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The filing shall be made on or before January 1 of each year in a format to be developed by the Registrar. Each agency shall also (i) maintain a complete list of all of its currently operative guidance documents and make the list available for public inspection, (ii) make available for public inspection the full texts of all guidance documents to the extent inspection is permitted by law, and (iii) upon request, make copies of such lists or guidance documents available without charge, at cost, or upon payment of a reasonable fee.C\n\nNothing in this section is intended to nor shall it confer or impose any regulatory authority upon an agency, nor shall this section create any rights to appeal or challenge a guidance document adopted by an agency.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":269906,"text":"For the purposes of this section, “agency” means any authority, instrumentality, officer, board, or other unit of the government of the Commonwealth other than the General Assembly, courts, municipal corporations, counties, other local or regional governmental authorities including sanitary or other districts and joint state-federal, interstate or intermunicipal authorities, the Virginia Resources Authority, the Virginia Code Commission with respect to minor changes made under the provisions of § 30-150, and educational institutions operated by the Commonwealth with respect to regulations that pertain to (i) their academic affairs; (ii) the selection, tenure, promotion, and disciplining of faculty and employees; (iii) the selection of students; and (iv) rules of conduct and disciplining of students.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":269907,"text":"It shall be the duty of every agency to annually file with the Registrar for publication in the Virginia Register of Regulations a list of any guidance documents upon which the agency currently relies. 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A.<\/span> For the purposes of this section, “agency<\/span>” means any authority, instrumentality, officer, board, or other unit of the government of the Commonwealth other than the General Assembly, courts<\/span>, municipal corporations, counties, other local or regional governmental authorities including sanitary or other districts and joint state-federal, interstate or intermunicipal authorities, the Virginia Resources Authority, the Virginia Code Commission<\/span> with respect to minor<\/span> changes made under the provisions of § 30-150<\/a>, and educational institutions operated by the Commonwealth with respect to regulations<\/span> that pertain to (i) their academic affairs; (ii) the selection, tenure, promotion, and disciplining of faculty and employees; (iii) the selection of students; and (iv) rules<\/span> of conduct and disciplining of students. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> It shall be the duty of every agency<\/span> to annually file with the Registrar<\/span> for publication in the Virginia Register of Regulations<\/span> a list of any guidance documents<\/span> upon which the agency<\/span> currently relies. The filing shall be made on or before January 1 of each year in a format to be developed by the Registrar<\/span>. Each agency<\/span> shall also (i) maintain a complete list of all of its currently operative guidance documents<\/span> and make the list available for public inspection, (ii) make available for public inspection the full texts of all guidance documents<\/span> to the extent inspection is permitted by law<\/span>, and (iii) upon request, make copies of such lists or guidance documents<\/span> available without charge, at cost, or upon payment of a reasonable fee. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> Nothing in this section is intended to nor shall it confer or impose any regulatory authority upon an agency<\/span>, nor shall this section create any rights to appeal<\/span> or challenge a guidance document<\/span> adopted by an agency<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nGUIDANCE DOCUMENTS; DUTY TO FILE WITH REGISTRAR (\u00a7 2.2-4103.1)\n\nA. For the purposes of this section, “agency” means any authority,\ninstrumentality, officer, board, or other unit of the government of the\nCommonwealth other than the General Assembly, courts, municipal corporations,\ncounties, other local or regional governmental authorities including sanitary or\nother districts and joint state-federal, interstate or intermunicipal\nauthorities, the Virginia Resources Authority, the Virginia Code Commission with\nrespect to minor changes made under the provisions of § 30-150, and\neducational institutions operated by the Commonwealth with respect to\nregulations that pertain to (i) their academic affairs; (ii) the selection,\ntenure, promotion, and disciplining of faculty and employees; (iii) the\nselection of students; and (iv) rules of conduct and disciplining of students.\n\nB. It shall be the duty of every agency to annually file with the Registrar for\npublication in the Virginia Register of Regulations a list of any guidance\ndocuments upon which the agency currently relies. The filing shall be made on or\nbefore January 1 of each year in a format to be developed by the Registrar. Each\nagency shall also (i) maintain a complete list of all of its currently operative\nguidance documents and make the list available for public inspection, (ii) make\navailable for public inspection the full texts of all guidance documents to the\nextent inspection is permitted by law, and (iii) upon request, make copies of\nsuch lists or guidance documents available without charge, at cost, or upon\npayment of a reasonable fee.\n\nC. Nothing in this section is intended to nor shall it confer or impose any\nregulatory authority upon an agency, nor shall this section create any rights to\nappeal or challenge a guidance document adopted by an agency.\n\nHISTORY: 2017, c. 488.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}