Drafting Manual for Administrative Regulations

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The Drafting Manual for Administrative Regulations is produced by the Legislation, Regulations & Legislative Research Section of the Alaska Department of Law. If you have questions, please contact law.regulations@alaska.gov.

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 AA: Material Incorporated by Reference
• APPENDIX A: File Opening and Preliminary Review Request
• APPENDIX B-1: Notice of Proposed Regulations (Newspaper)
• APPENDIX B-2: Notice of Proposed Regulations (Non-Newspaper)
• APPENDIX B-3: Notice of Proposed Regulations (Board of Fisheries, Board of Game, AOGCC, and RCA)
• APPENDIX C-1: Additional Regulation Notice Information
• APPENDIX C-2: Additional Regulation Notice Information (Board of Fisheries, Board of Game, AOGCC, and RCA)
• APPENDIX D: Fiscal Note
• APPENDIX E: Department of Law Final Review Request
• APPENDIX F: Certification of Notice of Proposed Regulation
• APPENDIX G: Certification of Agency Record of Public Comment
• APPENDIX H: Certification of Oral Hearing
• APPENDIX I: Adoption Order
• APPENDIX J: Certification Order
• APPENDIX K: Limited Delegation
• APPENDIX L: Standing Delegation
• APPENDIX M: Staff Certification of Board / Commission Action
• APPENDIX N: Example Excerpt of Board Minutes
• APPENDIX O: Post-Filing Online Summary
• APPENDIX P: Finding of Emergency and Adoption Order
• APPENDIX Q: Finding of Emergency and Certification Order
• APPENDIX R-1: Notice of Adoption of Emergency Regulation (Newspaper)
• APPENDIX R-2: Notice of Adoption of Emergency Regulation (Non-Newspaper)
• APPENDIX R-3: Notice of Adoption of Emergency Regulations (Board of Fisheries, Board of Game, AOGCC, and RCA)
• APPENDIX S: Certification of Notice of Emergency Regulation
• APPENDIX T: Certification of Compliance
• APPENDIX U: Notice of Amended Material Previously Adopted by Reference
• APPENDIX V: Certification of Notice of Amended Material
• APPENDIX W: Non-APA Adoption Order
• APPENDIX X: Non-APA Certification Order
• APPENDIX Y: Example Regulations
• APPENDIX Z-1: Agency Checklist - Regular Regulation
• APPENDIX Z-2: Agency Checklist - Emergency Regulation

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