§ 62-1. Establishment; Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner; appointment.

There shall be in the Town of Hempstead a Department of Purchasing. The executive head of such Department shall be the Commissioner of such Department, who shall be appointed by the Town Board for a term fixed by law at such salary as may, from time to time, be fixed by said Town Board. The Commissioner of Purchasing shall be vested with the authority, direction and control over the Department and may appoint a Deputy Commissioner to serve at his pleasure who shall have the rights, powers, duties, obligations and responsibilities of the Commissioner and the authority to act in his place and stead. The Commissioner shall have the power to appoint and remove all other subordinate officers and all other employees and to assign them to their respective duties. The Commissioner shall be in the unclassified service of the civil service. The Deputy Commissioner shall be deemed to occupy a confidential position to the Commissioner, and the position of such Deputy Commissioner shall be in the exempt class of the civil service.