§ 4-12-1-4 — Deputy budget directors; staff members, assistants, employees, and clerks; experts

(a) Two (2) offices are created in the budget
agency which shall be responsible to, and junior and subordinate to, the
budget director. The persons to fill the offices shall be appointed by the
governor to serve at the governor's will and pleasure, shall not be
adherents of the same political party, shall receive the salary fixed by
the governor, shall give all of their time to the respective offices and to
the budget agency, and each shall be a deputy budget director. The
director shall designate the order in which the deputy directors shall
serve in the place and stead of the budget director in the event of the
director's disability or absence.
(b) The budget director is authorized to employ staff members,
assistants, employees, and clerks as the budget director shall require to
discharge efficiently and economically the duties and functions and
rights and powers of the budget agency. Within this authority the
director may employ on a part-time or advisory basis the services of
experts in the field of public revenue and public finance and the
administration as the services are desirable or necessary in the effective
management and operation of the budget agency and in the discharge
of its duties and functions.
(c) Promptly upon the receipt of a request from the budget
committee, the budget director shall provide the assistants, employees,
clerks, and experts as are reasonably required to permit prompt and
efficient discharge of the duties and functions and work of the budget
committee. To the extent that assistants, employees, clerks, and experts
ordinarily employed by the budget agency are available and are not
required by the budget agency to execute and administer appropriations
made by law, the budget director shall employ these persons to serve
the budget committee.
Formerly: Acts 1961, c.123, s.4. As amended by Acts 1977,
P.L.28, SEC.4; P.L.215-2016, SEC.75.