63G-3-201 - When rulemaking is required.
63G-3-201. When rulemaking is required.
(1) Each agency shall:
(a) maintain a current version of its rules; and
(b) make it available to the public for inspection during its regular business hours.
(2) In addition to other rulemaking required by law, each agency shall make rules whenagency action:
(a) authorizes, requires, or prohibits an action;
(b) provides or prohibits a material benefit;
(c) applies to a class of persons or another agency; and
(d) is explicitly or implicitly authorized by statute.
(3) Rulemaking is also required when an agency issues a written interpretation of a stateor federal legal mandate.
(4) Rulemaking is not required when:
(a) agency action applies only to internal agency management, inmates or residents of astate correctional, diagnostic, or detention facility, persons under state legal custody, patientsadmitted to a state hospital, members of the state retirement system, or students enrolled in astate education institution;
(b) a standardized agency manual applies only to internal fiscal or administrative detailsof governmental entities supervised under statute;
(c) an agency issues policy or other statements that are advisory, informative, ordescriptive, and do not conform to the requirements of Subsections (2) and (3); or
(d) an agency makes nonsubstantive changes in a rule, except that the agency shall file allnonsubstantive changes in a rule with the division.
(5) (a) A rule shall enumerate any penalty authorized by statute that may result from itsviolation, subject to Subsections (5)(b) and (c).
(b) A violation of a rule may not be subject to the criminal penalty of a class Cmisdemeanor or greater offense, except as provided under Subsection (5)(c).
(c) A violation of a rule may be subject to a class C or greater criminal penalty underSubsection (5)(a) when:
(i) authorized by a specific state statute;
(ii) a state law and programs under that law are established in order for the state to obtainor maintain primacy over a federal program; or
(iii) state civil or criminal penalties established by state statute regarding the program areequivalent to or less than corresponding federal civil or criminal penalties.
(6) Each agency shall enact rules incorporating the principles of law not already in itsrules that are established by final adjudicative decisions within 120 days after the decision isannounced in its cases.
(7) (a) Each agency may enact a rule that incorporates by reference:
(i) all or any part of another code, rule, or regulation that has been adopted by a federalagency, an agency or political subdivision of this state, an agency of another state, or by anationally recognized organization or association;
(ii) state agency implementation plans mandated by the federal government forparticipation in the federal program;
(iii) lists, tables, illustrations, or similar materials that are subject to frequent change,fully described in the rule, and are available for public inspection; or
(iv) lists, tables, illustrations, or similar materials that the director determines are tooexpensive to reproduce in the administrative code.
(b) Rules incorporating materials by reference shall:
(i) be enacted according to the procedures outlined in this chapter;
(ii) state that the referenced material is incorporated by reference;
(iii) state the date, issue, or version of the material being incorporated; and
(iv) define specifically what material is incorporated by reference and identify anyagency deviations from it.
(c) The agency shall identify any substantive changes in the material incorporated byreference by following the rulemaking procedures of this chapter.
(d) The agency shall maintain a complete and current copy of the referenced materialavailable for public review at the agency and at the division.
(8) (a) This chapter is not intended to inhibit the exercise of agency discretion within thelimits prescribed by statute or agency rule.
(b) An agency may enact a rule creating a justified exception to a rule.
(9) An agency may obtain assistance from the attorney general to ensure that its rulesmeet legal and constitutional requirements.
Amended by Chapter 347, 2009 General Session