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Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Administrative Law, John Paul Jones
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Administrative Law, John Paul Jones
Law Faculty Publications
This article selects from developments since May of 2007 in the law of Virginia pertaining to the work of administrative agencies state and local, as well as access to their meetings and information in their custody. Elsewhere in this issue of the Annual Survey can be found reports of developments in the laws these agencies are bound to carry out.
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Administrative Procedure, John Paul Jones
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Administrative Procedure, John Paul Jones
Law Faculty Publications
Since the last report on developments in Virginia's law of administrative procedure,' both her General Assembly and her courts have been busy making new law. This year's General Assembly revamped the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), and made adjustments to laws regulating the periods in which agencies must decide certain types of licensing cases and promulgate certain procedural regulations. Meanwhile, the courts of the Commonwealth were active in the field, addressing open questions concerning the following subjects: rulemaking, due process, evidence, timeliness, and judicial review.
Administrative Procedure (Annual Survey Of Virginia Law, 1987), John Paul Jones
Administrative Procedure (Annual Survey Of Virginia Law, 1987), John Paul Jones
Law Faculty Publications
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 …
Administrative Procedure (Annual Survey Of Virginia Law, 1986), John Paul Jones
Administrative Procedure (Annual Survey Of Virginia Law, 1986), John Paul Jones
Law Faculty Publications
Since the last report, administrative law in Virginia has continued to develop on both the legislative and judicial fronts. This year's General Assembly enacted amendments to the state's administrative procedure statute which embody the third and final round of recommendations by the Governor's Regulatory Reform Advisory Board. The major changes were the standardization of procedures for obtaining judicial review of state agency action and the embodiment in statute of a corps of independent hearing officers.
Administrative Procedure (Annual Survey Of Virginia Law, 1985), John Paul Jones
Administrative Procedure (Annual Survey Of Virginia Law, 1985), John Paul Jones
Law Faculty Publications
Both the General Assembly and the Supreme Court of Virginia have been active recently in administrative law. For the past three years, a broadly-based movement for bureaucratic reform has influenced the legislative and executive branches of state government. The instrument for formal expression of this reform has been the Governor's Regulatory Reform Advisory Board. In 1985, the General Assembly and the Governor responded obligingly to a second round of suggestions from the Board for amendment of the commonwealth's general administrative process act. These legislative changes involved the definition of regulation, i.e., the output of a statutorily controlled administrative rulemaking process, …