Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part XIX - Certified Public Accountants › Chapter 21 - Petitions for Rulemaking › Section XIX-2107 - Petitions for Rulemaking

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. General
				Form. A petition for rulemaking must be made and submitted to the board in
				writing, legibly printed or typed in ink.
B. Title and Signature. A petition for
				rulemaking shall be plainly and prominently titled and styled as such and shall
				be manually signed by an individual petitioner, by an authorized officer or
				representative of the petitioner, or by an attorney at law representing the
				petitioner. The full name, title or office, if any, address and telephone
				number of a person signing a petition for rulemaking shall be printed or typed
				under the person's signature. Where a person signs a petition for rulemaking in
				a representative capacity, the petitioner or petitioners represented by the
				signature must be clearly identified.
C. Required Contents. A petition for
				rulemaking shall:
1. clearly identify each
				petitioner by name and address of residence or principal place of
				business;
2. describe the legal
				status or nature of the petitioner to establish that the petitioner is an
interested person
, within the meaning of
				§2103 of this Chapter;
3. in the case of a petition for adoption of
				a new rule, set forth a concise statement of the substance, nature, purpose and
				intended effect of the rule which the petitioner requests that the board adopt
				and citation to the statutory authority for the board's exercise or rulemaking
				authority in the manner and on the subject requested;
4. in the case of a petition for amendment of
				an existing rule, specify, by citation to the
Louisiana Administrative
				Code
, the rule or rules which the petitioner requests that the board
				amend, together with a concise statement of the manner in which it is proposed
				that the rule or rules be amended, the purpose and intended effect of the
				requested amendment, and citation to the statutory authority for the board's
				exercise or rulemaking authority in the manner and on the subject
				requested;
5. in the case of a
				petition for repeal of an existing rule, specify, by citation to the
Louisiana Administrative Code
, the rule or rules which the
				petitioner requests that the board repeal, together with a concise statement of
				the purpose and intended effect of such repeal;
6.
a.
				provide an estimate of the fiscal and economic impact of the requested
				rulemaking on:
i. the revenues and expenses
				of the board and other state and local governmental units;
ii. costs and/or benefits to directly
				affected persons;
iii. competition
				and employment in the public and private sectors; or
b. provide a statement that the petitioner
				has insufficient information or is otherwise unable to provide a reasonable
				estimate of such fiscal and economic impact;
7. set forth a concise statement of the
				facts, circumstances, and reasons which warrant exercise of the board's
				rulemaking authority in the manner requested; and
8. in the case of a petition for exercise of
				the board's emergency rulemaking authority under
				R.S.
				49:953.B, a statement of the facts and
				circumstances supporting a finding by the board that an imminent peril to the
				public justifies the adoption, amendment or repeal of a rule upon shorter
				notice than that provided by
				R.S.
				49:953.A.