Sec. 154-21.  Under the direction of the governor, the directors of departments shall devise a practical and working basis for cooperation and coordination of work and for the elimination of duplication and overlapping functions.  They shall, so far as practicable, cooperate with each other in the employment of services and the use of quarters and equipment.  The director of any department may empower or require an employe of another department, subject to the consent of the superior officer of the employe, to perform any duty which he might require of his own subordinates.

Sec. 154-22.  Each department shall make and file a report of its transactions, and proceedings at the time and in the manner prescribed by section 2264-1 of the General Code.

Sec. 154-23.  Whenever power is vested in any of the departments created by this chapter, or in any other state department, board or commission, to inspect, examine, secure data or information, or to procure assistance from another department, office or institution, a duty is hereby imposed upon the department, office or institution, upon which demand is made, whether created by this chapter or otherwise, to make such power effective.

Sec. 154-24.  Whenever rights, powers or duties which have heretofore been vested in or exercised by any officer, board, commission, institution or department, or any deputy, inspector or subordinate officer thereof, are, by this chapter, transferred, either in whole or in part, to or vested in a department created by this chapter, or any other department, office or institution, such rights, powers and duties shall be vested in, and shall be exercised by the department, office or institution to which the same are hereby transferred, and not otherwise; and every act done in the exercise of such rights, powers and duties shall have the same legal effect as if done by the former officer, board, commission, institution or department, or any deputy, inspector, or subordinate officer thereof.  Every person, firm and corporation shall be subject to the same obligations and duties and shall have the same rights arising from the exercise of such rights, powers and duties as if such rights, powers and duties were exercised by the officer, board, commission, department or institution, or deputy, inspector or subordinate thereof, designated in the respective laws which are to be administered by departments created by this chapter.  Every person, firm and corporation shall be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, for failure to perform any such obligation or duty, or for doing a prohibited act, as if such obligation or duty arose from, or such act were prohibited in, the exercise of such right, power or duty by the officer, board, commission or institution, or deputy, inspector or subordinate thereof, designated in the respective laws which are to be administered by departments created by this chapter.  Every officer and employe shall, for any offense, be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, as are prescribed by existing law for the same offense by any officer or employe whose powers or duties devolve upon him under this chapter.