§ 82. Powers and duties. 1. The commissioners shall appoint an executive director, a general attorney, a secretary for terms of nine years each. Vacancies in such positions shall be filled for the unexpired terms. The commissioners shall also appoint, and may remove, four deputy executive directors and an actuary. The foregoing appointments shall be in the exempt class of the civil service. The actuary shall be responsible directly to the commissioners. They shall also appoint, and may remove, such number of assistant directors as may in their judgment be required for the proper and expeditious conduct of the business of the fund. In the absence of the executive director the deputy executive director named for that purpose by the commissioners shall perform the duties of the executive director. The commissioners shall prescribe the duties of all administrative officers of the fund, except as they may otherwise be prescribed by law.

2. The executive director shall, subject to the direction of the commissioners, be responsible for the direction and operation of the state fund. He shall appoint, and may remove, all officers and employees of the fund, other than those required to be appointed by the commissioners, and shall prescribe their duties. He may within the limits of the budget fix salaries, and may promote employees and may transfer employees from their positions to other positions in the fund, and may abolish or consolidate positions subject to the civil service law and rules, and all removals shall be made pursuant to such rules and laws, it being the purpose and intent of this provision that the state fund shall at all times be administered with due regard to the requirements of its business affairs and its obligations under its contracts and policies in force.

3. The commissioners shall consider at all times the condition of the fund and examine into its reserves, investments and all other matters relating to its administration. They shall have access to all records and books of account, and may require the personal appearance before them and require information from any officer or employee of the fund. Information obtained by them from officers and employees of the fund and from its records with respect to the business affairs of any employer insured in the fund shall be deemed confidential unless ordered disclosed by order of the commissioners.

4. The executive director shall submit to the commissioners an annual estimate of the amounts required for salaries and for the maintenance and expenses of the fund for the next ensuing calendar year. The commissioners shall thereupon consider such estimate, and may modify or approve such estimate. There may not be expended for the state insurance fund more than the total amount specified in such budget, except as authorized by the commissioner.

5. All statistics and other documentary matter filed with the state fund, except where the further retention of such statistics and other documentary matter is made necessary by requirements of law, may be destroyed by the commissioners after the expiration of six years from the filing thereof.