The superintendent shall establish within each division such "bureaus" as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of the Regulation and Licensing Department Act. He shall appoint a "chief" to be the administrative head of any such bureau. The positions so appointed may be exempted from the Personnel Act [Chapter 10, Article 9 NMSA 1978] by action of the superintendent, except for the construction industries division trade bureaus created pursuant to Section 60-13-31 NMSA 1978. The chiefs of those bureaus shall be covered positions under the Personnel Act.
History: Laws 1983, ch. 297, § 24; 1997, ch. 181, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1997 amendment, effective July 1, 1997, rewrote the third sentence which read "The positions so appointed are exempt from the Personnel Act" and added the last sentence.
Classified employees retain status upon transfer to successor department. — If classified personnel of the former commerce and industry department are transferred to the new, supplanting regulation and licensing department, the personnel retain the same classified status and position that they held in the former department and are within the coverage of the Personnel Act, [Chapter 10, Article 9 NMSA 1978]; if a classified position is to become exempt from the provisions of the Personnel Act, then it must first become vacant. 1983 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 83-03.