Section 45.05. Chair of commission

(a) The chair shall be the chief executive officer of the commission.
    (b)  The  chair  may  appoint such assistants, officers and employees,
  committees and consultants for the commission as may be determined to be
  necessary, prescribe their powers and duties, fix their compensation and
  provide for reimbursement of their expenses within amounts  appropriated
  therefor.
    (c)  The  chair  may, from time to time, create, abolish, transfer and
  consolidate bureaus and other units within the commission not  expressly
  established  by  law  as  may  be determined necessary for the efficient
  operation of the commission subject to the approval of the  director  of
  the budget.
    (d)  The  chair  may  request, and shall receive upon request from any
  department, division, board, bureau, commission or other agency  of  the
  state  or any political subdivision thereof or any public authority such
  assistance, information and data as will enable the commission  properly
  to carry out its functions, powers and duties.
    (e) The chair may request and upon such request the coroner, coroner's
  physician  or  medical  examiner  shall  provide  to the chair or to the
  mental hygiene medical review board, as designated, access  to  original
  autopsy  slides, tissue materials and specimens derived from any autopsy
  or inquiry with respect to the death of  a  patient  or  resident  in  a
  mental  hygiene  facility.  Such  original  materials shall be preserved
  intact, except for  unavoidable  changes  due  to  necessary  scientific
  testing by the mental hygiene medical review board and shall be returned
  to the coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner.