60-1-204 - Rules, regulations, and orders of board.
60-1-204. Rules, regulations, and orders of board.
(a) The board shall prescribe its rules of order, procedure in hearings or other proceedings before it under this chapter.
(b) No rule or order, in the absence of an emergency, may be made by the board except after a public hearing upon at least ten (10) days' notice in a manner and form prescribed by the board. Such public hearing shall be held at such time, place, and manner as may be prescribed by the board and any person having any interest in the subject matter of the hearing shall be entitled to be heard.
(c) If an emergency appears to the board to exist, it may act without a public hearing and the rule, regulation, or order shall be valid. This emergency rule or regulation shall remain in force not longer than fifteen (15) days after its effective date, and, in any event, shall expire when the rule or regulation made after due notice and hearing shall become effective.
(d) All rules and regulations of the board shall be entered in writing by the supervisor in a book kept for such purposes, which shall be a public record and open to inspection. A copy of such rules and regulations certified by the supervisor shall be received in evidence in all courts in this state with the same effect as the original.
[Acts 1943, ch. 64, § 6; C. Supp. 1950, § 5240.6; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 60-107.]