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The Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
1. Advise the Mayor, the City Council and the Department on Disability of the needs and problems of persons with disabilities in the City of Los Angeles.
2. Hold public hearings at least once a year to take testimony from disabled persons and others regarding conditions adversely affecting the lives of disabled persons in the City of Los Angeles, and report its findings and recommendations to the Mayor and the City Council.
3. Monitor the program mandates of the Department on Disability and make recommendations to the Mayor and the City Council on program and policy initiatives to improve the service of the Department to the disabled community and provide persons with disabilities in the City of Los Angeles a better opportunity and ability to pursue activities of daily living without discrimination.
4. Review and make recommendations to the Mayor on grant proposals.
5. Maintain active liaison with citizen groups interested in the problems facing persons with disabilities.
6. Promote greater awareness of the changing life patterns, opportunities and responsibilities of persons with disabilities .
7. Investigate and report to the Mayor and the City Council instances of discrimination based on disability, as well as attitudinal barriers in the areas of housing, transportation, employment and training, recreation, media of mass communications, health and social services, and legislation; and special problems of disabled persons living alone, as well as their safety and access to support services.
8. Perform specific studies and surveys on the needs of disabled persons when requested by the Mayor and/or the City Council.
9. Submit an annual report to the Mayor and the City Council on the activities of the Commission.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 164,772, Eff. 6-3-89.
Amended by: Subsecs. (1) and (3), Ord. No. 171,966, Eff. 5-4-98; Subsec. (10) Repealed, Ord. No. 173,290, Eff. 6-30-00, Oper. 7-1-00.
The Commission shall have the authority to hold public hearings in the course of its investigations as it deems necessary. Such public hearings shall be for the purposes of information-gathering and fact-finding, and shall conform to rules of procedure which the Commission shall adopt. In connection with such hearings, the Commission may request the City Council to issue a subpoena to compel the attendance of witnesses-and the production of evidence. Following approval by the Council, the City Clerk shall upon request of the Commission issue each subpoena in the name of the City of Los Angeles and attest the same with the corporate seal thereof, and shall in each subpoena direct and require the attendance of the witness sought to be subpoenaed before the Commission at a time and place to be in said subpoenas specified. The Chief of Police shall cause all such subpoenas to be served by some member of the Police Department upon the person or persons required to attend as aforesaid. Every person who, being so subpoenaed to attend as a witness before the Commission, refuses or neglects, without lawful excuse, to attend pursuant to such subpoena, and every person who, being present before the Commission, willfully refuses to be sworn or to answer any material and proper question, or to produce, upon reasonable notice, any material and proper books, papers or documents in the person’s possession or under the person’s control, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable as provided in section 11.00(m) of the Los Angeles Municipal Code for conviction of a misdemeanor thereunder. No action taken by said Commission shall conflict or interfere with the lawful performance of the powers and duties reposed in the several offices, departments, commissions and boards of the City of Los Angeles by provisions of the Los Angeles City Charter, including, but not limited to, the powers of the Handicapped Access Appeals Commission to hear and/or decide appeals from the Department of Building and Safety regarding physical access to properties. The Commission on Disability shall not consider such Appeals.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 164,772, Eff. 6-3-89.
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