§ 25-3-103 - Transfers into department.
25-3-103. Transfers into department.
(a) (1) When any program or agency, or part thereof, is transferred to the Department of Arkansas Heritage, that program or agency or part thereof shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the department but shall retain exactly the same described statutory power, authority, duties, and functions.
(2) The members, and their successors, of any statutory board or commission so transferred shall continue to be selected in the manner and serve for the terms now provided by the statutes applicable to such boards or commissions as those statutes may from time to time in the future be amended.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, all budgeting, purchasing, and related management functions of any transferred program or agency, or part thereof, shall be performed under the direction and supervision of the Director of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.