Section 3 – Budget of division — Employment of personnel.

• (1) The annual budget of the Division of Public Utilities shall provide sufficient funds for the division to hire, develop, and organize a technical and professional staff to perform the duties, 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 that it is necessary to supplement division staff in order to fulfill its duties; and
  • (c) employ necessary administrative and support staff.

• (3)
  • (a) The Division of Human Resource Management shall determine pay schedules using standard techniques for determining compensation.
  • (b) The Division of Human Resource Management may make the division’s compensation determinations based upon compensation common to utility companies throughout the United States.

Amended by Chapter 344, 2021 General Session