Chapter 22 - Administrative Procedure.

Chapter 22 - Administrative Procedure.

Section 41-22-1 - Short title.
Section 41-22-2 - Legislative intent and purpose; effect on substantive rights; applicability; authority to prescribe rules and regulations required in connection with this chapter.
Section 41-22-3 - Definitions.
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.
Section 41-22-5 - Notice of intent to adopt, amend, or repeal rules; adoption of emergency rules; procedural requirements; proceedings to contest rules.
Section 41-22-5.1 - Public notification of proposed rules; business economic impact statement; applicability.
Section 41-22-5.2 - Review of existing rules.
Section 41-22-6 - Designation and duties of agency secretaries; effective dates of rules.
Section 41-22-7 - Contents, publication, and availability of agency administrative codes, Alabama Administrative Code, and Alabama Administrative Monthly; filing of rules, amendments and repealers with Legislative Reference Service; uniform system for numbering rules; omission from publications of rules which are applicable to only one county; cost to agencies for use of Alabama Administrative Monthly.
Section 41-22-8 - Form for petition for adoption, amendment or repeal of rules; procedure upon submission of petition.
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.
Section 41-22-10 - Action for declaratory judgment as to validity or applicability of rule; stay of enforcement of rule by injunction.
Section 41-22-11 - Petition for declaratory ruling as to validity of rule, as to applicability of any rule or statute enforceable by an agency, or as to meaning and scope of agency order; form and contents; binding effect of agency ruling; effect of failure to issue ruling; judicial review.
Section 41-22-12 - Notice and opportunity for hearing in contested cases; contents of notice; power of presiding officer to issue subpoenas, discovery and protective orders; procedure upon failure of notified party to appear; presentation of evidence and argument; right to counsel; disposition by stipulation, settlement, etc.; contents of record; public attendance at oral proceedings; recordings and transcripts of oral proceedings.
Section 41-22-13 - Rules of evidence in contested cases.
Section 41-22-14 - Intervention in contested cases.
Section 41-22-15 - Majority requirement for adoption of final decision in contested cases; use of proposed orders in cases where any official is unfamiliar with the case; finality of proposed orders.
Section 41-22-16 - Form and content of final order; when final order to be rendered; service of notice and copies of final order.
Section 41-22-17 - Filing of application for rehearing in contested cases; form and content; effect of application on final order; grounds for rehearing; service of application on parties of record; agency decision on application.
Section 41-22-18 - Disqualification from participation in proposed order or final decision based upon conflict of interest or personal bias.
Section 41-22-19 - Grant, denial, renewal, etc., of licenses.
Section 41-22-20 - Judicial review of preliminary, procedural, etc., actions or rulings and final decisions in contested cases.
Section 41-22-21 - Appeal of final judgment of circuit court under Section 41-22-20.
Section 41-22-22 - Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review.
Section 41-22-22.1 - Review of board and commission rules and actions by Legislative Reference Service and Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review; fees.
Section 41-22-23 - Submission and review of proposed rules; fiscal note required for rules with economic impact.
Section 41-22-24 - Reconsideration of disapproved rules by the Legislature.
Section 41-22-25 - Construction and applicability of chapter.
Section 41-22-26 - Repeal of inconsistent laws.
Section 41-22-27 - Effective date of chapter; validity, review, etc., of existing rules; disposition of adjudicative proceedings commenced prior to October 1, 1983; effective date and applicability as to Alabama Department of Environmental Management.

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