The Department of Children and Youth Services will accept a request for declaratory ruling as to the applicability of any statute or regulation administered by the Department in the following form:

1. (a) A request stating the factual background of the issue must be in writing;
2. (b) The request shall be signed by the person seeking such ruling and shall include his address for purposes of reply;
3. (c) The request shall state clearly the question of applicability upon which it seeks ruling;
4. (d) The request shall state the position of the person seeking such ruling with respect to the question of applicability;
5. (e) The request may include an argument in support of the position of the person seeking such ruling with such legal citation as may be appropriate;
6. (f) The Department of Children and Youth Services reserves to itself the option of refusing a declaratory ruling in the event that the request requesting such ruling does not state a sufficient basis to show that the person seeking such ruling has standing or is otherwise entitled to such a ruling.

(Effective July 3, 1978)