58-118. DEPARTMENT SUCCESSOR TO ABOLISHED OFFICES. Whenever rights, powers and duties, which have heretofore been vested in or exercised by any officer or board, or any deputy or subordinate officer thereof, are, by this chapter, transferred, either in whole or in part, to be vested in the department created by this chapter, such rights, powers and duties shall be vested in, and shall be exercised by, the department, and every act done in the exercise of such rights, powers and duties shall have the same legal effect as if done by the former office [officer] or board, or any deputy or subordinate officer thereof. Every person shall be subject to the same obligations and duties and shall have the same rights arising from the exercise of such rights, powers and duties as if such rights, powers and duties were exercised by the officer or board, or deputy, or subordinate thereof, designated in the respective laws which are to be administered by the department created by this chapter. Every person shall be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, for failure to perform any such obligation or duty, or for doing a prohibited act, as if such obligation or duty arose from, or such act were prohibited in, the exercise of such right, power or duty by the officer or board, or deputy or subordinate thereof, designated in the respective laws which are to be administered by the department created by this chapter. Every officer and employee shall, for any offense, be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, as are prescribed by existing law for the same offense by any officer or employee whose powers or duties devolved upon him under this chapter. All books, records, papers, documents, property, real and personal, unexpended appropriations, and pending business in any way pertaining to the rights, powers and duties so transferred to or vested in the department created by this chapter, shall be delivered and transferred to the department succeeding to such rights, powers and duties.

Whenever reports or notices are now required to be made or given, or papers or documents furnished or served by any person to or upon any officer or board, or deputy or subordinate thereof, abolished, or where duties are transferred by this chapter, the same shall be made, given, furnished, or served in the same manner to or upon the department herein created; and every penalty for failure so to do shall continue in effect.

This chapter shall not affect any act done, ratified or confirmed, or any right accrued or established, or any action or proceeding had or commenced in a civil or criminal cause before this chapter takes effect in relation to the matters placed under the jurisdiction of the department herein created; but such actions or proceedings may be prosecuted and continued by the department created herein.

History:

[(58-118) 1919, ch. 81, sec. 18, p. 289; C.S., sec. 2883; I.C.A., sec. 56-118.]