Section 23-1-26 Legal division - Appointment of assistant counsel; chief and assistant counsel to be commissioned and take oath as assistant attorneys general.
Section 23-1-26
Legal division - Appointment of assistant counsel; chief and assistant counsel to be commissioned and take oath as assistant attorneys general.
The Director of Transportation, with the approval of the Attorney General, shall be authorized, subject to the provisions of the state Merit System law, to appoint not more than five assistant counsel as may be necessary to transact the legal business of the State Department of Transportation. The chief counsel and the assistant counsel shall each be commissioned as assistant attorneys general and take the oath required of other assistants of the Attorney General. The chief counsel and the assistant counsel and their stenographic and clerical assistants shall constitute the legal division of the State Department of Transportation.
(Acts 1963, No. 581, p. 1267, §2.)