4-5-205 - Consideration of arguments Reasons given for agency action Advisory committees. - Tennessee Statutes

4-5-205. Consideration of arguments Reasons given for agency action Advisory committees.

(a)  The agency shall consider fully all written and oral submissions respecting proposed rules.

(b)  Upon adoption of a rule, the agency, if requested to do so by an interested person prior to adoption or within thirty (30) days thereafter, shall issue a concise statement of the principal reasons for its action.

(c)  An agency is authorized to appoint committees of experts or interested persons or representatives of the general public to advise it with respect to any contemplated rulemaking. The powers of such committees shall be advisory only. The agency may at its election compensate the members of such advisory committees for their services.

[Acts 1974, ch. 725, § 3; 1975, ch. 370, § 7; 1978, ch. 712, § 1; 1978, ch. 938, § 1; T.C.A., §§ 4-509, 4-5-103(c); Acts 1982, ch. 874, § 13.]