NOTICE-AND-COMMENT PERIOD

notice-and-comment period.Administrative law. The statutory time frame during which an administrative agency publishes a proposed regulation and receives public comment on the regulation. • The regulation cannot take effect until after this period expires. — Often shortened to comment period. [Cases: Administrative Law and Procedure 394, 395. C.J.S. Public Administrative Law and Procedure §§ 104–105.]

[Blacks Law 8th]