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Executive | Judicial | Legislative
The Executive Branch
The executive branch of government has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy.
The executive branch is not supposed to make laws (the role of the legislature), or interpret them (the role of the judiciary).
While the legislative and executive branches often work together on shaping proposed legislation, the role of the executive branch is to enforce the law as written by the legislature and interpreted by the judicial system.
As chief executive, the governor has extensive financial control, broad powers of appointment, and authority over the entire organization and administration of the executive branch.
With ready access to the public, the governor has extensive opportunity to focus attention on operations or proposals and to influence public opinion.
Office of the Attorney General
Office of the Lieutenant Governor
Executive Branch Agencies
Accounts- Aging, Dept. for the
- Agriculture and Consumer Services
- Alcoholic Beverage Control
- Aviation
- Behavioral and Development Services
- Blind and Vision Impaired
- Business Assistance
- Charitable Gaming
- Conservation and Recreation
- Corrections
- Criminal Justice Services
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Education
- Emergency Management
- Employee Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Quality
- Fire Programs
- Forensic Science
- Forestry
- Game and Inland Fisheries
- General Services
- Health Professions
- Health
- Historic Resources
- Housing and Community Development
- Human Resource Management
- Information Technologies Agency (VITA)
- Juvenile Justice
- Labor and Industry
- Medical Assistance Services
- Mines, Minerals, and Energy
- Minority Business Enterprise
- Motor Vehicles (DMV)
- Planning and Budget
- Professional and Occupational Regulation
- Rail and Public Transportation
- Rehabilitative Services
- Social Services
- State Police
- Taxation
- Transportation
- Treasury
- Veterans Services
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