1. (1) Any Request for a Declaratory Order shall be addressed first to the Director specified in Part 6 of this Rule,

2. (2) Any person who seeks to obtain a declaratory order shall file a Request for Declaratory Order that meets these requirements. The request shall:

   1. (a) Clearly designate the Request for Agency Action as one requesting a declaratory order;
   2. (b) Identify the statute, department or division rule or order to be reviewed;
   3. (c) Describe in detail the situation or circumstances in which the applicability of the statute, rule or order is to be reviewed;
   4. (d) Describe the Requestor's reason or need for the order;
   5. (e) Set out a proposed order;
   6. (f) As appropriate, address with specificity each of the circumstances described in R305-7-502(4) and demonstrate that the condition does not apply.
3. (3) Failure to submit a complete Request for Declaratory Order is grounds for denying the Request.

4. (4) The following classes of circumstances are exempt from declaratory order, as provided in Section 63G-4-503(3)(b):

   1. (a) Circumstances in which a declaratory order would substantially prejudice the rights of a person who would be a necessary party under the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure, unless the Petitioner has that person's consent in writing;
   2. (b) Circumstances in which the person requesting the declaratory order does not have standing;
   3. (c) Circumstances in which informal agency opinion or other agency action is sufficient to meet the need described in the Petition;
   4. (d) Circumstances in which questions have already been adequately addressed by the agency in an order or in informal advice;
   5. (e) Circumstances that raise questions that are clear and do not warrant an order;
   6. (f) Circumstances that are more properly addressed by a statutory change or rulemaking proceedings;
   7. (g) Circumstances that arise out of pending or anticipated litigation in a civil, criminal or administrative forum and that are more properly addressed by that forum;

   8. (h) Circumstances under which the critical facts are not clear and may be altered by subsequent events, or the issues are otherwise not yet ripe for consideration;

      1. (i) Circumstances under which the person making the request is unable to show that real risk to that person will be confronted if the intended course of conduct is taken; and
   9. (j) Circumstances involving use of the agency's emergency authority.
5. (5) If no declaratory order or order setting the matter for hearing is issued within 60 days of the Request, the Request shall be deemed denied.
6. (6) An Initial Order of the Director on a Request for Declaratory Action may be challenged by filing a request for agency action under this Rule.

KEY: administrative procedures, adjudicative procedures, hearings

Date of Last Change: November 12, 2020

Notice of Continuation: October 11, 2022

Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 19-1-301; 19-1-301.5; 63G-4-102; 63G-4-201; 63G-4-202; 63G-4-203; 63G-4-205; 63G-4-503