A type of administrative agency rule that prescribes procedures for agency operations, legislative rule making and adjudication proceedings.

• A. Procedural rule
• B. Legislative rule
• C. Interpretative rule
• D. Substantive rule

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is that some agency rules govern how the agency operates rather than what the rule actually says. A procedural rule is about the process the agency uses to function—how it conducts its own business, including the steps for rulemaking and for adjudication proceedings. The statement describes a rule that sets the procedures for agency operations, the way it makes legislative rules, and how hearings or adjudications are carried out. That focus on process and procedure is what makes it a procedural rule.

Legislative rules, by contrast, establish binding standards that affect rights or duties and typically require notice-and-comment rulemaking. Interpretative rules explain how the agency interprets statutes or its rules but don’t create new obligations. Substantive rules actually create, modify, or remove rights and duties. So they don’t fit the description as well as procedural rules do.