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[2] [3] OAL hearings are held in Newark, [4] Atlantic City, [5] and the Trenton area (Mercerville, Hamilton Township). [6] Although typically initial decisions of OAL ALJ's may be adopted, modified, or rejected by agency heads, the reasons for modifying or rejecting a decision must be specified in writing and supported by evidence.
Newly proposed rules are published for comment in the New Jersey Register, which is published twice a month. Once the new rules are officially adopted, they are published in the Code. [1] Responsibility for the compilation, publication, and updating of the Code lies with the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law (OAL). [2]
The New Jersey Administrative Code (N.J.A.C.) is a compilation of all rules adopted by state agencies. [6] All state rulemaking notices are reviewed and processed by the Division of Administrative Rules within the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law for publication in the New Jersey Register, published twice a month. [7]
The New Jersey Department of Corrections operates 13 major correctional or penal institutions, including seven adult male correctional facilities, three youth facilities, one facility for sex offenders, one women's correctional institution and a central reception and intake unit; and stabilization and reintegration programs for released inmates.
Section 551 of the Administrative Procedure Act gives the following definitions: . Rulemaking is "an agency process for formulating, amending, or repealing a rule." A rule in turn is "the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy."
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Its session laws are published in the Acts of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, commonly known as the Laws of New Jersey, [4] which are codified in the New Jersey Statutes (N.J.S.), [5] also referred to as the Revised Statutes (R.S.), [5] which are in turn published in the New Jersey Statutes Annotated (N.J.S.A.). [6]
In a narrower sense, the term independent agency refers only to these independent regulatory agencies that, while considered part of the executive branch, have rulemaking authority and are insulated from presidential control, usually because the president's power to dismiss the agency head or a member is limited.