4-3-1003 - Establishment and transfer of sections. - Tennessee Statutes

4-3-1003. Establishment and transfer of sections.

(a)  To discharge the authority, powers and duties hereby imposed upon the department of finance and administration and the commissioner of the department, there are created within the department the following sections:

     (1)  The accounts section;

     (2)  The architectural section;

     (3)  The budget section;

     (4)  The data processing section; and

     (5)  The program coordinating section.

(b)  The commissioner is authorized to assign to these sections the duties imposed upon the department and the commissioner thereof. The commissioner is authorized to combine, consolidate or abolish any of these sections, or to create such new sections as are necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon the commissioner and the department.

(c)  All of the administrative powers, duties and functions, as well as all of the personnel and appropriations for the former planning section of the department, are transferred from the department to the state planning office.

[Acts 1937, ch. 33, § 15; 1939, ch. 11, § 10; C. Supp. 1950, § 255.15; 1959, ch. 9, § 3; 1961, ch. 97, § 3; 1972, ch. 542, § 4; 1972, ch. 543, § 12; 1975, ch. 286, § 1; T.C.A., § 4-323; Acts 1981, ch. 364, §§ 1, 2.]