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This chapter describes a commonly used process to adopt rules in Minnesota: rulemaking without a hearing. Although the primary purpose of this chapter is to describe rulemaking without a hearing, other issues are necessarily touched on that are covered more completely elsewhere. These other issues include the drafting of rules,[1] the role of the revisor of statutes,[2] the Statement of Need and Reasonableness (SONAR),[3] the issue of substantial change,[4] legal review of rules by the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH)[5] and the judicial and legislative review of rules.[6]