4-5-215 - Stay of effective date of rules. - Tennessee Statutes

4-5-215. Stay of effective date of rules.

(a)  Prior to the effective date of a rule, the agency proposing the rule may stay the running of the ninety-day period required by § 4-5-207 for a period of time not to exceed seventy-five (75) days. The stay shall become effective at such time as the agency files written notice with the secretary of state and shall specify the length of the effectiveness of the stay. Prior to the expiration date of the stay, the stay may be withdrawn by the agency. Withdrawal or expiration of the stay shall reactivate the running of the balance of the ninety-day period that remained upon the date the stay was filed.

(b)  Prior to the effective date of a rule, the house or senate government operations committee may stay the running of the seventy-five-day period required by § 4-5-207 for a period of time not to exceed sixty (60) days. Such stay shall become effective at such time as the committee files written notice with the secretary of state and shall specify the length of effectiveness of the stay. Prior to the expiration date of the stay, such stay may be withdrawn by the committee. Withdrawal or expiration of the stay shall reactivate the running of the balance of the seventy-five-day period that remained upon the date the stay was filed.

[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(j); Acts 1982, ch. 874, § 24; 1991, ch. 266, § 1; 1993, ch. 316, § 2; 1995, ch. 546, § 2; 2009, ch. 566, § 14.]