The department may employ such assistants, agents, engineers, and engineering consultants and to enter into such contractual relations in behalf of the state and to do and perform all such acts as are necessary for the public good agreeable to the provisions of this chapter.

Source: SL 1955, ch 104, § 3; SDC Supp 1960, § 28.0233 (5); SL 2010, ch 145, § 49.