54-4a-3 - Budget of division -- Employment of personnel.
54-4a-3. Budget of division -- Employment of personnel.
(1) The annual budget of the Division of Public Utilities shall provide sufficient fundsfor the division to hire, develop, and organize a technical and professional staff to perform theduties, powers, and responsibilities committed to it by statute.
(2) The division director may:
(a) hire economists, accountants, engineers, inspectors, statisticians, lawyers, law clerks,and other technical and professional experts as may be required;
(b) retain additional experts as required for a particular matter, but only to the extent thatit is necessary to supplement division staff in order to fulfill its duties; and
(c) employ necessary administrative and support staff.
(3) (a) The Department of Human Resource Management shall determine pay schedulesusing standard techniques for determining compensation.
(b) The Department of Human Resource Management may make its compensationdeterminations based upon compensation common to utility companies throughout the UnitedStates.
Amended by Chapter 139, 2006 General Session