The general form of the contract shall be prepared and approved by the attorney general and signed by the student and designated representative of the commission [department] on behalf of the state. The commission [department] is vested with full and complete authority and power to sue in its own name for any balance due the state from any student on any such contract. History: 1978 Comp., § 21-22B-7, enacted by Laws 1987, ch. 299, § 7.