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| the body of law concerned with the power of administrative agencies. Administrative law consists of rules, regulations, orders, and adjudications. Also the composite body of substantive law created by the various administrative agencies in the performance of their assigned tasks. |
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| rules promulgated by an administrative agency under authority given to the agency by the enabling statute |
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| collectively, subbranches of the executive branch of federal, state, and local governments. Administrative agencies may possess legislative, executivee, and judicial powers in specialized technical areas where appropriate regulation requires action by experts. |
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| generally, administrative bodies headed by single persons untimately answerable to one person, the chief executive. |
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| independant administrative agency |
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| An administrative body empowered to regulate some policy area led by officials who cannot be dismissed by the president of the united states except for good cause. |
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| a process of eliminating, reducing, or restructuring the regulation of an industry. |
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| a statute that creates an administrative agency and typically also authorizes it to perform specified actions. |
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| administrative procedure act (APA) of 1946 |
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| law that mandates procedures for federal administrative agencies |
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| a process to bring together representatives of a rulemaking agency and stakeholders to ointly prepare the text of a proposed rule in consensus seeking negotiation before the agency formally submits the rule to the rulemaking process. |
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| a government emplpoyee appointed to hear and decide matters in administrative agency hearings |
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| a command from an admisitrative agency that the subject party refrain from specified activities. |
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| an oral proceeding before an administrative agency to hear and decide some factual question related to agency action |
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| freedom of INformation ACT (FOIA) |
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| a federal law requiring the federal government to disclose most public records to any person on request. |
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| Government in the Sunshine Act |
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| A federal law requiring that most meetings of federal agencies be open for public observation and that advance notice be given of agency meetings, listing the expected topics of discussion. |
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| regulatory flexibility act |
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| Federal law requiring federal agencies to consider the effects of their regulatory actions on small businesses and other small entities and to minimize any undue disproportionate burden. |
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| a person's right or capacity to bring a lawsuit because he or she has a legally protected interest at stake in the litigation |
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| a doctrine requiring that a person attempt all available options within an administrative agency before taking a claim to court. |
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