Members of the Legal Citations TC,
This request is specifically to those of you who are familiar with legal jurisdictions and practices other than the U.S.
The Executive/Administrative subcommittee has pulled together a list of typical document types that might be cited and that we should characterize. I have put an informal description with each.
If you know of other types of content that could fall under the executive / regulatory / administrative banner and that isn’t on this list, would you please send me a note. If you have some examples to point to, that would help enormously as well.
Note that we have left court-type proceedings handled by regulatory agencies off our list, assuming that these ought to fall under the court subcommittee.
Thanks in advance for any feedback you have for us.
Content types:
- Prescriptive (that is, having some force of law):
- Proposed regulations (i.e. regulations first posted in some official publication for comment and review.)
- Final regulations (i.e. regulations that have been finally published in some codified form and have taken effect.)
- Orders (i.e. directives coming from an executive or administrative that impose some obligations on the recipients)
- Directives (i.e. more general instructions to a broad, possibly more fuzzy, set of constitutients. Orders may cover both? )
- Non-prescriptive (important but not something one would / could enforce):
- Official notices
- Minutes / transcripts (e.g. of committee hearings)
- Reports / findings (i.e. reports commissioned by a legislature as part of the process of developing legislation)
- Proclamations
- Presidential memoranda (i.e. general informative documents)
- Signing statements (i.e. unique to the U.S.? A written pronouncement by the U.S. president on signing legislation generally giving notice on how the administration intends to interpret or enforce the law it has signed)
- Letters & interpretations (i.e. letters from a regulatory agency providing specific guidance to a party affected by its rules)
- Budgets
- Patents and trademarks
- Required filings (generally by parties outside the government such as corporate financial filings)
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/chet
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Chet Ensign
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