Minnesota Rulemaking Manual

A Manual for the Practitioner

The Minnesota Rulemaking Manual was first issued on June 17, 1996, and has since been revised annually. Revisions have been based on suggestions and corrections found during previous years of its use and also on recent legislative activity.

2006 Manual Now Available

The September 20, 2006 revision of the Minnesota Rulemaking Manual is published below in PDF and Word formats.

To view the PDF files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download from Adobe's Web site).

• Minnesota Rulemaking Manual (PDF: 5.97MB/325 pages)
  A reference book for drafting state agency administrative rules in Minnesota.
• Minnesota Rulemaking Chapters and Forms

11th Annual Minnesota Rulemaking Seminar

Handouts from the September 27, 2006 Seminar

• Agenda (PDF: 16KB/1 page)
• Rulemaking Baseball (PDF: 121KB/1 page)
  Rima Kawas, Governor's office
• Language Problems in Rules: Avoiding Ambiguity and Vagueness (PowerPoint: 232KB/50 pages)
  Maryann Corbett, Revisor's Office
• Vagueness and Ambiguity: Specific examples from rulemaking (PowerPoint: 386KB/42 pages)
  Maryann Corbett, Revisor's Office
• Drafting Basics for New Rules Drafters (PowerPoint: 153KB/59 pages)
• Maryann Corbett, Revisor's Office