(1) The Secretary of the Department of Transformation and Shared Services shall establish procedures for exercising position control applicable to those state agencies subject to the provisions of the Uniform Classification and Compensation Act, § 21-5-201 et seq.
(2) Exercising position control shall be interpreted as follows: The secretary shall assign a position control number to each line-item position authorized for the applicable agencies;
(3) The secretary shall establish reporting procedures so that agencies shall provide complete reports to the Department of Finance and Administration on the use of all authorized positions; and
(4) The secretary may restrict an agency's use of authorized positions only after finding that the agency is in financial difficulty and after invoking the fiscal controls provided in § 19-4-701 et seq. and § 19-4-1201 et seq.