GENERAL PROVISIONS
227.01 227.01 Definitions. In this chapter:
227.01(1) (1) "Agency" means the Wisconsin land council or a board, commission, committee, department or officer in the state government, except the governor, a district attorney or a military or judicial officer.
Effective date note NOTE: Sub. (1) is amended eff. 9-1-05 by 1999 Wis. Act 9 to read:
Effective date text (1) "Agency" means a board, commission, committee, department or officer in the state government, except the governor, a district attorney or a military or judicial officer.
227.01(2) (2) "Code", when used without further modification, means the Wisconsin administrative code under s. 35.93.
227.01(3) (3) "Contested case" means an agency proceeding in which the assertion by one party of any substantial interest is denied or controverted by another party and in which, after a hearing required by law, a substantial interest of a party is determined or adversely affected by a decision or order. There are 3 classes of contested cases as follows:
227.01(3)(a) (a) A "class 1 proceeding" is a proceeding in which an agency acts under standards conferring substantial discretionary authority upon it. "Class 1 proceedings" include rate making, price setting, the granting of a certificate of convenience and necessity, the making, review or equalization of tax assessments and the granting or denial of a license.
227.01(3)(b) (b) A "class 2 proceeding" is a proceeding in which an agency determines whether to impose a sanction or penalty against a party. "Class 2 proceedings" include the suspension or revocation of or refusal to renew a license because of an alleged violation of law. Any proceeding which could be construed to be both a class 1 and a class 2 proceeding shall be treated as a class 2 proceeding.
227.01(3)(c) (c) A "class 3 proceeding" is any contested case not included in class 1 or class 2.
227.01(4) (4) "Hearing examiner" means a person designated under s. 227.43 or 227.46 (1) to preside over a contested case.
227.01(5) (5) "License" includes all or any part of an agency permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter or similar form of permission required by law, except a motor vehicle operator's license issued under ch. 343, a vehicle registration certificate issued under ch. 341, a license required primarily for revenue purposes, a hunting or fishing approval or a similar license where issuance is merely a ministerial act.
227.01(6) (6) "Licensing" means an agency process relating to the granting, denial, renewal, revocation, suspension, annulment, withdrawal or amendment of a license.
227.01(7) (7) "Official of the agency" means a secretary, commissioner or member of a board of an agency.
227.01(8) (8) "Party" means a person or agency named or admitted as a party in a contested case.
227.01(9) (9) "Person aggrieved" means a person or agency whose substantial interests are adversely affected by a determination of an agency.
227.01(10) (10) "Proposed rule" means all or any part of an agency's proposal to promulgate a rule.
227.01(11) (11) "Register" means the Wisconsin administrative register under s. 35.93.
227.01(12) (12) "Revisor" means the revisor of statutes.
227.01(13) (13) "Rule" means a regulation, standard, statement of policy or general order of general application which has the effect of law and which is issued by an agency to implement, interpret or make specific legislation enforced or administered by the agency or to govern the organization or procedure of the agency. "Rule" does not include, and s. 227.10 does not apply to, any action or inaction of an agency, whether it would otherwise meet the definition under this subsection, which:
227.01(13)(a) (a) Concerns the internal management of an agency and does not affect private rights or interests.
227.01(13)(b) (b) Is a decision or order in a contested case.
227.01(13)(c) (c) Is an order directed to a specifically named person or to a group of specifically named persons that does not constitute a general class, and which is served on the person or persons to whom it is directed by the appropriate means applicable to the order. The fact that a named person serves a group of unnamed persons that will also be affected does not make an order a rule.
227.01(13)(d) (d) Relates to the use of highways and is made known to the public by means of signs or signals.
227.01(13)(e) (e) Relates to the construction or maintenance of highways or bridges, except as provided in ss. 84.11 (1r) and 85.025.
227.01(13)(f) (f) Relates to the curriculum of, admission to or graduation from a public educational institution, as determined by each institution.
227.01(13)(g) (g) Relates to the use of facilities of a public library.
227.01(13)(h) (h) Prorates or establishes priority schedules for state payments under s. 16.53 (10) (a) or temporarily reallocates state moneys under s. 20.002 (11).
227.01(13)(i) (i) Relates to military or naval affairs.
227.01(13)(j) (j) Relates to the form and content of reports, records or accounts of a state, county or municipal officer, institution or agency.
