Amending Chapter 2 Human Rights Ordinance

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(b), The Commission shall elect from its membership once each year a chairman, vice - chairman and secretary. (c) The Commission shall hold one regular meeting each month and such special meetings as the chairman may deem necessary. (d) It shall take the concurrence of a majority of the Commission membership to take legal or official action. SECTION 2 -131. Powers and duties of Commission. The Commission is empowered and shall do the following: (a) To establish and maintain a permanent office in theCity of South Bend. (b) To recommend to the Mayor for appointment an executive director, or such personnel as it may deem necessary, and to prescribe their duties. (c) To adopt, promulgate, amend and rescind such rules and regulations,procedural and substantive, as may be consistent with the provisions of this article. Such rules and regulations shall be adopted in accordance with the provisions of this article as it may hereafter be amended. (d) To formulate policies to effectuate the purposes of this article and make recommendations to the City to effectuate such policies. The several departments, commissions, boards, authorities, divisions, bureaus and officers of the City may furnish the Commission, upon its request, all records, papers, and information in their possession re- lating to any matter before the Commission. (e) To receive and investigate charges of discriminatory prac- tices or complaints. The commission shall not hold hearings in the absence of a complaint as herein defined. All investigations of complaints shall be conducted by staff members of the Commission. (f) To issue such publications and such results of investi- gations and research as in its judgment will tend to minimize or eliminate discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, national origin or ancestry. (g) To prepare and issue a report annually to the City Council and Mayor, describing in detail the investigation and conciliation pro- ceedings it has conducted and their outcome, the progress made and any other work performed and achievements towards the elimination of dis- crimination. (h) To prevent any person from discharging, expelling or otherwise discriminating against any other person because he filed a complaint or testified in any hearing before this Commission, or in any way assisted the Commission in any matter under investigation. (i) To hold hearings, subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, administer oaths, take the testimony of any such person under oath, and require the production for examination of any books, and papers relating to any matter under investigation or in question before the Commission. The Commission shall have the exclusive power to subpoena, but it shall consult with the Department of Law concern- ing the issuance of a subpoena. Provided, that the Department of Law