Both in the United States and New Jersey many critical government functions are performed by agencies that are the product of a statute—either the Congress on the federal level or the state Legislature here in New Jersey. In turn, the agency will, pursuant to its enabling legislation, implement that law by a combination of rulemaking—which creates regulations that are broadly applicable—and quasi-judicial adjudications—determinations that are made on a case-by-case basis in a judicial-like process before an administrative law judge, but over whom the agency head has the ultimate, final say.