§ 1134 — Powers and duties of the Registrar in preparation and maintenance of the Register of Regulations

Delaware § 1134

• Jurisdiction: Delaware
• Title: 29
• Part: The General Assembly
• Ch. 11: LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
• Subch.: Agency Regulations

Text

(a) The Registrar in the course of compiling and maintaining the Register of Regulations shall:

(1) In writing, notify all agencies authorized to make regulations that they are to submit to the Division copies of all proposed regulations as well as all subsequent amendments, repeals, additions or new or proposed regulations as they are proposed and statements of purpose thereof;

(2) Advise agencies as to the form and style of the regulations, as well as, to the extent practicable, the classification thereof into categories of substance, procedure and organization;

(3) Have the authority to make revisions to both proposed and existing regulations that do not alter the sense, meaning or effect of such regulations, including, but not limited to:

a. Renumbering and rearranging sections or parts of sections;

b. Transferring of sections or dividing of sections so as to give to distinct subject matters a separate section number, but without changing the meaning;

c. Inserting or changing the wording of headnotes;

d. Change reference numbers to agree with renumbered regulations or sections thereof;

e. Substituting the proper section or regulation number for the terms “this regulation”, “the preceding section” and the like;

f. Striking out figures where they are merely a repetition of written words and vice versa;

g. Changing capitalization for the purpose of uniformity;

h. Correcting of manifest typographical and grammatical errors; and

i. Making any other purely formal or clerical changes in keeping with the purpose of the revision.

(4) Have the authority to promulgate rules and regulations;

(5) Have authority to publish the full text or a summary of proposed, final or emergency regulations; and

(6) Publish the following month all proposed regulations received by the 15th of the month preceding.

(b) The Registrar may include in the Register of Regulations such other governmental information as the Registrar deems appropriate.

Legislative History

69 Del. Laws, c. 107, § 4 ; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1 ; 71 Del. Laws, c. 48, §§ 4, 12 ; 72 Del. Laws, c. 88, § 3