Section 201 – Office of Consumer Services — Director.

• (1) There is created within the Department of Commerce the “Office of Consumer Services.”

• (2)
  • (a) The governor shall appoint, with the concurrence of the Committee of Consumer Services and the advice and consent of the Senate, a qualified person in the field of public utilities to be the director of the office.
  • (b) The director shall serve for a term of six years.
  • (c) For purposes of the individual who is the director on May 12, 2009, that individual’s six-year term is considered to begin on July 1, 2009.
  • (d) The governor may remove the director for cause.

• (3) In accordance with this chapter, the director shall on behalf of the office:
  • (a) represent residential consumers and small commercial consumers of an applicable public utility; and
  • (b) represent the interests of:
    • (i) residential consumers; and
    • (ii) small commercial consumers.

Amended by Chapter 352, 2020 General Session