LGS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Regulatory Flexibility Act, Federal Register, Administrative Law Judge
21 Mar 2017
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Administrative agencies exist at all levels of government. Administrative agencies at the state and local level. Enabling legislation - specifies the name, purposes, functions, and powers of the agency being created. Federal administrative agencies can exercise only powers congress has delegated for them. Create rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the act . Obtain reports from interstate corporations concerning their business practices. Hold trial-like hearings to resolve certain trade disputes that involve ftc. Investigate possible violation of federal antitrust statutes regulations or federal antitrust laws. Executive agencies - include the cabinet departments of the executive branch, assist the president in carrying out executive functions. Independent regulatory agencies - outside the federal executive departments, run by a commision. Delegation doctrine - grants congress the authority to delegate some of its power by. Issue interpretive rules -declare policy and do not affect legal rights or obligations establishing administrative agencies to create rules for implementing those laws.
