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Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Administrative Procedure, James E. Ryan Jr., Renata Manzo Scruggs
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Administrative Procedure, James E. Ryan Jr., Renata Manzo Scruggs
University of Richmond Law Review
In 1989, the Virginia General Assembly made several relatively minor, but significant, changes to the Virginia Administrative Process Act (VAPA). These amendments modified the manner in which agencies may promulgate regulations and conduct informal fact finding hearings. Two new exemptions to the VAPA were created: one for rules for the conduct of specific lottery games; and a second for orders condemning shellfish growing areas. In other changes, rulemaking proceedings conducted by the State Water Control Board (SWCB), certain decisions of the Board of Social Services, and amendments to standards for asbestos inspections became subject to different provisions of the VAPA.
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Administrative Procedure, Brian L. Buniva
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Administrative Procedure, Brian L. Buniva
University of Richmond Law Review
The express purpose of the Virginia Administrative Process Act (VAPA) is to supplement present and future basic laws that confer authority on agencies to make regulations and decide cases, and to standardize court review thereof except where laws later enacted may otherwise expressly provide. VAPA does not supersede or repeal additional procedural requirements set forth in the basic laws. Instead, its purpose is to supplement the procedural requirements of existing laws. The "basic law" includes provisions in the constitution and statutes of the Commonwealth of Virginia which authorize a state government agency to make regulations or decide cases, or which …
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Administrative Procedure, John Paul Jones
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Administrative Procedure, John Paul Jones
University of Richmond Law Review
After three years of working major changes to the Virginia Administrative Process Act (VAPA), the General Assembly paid scant attention to the Commonwealth's fundamental law of administrative procedure in 1987. During its most recent session, the legislature produced only three amendments to VAPA, inserting a regulation severability provision, modifying VAPA's impact on Voluntary Formulary changes, and narrowing the exemption enjoyed by the Virginia Marine Resources Commission. In two other statutory changes affecting administrative procedure, the General Assembly expressly provided for agency subdelegation and specified the method for computing time for a rule of court. While severability has evolved into an …