California Government Code ARTICLE 1 - General

• Section 11340.
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows:(a) There has been an unprecedented growth in the number of administrative regulations in recent years.(b) The language of many regulations...
• Section 11340.1.
  (a) The Legislature therefore declares that it is in the public interest to establish an Office of Administrative Law which shall be charged with the orderly...
• Section 11340.2.
  (a) The Office of Administrative Law is hereby established in state government in the Government Operations Agency. The office shall be under the direction and control...
• Section 11340.3.
  The director may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with law, of such professional assistants and clerical and other employees as is deemed necessary...
• Section 11340.4.
  (a) The office is authorized and directed to do the following:(1) Study the subject of administrative rulemaking in all its aspects.(2) In the interest of fairness, uniformity, and...
• Section 11340.5.
  (a) No state agency shall issue, utilize, enforce, or attempt to enforce any guideline, criterion, bulletin, manual, instruction, order, standard of general application, or other rule,...
• Section 11340.6.
  Except where the right to petition for adoption of a regulation is restricted by statute to a designated group or where the form of procedure...
• Section 11340.7.
  (a) Upon receipt of a petition requesting the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 11346), a state agency...
• Section 11340.85.
  (a) As used in this section, “electronic communication” includes electronic transmission of written or graphical material by electronic mail, facsimile, or other means, but does not...
• Section 11340.9.
  This chapter does not apply to any of the following:(a) An agency in the judicial or legislative branch of the state government.(b) A legal ruling of counsel...
• Section 11341.
  (a) The office shall establish a system to give a unique identification number to each regulatory action.(b) The office and the state agency taking the regulatory action...
• Section 11342.1.
  Except as provided in Section 11342.4, nothing in this chapter confers authority upon or augments the authority of any state agency to adopt, administer, or...
• Section 11342.2.
  Whenever by the express or implied terms of any statute a state agency has authority to adopt regulations to implement, interpret, make specific or otherwise...
• Section 11342.4.
  The office shall adopt, amend, or repeal regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.(Added by renumbering Section 11344.6 by Stats....

Last modified: October 22, 2018