Research administrative rules How to research Administrative Rules Administrative rules are laws affecting the legal rights and privileges of the public or other governmental entities, and have all the effects of a statute enacted by the Legislature. Rules are created by agencies of the state's executive branch, are enacted as laws under regulatory authority granted by the Legislature or the state Constitution, and are subordinate to statutes. In short, the Legislature has created a method by which Executive branch agencies can codify their own policies and procedures and give them the force of law.
Administrative rules go through an approval process which includes a public comment period.
The process of making administrative rules involves the production of a number of types of records which detail the steps of the process. The most useful series include the Administrative Code, the Utah State Bulletin, the Utah State Digest, and the Administrative Rules files. Descriptions of those records series, as well as other potentially useful series are listed below with details regarding Archives' holdings for each. The last volume in the set has a subject and agency index to the rules. This series is maintained off-site and needs to be ordered for use in the Research Center prior to your visit.