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Iowa Administrative Procedure Act

Iowa · Iowa Administrative Procedure Act · §§ 17A.1 to 17A.9A · 34 sections

Overview

The act governs how state administrative agencies make rules and how they resolve individual contested cases. On the rulemaking side it requires agencies to give advance notice of proposed rules, take public comment, prepare analyses of a proposed rule's anticipated impacts, and file and index rules before they take effect, while also providing for emergency rulemaking, public petitions to adopt rules, and periodic agency review of rules already on the books. For contested cases it establishes notice and an opportunity to be heard, the right to counsel, interpreters for deaf or hearing-impaired parties and witnesses, and informal disposition, and it preserves judicial review — including declaratory judgment actions testing the validity of a rule.

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In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 124 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 867 NW2D 58 - Amended September 30, 2015 Iowa Insurance Institute, Iowa Defense Counsel Association, Iowa Self-insurers' Association, Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, and Iowa Association of Business and Industry v. Core Group of the Iowa Association for Justice Christopher J. Godfrey, Workers' Compensation Commissioner, Division of...

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