2005 Minnesota Statutes - 84.083 — Assignment and delegation of duties.

     84.083 Assignment and delegation of duties. 


    Subdivision 1.    Division duties; delegation.  Each 
 division shall have charge of administering the activities 
 indicated by its title and such other duties and functions as 
 may be assigned by the commissioner, subject to the right of the 
 commissioner to revise and change assignments of any and all 
 activities or of specific duties or functions at any time as the 
 commissioner may see fit, including but not limited to the right 
 to abolish or revise existing divisions or to establish new 
 divisions.  The commissioner may, by written order filed in the 
 Office of the Secretary of State, delegate to the directors or 
 other designated employees, any of the powers or duties vested 
 in or imposed upon the commissioner by this act or by any other 
 law upon such conditions as the commissioner may prescribe and 
 subject to modification or revocation at the commissioner's 
 pleasure.  Such delegated powers and duties may be exercised or 
 performed by the respective directors or other employees in 
 their own names or in the name of the commissioner, as the 
 commissioner may direct. 


    Subd. 2. Repealed, 1996 c 310 s 1 


    Subd. 3.    Purchasing.  The director of the Division of 
 Waters may purchase technical and scientific equipment needed 
 for the functions and duties of the director's office.  


    Subd. 4.    Appropriations available.  Money 
 appropriated to the commissioner of natural resources for the 
 Division of Waters or its director to conduct hydrologic studies 
 remains available until spent.  


    HIST: 1943 c 60 s 5; 1949 c 356 s 2; 1967 c 905 s 5,6; 1973 c 
 615 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1990 c 391 art 8 s 10,11