The commissioner shall appoint and may remove for cause when so appointed a person to be chief inspector at any time the office may become vacant. The chief inspector must have, at the time of the appointment, not fewer than 5 years' practical experience with steam boilers as a steam engineer, mechanical engineer, boilermaker or boiler inspector as described in section 15103‑A. [PL 2013, c. 70, Pt. C, §15 (AMD).]
The commissioner may likewise hire deputy inspectors as necessary to carry out this chapter.