Sec. 42.
(1) Except as provided in section 44, at a minimum, an agency, or the office of regulatory reform acting on behalf of the agency, shall publish the notice of public hearing as prescribed in any applicable statute or, if none, the agency, or the office of regulatory reform acting on behalf of the agency, shall publish the notice not less than 10 days and not more than 60 days before the date of the public hearing in at least 3 newspapers of general circulation in different parts of the state, 1 of which shall be in the Upper Peninsula.
(2) Additional methods that may be employed by the agency, or the office of regulatory reform acting on behalf of the agency, depending upon the circumstances, include publication in trade, industry, governmental, or professional publications or posting on the website of the agency or the office of regulatory reform.
(3) In addition to the requirements of subsection (1), the agency shall electronically submit a copy of the notice of public hearing to the office of regulatory reform for publication in the Michigan register. If the office of regulatory reform submitted the notice of public hearing on behalf of the agency, the office of regulatory reform shall publish the notice of public hearing in the Michigan register. An agency's notice shall be published in the Michigan register before the public hearing and the agency shall electronically file a copy of the notice of public hearing with the office of regulatory reform. Within 7 days after receipt of the notice of public hearing, the office of regulatory reform shall do all of the following before the public hearing:
(a) Electronically transmit a copy of the notice of public hearing to the committee.
(b) Provide notice electronically through publicly accessible internet media.
(4) After the office of regulatory reform electronically transmits a copy of the notice of public hearing to the committee, the committee shall electronically transmit copies of the notice of public hearing, not later than the next business day after receipt of the notice from the office of regulatory reform, to each member of the committee and to the members of the standing committees of the senate and house of representatives that deal with the subject matter of the proposed rule.
(5) After receipt of the notice of public hearing filed under subsection (3), the committee may meet to consider the proposed rule, take testimony, and provide the agency with the committee's informal response to the rule.
History: 1969, Act 306, Eff. July 1, 1970 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 413, Eff. Jan. 1, 1984 ;-- Am. 1986, Act 292, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 1986 ;-- Am. 1989, Act 288, Imd. Eff. Dec. 26, 1989 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 141, Imd. Eff. Aug. 4, 1993 ;-- Am. 1999, Act 262, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 23, Imd. Eff. Mar. 10, 2004 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 491, Eff. Jan. 12, 2005
Last modified: October 10, 2016