- (a) The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission may, through incorporation by reference, adopt a rule that contains all or portions of the provisions of other laws, i.e., statutes or rules.
- (b) Unless a contrary intent is expressly stated, any adoption by specific or descriptive reference to another law shall be construed as though the referenced law were set forth in the commission rule line for line, word for word.
- (c) The effective date of any rule that the commission adopts by reference shall be the effective date of the commission rule, not that of the referenced rule.
- (d) Unless the commission expressly states a contrary intent, the commission adopts a referenced law as it exists at the date of commission promulgation.
- (e) Any subsequent changes in the referenced law do not affect the provisions of those rules adopted by the commission.