RS 34:4: Managerial powers

The board shall have the power to organize or reorganize the legal, executive, engineering, clerical, and other departments and forces of the board, and to fix the duties, powers, and compensation of all officers, agents, and employees in such departments and forces, subject, however, to such civil service requirements as are established by law. The board shall have the power to and may enter into employment contracts, for a term not to exceed three years, with those members of the board's full-time staff or new employees who will occupy unclassified positions; where such unclassified positions are established by and in accordance with applicable civil service regulations.