1 Pa. Code § 7.10

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 49, December 7, 2024

Section 7.10 - Sample order adopting regulations

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES

JOINT COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTS

December 2, 1969

Before Members: (insert names of agency members participating in action on order.)

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF JOINT COMMITTEE

[DOCKET NO. R-2; ORDER NO..5]

Amending Rules and Procedures of the Joint Committee

By order adopted July 8, 1969 in this preceding (Order No. 4, Rules and Regulations of Joint Committee, Docket No. R-2) we prescribed definitive Rules and Procedures for the implementation of the act of July 31, 1968 (P. L. 769, No. 240) (45 P. S. §§ 1102, 1201-1208 and 1602) and 45 Pa.C.S. Chapters 5, 7 and 9, known as the Commonwealth Documents Law. Since that time a contract has been let to Autocode, a Division of Autocomp, Incorporated of Bethesda, Maryland, for the compilation, printing and distribution of the Pennsylvania Code, which places the Joint Committee in a position to amend its Rules and Procedures to prescribe subscription charges for the Code.

Also we have received suggestions for the modification and improvement of our Rules and Procedures from the Court Administrator of Pennsylvania, representatives of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and other sources.

On the subject of Code subscription prices we are mindful of the injunction of CDL § 603 (45 P. S. § 1603) that we should administer the CDL "with a view toward encouraging the widest possible dissemination of documents among the persons affected thereby which is consistent with the due administration of public affairs," and of established practices in this Commonwealth concerning the public distribution of official documents of comparable character. Accordingly, we are adopting a policy of fixing a subscription price as low as reasonably possible, with the thought that the large number of users which such a subscription price may be expected to generate will result in economies of scale which ultimately should minimize the net cost of the Pennsylvania Code to the Commonwealth. Since it is difficult to predict the volume of supplementation which will be involved in connection with the Code, we are postponing a decision on the annual subscription rate for up-keep service by providing that the price of the Code will include supplementation service through June 30, 1971.

The other amendments which we are adopting today are minor in nature and are fully self-explanatory.

The Joint Committee finds:

(1) That public notice of intention to adopt the amendments to the Rules and Procedures adopted herein was given under 1 Pa. Code § 7.1 (relating to notice of proposed rulemaking required) by publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin, 1 Pa.B. 64.

(2) The amendments to the Rules and Procedures adopted herein are necessary and appropriate for the administration of the Commonwealth Documents Law.

The Joint Committee, acting pursuant to The Administrative Code of 1929 and the Commonwealth Documents Law, including particularly those sections specified in the several authority citations herein specified with respect to each provision of the Rules and Procedures of the Joint Committee amended by this order, orders:

(A) The Rules and Procedures of the Joint Committee, as heretofore in effect, 1 Pa. Code Part I, are amended by adding, deleting and amending §§ 5.2, 9.14, 9.222(a), 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 15.21 and 15.23(b) to read as set forth in full in Annex A to this order.

(B) The Chairman of the Joint Committee shall submit the amendments to the Rules and Procedures of the Joint Committee effected hereby to the Department of Justice for approval as to legality as required by law.

(C) The Secretary of the Joint Committee shall duly certify this order and Annex A hereto and deposit the same with the Legislative Reference Bureau as required by law.

(D) This order shall take effect immediately.

By the Joint Committee

[SEAL]...JOHN DOE

Secretary

1 Pa. Code § 7.10

The provisions of this § 7.10 added by JCD Order No. 6, dated May 21, 1970, 1 Pa.B. 10, and amended by JCD Order No. 8, dated November 10, 1970, 1 Pa.B. 480.

The provisions of this § 7.10 issued under sections 201-208 of the act of July 31, 1968 (P. L. 769, No. 240) (45 P. S. §§ 1201-1208); and 45 Pa.C.S. § 503.