The reemployment assistance advisory council shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the Department of Labor and Regulation and the secretary thereof, but shall retain the respective quasi-judicial, quasi-legislative, advisory, other nonadministrative and special budgetary functions (as defined in § 1-32-1) otherwise vested in the council and shall exercise those functions independently of the secretary of labor and regulation.
SDCL 61-2-7.2