(1) Any employee or agent of the commissioner so authorized by the commissioner shall have all the lawful powers delegated to members of the department of public safety to enforce the provisions of this article, when bonded as hereinafter provided in this section.
(2) Each employee or agent so authorized by the commissioner shall execute a bond with security in the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars, payable to the state of West Virginia, and conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, as such, and such bond shall be approved as to form by the attorney general, and the same shall be filed with the secretary of state and preserved in his office.