§24B-5-1. Employees.
The commission shall appoint a director of the pipeline
safety section of the public service commission and such
employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this
chapter, and shall fix their respective salaries or compensation.
The commission may designate such employees as it deems
necessary to take evidence at any hearing held or required by the
provisions of this chapter, which employees are hereby empowered
to administer oaths in all parts of this state so far as the
exercise of such power is properly incidental to the performance
of their duties in connection with the provisions of this
chapter.