SECTION 45.1-161.2. Department continued; appointment of Director  

The Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy is continued as an agency within the Secretariat of Commerce and Trade. The Department shall be headed by a Director who shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly, to serve at his pleasure for a term coincident with his own.

1984, c. 590, § 45.1-1.1; 1994, c. 28 .