Section 3
SEC. 3. The Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner shall hold office until removed in accordance with the procedure prescribed in section one hundred and seventy-three of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Revised Administrative Code. The Deputy Commissioner shall act on all matters delegated to him by the Public Service Commissioner, and in case of the latter's absence, illness or incapacity he shall act in his stead. In the performance of his functions upon assignment by the Public Service Commissioner, the Deputy Commissioner shall have authority to preside at the hearings of cases assigned to him and to render decisions therein, as well as to act on any matter referred to him by the Commissioner, and his action in such cases shall to all intents and purposes have the same effect and validity as if the Public Service Commissioner himself had acted thereon. In case of the absence, for any reason, of the Commissioner and Deputy designation of the Commissioner, the Secretary of Justice may designate any assistant attorney of the Department of Justice or any of to in the attorneys of the Commission to act as Commissioner; and in cases or emergency or extraordinary accumulation of work, the Secretary of Justice may also designate any of the officers above mentioned to act as additional Commissioner for such time as the interest of the public service may require.