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 (Permanent Emergency Regulation)
• Appendix Z-3: Agency Checklist (Non-Permanent Emergency Regulation)

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