Subject to any applicable provisions of the State Personnel Relations Law, the Oregon Medical Board may employ consultants, investigators and staff for the purpose of enforcing the laws relating to this chapter and securing evidence of violations thereof, and may fix the compensation therefor and incur necessary other expenses. [Amended by 1967 c.470 § 54; 1969 c.314 § 78; 1989 c.829 § 1; 1989 c.830 § 22; 1999 c.396 § 1; 2009 c.535 § 6]