POL LAW- Intro to Law and the Legal System

POL LAW- Intro to Law and the Legal System

Functions of Administrative Agencies

1. The Public Service Commission regulates utilities and fixes utility rates.

2. The Commission on Human Rights deals with discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations.

3. The Department of Revenue handles tax collections.

4. The Board of Registration for the Healing Arts licenses and disciplines physicians and surgeons.

B. Each administrative agency is assigned to one of the departments of state government. Actions of these agencies are subject to administrative and judicial review.

Quasi-judicial functions.

Many of these administrative instrumentalities put ...