8-30-204 - Procedure for adoption of rules. - Tennessee Statutes

8-30-204. Procedure for adoption of rules.

(a)  The commissioner shall recommend such rules as the commissioner may consider necessary to carry out the provisions of this part and part 3 of this chapter, and may from time to time recommend amendments thereto. When such rules or amendments are recommended by the commissioner, the civil service commission shall hold a hearing thereon, and shall have power to approve or reject the recommendations of the commissioner wholly or in part or to modify them. Rules or amendments thereto which are approved by the commission, or on which the commission takes no action within thirty (30) days after recommendation by the commissioner, shall be submitted to the governor, who shall have power to approve or reject them. Such rules or amendments thereto shall become effective when approved by the governor.

(b)  The commission is also authorized to recommend amendments to the rules, and after holding a hearing thereon and adoption of same, may recommend them to the governor for approval.

[Acts 1939, ch. 221, § 6; C. Supp. 1950, § 1034.28 (Williams, § 423.24f); impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 4; impl. am. Acts 1961, ch. 97, §§ 2, 4; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-3104.]