§ 24-2-105 — Appointment of director; qualifications; salary and expenses; powers and duties

(a) The commission shall submit a minimum of three (3)
names of qualified candidates to the governor who shall appoint
a director of the department of transportation. The director
shall receive an annual salary as provided by law, payable in
equal monthly installments. He shall be allowed his actual and
necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge
of his official duties, and shall give his entire time to the
duties of his office. With the approval of the commission, the
director shall have complete charge of laying out and
establishing highways upon which any portion of the state
highway fund is to be expended, including expenditures for roads
now in existence or in the future to be constructed, which are
part of the state highway system which are located within or
partially within the national forests' boundaries, and shall
purchase all materials, supplies and equipment, including
road-building machinery, materials, supplies and equipment, and
shall employ such engineers, superintendents and employees with
salaries as provided by law, as necessary for the proper
performance of the duties of the department and the construction
work undertaken by it. The director, with the approval of the
commission, may promulgate and adopt rules and regulations as
provided by the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act, necessary
for the proper performance of the duties and functions of the
department.
(b) Notwithstanding 1991 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter
241, Section 1(a)(iv), the director of the department of
transportation is authorized to regulate and control the
expenditure of any administrative funds not otherwise provided
by law and not specifically regulated and controlled by the
transportation commission.