52:17A-11. Employment of attorneys by State officers, departments, etc.
No officer, department, board, body, commission or instrumentality of the State Government shall employ any person to act as attorney, counsel, solicitor, legal assistant or other legal adviser to such officer, department, board, body, commission or instrumentality. Nor shall such officer, department, board, body, commission or instrumentality of the State Government employ any person in any legal capacity for the purpose of giving legal advice or rendering legal services, but such officer, department, board, body, commission or instrumentality may employ an attorney-at-law under full-time employment solely in the performance of administrative functions entailing the hearing of issues and determining facts in order that the said officer, department, board, body, commission or instrumentality may perform his or its functions as required by law; provided, however, that no such attorney shall act in a legal capacity in the prosecution of any charge or complaint before any such officer, department, board, body, commission or instrumentality.
L.1944, c. 20, p. 55, s. 11.
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