When an application for a disposition involving several administrative agencies is received, what must the receiving agency do about delay?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file we read the application as received, noting the stamp of receipt and which agencies the disposition requires, then the correspondence between the receiving agency and the other agencies involved, which shows whether they cooperated and how quickly.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the duty at face value: an administrative agency that receives an application seeking a disposition in which multiple administrative agencies are involved must, through prompt cooperation with the relevant agencies, see to it that the disposition is not delayed.
Another reading notes that while the provision names prompt cooperation with the related agencies as the method, it leaves open what that cooperation concretely requires, which agency counts as relevant, and what deadline or consequence applies if the disposition is delayed.
Your judgment
What in the file could show that the disposition was delayed, and which of the agencies involved caused the delay?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to set a time limit or a named procedure for inter-agency cooperation, or if a court decision explains what delay or prompt cooperation means here.