§76-76  Deputy director.  The personnel
director may designate a qualified person as the director's deputy.  The deputy
shall be thoroughly familiar with the principles and methods of personnel
administration and shall believe in applying merit principles and scientific
administrative methods to public personnel administration.  In case of a
vacancy in the office of director or of the absence of the director or the
director's inability from any cause to discharge the powers and duties of the
director's office, the powers and duties shall devolve upon the director's
deputy. [L 1955, c 274, pt of §1; RL 1955, pt of §3-19; HRS §76-76; am L 1977,
c 61, pt of §1; gen ch 1985]