(a) The authority and responsibility for administering this Act shall be the City Manager of the City of Paris, Tennessee.
(b) The City Manager may delegate any of these functions, duties, and powers to employees of the Community 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 ordinance. The City Manager shall be rule prescribe such rights of appeal from the decisions of his hearing examiners to other hearing examiners to other officers in the Community, to boards of officers or to himself, 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 ordinance and shall cooperate with the City Manager to further such purposes.