§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.

(a) Each agency shall have an officer designated as its secretary and shall file in the office of the secretary of the agency a certified copy of each rule adopted by it, including all rules, as defined in this chapter, existing on October 1, 1981. Each rule or regulation promulgated, whether the original or a revision, and all copies thereof, shall have the name or names of the author or authors, respectively, on its face. The secretary of the agency shall keep a permanent register of the rules open to public inspection.

(b) The secretary of each agency shall file in the office of the Legislative Reference Service, no later than 15 days after the filing with the secretary of the agency and within 90 days after completion of the notice, in a form and manner prescribed by the Legislative Reference Service, a certified copy of each rule adopted by it. As used in this section, "completion of notice" means the end of the notice period specified pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of Section 41-22-5. A rule that is not filed with the Legislative Reference Service within the time limits prescribed in this subdivision is invalid. The Legislative Reference Service shall keep a permanent register of the rules open to public inspection.

(c) Each rule hereafter adopted is effective 35 days after filing with the Legislative Reference Service, unless it is:

(1) A rule for which a later date is required by statute or specified in the rule.

(2) A rule for which an earlier date is required by statute.

(3) An emergency rule adopted pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 41-22-5.

(4) A rule which the committee disapproves of or proposes an amendment for pursuant to Section 41-22-23.

(Acts 1981, No. 81-855, p. 1534, §6; Acts 1986, No. 86-472, p. 880, §1; Acts 1993, No. 93-627, p. 1051, §1.)