(A) The authority and responsibility for administering this chapter shall be in the Mayor.
(B) The Mayor may delegate any of these functions, duties and powers to employees of the city 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 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 are 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 the chapter and shall cooperate with the Mayor to further such purposes.
(2011 Code, § 20-108)