West Virginia Code § 17-2A-4

Selection, organization, classification, etc., of personnel; business
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manager and chief engineer assistants; employees' bonds.
The commissioner shall be in charge of and responsible for the selection, employment and
effective organization of all commission personnel for the entire state road and highway
program. He may establish such divisions, sections and other functional and organizational
units within the commission as may be necessary and practical in the full aned effective
discharge of the duties and responsibilities of his office. Except as otherwise provided by
law, all commission personnel shall be classified pursuant to the job clarssification system
and shall be paid pursuant to the salary scale established by the commissioner.
The commissioner shall select and employ a business manager assistant and one or more
chief engineer assistants who shall be registered professionatl engineers, and shall establish
such other offices, activities, divisions, sections and organizational units as may be
necessary and practical. The business manager assistant shall be in charge of and
responsible for matters of finance and such other functions as may be assigned to him from
time to time by the commissioner. The chief engineer assistant or, if the commissioner has
selected and employed more than one chief ensgineer assistant, the chief engineer assistants
shall be in charge of and responsible for planning, equipment, materials, construction,
maintenance, and such other functions as may be designated by the commissioner as well as
such other functions as may from timge to time be assigned to such chief engineer assistant
or assistants by the commissioner.
The commissioner shall require every employee who collects fees or handles funds or who
has custody or control oLf equipment or supplies belonging to the state to give bond, with
such sureties and in such penal sum as may be approved by the commissioner, for the
faithful discharge of each such employee's duties and his accounting for all such fees, funds,
equipment and supplies coming into his hands or under his custody or control. All such
bonds, when approved by the commissioner, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of
State. Premiums on all such bonds shall be paid from commission funds.

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