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California Law: Administrative Law & Regulations

CA Office of Administrative Law

The Office of Administrative Law (OAL) "ensures that agency regulations are clear, necessary, legally valid, and available to the public. OAL is responsible for reviewing administrative regulations proposed by over 200 state agencies for compliance with the standards set forth in California's Administrative Procedure Act (APA), for transmitting these regulations to the Secretary of State and for publishing regulations in the California Code of Regulations." The OAL website contains the California Code of Regulations, the California Regulatory Notice Register, an index of California state agencies, pending regulations, and more. 

Rulemaking Calendar

Government Code section 11017.6 requires that state agencies submit to OAL their projections of rulemaking activities for the upcoming year.   OAL publishes these projections in its annual Rulemaking Calendar.

Rulemaking Calendar

Regulations

The California Code of Regulations (CCR) is a subject arrangement of all the regulations promulgated by state agencies in California. Though published by Barclay’s Publishing, the Office of Administrative Law is responsible for the content and format of the Code of Regulations. The Office of Administrative Law makes CCR freely available on its website at http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/.

Title 24 of the CCR contains the California Building Codes and is published separately; it is also located on the plaza level at KFC36.C3.

CCR is also available on Westlaw and Lexis.

Regulatory Notice Register

The California Regulatory Notice Register is often referred to as the “Z Register” and contains notice pertaining to state agency proposed regulatory actions. It includes an informative digest of the proposed rulemaking action and information regarding public comments and access to the actual text of any new rules. The Register is published weekly, but does not include an indexing system for search and retrieval. The Office of Administrative Law maintains the full text of the Registers from 2018 at California Regulatory Register Online.

The library currently holds a collection of California Regulatory Notices from 1988 - present, in hard copy on the plaza level at KFC36 .C3.

Law Librarian

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Mohamed Nasralla
Contact:
GGU Library
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
415 442-6684
Subjects: Law