227.01(13)(k) (k) Relates to expenditures by a state agency, the purchase of materials, equipment or supplies by or for a state agency, or printing or duplicating of materials for a state agency.
227.01(13)(L) (L) Establishes personnel standards, job classifications or salary ranges for state, county or municipal employees in the classified civil service.
227.01(13)(m) (m) Determines water levels.
227.01(13)(n) (n) Fixes or approves rates, prices or charges, unless a statute specifically requires them to be fixed or approved by rule.
227.01(13)(o) (o) Determines the valuation of securities held by an insurer.
227.01(13)(p) (p) Is a statistical plan relating to the administration of rate regulation laws under ch. 625 or 626.
227.01(13)(q) (q) Is a form the content or substantive requirements of which are prescribed by a rule or a statute.
227.01(13)(r) (r) Is a pamphlet or other explanatory material that is not intended or designed as interpretation of legislation enforced or administered by an agency, but which is merely informational in nature.
227.01(13)(s) (s) Prescribes or relates to a uniform system of accounts for any person, including a municipality, that is regulated by the office of the commissioner of railroads or the public service commission.
227.01(13)(sm) (sm) Establishes sentencing guidelines under s. 973.30 (1) (c).
227.01(13)(t) (t) Ascertains and determines prevailing wage rates under ss. 66.0903, 103.49, 103.50 and 229.8275, except that any action or inaction which ascertains and determines prevailing wage rates under ss. 66.0903, 103.49, 103.50 and 229.8275 is subject to judicial review under s. 227.40.
227.01(13)(u) (u) Relates to computing or publishing the number of nursing home beds to be added in each health planning area under s. 150.33 (1).
227.01(13)(um) (um) Lists over-the-counter drugs covered by medical assistance under s. 49.46 (2) (b) 6. i.
227.01(13)(v) (v) Establishes procedures used for the determination of allocations as charges to agencies under s. 20.865 (1) (fm).
227.01(13)(w) (w) Establishes rates for the use of a personal automobile under s. 20.916 (4) (a).
227.01(13)(x) (x) Establishes rental policies for state-owned housing under s. 16.004 (8).
227.01(13)(y) (y) Prescribes measures to minimize the adverse environmental impact of bridge and highway construction and maintenance.
227.01(13)(yg) (yg) Relates to standards for memorial highway designations authorized under s. 84.1045.
227.01(13)(yj) (yj) Relates to standards for memorial highway designations authorized under s. 84.1042.
227.01(13)(yk) (yk) Relates to standards for memorial highway designations authorized under s. 84.1038.
227.01(13)(ym) (ym) Establishes conditions for a waiver to allow the burning of brush or other woody material under s. 287.07 (7) (e).
227.01(13)(ys) (ys) Establishes a technical standard for abating nonpoint source water pollution under s. 281.16 (2) or (3) (c).
227.01(13)(z) (z) Defines or lists nonattainment areas under s. 285.23.
227.01(13)(za) (za) Is a manual prepared under s. 227.15 (7) to provide agencies with information on drafting, promulgation and legislative review of rules.
227.01(13)(zb) (zb) Establishes a list of substances in groundwater and their categories under s. 160.05.
227.01(13)(zc) (zc) Establishes an inventory or a hazard ranking under s. 292.31.
227.01(13)(zd) (zd) Establishes procedures for oil inspection fee collection under s. 168.12.
227.01(13)(ze) (ze) Relates to establishing features of and procedures for lottery games, under s. 565.27 (1).
227.01(13)(zf) (zf) Establishes the list of properties on the state register of historic places under s. 44.36 or the list of locally designated historic places under s. 44.45.
227.01(13)(zg) (zg) Designates under s. 30.41 the lower Wisconsin state riverway.
227.01(13)(zh) (zh) Implements the standard for the lower Wisconsin state riverway as required under s. 30.455 (2) (c).
227.01(13)(zi) (zi) Lists responsible units, as defined in s. 287.01 (9), and out-of-state units, as defined in s. 287.01 (5), with an effective recycling program under s. 287.11 (3).
227.01(13)(zj) (zj) Establishes continuing educational requirements for real estate brokers and salespersons under s. 452.05 (1) (d).
227.01(13)(zn) (zn) Establishes criteria and standards for certifying instructors for the trapper education program.
