Additional contents of Pennsylvania Bulletin - 45 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 725

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     § 725.  Additional contents of Pennsylvania Bulletin.
        (a)  General rule.--Except as otherwise provided by
     regulations promulgated by the joint committee the following
     documents, if not otherwise required to be published by this
     part, shall be published in the bulletin:
            (1)  All proclamations and executive orders of the
        Governor, except such as have no general applicability and
        legal effect or are effective only against Commonwealth
        agencies or persons in their capacity as officers, agents or
        employees thereof.
            (2)  All agency notices directed to the public with
        respect to proceedings conducted under any statute the
        expense of the administration of which is by law assessed
        directly against the class of persons regulated or supervised
        thereunder.
            (3)  All agency documents which are required by law to be
        published, or the expense of publication of which is
        specially assumed by the agency filing such document.
            (4)  Any legislative document filed with the Legislative
        Reference Bureau pursuant to a resolution adopted by either
        House of the General Assembly.
            (5)  Any judicial document filed with the Legislative
        Reference Bureau by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania
        Courts.
            (6)  Any other document or class of documents which the
        Governor, the joint committee or the Director of the
        Legislative Reference Bureau may require or authorize to be
        published in the bulletin.
        (b)  Power to require publication of certain documents in the
     bulletin.--Whenever the joint committee finds, after notice to
     the agency affected and opportunity for hearing, that public
     notice of any agency action or proceeding or class of actions or
     proceedings is required by due process of law, or in the
     discretion of the joint committee should otherwise be given for
     the information of the public, the joint committee may by
     regulation require the agency to prepare and deposit under this
     part notice of each such action or proceeding at such time and
     containing in each case such information as the regulations of
     the joint committee may require. If an agency fails to deposit a
     notice required pursuant to this subsection the action of the
     agency or the results of the proceeding shall not be valid for
     any purpose.

        Cross References.  Section 725 is referred to in sections
     724, 732 of this title; section 8502 of Title 24 (Education);
     section 5902 of Title 71 (State Government); sections 6121, 6131
     of Title 74 (Transporation); sections 4908, 9206 of Title 75
     (Vehicles).

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