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The Utah Office of Administrative Rules  is an office within the Department of Administrative Services, a Government of Utah agency in the U.S. State of Utah. It establishes procedures for administrative rulemaking and codification_(law). It records administrative rules, and makes administrative rules available to the public through the publication of the Utah State Bulletin and the Utah State Digest. It administers the Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act and ensures state agency compliance with filing, publication, and hearing procedures for administrative rules.

Overview
The office provides training to Utah state agency rule writers and administrators, performs individual consultations, publishes a periodic newsletter, and distributes the Rulewriting Manual for Utah. The division also provides regular notices to agencies of rules due for five-year review, rules about to expire, and rules about to lapse.

Administrative rules have the effect of law meaning that an administrative rule can be enforced by the courts and that a citizen or business that violates a rule may be subject to the loss of a license, civil penalty, or the like.

The Utah Legislature's Administrative Rules Review Committee exercises continuous oversight of the rulemaking process. The committee was established by the Legislature in the 1983 General Session. The Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act requires the committee to review agency rules to ensure they do not exceed legislative intent and authority, and to determine the rules' impacts on the economy of Utah, state and local government operations and affected individuals.

History
Administrative rulemaking was first centralized in Utah in 1973. This action followed a national trend that began in 1935 with the passage of the Federal Register Act, and in 1946 with the passage of the federal Administrative Procedure Act (United States). Prior to 1973, individual agencies in Utah used their own processes for issuing rules. In 1973, the Legislature passed the Utah Administrative Rule Making Act and charged the Utah State Archivist with the responsibility for receiving rule filings and publishing rules.

In 1985, to heighten awareness of administrative rules, the Utah Legislature assigned the rulemaking functions to the newly created Utah Office of Administrative Rules, with a State Rulemaking Coordinator answering to the State Archivist as part of a recodification of the entire process (Chapter 158, Laws of Utah 1985). In 1987, the Office of Administrative Rules began reporting to the Executive Director of the Department of Administrative Services (a cabinet department), as it does to this day.