Current through Register Vol. 54, No.43, October 26, 2024
Section 7.2 - Adoption of regulations(a) Section 202 of the act (45 P. S. § 1202) provides that before taking action upon an administrative regulation or change the agency shall review and consider a written comment submitted under § 7.1 (relating to notice of proposed rulemaking required) and may hold public hearings as appropriate; that if the statute or other authority under which a regulation is proposed to be promulgated, amended or repealed requires the holding of public hearings or establishes other procedures in addition to those prescribed by sections 201-208 of the act (45 P. S. §§ 1201-1208), the agency shall hold public hearings or comply with the other procedures as are not inconsistent with the provisions of the act; that the agency text of an administrative regulation or change as finally adopted may contain modifications to the proposed text as published under § 7.1 as do not enlarge its original purpose; and that modifications which enlarge the original purpose of a proposal as published under § 7.1 shall be republished thereunder prior to final adoption by the agency.(b) Whenever an agency finally adopts a proposed regulation more than 1 year after the proposed regulation was published under § 7.1, the Bureau will republish, in full, the entire regulation as finally adopted.The provisions of this §7.2 amended by JCD Order No. 30, dated October 13, 1977, 7 Pa.B. 3124. This section cited in 1 Pa. Code § 5.1 (relating to official text of published documents); 1 Pa. Code § 7.3 (relating to effective date of regulations); 1 Pa. Code § 7.4 (relating to omission of notice of proposed rulemaking); and 1 Pa. Code § 13.56 (relating to correction of errors).