Administrative Law
Chapter 1 -
Part 1
CHAPTER CAPSULE
The Chapter Overview presents the formation of a modern administrative agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, through administrative laws.
A. Explanation of Administrative Law explores enabling acts, substantive and procedural laws, and other laws administered by agencies.
B. Explanation of Administrative Agency emphasizes that agencies are created to solve problems. The legislative branch empowers agencies to implement the legislative laws into practical rules to provide services.
The Chapter Summary stresses that agencies make rules and enforce them through the powers granted by legislatures, the original enactors of agencies and administrative laws.
The Advanced Studies offers documents for the student to perceive the modern agency: the reorganization plan creating an agency (EPA), the laws enforced (solid waste), and the rules made.