The department and director shall exercise and perform all the powers, duties, and functions now or formerly exercised or performed by the emergency public works commission, with the exception of the award of contracts for new buildings, which contracts shall be awarded by the department of administration, and the emergency public works commission is hereby abolished.

History of Section.
P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 110; impl. am. P.L. 1951, ch. 2727, art. 1, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 37-5-6.