1. (a) After approval of a regulation as required by sections 4-169 and 4-170, or after reversal of a decision of the standing legislative regulation review committee by the General Assembly pursuant to section 4-171, each agency shall submit to the office of the Secretary of the State a certified electronic copy of such regulation. Concomitantly, the agency shall electronically file with the electronic copy of the regulation a statement from the department head or a duly authorized deputy department head of such agency certifying that the electronic copy of the regulation is a true and accurate copy of the regulation approved in accordance with sections 4-169 and 4-170. Each regulation when so electronically submitted shall be in the form prescribed by the Secretary of the State for posting on the eRegulations System, and each section of the regulation shall include the appropriate regulation section number and a section heading. The Secretary of the State shall post each such regulation on the eRegulations System not later than ten calendar days after the agency submission of the regulation.

2. (b) Each regulation hereafter adopted is effective upon its posting on the eRegulations System by the Secretary of the State in accordance with this section, except that:

   1. (1) If a later date is required by statute or specified in the regulation, the later date is the effective date; and (2) a regulation may not be effective before the effective date of the public act requiring or permitting the adoption of the regulation. Each emergency regulation shall be effective when posted on the eRegulations System by the Secretary of the State. The agency shall take appropriate measures to make emergency regulations known to the persons who may be affected by them.

(1971, P.A. 854, S. 7; P.A. 88-317, S. 7, 107; P.A. 12-92, S. 6; P.A. 13-247, S. 32; 13-274, S. 7; P.A. 14-187, S. 6; P.A. 16-58, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 88-317 added new Subsec. (b)(2), providing that a regulation may not be effective before effective date of act requiring or permitting the regulation, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1989, and applicable to agency proceedings commencing on or after that date; P.A. 12-92 amended Subsec. (a) to replace provision re 2 certified copies with provision re a certified copy and an electronic copy, to require filing of agency statement certifying accuracy re electronic copy, to make technical changes, to delete provision re permanent register of regulations and to require online posting of regulations by the Secretary, amended Subsec. (b) to make regulations effective upon posting online rather than upon filing and to require agency to post emergency regulations online and deleted former Subsec. (c) re forwarding a copy for publication, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-247 amended Subsec. (a) to make technical changes, to replace “certified copy and an electronic copy” with “certified electronic copy”, to require certification be concomitant and electronic and to add reference to prescribing of form by the Secretary, and amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to replace references to posting online with references to posting on eRegulations System, effective October 1, 2014, and applicable to regulations noticed on and after that date; P.A. 13-274 made identical changes as P.A. 13-247, effective October 1, 2014, and applicable to regulations noticed on and after that date; P.A. 14-187 amended Subsec. (a) to add reference to duly authorized deputy department head certification and to increase deadline for posting on system from 5 to 10 calendar days after submission and amended Subsec. (b) to delete reference to posting emergency regulations on eRegulations System, effective October 1, 2014, and applicable to regulations noticed on and after that date; P.A. 16-58 amended Subsec. (b) to delete former Subdiv. (3) re effective date of emergency regulation, to add provision re emergency regulation effective when posted on eRegulations System and to make a technical change.