Department of Industrial Relations:
Director of industrial relations, six thousand five hundred dollars.
Chief of division of factory inspection, three thousand six hundred dollars.
Chief of division of labor statistics, three thousand dollars.
Chief of division of mines, three thousand six hundred ollars.
SECTION 3. Said original sections 243, 321, 496, 710-6, 840, 1170, (enacted as section 93 of an act entitled "An Act to create the agricultural commission of Ohio and to prescribe its organization", etc., approved May 3, 1913, (103 Ohio Laws 323)), 1170, (enacted as section 1 of an act entitled "An Act to create a board of control for the Ohio agricultural experiment station", etc., approved April 8, 1915, (106 Ohio Laws, 122)), 1171, 1172, (enacted as section 95 of an act entitled "An Act to create the agricultural commission of Ohio and to prescribe its organization", etc., approved May 3, 1913 (103 Ohio Laws, 324)), 1172, (enacted as section 7 of an act entitled "An Act to create a board of control for Ohio agricultural experiment station", etc., approved April 8, 1915, (106 Ohio Laws, 123)), 1173, (enacted as section 96 of an act entitled "An Act to create the agricultural commission of Ohio and to prescribe its organization", etc., approved May 3, 1913, (103 Ohio Laws, 324)), 1173, (enacted as section 8 of an act entitled "An Act to create a board of control for the Ohio agricultural experiment station", etc., approved April 8, 1915, (106 Ohio Laws, 123)), 1178, 1233, 1261-2, 1807, 1857, 1931-1, 2248, 2250, 2288-1 as enacted by the act approved March 29, 1917 (107 O.L. 457), 2312, 2313 and 7939 of the General Code, and sections 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 196-1, 196-2, 196-3, 196-16, 196-18, 199, 242-1, 242-2, 270-1, 270-4, 270-5, 367-3, 367-4, 403-1, 406, 408, 409, 498, 615, 616, 618, 619, 620, 674, 675, 744-14, 744-15, 744-16, 744-17, 744-19, 744-20, 744-23, 746, 747, 752, 788, 789, 790, 791, 798-2, 798-4, 708-8, 799, 800, 801, 820, 821, 822, 823, 842, 844, 845, 848, 871-46, 871-47, [905], 982, 1079, 1079-1, 1080, 1081, 1083, 1084, 1087, 1087-2, 1088, 1089, 1089-1, 1099, 1123, 1171-2, 1171-3, 1177-22, 1177-23, 1177-24, 1177-25, 1179, 1180, 1183, 1232-1, 1233-1, 1236-2, 1261-1, 1440, 1465-8, 1465-43, 1808, 1809, 1833, 1834, 1836, 1837, 1841-7, 1861 and 5227 of the General Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. Every officer and employe in the classified civil service of the state civil service at the time this act takes effect shall be assigned to a position in the proper department created by this act, and, so far as possible, to duties equivalent to his former office or employment; and such officers and employes shall be employes of the state in the classified civil service of the state of the same standing, grade and privileges which they respectively had in the office, board, department, commission or institution from which they were transferred, subject, however, to existing and future civil service laws. This section shall not be construed to require the retention of more employes than are necessary to the proper performance of the functions of such departments.
All books, records, papers, documents, property, real and personal, and pending business in any way pertaining to the rights, powers and duties by this act transferred to or vested in a department created by this act, or to or in any other office, department or institution, at the time this act takes effect shall be delivered and transferred to the department, office or institution succeeding to such rights, powers and duties.
This act shall not affect any act done, ratified or affirmed, or any right accrued or established, or any pending action, prosecution or proceedings, civil or criminal, at the time it takes effect; nor shall this act effect causes of such action, prosecution or proceeding existing at the time it takes effect; but such actions, prosecutions or proceedings may be prosecuted and continued, or instituted and prosecuted, by or before the department having jurisdiction or power under this act of the subject matter to which such action, prosecution or proceeding pertains.
If the senate is not in session at the time initial appointments are to be made under this act, the governor shall make temporary appointments as in case of a vacancy, to all offices required by this act to be filled by appointment by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate, unless the initial appointments are otherwise provided for in this act.
If this act shall go into effect prior to the expiration of the present fiscal year, the present existing departments, bureaus, offices, boards, commissions, and other organizations of the state government affected by this act shall continue, and the officers and employes therein shall continue to serve until the expiration of the present fiscal year for which appropriations have been made, unless their terms of office expire prior thereto; and the reorganization herein provided for shall be put into effect and the officers whose positions are hereby created shall assume their duties at the commencement of the succeeding fiscal year.
SECTION 5. This act is hereby declared to be an emergency law necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. The reasons for such necessity lie in facts, which two-thirds of all the members elected to each branch of the general assembly have considered, found and determined and which are separately set forth herein, as follows:
The eighty-third general assembly created a joint legislative committee to "investigate all of the * * * offices which have been created by the general assembly * * * with a view of * * * combining and centralizing the duties of the various departments, eliminating such as are useless and securing for the state of Ohio such a reorganization of its governmental activities as will promote greater efficiency and greater economy therein." Said committee made exhaustive investigations and published numerous reports, declaring the necessity of reorganizing fundamentally the executive branch of the state government in order to promote efficiency and conserve the public funds. Upon the organization of the eighty-fourth general assembly, special committees were appointed in each house thereof to consider the recommendations of the former joint committee. The governor, in his message to the general assembly, recommended action along the general lines indicated by the former committee's report. Wide publicity has been given to various projected plans of reorganization.