as does the APA, to those agencies housed within the executive branch of state government that have been empowered by the Legislature to implement legislation, promulgate rules and adjudicate disputes. The Legislature, as the governmental body responsible for creating such agencies by statute and for enacting the laws these agencies are authorized to administer, is therefore excluded from any usual definition of state administrative agency. We know of no authority holding otherwise and appellant points to none. To the contrary, agencies whose actions have been held to be reviewable in the first instance by the Appellate Division are those located within the principal departments in the executive branch of state government. See, e.g., Prado, supra, 186 N.J. at 422-23, 895 A.2d 1154 (<HOLDING>); In re Hartz/Damascus Bakery, Inc., 404
holding that the attorney generals decision not to provide representation to an employee is reviewable by the appellate division not by the law division where the actions against the employee are pending holding that a determination of a new jersey spill compensation fund arbitrator is reviewable by the appellate division holding that appeal from a decision of the attorney general denying legal representation was before the appellate division as of right to review the final decision of a state officer holding that reconsideration of the correctness of property division was barred on appeal from the judgment enforcing that division holding res judicata applied to improper property division before holding parties were bound by their division agreement