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Processing of deposited documents - 45 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 723

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     § 723.  Processing of deposited documents.
        (a)  Review of deposited text.--The bureau, or a qualified
     contractor selected by the bureau with the approval of the joint
     committee, may review any or all documents deposited with the
     bureau before they are released for publication, and may prepare
     in active cooperation with an agency a revised text of any
     document relating to the administrative regulations of the
     agency which conforms fully to the format established for the
     code, which eliminates all obsolete, unnecessary or unauthorized
     material, which has been prepared in such a manner as to lend to
     the published code as a whole uniformity of style and clarity of
     expression, and which does not effect any change in the
     substance of the deposited text of such regulations. Whenever
     any such revised text with respect to each agency is prepared,
     two duplicate original copies thereof, with proof of service of
     a third copy thereof upon the executive officer, chairman or
     secretary of such agency, shall be filed by the bureau with the
     joint committee, and shall immediately be made available by the
     bureau for public inspection and copying.
        (b)  Status of revised text.--Such revised text shall become
     the agency text of such regulations for the purposes of this
     part ten days after such filing unless, within such ten-day
     period, the agency shall file with the joint committee written
     objections to such revised text. In that event, the joint
     committee shall consult with the agency, shall make such
     alterations, if any, in such revised text as may be necessary in
     order to retain the substance of the deposited text of such
     regulations in a manner consistent with the standards of the
     code, and shall by order prescribe the text of such regulations
     which shall become the agency text thereof for the purposes of
     this part.

        Previously Filed Regulations.  Section 6 of Act 160 of 1976
     provided that, notwithstanding section 723(b), an agency may
     file written objections with the joint committee within 60 days
     after receiving the revised text of any regulations not
     previously published in the Pennsylvania Code which were filed
     in the Legislative Reference Bureau prior to the enactment of
     Act 160.
        Cross References.  Section 723 is referred to in section 722
     of this title.

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