(A) The authority and responsibility for administering this Act shall be in the Chairperson of the LPA.
(B) (1) The Chairperson may delegate any of these functions, duties, and powers to the state’s Human Rights Commission or to a designated employee of the county, including functions, duties, and powers with respect to investigation, conciliating, hearing, determining, ordering, certifying, reporting, or otherwise acting as to any work, business, or matter under this order.
(2) The Chairperson shall by rule prescribe such rights of appeal from the decisions of his or her hearing examiners to others hearing examiners or to the state’s Human Rights Commission, as shall be appropriate and in accordance with the 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 Chairperson to further such purposes.
(Ord. 2005-3, passed 2-9-2005)