Rhode Island Code of Regulations
Title 200 - Board of Education
Chapter 20 - Council on Elementary and Secondary Education
Subchapter 35 - Procedures
Part 2 - Petition for Promulgation of Rules
Section 200-RICR-20-35-2.3 - Definitions

1. "Department" means Rhode Island Department of Education ("RIDE")

2. "Petition" means a request for the Promulgation of a Rule.

3. "Petitioner" means a person requesting the promulgation of a rule.

4. "Promulgate", with respect to a Rule, means the process of writing a new Rule, or amending or repealing an existing Rule.

5. "Rule" means the whole or a part of an agency statement of general applicability that implements, interprets, or prescribes law or policy or the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of an agency and has the force of law. The term includes the amendment or repeal of an existing rule. The term is used interchangeably with the term "regulation." The term does not include the exceptions listed in R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 42-35-1(19)(i) through (vi).