Section 10725.

The director may adopt regulations, orders, or standards of general application to implement, interpret, or make specific the law enforced by the department, and such regulations, orders, and standards shall be adopted, amended, or repealed by the director only in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11371), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code, provided that regulations relating to services need not be printed in the California Administrative Code or California Administrative Register if they are included in the publications of the department. Such authority also may be exercised by the director's designee.

In adopting regulations the director shall strive for clarity of language which may be readily understood by those administering services or subject to such regulations.

The rules of the department need not specify or include the detail of forms, reports or records, but shall include the essential authority by which any person, agency, organization, association or institution subject to the supervision or investigation of the department is required to use, submit or maintain such forms, reports or records.

(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 256.)