California Code of Regulations

California Code of Regulations  
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California Office of Administrative Law (California, United States)
Frequency Weekly
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OCLC no. 29706248
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The California Code of Regulations (CCR, Cal. Code Regs.) is the codification of the general and permanent rules and regulations (sometimes called administrative law) announced in the California Regulatory Notice Register by California state agencies. Such rules and regulations are reviewed, approved, and made available to the public by the Office of Administrative Law (OAL), and are also filed with the Secretary of State.

The CCR consists of 28 titles and contains the regulations of approximately 200 regulatory agencies. Title 24, the California Building Standards Code, is not maintained by the OAL but by the California Building Standards Commission. The regulations have substantial portions under copyright (e.g., Title 24, the California Building Standards Code), but still have the force of California law. Some regulations, such as the California Department of Social Services Manual of Policies and Procedures concerning welfare in California, are separately published (i.e., "available for public use in the office of the welfare department of each county").[1]

Its role is similar to the Code of Federal Regulations. Unlike the Federal Register, California regulations are not normally published in the Notice Register, meaning that until they are codified in the CCR they must be obtained from the individual agencies or elsewhere.

History

The CCR's predecessor, the California Administrative Code (CAC), resulted from efforts that began in 1941 to codify the growing body of state regulations. In 1988, the Legislature renamed the CAC to the CCR to reduce confusion with the enacted statutory codes.

The OAL contracts with Barclays, a division of Thomson Reuters, to provide a free online version of the official CCR, which is currently provided on the Web through a Westlaw-based interface. In 2008, Carl Malamud published title 24 of the CCR, the California Building Standards Code, on Public.Resource.Org for free, even though the OAL claims publishing regulations with the force of law without relevant permissions is unlawful.[2] In March 2012, Malamud published the rest of the CCR on law.resource.org.[3]

In February 2013 California State Assemblyman Brian Nestande (R-42) introduced AB 292 that would mandate the CCR be published under a Creative Commons license.[4][5]

Procedure

Regulations are reviewed, approved, and made available to the public by the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) pursuant to the California Administrative Procedure Act (APA).[6] The California Regulatory Notice Register contains notices of proposed regulatory actions by state regulatory agencies to adopt, amend, or repeal regulations contained in the CCR.[6] A state agency must complete its rulemaking and submit the rulemaking file to OAL within one year of the date of publication of a Notice of Proposed Action in the Notice Register. The OAL publishes the Notice Register every Friday.

List of regulation titles

See also

References

  1. ↑ Part 1, Division 2, Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations
  2. ↑ Halverson, Nathan. "He's giving you access, one document at a time". The Press Democrat. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
  3. ↑ "California Code of Regulations". Public.Resource.Org. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  4. ↑ Malmud, Carl (12 February 2013). "California bill to release the state's building codes online for free". Boing Boing.
  5. ↑ Farag, Nanette (2013). "AB 292: California Code of Regulations: Open Access". California State Assembly. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Watt, Robert; Johns, Francis (2009). Concise Legal Research. Federation Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-862-87723-8.

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