Pennsylvania Code › Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Part I - Joint Committee on Documents › Chapter 13 - PREPARATION AND TRANSMITTAL OF DOCUMENTS GENERALLY › DEPOSIT OF DOCUMENTS REQUIRED › Section 13.3 - Agency action or proceedings invalid in absence of notice required by Joint Committee

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a) Section
				  725(b) of 45 Pa.C.S. (relating to additional contents of
Pennsylvania
				  Bulletin
) provides that whenever the Joint Committee finds, after
				  notice to the agency affected and opportunity for hearing, that public notice
				  of an agency action or proceeding or class of actions or proceedings is
				  required by due process of law, or in the discretion of the Joint Committee
				  should otherwise be given for the information of the public, the Joint
				  Committee may by regulation require the agency to prepare and deposit under
				  this part notice of an action or proceeding at a time and containing
				  information as this part may require, and that if an agency fails to deposit a
				  notice required by this part the action of the agency or the results of the
				  proceeding is not valid.
(b) The
				  following requirements are imposed under subsection (a):
(1) Notices of agency actions or proceedings
				  which are conducted under the requirements or authority of the statutory
				  provisions specified in the table immediately following this section shall be
				  published in the
Bulletin
.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), an
				  agency shall prepare and deposit under this part notice of an action or
				  proceeding specified in paragraph (1) within such time as to result under the
				  appropriate schedule provided in this Chapter in publication of the notice in
				  the
Bulletin
at such time that the period between the date of
				  publication of the issue of the
Bulletin
containing the notice
				  and the date fixed in such notice for the taking of the agency action or for
				  the hearing or the termination of the opportunity to be heard in the agency
				  proceeding shall be the period specified in §
											5.6 (relating to reasonable notice
				  of hearing).
(3) A document
				  relating to the imposition of a quarantine or embargo, or other document
				  relating to emergency action, may, with the approval of the Bureau, be
				  deposited in one of the following manners:
(i)
				  Immediately upon the opening of the Bureau for business under §
												17.3 (relating to location and
				  office hours of the Legislative Reference Bureau) in the case of an emergency
				  action made effective when the Bureau is closed.
(ii) Prior to its effective date in the case
				  of another emergency action.
(4) The documents required by this subsection
				  to be published are in addition to the documents required to be published by
				  Chapter 7 (relating to procedure for adoption or change of regulations).
NOTICES REQUIRED BY ACTION
OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON
DOCUMENTS TO BE PUBLISHED
IN THE
BULLETIN
(Arranged by Title and Agency)
TITLE 1
JOINT COMMITTEE
ON DOCUMENTS [Docket No. R-2]:
Notice of initial hearing or of opportunity to be heard in
					 connection with proceedings under the following provisions of the act:
45 Pa.C.S. §
													725(b) (relating to
					 additional contents of
Pennsylvania Bulletin
).
45 Pa.C.S. §
													732
					 (relating to required contractual arrangements).
TITLE 7
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (Docket No. N-6)
Notice with respect to the specified action or proceedings
					 under the following statutory provisions:
(1) Pennsylvania Meat and Poultry Hygiene Law
				  of 1968:
Section 5 (31 P. S. §
														483.5).
(2) Act of July 22, 1913 (P. L. 928, No.
				  441), known as the Domestic Animal Disease Suppression Law:
Section 6 (71 P. S. §
														1221).
(3) Act of April 17, 1929 (P. L. 533, No.
				  236), known as the Diseased Animal Quarantine Law:
Sections 3-8 (3 P. S. §§
														343-348).