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First NMI administrative code now out
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Posted on Mar 17 2006
The Commonwealth Law Revision Commission announced yesterday the release of the first-ever Northern Mariana Islands Administrative Code.
Four years in the making, the Administrative Code contains the rules and regulations of the CNMI government codified into a three-volume set of books. Annual updates will be issued in pocket supplements.
Gov. Benigno R. Fitial received the first copy of the Administrative Code from the Law Revision Commission at the Governor’s Office Friday.
“The NMIAC represents a milestone in the CNMI’s history and also a huge improvement in the accessibility of Commonwealth administrative law for the public and for the government. Before the NMIAC, finding the regulations of a particular Commonwealth agency and determining whether the regulations were current, with all amendments, was a tedious and time-consuming process. The publication of the administrative code now makes finding the rules and regulations of a Commonwealth agency a simple matter of pulling one book down from a shelf,” LRC executive director Naomi E. Lujan-Gonzales said in a statement.
According to the commission, the Administrative Code includes all rules and regulations that were published in the Commonwealth Register between 1978 and 2004.
Certain rules and regulations published in the Trust Territory Register between 1974 and 1978, such as those relating to non-profit corporations, are also included.
Amendments and other regulations published in the Commonwealth Register during 2005 and 2006 can be found at LRC’s website (www.cnmilaw.org) free of charge.
The Administrative Code also contains brief histories of each agency’s creation and authority, and through history sections for each regulatory provision found in the Code.
Also available is a compact disc containing all source documents, such as Trust Territory Registers and Commonwealth Registers, of the Code’s contents.
The Administrative Code is available for sale from the LRC office in the Guma Hustisia/House of Justice, or at the commission’s website.
The public may also access copies of the Code at the Northern Marianas College Archive and at the commission office. (Agnes E. Donato)
