1. The director shall appoint a person who has had at the time of the appointment not less than ten years’ experience in the construction, installation, inspection, operation, maintenance or repair of high pressure boilers and pressure vessels as a mechanical engineer, steam operating engineer, boilermaker, or boiler inspector, and who shall have passed the same kind of examination as that prescribed under section 650.250, to be chief inspector. The chief inspector may be removed for cause after due investigation by the board and its recommendation to the director.

2. The chief inspector, if authorized by the director, is hereby charged, directed and empowered:

(1) To take action necessary to the enforcement of the laws of the state governing the use of boilers and pressure vessels to which sections 650.200 to 650.290 apply and of the rules and regulations of the board;

(2) To keep a complete record of the type, dimensions, maximum allowable pressure, age, location and date of the last recorded inspection of all boilers and pressure vessels to which sections 650.200 to 650.290 apply;

(3) To publish and make available to anyone requesting them copies of the rules and regulations promulgated by the board;

(4) To issue, or to suspend, or revoke for cause, inspection certificates as provided for in section 650.265;

(5) To cause the prosecution of all violators of the provisions of sections 650.200 to 650.290;

(6) To draw upon the state treasurer for funds necessary to meet the expense authorized by sections 650.200 to 650.290, which shall include the necessary traveling expenses of the chief inspector and his deputies and the expense incident to the maintenance of his office.