§ 82. Powers and duties. 1. The commissioners shall appoint an
executive director, a general attorney, a secretary for terms of nine
years each. Vacancies in such positions shall be filled for the
unexpired terms. The commissioners shall also appoint, and may remove,
four deputy executive directors and an actuary. The foregoing
appointments shall be in the exempt class of the civil service. The
actuary shall be responsible directly to the commissioners. They shall
also appoint, and may remove, such number of assistant directors as may
in their judgment be required for the proper and expeditious conduct of
the business of the fund. In the absence of the executive director the
deputy executive director named for that purpose by the commissioners
shall perform the duties of the executive director. The commissioners
shall prescribe the duties of all administrative officers of the fund,
except as they may otherwise be prescribed by law.

2. The executive director shall, subject to the direction of the
commissioners, be responsible for the direction and operation of the
state fund. He shall appoint, and may remove, all officers and employees
of the fund, other than those required to be appointed by the
commissioners, and shall prescribe their duties. He may within the
limits of the budget fix salaries, and may promote employees and may
transfer employees from their positions to other positions in the fund,
and may abolish or consolidate positions subject to the civil service
law and rules, and all removals shall be made pursuant to such rules and
laws, it being the purpose and intent of this provision that the state
fund shall at all times be administered with due regard to the
requirements of its business affairs and its obligations under its
contracts and policies in force.

3. The commissioners shall consider at all times the condition of the
fund and examine into its reserves, investments and all other matters
relating to its administration. They shall have access to all records
and books of account, and may require the personal appearance before
them and require information from any officer or employee of the fund.
Information obtained by them from officers and employees of the fund and
from its records with respect to the business affairs of any employer
insured in the fund shall be deemed confidential unless ordered
disclosed by order of the commissioners.

4. The executive director shall submit to the commissioners an annual
estimate of the amounts required for salaries and for the maintenance
and expenses of the fund for the next ensuing calendar year. The
commissioners shall thereupon consider such estimate, and may modify or
approve such estimate. There may not be expended for the state insurance
fund more than the total amount specified in such budget, except as
authorized by the commissioner.

5. All statistics and other documentary matter filed with the state
fund, except where the further retention of such statistics and other
documentary matter is made necessary by requirements of law, may be
destroyed by the commissioners after the expiration of six years from
the filing thereof.