(a) This chapter shall be construed broadly to effectuate its purposes. Except as expressly provided otherwise by this chapter or by another statute referring to this chapter by name, the rights created and the requirements imposed by this chapter shall be in addition to those created or imposed by every other statute in existence on the date of the passage of this chapter or thereafter enacted. If any other statute in existence on the date of the passage of this chapter or thereafter enacted diminishes any right conferred upon a person by this chapter or diminishes any requirement imposed upon an agency by this chapter, this chapter shall take precedence unless the other statute expressly provides that it shall take precedence over all or some specified portion of this named chapter.
(b) Except as to proceedings in process on October 1, 1982, this chapter shall be construed to apply to all covered agency proceedings and all agency action not expressly exempted by this chapter or by another statute specifically referring to this chapter by name.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 22 - Administrative Procedure.
Section 41-22-1 - Short Title.
Section 41-22-3 - Definitions.
Section 41-22-5.2 - Review of Existing Rules.
Section 41-22-6 - Designation and Duties of Agency Secretaries; Effective Dates of Rules.
Section 41-22-13 - Rules of Evidence in Contested Cases.
Section 41-22-14 - Intervention in Contested Cases.
Section 41-22-19 - Grant, Denial, Renewal, etc., of Licenses.
Section 41-22-21 - Appeal of Final Judgment of Circuit Court Under Section 41-22-20.
Section 41-22-22 - Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review.
Section 41-22-24 - Reconsideration of Disapproved Rules by the Legislature.
Section 41-22-25 - Construction and Applicability of Chapter.