Administrative Procedure Act
Minnesota · Administrative Procedure · §§ 14.001 to 14.69 · 73 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.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 739 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 358 N.W.2d 639 - Frost-Benco Electric Ass'n v. Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
Sections covered
- Minn. Stat. § 14.001STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.2 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.002STATE REGULATORY POLICY.2 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.01CITATION.7 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.02DEFINITIONS.78 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.03NONAPPLICABILITY.7 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.045AGENCIES; LIMITS ON PENALTIES AND FINES.3 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.05GENERAL AUTHORITY.12 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.055RULE VARIANCES; STANDARDS.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.056RULE VARIANCES; PROCEDURES.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.06REQUIRED RULES.10 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.07FORM OF RULE.1 cite
- Minn. Stat. § 14.08APPROVAL OF RULE AND RULE FORM; COSTS.1 cite
- Minn. Stat. § 14.09PETITION FOR ADOPTION OF RULE.1 cite
- Minn. Stat. § 14.091PETITION; UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.101ADVICE ON POSSIBLE RULES.1 cite
- Minn. Stat. § 14.111FARMING OPERATIONS.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.116NOTICE TO LEGISLATURE.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.125TIME LIMIT ON AUTHORITY TO ADOPT, AMEND, OR REPEAL RULES.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.126COMMITTEE AUTHORITY OVER RULE ADOPTION.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.127LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL REQUIRED.1 cite
- Minn. Stat. § 14.128EFFECTIVE DATE FOR RULES REQUIRING LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.131STATEMENT OF NEED AND REASONABLENESS.6 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.14HEARING ON RULE.13 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.15ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE'S REPORT.3 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.16ADOPTION OF RULE; CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE; FILING OF RULE.1 cite
- Minn. Stat. § 14.18PUBLICATION OF ADOPTED RULE; EFFECTIVE DATE.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.19DEADLINE TO COMPLETE RULEMAKING.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.20APPROVAL OF FORM.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.22NOTICE OF PROPOSED ADOPTION OF RULES.1 cite
- Minn. Stat. § 14.225DUAL NOTICE RULES.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.23STATEMENT OF NEED AND REASONABLENESS.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.24MODIFICATIONS OF PROPOSED RULE.1 cite
- Minn. Stat. § 14.25PUBLIC HEARING.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.26ADOPTION OF PROPOSED RULE; SUBMISSION TO ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.27PUBLICATION OF ADOPTED RULE; EFFECTIVE DATE.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.28APPROVAL OF FORM.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.365OFFICIAL RULEMAKING RECORD.3 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.366PUBLIC RULEMAKING DOCKET.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.37EFFECT OF PUBLICATION.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.38EFFECT OF ADOPTION OF RULES.16 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.381UNADOPTED RULES.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.385EFFECT OF NONPUBLICATION OF EXEMPT RULES.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.386PROCEDURE FOR ADOPTING EXEMPT RULES; DURATION.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.388GOOD CAUSE EXEMPTION.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.389EXPEDITED PROCESS.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.3895PROCESS FOR REPEALING OBSOLETE RULES.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.44DETERMINATION OF VALIDITY OF RULE.26 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.45RULE DECLARED INVALID.19 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.46PUBLICATION IN STATE REGISTER.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.47PUBLICATION IN COMPILED FORM.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.48OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS.6 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.49TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.50HEARINGS BEFORE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE.6 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.51PROCEDURAL RULES.2 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.52COURT REPORTERS; AUDIO RECORDINGS.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.525INTERPRETERS.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.53COSTS ASSESSED.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.54ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS ACCOUNT.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.55CONTRACTS WITH POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS.4 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.56EMPLOYEES TRANSFERRED.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.57INITIATION; DECISION; AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE.21 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.58NOTICE AND HEARING.9 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.59INFORMAL DISPOSITION.3 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.60EVIDENCE IN CONTESTED CASE HEARINGS.15 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.61FINAL DECISION IN CONTESTED CASE.14 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.62DECISIONS, ORDERS.17 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.63APPLICATION.63 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.64PETITION; SERVICE.15 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.65STAY OF DECISION; STAY OF OTHER APPEALS.3 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.66TRANSMITTAL OF RECORD.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.67NEW EVIDENCE, HEARING BY AGENCY.
- Minn. Stat. § 14.68PROCEDURE ON REVIEW.9 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 14.69SCOPE OF JUDICIAL REVIEW.337 cites
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