A. 
Except as otherwise provided by law, the provisions of this chapter apply to all agencies, boards, bodies, commissions, officials or employees of the municipality in the exercise of their power to adopt municipal regulations.
B. 
Except where expressly prohibited by the Charter or other specific provisions of this Code, municipal agencies, boards, commissions and officials may issue, amend or repeal municipal regulations to implement, interpret or make specific the law enforced or administered by those agencies, boards, commissions or officials.
(AO No. 154-76; AO No. 78-192(S))
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
"Adopting agency"
means any agency, board, body, commission, employee or official of the municipality empowered by law to issue, amend or repeal municipal regulations.
"Municipal regulation" and "regulation"
means every rule, regulation or standard of general applicability or the amendment, supplementation or revision thereof, adopted by a municipal agency, board, body, commission, employee or official, to implement, interpret or make specific the law enforced or administered by such persons or to govern its procedure. The term "regulation" does not include a rule or standard of conduct governing only the internal management of a municipal agency, nor does it include ordinances enacted by the assembly.
(AO No. 154-76)
A. 
All agency records that may by definition be a regulation shall be reviewed by the Municipal Attorney's Office for an initial determination prior to agency adoption. Each agency shall work with the Municipal Attorney's Office in the preparation and revision of regulations. The Municipal Attorney's Office shall advise the agencies on legal matters relevant to the adoption of regulations and may advise the agencies on the need for and the policy involved in particular regulations.
B. 
Prior to adoption of a municipal regulation under this chapter, the adopting agency may schedule and conduct a public hearing to give interested persons an opportunity to present statements, arguments or contentions on matters relevant to the proposed rule. Public hearings scheduled pursuant to this section may be advertised with such notice and conducted in such manner as the adopting agency deems appropriate.
(AO No. 154-76; AO No. 78-192(S); AO No. 2013-143, § 1, 2-11-2014[1])
[1]
Editor's note — Section 2 of AO No. 2013-143, effective 2-11-2014, provided that "Within 120 days of the effective date of this ordinance, the Municipal Attorney's Office shall prepare and present to the Assembly a table of regulations for each municipal agency that lists each agency and its regulations that do not have a record of Assembly approval. The table shall be presented in a format that allows the Assembly to adopt, amend, repeal or refer back to the initiating agency any of the regulations listed in the table."
Any person may petition an agency for issuance of a regulation. The petition shall state clearly the substance or nature of the regulation, amendment or repeal requested; the reasons for the request; and whether a public hearing is requested. Within 30 days of receipt of a petition, the agency shall initiate rule making procedures or notify the petitioner in writing as to its reasons for not doing so.
(AO No. 154-76; AO No. 78-192(S))
Regulations, once adopted, shall be submitted to the assembly for approval. No regulation shall be effective unless approved either by resolution of the assembly or, in the case of a regulation described in Charter section 10.02, by ordinance. The assembly may schedule and conduct public hearings on proposed regulations submitted to that body for approval.
(AO No. 154-76; AO No. 78-192(S); AO No. 87-116)
All rules and regulations made by any administrative officer subject to approval by the assembly under the provisions of this Code shall be published, either by a reference to the proposed regulation or body of regulations, and by posting a copy thereof for ten days following their approval by the assembly on the assembly bulletin board in the municipal clerk's office lobby in city hall.
(CAC 1.20.010; AO No. 2009-134, § 1, 1-12-2010)
A. 
Upon adoption and approval of an administrative regulation as required in section 3.40.040, the adopting agency shall file a copy of the regulation with the municipal clerk.
B. 
A regulation becomes effective immediately upon filing with the municipal clerk.
C. 
The municipal manager shall provide for the continuing compilation, codification, publication and supplementation of all regulations filed with the municipal clerk's office, or make appropriate references to any regulations the printing of which is impractical or otherwise available to the public or which are of limited or particular application. The publication of compiled regulations shall be known as the Anchorage Municipal Code of Regulations.
(AO No. 154-76; AO No. 78-192(S); AO No. 91-173(S); AO No. 2015-23(S), § 11, 3-24-2015)
Regulations adopted under this chapter may be applied only prospectively from the date they become effective, and may not be interpreted or applied to situations or activities of persons occurring prior to their effective date.
(AO No. 154-76)
An interested person may obtain a judicial declaration on the validity of an administrative regulation adopted under this chapter by bringing an action for declaratory relief in the superior court. In addition to any other ground the court may declare the regulation invalid for substantial failure to comply with sections 3.40.030 through 3.40.045.
(AO No. 154-76; AO No. 78-192(S))
A. 
All published administrative rules and regulations in effect on the effective date of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived, which have the force and effect of municipal regulations as defined by section 3.40.015, remain in effect, providing the assembly approves of them within 210 days.
B. 
The municipal manager shall, following the effective date of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived, recodify, retitle and organize administrative regulations which have not been repealed under subsection A of this section and integrate such regulations into the Code of Municipal Regulations.
C. 
Each regulation adopted by an agency pursuant to this chapter shall be reviewed every three years by the agency adopting the regulation.
D. 
After the review required in subsection C of this section, the agency shall notify the mayor and municipal clerk of the regulations which have been reviewed and which the agency chooses to continue to force.
E. 
All regulations subject to review under this section and which have not been continued in force by the adopting agency under subsection D of this section expire three years after the date of adoption.
(AO No. 154-76; AO No. 275-76; AO No. 78-192(S))