Section 575.100  Rulemaking Procedure

In accordance with Section 5-15 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, the Attorney General promulgates the following rule setting forth his rule making procedure.

a)         Proposed rules or amendments to rules shall be prepared by division chiefs and submitted to the First Assistant with a memorandum containing:

1)         the text of the proposed rule or the old and new material of a proposed amendment to an existing rule or the text of a rule proposed to be repealed,

2)         the specific statutory citation upon which the proposed action is based and

3)         a description of the subjects and the issues involved, including the reasons for the proposed action.

b)         The First Assistant shall forward the proposed rule and memorandum to the Attorney General with his recommendations.

c)         If the Attorney General approves the proposed action, the First Assistant Attorney General in the Springfield office, after consultation with the chief of the division who proposed the rule, or whose division is affected by the rule, shall submit the proposed change to the Secretary of State for publication in the Illinois Register.  The notice to the Secretary of State shall include the time, place and manner in which the interested persons may present their views and comments concerning the intended action, including the date, place and time for any proposed hearings on the rule.

d)         The notice procedures do not apply to the following rules which are required by Section 5-15(a) of the Administrative Procedure Act:

1)         The current description of the Attorney General's organization or the necessary charts depicting the same.

2)         The current procedure on how the public can obtain information or make submissions or requests on subjects, programs and activities of the Attorney General's office.

3)         The current description of the Attorney General's rule making procedures or the necessary flow charts depicting the same.

e)         Any interested person may petition the Attorney General or any division chief for the promulgation, amendment or repeal of a rule.  Such petitions must be written and may be in the form of a letter or a document entitled "Petition for Adoption of a Rule."  The petition shall include the text of the proposed rule or amendment or a citation to the rule which is to be repealed, together with the reasons for the proposed rule or amendment.  The division chief shall take the necessary action to prepare proposed changes, either as set forth in the petition or as modified, so that the office may initiate a rule making proceeding in accordance with subsections (a),(b) and (c) above, within 30 days of the receipt of the petition.  If a division chief believes that the proposed action should be denied, he shall inform the petitioner and the Attorney General within 30 days.

f)          The First Assistant Attorney General in the Springfield office shall be responsible for the compilation, indexing and publishing of all rules and shall see that the compilation's supplement and revisions are filed with the Secretary of State and the Cook County Law Library in Chicago and with the Joint Committee of Administrative Rules and shall certify those rules which are current to the Secretary of State every two years.