(A) The authority and responsibility for administering this chapter shall be with the Mayor.
(B) The Mayor may delegate any of these functions, duties and powers to employees of the city or to boards of 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 Mayor shall by rule prescribe rights of appeal from the decisions of his or her hearing examiners to other hearing examiners or to other officers in the city to boards of 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 Mayor to commence educational and conciliatory activities as will further the purposes of this chapter. He or she shall call conferences of persons in the housing industry and other interested parties to acquaint them with the provisions of this chapter and his or her suggested means of implementing it, and shall endeavor with their advice to work out programs of voluntary compliance and of enforcement.
(Prior Code, § 94.08) (Ord. 1996-10, passed 12-9-1996)