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Rules. The State Health Department shall adopt rules necessary and reasonable to implement and enforce the provisions of this Act.

Examples

New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act, effective Jan. 15, 2006

C.26:3D-64 Rules, regulations.

10. The Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act.

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Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, effective October 1, 2007.

144.417 COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, ENFORCEMENT, PENALTIES.

Subdivision 1. Rules. The state commissioner of health shall adopt rules necessary and reasonable to implement the provisions of sections 144.411 to 144.417.

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Washington State Clean Indoor Air Act, approved November 2005.
Grants local rulemaking authority

70.160.080 Local regulations authorized.

Local fire departments or fire districts and local health departments may adopt regulations as required to implement this chapter.

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New York Clean Indoor Air Act, effective July 24, 2003.
Express statutory limit on authority

1399-x. Rules and regulations.

The commissioner shall not promulgate any rules or regulations to effectuate the provisions of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-n, subdivision six of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-o or subdivision one of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-p of this article. The commissioner shall not promulgate any rules or regulations that create, limit or enlarge any smoking restrictions.

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