TITLE 2: NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION 4: LAND RESOURCES
§ 40107. Administration. (a) Authority and responsibility. The authority and responsibility for administering this chapter shall be in the Corporate Director of NMHC. (b) (RESERVED). (c) Delegation of authority; appointment of hearing examiners; location of conciliation meetings; administrative review. The Corporate Director may delegate any of their functions, duties, and powers to employees of NMHC, boards of such employees, or to such hearing officers may be designated under this chapter, or employed by NMHC, including functions, duties, and powers with respect to investigating, conciliating, hearing, determining, ordering, certifying, reporting, or otherwise acting as to work, business, or matter under this chapter. Insofar as possible, conciliation meetings shall be held on the island where the discriminatory housing practices allegedly occurred. The Corporate Director shall by rule prescribe such rights of appeal from decisions of hearing officers to other hearing officers or to officers in NMHC, to boards of officers or to the Corporate Director them self, as shall be appropriate and in accordance with law. (d) Cooperation of Corporate Director and executive departments and agencies in administration of housing and urban development programs and activities to further fair housing purposes. 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 Corporate Director to further such purposes. (e) Functions of Corporate Director. The Corporate Director shall administer the programs and activities relating to housing and urban development in a manner affirmatively to further the policies of this chapter. Source: PL 11-38, § 10, modified. Commission Comment: The last sentence of subsection (c) of this section is awkwardly worded, but it has been left as is since what was intended is unclear.