(a) The Director of Consumer Affairs may employ and appoint all employees necessary to properly administer the work of the bureau, in accordance with civil service regulations.

With the approval of the Director of Finance, and, subject to the provisions of Section 159.5, the bureau shall employ investigators and attorneys to assist the bureau in prosecuting violations of this chapter, whose compensation and expenses shall be payable only out of the Cemetery and Funeral Fund.

(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2016.

(Repealed (in Sec. 9) and added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 395, Sec. 10. (AB 180) Effective January 1, 2016. Section operative July 1, 2016, by its own provisions.)