Section 41-22-27 Effective date of chapter; validity, review, etc., of existing rules; disposition of certain cases and proceedings. (a) This chapter shall take effect at 12:01 a.m., October 1, 1982; provided, however, that Section 41-22-22 shall take effect October 1, 1981. In order that the Legislative Reference Service may appoint and hire an aide to […]
Section 41-22-3 Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except when the context otherwise requires: (1) AGENCY. Every board, bureau, commission, department, officer, or other administrative office or unit of the state, including the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, other […]
Section 41-22-4 Adoption by agencies of rules governing organization, practice, etc.; public access to rules, orders, etc.; effect of rules, orders, etc., not made available to public. (a) In addition to the other rulemaking requirements imposed by law, each agency shall: (1) Adopt as a rule a description of its organization, stating the general course […]
Section 41-22-5 Notice of intent to adopt, amend, or repeal rules; adoption of emergency rules; procedural requirements; proceedings to contest rules. (a) Prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any rule, the agency shall: (1) Give at least 35 days’ notice of its intended action. Date of publication in the Alabama Administrative Monthly shall […]
Section 41-22-5.1 Public notification of proposed rules; business economic impact statement; applicability. (a) This section and Section 41-22-5.2 shall be known and may be cited as “The Red Tape Reduction Act.” (b) When an agency files a notice of intent to adopt, amend, or repeal any rule, the agency shall make its best efforts to […]
Section 41-22-5.2 Review of existing rules. (a) Within five years of July 1, 2013, each agency shall review all agency rules existing on that date to determine whether the rules should be continued without change, or should be amended or rescinded. The agency may indicate compliance with the requirements of this section by filing a […]
Section 41-22-6 Designation and duties of agency secretaries; effective dates of rules. (a) Each agency shall have an officer designated as its secretary and shall file in the office of the secretary of the agency a certified copy of each rule adopted by it, including all rules existing on October 1, 1981. Each rule adopted, […]
Section 41-22-7 Contents, publication, and availability of administrative material; duties of Legislative Services Agency, Legal Division. (a) The secretary of an agency shall establish and maintain an official register of rules which shall be compiled, indexed, published in loose-leaf form, electronic form, or both, and kept up to date by the secretary of the agency. […]
Section 41-22-8 Form for petition for adoption, amendment, or repeal of rules; procedure upon submission of petition. Each agency shall prescribe by rule the form for petition requesting the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule and the procedure for submission, consideration, and disposition thereof. Within 60 days after submission of a petition, the agency […]
Section 41-22-9 Adoption by reference of codes, standards, and regulations of other agencies of this state or the United States or of other approved organizations; form of reference; availability from agency of information as to rules, etc., adopted by reference. An agency may adopt, by reference in its rules and without publishing the adopted matter […]
