There shall be a Public Service Commission, consisting of not less than three nor more than seven members, as the Legislature shall prescribe, whose term of office shall be six years, and whose compensation shall be fixed by the Legislature. Commissioners shall be elected by districts of substantially equal population as the Legislature shall provide. The powers and duties of such commission shall include the regulation of rates, service and general control of common carriers as the Legislature may provide by law. But, in the absence of specific legislation, the commission shall exercise the powers and perform the duties enumerated in this provision.
Sure sounds to me like the legislature has the authority to determine what powers and duties the Public Service Commission has.
I believe you are correct. The commission is a creature created by the state and in the absence of clear language baring the legislature from assigning the power to the governor it’s ok.
Agreed. The legislature gave the governor the authority to act. And the Public Service Commission gets its authority from the governor and the legislature.
I’m beginning to wish that a few governors would respond to these activist, left-wing judges who ignore the law by signing Executive Orders ordering them to be instantly hanged by the neck from their judicial benches.