In the management, operation, and control of all utilities, industries, enterprises, and business projects established, owned, undertaken, administered, or operated by the state, and to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, the industrial commission shall: 1. Acquire by purchase, lease, or, subject to chapter 32-15, by exercise of the right of eminent domain, all necessary property or property rights, and hold and possess or sell the whole or any part thereof. 2. Construct and reconstruct necessary buildings on the properties acquired. 3. Equip, maintain, repair, and alter any and all properties acquired and the improvements thereon. 4. Generally use properties acquired and improvements made so as to promote such utilities, industries, enterprises, and business projects.
54-17-11. Manager and employees of industries - Commission to appoint - Compensation. The industrial commission shall appoint a manager and all necessary subordinate officers and employees of and for each utility, industry, enterprise, and business project established, owned, undertaken, administered, or operated by the state. It may constitute such manager its general agent in the performance of its duties in the particular utility, industry, enterprise, or business project in which the manager is engaged, but subject, nevertheless, in such agency to the supervision, limitation, and control of the commission. It shall employ such contractors, architects, builders, attorneys, sales agents, clerks, accountants, and other experts, agents, and servants, as in the judgment of the commission the interests of the state may require, and shall define the duties, designate the titles, and fix the compensation and bonds of all persons so engaged.