(A) The authority and responsibility for administering this subchapter shall be in the Chief Elected Official of the Town of Clayton.
(B) The Chief Elected Official may delegate any of these functions, duties and powers to employees of the town 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 subchapter. The Chief Elected Official shall by rule prescribe the rights of appeal from the decisions of their hearing examiners to other hearing examiners or to other offices in the town, to boards of officers or to themselves, as shall be appropriate and in accordance with law.
(C) All town departments and agencies shall administer their programs and activities relating to housing and community development in a manner affirmatively to further the purposes of this subchapter and shall cooperate with the Chief Elected Official to further those purposes.
(Ord. 607, passed 4-14-1997)