(A) The authority and responsibility for administering this chapter shall be in the chief executive officer of the county.
(B) The chief executive officer may delegate any of these functions, duties, and powers to employees of the county or to boards of such employees, including functions, duties, and powers with respect to investigating, conciliating, hearing, determining, ordering, certifying, reporting, or otherwise acting as to any work, business, or matter under this chapter. The chief executive officer shall by rule prescribe such rights of appeal from the decisions of his or her hearing examiners to other hearing examiners or to other officers in the county, to boards, or officers or to himself or herself, as shall be appropriate and in accordance with law.
(C) All executive departments and agencies shall administer their programs and activities relating to Housing and Urban Development in a manner affirmatively to further the purposes of this chapter and shall cooperate with the chief executive officer to further such purposes.
(Ord. 175, passed 10-7-1992)