Pennsylvania Code › Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Part I - Joint Committee on Documents › Chapter 7 - PROCEDURE FOR ADOPTION OR CHANGE OF REGULATIONS › Section 7.10 - Sample order adopting regulations

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
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