Section 696.398 - Delegation by commissioner to employees; requirements(1) The Real Estate Commissioner may delegate to any of the officers and employees of the Real Estate Agency to exercise or discharge in the commissioner's name any power, duty or function vested in or imposed upon the commissioner under this chapter. The power to administer oaths and affirmations, subpoena witnesses, take evidence and require the production of books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, agreements or other documents or records, and to sign notices and orders may be exercised by an officer or employee of the agency only when specified in writing by the commissioner and filed in the records of the Real Estate Agency.(2) An official act of an individual acting in the commissioner's name and by authority of the commissioner shall be deemed to be an official act of the commissioner.1975 c.746 §26; 2007 c. 319, § 14