(a) The administrator shall implement and enforce this chapter and may establish such rules and regulations as are determined necessary to perform the duties of that office.
(b) The administrator is encouraged to cooperate with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Attorney General of the United States in the enforcement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. § 3601, et seq., as amended, and may assist the secretary or attorney general in any way consistent with the policy of this chapter. The administrator is encouraged to cooperate with the Texas Commission on Human Rights in the enforcement of the Texas Fair Housing Act, Article 1f, Vernon’s Texas Revised Civil Statutes, as amended, and may assist the commission in any way consistent with the policy of this chapter.
(c) The administrator may order discovery in aid of investigations under this chapter. Such discovery may be ordered to the same extent and is subject to the same limitations as would apply if the discovery were ordered in aid of a civil action in a state district court of Dallas County, Texas. (Ord. Nos. 13456; 14809; 17393; 20652; 20780)