2007 Minnesota Statutes

116J.01 DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
    Subdivision 1. Appointment. The Department of Employment and Economic Development
is supervised and controlled by the commissioner of employment and economic development,
who is appointed by the governor and serves under section 15.06.
    Subd. 2. Confidential secretary. The commissioner may appoint a confidential secretary
in the unclassified service.
    Subd. 3.[Repealed, 1993 c 163 art 1 s 35]
    Subd. 4.[Repealed, 2004 c 171 s 20]
    Subd. 5. Departmental organization. (a) The commissioner shall organize the department
as provided in section 15.06.
(b) The commissioner may establish divisions and offices within the department. The
commissioner may employ four deputy commissioners in the unclassified service.
(c) The commissioner shall:
(1) employ assistants and other officers, employees, and agents that the commissioner
considers necessary to discharge the functions of the commissioner's office;
(2) define the duties of the officers, employees, and agents, and delegate to them any of the
commissioner's powers, duties, and responsibilities, subject to the commissioner's control and
under conditions prescribed by the commissioner.
(d) The commissioner shall ensure that there are at least three employment and economic
development officers in state offices in nonmetropolitan areas of the state who will work with
local units of government on developing local employment and economic development.
    Subd. 6. Unclassified positions. The commissioner may establish positions in the
unclassified service in accordance with section 43A.08. The commissioner may appoint and define
the duties of other subordinate officers and employees as the commissioner deems necessary
to discharge the functions of the department.
The commissioner may establish the position of director of the state job training office
in the unclassified service.
History: 1981 c 356 s 64; 1983 c 289 s 40-42; 1984 c 558 art 4 s 3; 1Sp1985 c 14 art 9 s 39;
1987 c 312 art 1 s 14; 1989 c 335 art 1 s 136,137; 1990 c 571 s 42; 1990 c 589 art 1 s 2; 1991 c
261 s 1; 1993 c 163 art 1 s 12; 1994 c 483 s 1; 1996 c 369 s 2,3; 1997 c 200 art 1 s 50; 2001 c
175 s 52; 2001 c 200 s 1,2; 1Sp2003 c 4 s 1; 2004 c 171 s 3; 2004 c 206 s 9,52

NOTE: Subdivision 4 was also amended by Laws 2004, chapter 206, section 8, to read
as follows:
"Subd. 4. Appointment of director of the Office of Tourism. The director of the Office
of Tourism shall be appointed by the governor. The director is under the supervision of the
commissioner and serves in the unclassified service."