(a) contain an index of all notices published in the state register
pursuant to article two of the state administrative procedure act
between January first of the year of publication and the state register
issue immediately preceding publication of this special issue;
(b) cite each notice in the index by the identification number
described in subdivision three of section one hundred forty-nine of this
article and for each such notice cited, the index shall include a
description of the subject and purpose of the rule, the date of
publication of the notice, and a symbol denoting whether the notice was
for (i) a proposed rule making, (ii) an adoption, (iii) an emergency
adoption, (iv) an expiration, (v) a revised rule making or (vi) a
withdrawal; and
(c) arrange notice citations by agency in alphabetical order and
present consecutively all such citations relating to a single rule
making.