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Sec. 44.62.780. Judicial review.

An agency action relating to establishing, assisting, or terminating a negotiated regulation making committee under AS 44.62.710 – 44.62.800 is not subject to judicial review. Nothing in this section bars judicial review if the judicial review is otherwise provided by law. A regulation that is the product of negotiated regulation making and is later subject […]

Sec. 44.62.790. Relationship to other requirements.

The negotiated regulation making authorized by AS 44.62.710 – 44.62.800 is in addition to the procedures required under AS 44.62.010 – 44.62.319 for adopting, amending, or repealing regulations, and, if an agency head decides to use negotiated regulation making, the negotiated regulation making shall, where possible, occur before the procedures under AS 44.62.010 – 44.62.319 […]

Sec. 44.62.795. Confidentiality of certain records and documents.

Notwithstanding AS 40.25.100 – 40.25.220, records from private persons that are requested or used by a negotiated regulation making committee and working documents prepared by the committee that analyze or incorporate information from the records shall be kept confidential if the records or working documents contain proprietary information and the owner of the records or […]

Sec. 44.62.800. Definitions.

In AS 44.62.710 – 44.62.800, (1) “agency” means a department, an institution, or a division or other administrative unit of the executive branch of state government authorized or required by law to make regulations, except that “agency” does not include (A) a board, a commission, a council, an authority, or a public corporation of the […]

Sec. 44.62.930. Teleconferencing.

(a) An agency may use teleconferencing for the benefit or convenience of the parties, the public, or the agency, in connection with a proceeding or act authorized under this chapter if all statutory and constitutional rights of the parties are waived or adequately protected. (b) Teleconferencing may be used to establish quorums, receive public input, […]

Sec. 44.62.460. Evidence rules.

(a) Oral evidence may be taken only on oath or affirmation. (b) Each party may (1) call and examine witnesses; (2) introduce exhibits; (3) cross-examine opposing witnesses on matter relevant to the issues, even though that matter was not covered in the direct examination; (4) impeach a witness regardless of which party first called the […]

Sec. 44.62.620. Power to administer oaths.

In a proceeding under AS 44.62.330 – 44.62.630 an agency, agency member, secretary of an agency, or hearing officer may administer oaths and affirmations and certify official acts.

Sec. 44.62.470. Evidence by affidavit.

(a) At any time 10 or more days before a hearing or a continued hearing, a party may mail or deliver to the opposing party a copy of an affidavit that the party proposes to introduce in evidence, together with a notice as provided in (b) of this section. Unless the opposing party, within seven […]

Sec. 44.62.480. Official notice.

In reaching a decision official notice may be taken, either before or after submission of the case for decision, of a generally accepted technical or scientific matter within the agency’s special field, and of a fact that is judicially noticed by the courts of the state. Parties present at the hearing shall be informed of […]