4-5-214. Withdrawal of rules.
(a) A rule may be withdrawn by the agency proposing such rule at any point prior to the effective date of the rule. Such withdrawal shall become effective upon delivery of written notification of such withdrawal to the office of the secretary of state and shall result in the nullification of all procedures undertaken or performed in order to promulgate such rule.
(b) If, pursuant to this chapter, an agency withdraws a rule amending a previously existing rule, then such previously existing rule shall continue in effect until it is later amended, repealed or superseded by law.
[Acts 1974, ch. 725, § 4; 1975, ch. 370, § 10; 1978, ch. 895, §§ 1, 2; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 16, 22, 36; Acts 1978, ch. 938, § 2; 1979, ch. 43, §§ 1, 2; 1979, ch. 200, §§ 1, 2; T.C.A., § 4-510; modified; Acts 1980, ch. 550, § 1; 1980, ch. 758, § 1; 1981, ch. 42, §§ 1, 3; 1981, ch. 47, §§ 1, 4, 5; 1981, ch. 49, § 1; 1981, ch. 140, § 1; T.C.A., § 4-5-104(i); Acts 1982, ch. 874, § 23; 2009, ch. 566, § 21.]