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LRC to hold Admin Code training
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Posted on Mar 24 2006
The Law Revision Commission will conduct a training next week on the first-ever Northern Mariana Islands Administrative Code.
Heads of all departments, agencies and other interested government employees are urged to attend the training on March 28 and 30, from 9:30 to 11:30am.
The session will be held at the Hillblom Memorial Law Library at the Guma Hustisia in Susupe.
According to the LRC, the training will focus on the contents of the administrative code, including its features, how to use the code, how the code was compiled and how it is updated.
Focus will also be given on the procedure for promulgating rules and regulations in the Commonwealth, common procedural errors and drafting tips.
“The training will be particularly helpful for those employees that draft or review rules and regulations or those who explain regulatory requirements to the public and enforce those requirement,” LRC said.
The Administrative Code, released last week, contains the rules and regulations of the CNMI government codified into a three-volume set of books. Annual updates will be issued in pocket supplements.
The Code includes all rules and regulations that were published in the Commonwealth Register between 1978 and 2004.
Certain rules and regulations published in the Trust Territory Register between 1974 and 1978, such as those relating to non-profit corporations, are also included.
Amendments and other regulations published in the Commonwealth Register during 2005 and 2006 can be found at LRC’s website (www.cnmilaw.org) free of charge.
The Administrative Code also contains brief histories of each agency’s creation and authority, and through history sections for each regulatory provision found in the Code.
Also available is a compact disc containing all source documents, such as Trust Territory Registers and Commonwealth Registers, of the Code’s contents. (Agnes E. Donato)
