§41-5-13. Assistant legal counsels.

(a) The Chief Examiner of Public Accounts, with the approval of the Attorney General, shall be authorized, subject to the provisions of the state Merit System, to appoint not more than two assistant legal counsels for the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. Each such assistant legal counsel shall be at least 22 years of age, of good character and learned in the law. Each such assistant legal counsel shall be commissioned as an assistant attorney general and have the authority and duties of an assistant attorney general, but he shall devote his entire time to the business of the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts and shall be subject to the supervision and control of the legal counsel of the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts.

(b) The compensation for the assistant legal counsels shall be paid out of the funds appropriated to the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts and in the same manner as the salaries of other employees are paid.

(Acts 1969, No. 778, p. 1394.)