(1) The committee adopts and incorporates by reference the NCCI Basic Manual for Workers Compensation and Employers Liability Insurance, 2001, ed., as supplemented, including classifications established or revised in accordance with (2) below and 33-16-1023(3), MCA, which establish classifications with respect to employers electing to be bound by compensation plan No. 2 and plan No. 3 as provided in Title 39, chapter 71, part 22 and part 23, MCA. A copy of the Basic Manual for Workers Compensation and Employers Liability Insurance is available for public inspection at the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, 840 Helena Ave., Helena, MT 59601. Copies of the Basic Manual for Workers Compensation and Employers Liability Insurance may be obtained by writing to the Montana Classification Review Committee in care of the National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc., c/o Regulatory Assurance Department, 901 Peninsula Corporate Circle, Boca Raton FL 33487-1362. Persons obtaining a copy of the Basic Manual for Workers Compensation and Employers Liability Insurance must pay the committee's cost of providing such copies.

(2) The committee may amend the definition of a rate classification, establish a new rate classification, or delete an existing rate classification pursuant to the rulemaking procedures as provided in Title 2, chapter 4, part 3, MCA and the applicable Attorney General's Model Procedural Rules adopted by the committee.