Illinois Administrative Code › Title 8 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS › Part 1 - ADMINISTRATIVE RULES (FORMAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS; CONTESTED CASES; PETITIONS; PUBLIC DISCLOSURE) › Subpart A - DEFINITIONS › Section 1.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) In addition to
				the definitions set forth in Sections 1-10 through 1-85 of the Illinois
				Administrative Procedure Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 127, pars. 1001-10
				through 1001-85), the following terms shall have the meanings specified:
"Administrative action" includes every form and kind of act,
				  including the refusal or failure to act, involved in the implementation of the
				  laws administered by the Department of Agriculture.
"Administrative file" means a file maintained by the Illinois
				  Department of Agriculture in which documents pertaining to an administrative
				  proceeding or action are retained.
"Administrative proceeding" means any undertaking to issue,
				  amend or revoke a regulation or order, or to take or refrain from taking any
				  other form of administrative action. A public hearing conducted by or before a
				  departmental advisory board or a statutorily established advisory board will be
				  considered an administrative proceeding of the Department.
"Department" or "Department of Agriculture" means the
				  Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois.
"Department advisory board" or "department advisory
				  committee" means any committee, board, commission, council, conference, panel,
				  task force, or other similar group, or any subcommittee or other subgroup
				  thereof that is not composed wholly of full-time officers or employees of the
				  Illinois Department of Agriculture and is established or utilized by the
				  Department of Agriculture to obtain advice or recommendations.
"Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of
				  Agriculture.
"Formal administrative proceeding" means an adjudicatory
				  procedure conducted by the Department in accordance with the authority of a law
				  administered by the Department, the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, and
				  Subpart B of this Part in which the individual legal rights, duties or
				  privileges of a party are required by law to be determined by an agency and
				  which places specific requirements (such as, time deadlines and content of
				  administrative record) on the Department and/or on an individual.
"Laws administered by the Department of Agriculture" means
				  all the statutory provisions with respect to which authority has been delegated
				  to the Illinois Department of Agriculture. Laws administered by the Department
				  of Agriculture are listed in 2 Ill. Adm. Code 700.
"Meeting" means any oral discussion between two or more
				  persons.
"Petition" means any petition or other document requesting
				  the Director to establish, amend or revoke a regulation or order or to take or
				  refrain from taking any other form of administrative action under the laws
				  administered by the Department of Agriculture. Illustration A of this Part sets
				  forth the form and information for a petition. In order for any other document
				  to be accepted as a petition, it must contain language stating it is a petition
				  and information necessary for the Department to make a determination on the
				  requested action. Requests, suggestions and recommendations made informally in
				  routine correspondence received by the Illinois Department of Agriculture do
				  not constitute a petition.
"Statutory advisory board" or "statutory advisory committee"
				  means any committee, board, commission, council, panel, conference, task force,
				  or other similar group, or any subcommittee or other subgroup thereof, that is
				  statutorily established and whose powers and duties or purposes are statutorily
				  set.
b) Words in the
				singular form shall be deemed to include the plural, words in the masculine
				form shall be deemed to include the feminine form, and vice versa, as the case
				may require.