may be represented by
counsel or other duly authorized agent; but no such agent, other
than an attorney at law, shall either charge or accept for such
services any remuneration whatever; and no such counsel shall
either charge or receive for such services more than an amount
approved by the Board of Appeals. An employer may appear for
itself or by counsel or other duly authorized agent, in any
proceeding before the [appeals referee] ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE
HEARING EXAMINER or the Board of Appeals. No person, firm or
corporation shall solicit the business of appearing on behalf of
persons claiming benefits or shall make it a business to solicit
employment for another in connection with claims for benefits
under this article. Any person, firm or corporation who violates
any provision of this subsection shall, for each such offense, be
fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one
year, or both.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1985.

Approved May 21, 1985.

CHAPTER 140
(Senate Bill 139)
AN ACT concerning

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