§ 164. Reports by and to the department. Each department, other than
the executive department, shall make an annual report to the governor
and legislature on or before the fifteenth day of May, for the preceding
calendar year. It shall contain such information concerning the
department and its several divisions, bureaus, offices, agencies and
institutions, and their activities and affairs, and such
recommendations, as the head of the department shall deem necessary or
proper, and any matters required by express provision of law to be
included in such report. A department also shall make such other and
special reports as the governor or either house of the legislature may
require. From time to time, the head of a department may require from
any board, commission or other body in the department or from any
subordinate officer or employee, division or bureau of the department,
or from any institution subject to the supervision of the department, or
from any agency of the department, such reports or information as such
head may deem necessary. Unless expressly authorized by the head of the
department, there shall be hereafter no separate report, annual or
otherwise, directly to the legislature or governor by any such board,
commission, body, officer, division, bureau, institution or agency
notwithstanding any existing provision of law authorizing or requiring
such report.