227.01(13)(zp) (zp) Establishes water quality objectives for priority watersheds or priority lakes under s. 281.65 (4) (dm).
227.01(13)(zq) (zq) Designates the Kickapoo valley reserve under s. 41.41 (2).
227.01(13)(zs) (zs) Establishes geographical areas under s. 49.143 for the administration of Wisconsin works under ss. 49.141 to 49.161.
227.01(13)(zt) (zt) Establishes a rate increase factor under s. 196.193 (2) or an overall rate of return under s. 196.193 (3).
227.01(13)(zu) (zu) Establishes standards under subch. IX of ch. 254.
227.01(14) (14) "Working day" means any day except Saturday, Sunday and holidays designated in s. 230.35 (4) (a).
227.01 Annotation A proceeding for the incorporation of a village is not a "contested case" under sub. (3). Westring v. James, 71 Wis. 2d 462, 238 N.W.2d 695 (1976).
227.01 Annotation A flood plain zoning ordinance adopted by the DNR under s. 87.30 (1) was a "rule" under s. 227.01. Citizens for Sensible Zoning, Inc. v. DNR, 90 Wis. 2d 804, 280 N.W.2d 702 (1979).
227.01 Annotation A rule: 1) is a regulation, standard, statement of policy, or general order; 2) is of general application; 3) has the effect of law; 4) is issued by an agency; 5) is to implement, interpret, or make specific legislation administered by the agency. The terms "rule" and "order" are mutually exclusive. Wis. Elec. Power Co. v. DNR, 93 Wis. 2d 222, 287 N.W.2d 113 (1980).
227.01 Annotation Principles of statutory construction apply to the construction of rules. Law Enforcement Standards Board v. Lyndon Station, 101 Wis. 2d 472, 305 N.W.2d 89 (1981).
227.01 Annotation School boards are not "boards" under sub. (1). Racine Unified School District v. Thompson, 107 Wis. 2d 657, 321 N.W.2d 334 (Ct. App. 1982).
227.01 Annotation When a fundamental and well-defined public policy is evidenced by a rule, a discharge from employment for refusal to violate that rule is actionable. Winkelman v. Beloit Memorial Hospital, 168 Wis. 2d 12, 483 N.W.2d 211 (1992).
227.01 Annotation The definition of "rule" under sub. (13) is applied. Plumbing Apprenticeship Committee v. DILHR, 172 Wis. 2d 299, 493 N.W.2d 744 (Ct. App. 1992).
227.01 Annotation Materials developed by an agency as a reference aid for its staff that are`couched in terms of advice and guidelines rather than setting forth law-like pronouncements are not a rule within the meaning of sub. (13) because they are not intended to have the effect of law. Chenequa Land Conservancy, Inc. v. Village of Hartland, 2004 WI App 144, ___ Wis. 2d ___, ___ N.W.2d ___, 03-2486.
227.01 Annotation Agencies are subject to rule-making procedures in making discretionary choices even if those choices are based on opinions of the attorney general. Rule-making procedures do not apply if the opinion describes what a law mandates. 68 Atty. Gen. 363.
227.02 227.02 Compliance with other statutes. Compliance with this chapter does not eliminate the necessity of complying with a procedure required by another statute.
227.02 History History: 1985 a. 182.
227.02 Annotation Chapter 227 contemplates the limited use of civil procedure statutes that do not conflict with ch. 227. Wagner v. State Medical Examining Board, 181 Wis. 2d 633, 511 N.W.2d 874 (1994).
227.03 227.03 Application of this chapter.
227.03(1) (1) This chapter applies to cases arising under s. 76.38, 1993 stats., and ss. 76.39, 76.48 and 76.91.
227.03(2) (2) Except as provided in s. 108.105, only the provisions of this chapter relating to rules are applicable to matters arising out of s. 66.191, 1981 stats., s. 40.65 (2), 289.33, 303.07 (7) or 303.21 or subch. II of ch. 107 or ch. 102, 108 or 949.
227.03(3) (3) Any provision of s. 227.42, 227.44 or 227.49 that is inconsistent with a requirement of title 45 of the code of federal regulations does not apply to hearings held under ch. 49.
227.03(3m) (3m)
227.03(3m)(a)(a) This chapter does not apply to proceedings before the department of workforce development relating to housing discrimination under s. 106.50, except as provided in s. 106.50 (6).
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