Drafting Manual for Administrative Regulations

DRAFTING MANUAL FOR ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS (2015) (PDF - 1.26M) posted 09/01/2015

• Memorandum re: Highlights of Significant Changes in the Drafting Manual for Administrative Regulations (2015) (PDF - 80K)

The Drafting Manual for Administrative Regulations is produced by the Legislation and Regulations Section of the Alaska Department of Law. If you have questions, please contact Susan Pollard at (907) 465-3600. The latest version is the August 2015 version.

The manual includes, as appendices, forms needed for drafting administrative regulations and for preparing a final regulations package. As a convenience, individual electronic links to the appendix documents are provided below; these individual documents are in MS Word format, for downloading.

• APPENDIX A - AGENCY CHECKLIST REGS
• APPENDIX B - AGENCY CHECKLIST EMERG REGS
• APPENDIX C - SAMPLE REGULATIONS
• APPENDIX D-1 - NOTICE OF PROPOSED REGS – NEWSPAPER
• APPENDIX D-2 - NOTICE OF PROPOSED REGS – NON-NEWSPAPER
• APPENDIX D-3 - NOTICE OF PROP REGS – NEWSPAPER (EXEMPT BDS COMMNS)
• APPENDIX E-1 - ADDITIONAL REGS NOTICE INFORMATION
• APPENDIX E-2 - ADDITIONAL REGS NOTICE INFORMATION (EXEMPT BDS COMMNS)
• APPENDIX F - FISCAL NOTE
• APPENDIX G - AGENCY FILE OPENING REQUEST
• APPENDIX H - AFFIDAVIT OF NOTICE
• APPENDIX I - AFFIDAVIT OF ORAL HEARING
• APPENDIX J - ADOPTION ORDER
• APPENDIX K - AFFIDAVIT OF AGENCY RECORD – PUBLIC COMMENT
• APPENDIX L - CERTIFICATION ORDER
• APPENDIX M - BOARD MINUTES
• APPENDIX N - STAFF AFFIDAVIT OF BOARD ACTION
• APPENDIX O - STANDING DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
• APPENDIX P - LIMITED DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
• APPENDIX Q - AGENCY REQUEST FOR FINAL REVIEW
• APPENDIX R - FINDING OF EMERGENCY/ADOPTION ORDER
• APPENDIX S - FINDING OF EMERGENCY/CERTIFICATION ORDER
• APPENDIX T-1 - NOTICE OF ADOPT OF EMERG REGS – NEWSPAPER
• APPENDIX T-2 - NOTICE OF ADOPT OF EMERG REGS – NON-NEWSPAPER
• APPENDIX T-3 - NOTICE OF ADOP OF EMERG REGS – NEWSPAPER (EXEMPT BDS COMMNS)
• APPENDIX U - AFFIDAVIT OF NOTICE: EMERGENCY REGS.
• APPENDIX V - CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE
• APPENDIX W - NOTICE OF AMENDED MAT'L ADOPT BY REF
• APPENDIX X - AFFADAVIT OF NOTICE OF AMEND MAT'L ADOPT BY REF
• APPENDIX Y - AGENCY ATTY REVIEW CHECKLIST REGS
• APPENDIX Z - AGENCY ATTY REVIEW CHECKLIST EMERG REGS
• APPENDIX AA - ADOPTION ORDER FOR NON-APA REGS.
• APPENDIX BB - ORDER CERTIFYING THE CHANGES TO REGULATIONS
• APPENDIX CC - AK STATE LEGIS UNIFORM RULES
• APPENDIX DD - LEGISLATIVE BRANCH E-MAIL ADDRESSES

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