Alabama 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; submission of data, views, etc., by interested persons; procedure for adoption of emergency rules; effect of this section on other procedural requirements; validity of rules in substantial compliance with this section; limitation of proceedings to contest rules.
- Section 41-22-6 — Designation of agency secretary; filing of copies of rules with secretary; information as to authorship of rules; filing of copies of rules with Legislative Reference Service; maintenance of and public access to permanent registers of rules; 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 41-22-23 — 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.