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Page 2"- =- "ARTICLE 4. EXECUTIVE AGENCIES: GENERAL PROVISIONS "Sec. 2 -20. Creation of Departments. (a) The following executive Departments are hereby established as the principal executive agencies of the City: 1. Law 2. Administration and Finance. 3. Human Resources and Economic Development. 4. Public Safety. 5. Public Works. 6. Parks and Recreation. (b) Each other executive board, commission, authority, department, office, division, and bureau shall be placed by the Mayor within a principal executive Department. (c) The head of each Department may establish, abol- ish, and consolidate such offices, divisions, and bureaus within such Department as deemed necessary to the proper and efficient operation of the Department, but subject to the availability of appropriated funds within the Department. (d) The head of each principal executive Department may exercise supervisory and coordinative author- ity over all executive boards, commissions, author- ities, departments, offices, divisions, and bureaus within the jurisdiction of said principal executive Department, except where prohibited by state law. (e) No power granted by any provision of this Code may be exercised or interpreted in such a way as to remove or conflict with any vested authority or right granted by Indiana law to any executive board, commission, authority, department, office, division, or bureau. "Sec. 2 -21. Department Directors: Cabinet; Compensation; General Responsibilities; Delegation; Coordination; Delivery of Records. (a) The head of each executive Department shall be appointed by the Mayor and shall serve at the pleasure of the Mayor. The head of each executive Department shall be designated as the Director thereof, except that the head of the Department of Law shall be designated the City Attorney. The heads of the executive Departments shall consti- tute the Mayor's Cabinet Officers, and shall re- ceive such compensation as is established by or- dinance. (b) The Director of each Department shall determine the professional, technical, secretarial, clerical and other positions which are necessary to the proper and efficient administration of the Depart- ment, but subject to the availability of appro- priated funds within the Department. All personnel within each Department, except the Department of Parks and Recreation, shall be appointed by the