Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules

Agency Alert

  • An important alert
    Temporary Suspension of In-Person Hearings – Pursuant to Governor Whitmer’s guidance regarding COVID-19 community mitigation strategies, it is necessary to suspend all in-person administrative hearings until 4/20/20, subject to further extension if warranted by circumstances. (MOAHR Policy and Procedure No. 15)

MOAHR Mission

  • MOAHR Introduction

    The Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules (MOAHR), created by EO 2019-06 and modified by Executive Order 2019-13, is a Type I Agency within the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.

    MOAHR includes a Central Panel Administrative Hearing System housed in offices across the state of Michigan, as well as the Agency that oversees administrative rulemaking for the state departments.  In addition to several divisions of administrative law judges, the Michigan Tax Tribunal is also part of MOAHR. 

    The organizational mission is to provide all parties in need of administrative hearings and rules with a timely, professional, sound, and respectful process.

MOAHR Main Topics