Drafting Manual for Administrative Regulations
Drafting Manual for Administrative Regulations 2022 (23rd Edition) (PDF - 1.3M)
2023 Agency Regulation Training Slides (PDF - 4.5M)
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 [email protected].
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 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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