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7 All rules adopted by the State Engineer shall first be submitted to the attorney <br /> general for his opinion as to their constitutionality and legality. Any rule issued <br /> without being so submitted shall be void. § 24-4-103(8)(b), C.R.S. <br /> 8. All rules adopted by the State Engineer, including temporary or emergency rules, <br /> shall be submitted to the Office of Legislative Legal Services in the form and <br /> manner prescribed by the Committee on Legal Services. Any rule issued that is <br /> not submitted to the Office of Legislative Legal Services for review within twenty <br /> (20) days after the date of the attorney general's opinion rendered thereon shall <br /> be void. The State Engineer shall revise promulgated rules to conform to any <br /> action taken by the general assembly. § 24-4-103(8)(d), C.R.S. <br /> 9.. Each rule adopted by the State Engineer, together with the attorney general's <br /> opinion rendered in connection therewith, shall be filed within twenty (20) days <br /> after adoption with the secretary of state for publication in the Colorado Register. <br /> Rules revised to conform with action taken by the general assembly shall be filed <br /> wI th the secretary of state for publication in the register and in the code of <br /> Colorado Regulations, § 24-4-103(11)(d)(11), C.R.S. <br /> 10.Any rule as finally adopted by the State Engineer shall become effective twenty <br /> (20) days after final publication as required by law or on such later date as is <br /> stated in the rule. Once a rule becomes effective the rulemaking process shall <br /> be deemed to have become final agency action for purposes of judicial review. § <br /> 24-4-103(5), C.R.S. <br /> 11. Any Person adversely affected or aggrieved by the final agency action may <br /> commence an action for judicial review under section 24-4-106(4), C.R.S. within <br /> thirty-five (35) days after the final agency action becomes effective. <br /> 12.The State Engineer shall maintain an official rule-making record for each <br /> proposed rule for which a notice of proposed rule-making has been published in <br /> the Colorado Register. Such rule-making record shall be maintained by the State <br /> Engineer until all administrative and judicial review procedures have been <br /> compIt ed. The rule-making record shall be available for public inspection and <br /> shall contain those items identified in § 24-4-103(8.1)(b), C.R.S. <br /> H. Temporary or Emergency Rules. <br /> Temporary or emergency rules may be adopted without compliance with the <br /> procedures prescribed in this section and with less than twenty (20) days notice (or <br /> where circumstances imperatively require, without notice) where the State Engineer <br /> finds the immediate adoption of the rule is imperatively necessary to comply with a <br /> state or federal law or federal regulation for the preservation of public health, safety, <br /> or welfare, and compliance with the requirements of these rules would be contrary to <br /> the public interest and the State Engineer makes such a finding on the record. Such <br /> findings and statement of the reasons for the action shall be published with the rule. <br /> A temporary or emergency rule shall become effective on adoption or on such later <br /> date as is stated in the rule, shall be published promptly, and shall have effect for not <br /> 18 <br />