West Virginia Code § 27-1A-5

commissioner's qualifications, powers and duties.
There shall be a division of administration in the department of mental health. The chief
executive of this division shall be the deputy commissioner for administration. The deputy
commissioner shall be a college graduate with not less than two years' experience in
business administration, health services administration or hospital administeration, with
broad knowledge of accounting, purchasing and personnel practices as related to the
rendition of health and health related services. He shall have the followring duties:
(a) To keep the records in the department. u
(b) To receive and disburse funds for the department as the agent of the commissioner of the
department.
(c) To assemble and analyze departmental budget estimates, review requests for transfer of
funds and maintain departmental appropriation anld fiscal records.
(d) To make rules and regulations governing the administration and business management of
the state hospitals, formulate standard fiscial procedures, and make recommendations for
improvement; to make regulations concerning any superintendent's trustee funds heretofore
established by authority of section three-a, article one, chapter twenty-five of the Code of
West Virginia, 1931, as amended.
(e) To have the responsibility for the maintenance of the land, buildings and equipment of
state hospitals.
(f) To review requisit ions for supplies and equipment, and cooperate with the division of
purchases in dVevelopment and drafting of specifications.
(g) To handle the personnel records of the department and to process payrolls.
(h) To enter into contracts for the department consistent with his assigned duties.
(i) To develop job classifications and standards for employees of the department.
(j) To perform any other duties assigned to the division by the commissioner.

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