80.4  General allocation of duties.
  1.  In general, the allocation of duties of the department shall be as follows:
  a.  Commissioner’s office.
  b.  Division of administrative services.
  c.  Division of criminal investigation.
  d.  Division of state patrol.
  e.  Division of state fire marshal.
  f.  Division of narcotics enforcement.
  2.  The commissioner may appoint a chief, director, a first and second assistant to the director, and all other supervisory officers in each division. All appointments and promotions shall be made on the basis of seniority and a merit examination.
  3.  The allocation of duties described in this section shall not be interpreted to prevent flexibility in interdepartmental operations or to forbid other divisional allocations of duties in the discretion of the commissioner.
[SS15, §147; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §273(4), 1225.21; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, §18.2(4), 80.17; C73, §19B.12(2), 80.17; C75, §18.12(2), 80.17; C77, 79, 81, §80.17]
98 Acts, ch 1074, §8; 2000 Acts, ch 1154, §9; 2003 Acts, ch 108, §24; 2005 Acts, ch 35, §12; 2019 Acts, ch 24, §104
C2020, §80.4
2021 Acts, ch 80, §28
Referred to in §99F.1
State fire marshal, chapter 100 
Division of criminal investigation, chapter 690 
Former §80.4 repealed by 
2005 Acts, ch 35, §32