[Enacted by L.L. No. 3-1971; amended in its entirety by L.L. No. 15-1978[1]]
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Editor's Note: Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.
[§ 1, L.L. No. 1-1981; § 1, L.L. No. 9-1984; L.L. No. 6-1987; §§ 1 and 3, L.L. No. 4-2006; § 2, L.L. No. 11-2007; § 5, L.L. No. 4-2009; § 1, L.L. No. 3-2010; § 1, L.L. No. 12-2021]
The Department of Recreation and Human Services shall be responsible for the administration of programs providing recreation, cultural and other leisure-time services to residents; for parks programming; for the administration of youth services programs; and for providing such other special events and public services as may be required and assigned to the Department, including responsibility for the Public Market. The Department shall be organized into bureaus, divisions or other operating units as deemed necessary by the Commissioner and the Mayor.
[§ 3, L.L. No. 1-1981; § 1, L.L. No. 9-1984; L.L. No. 6-1987; § 1, L.L. No. 1-2006; § 1, L.L. No. 4-2006; § 1, L.L. No. 12-2021]
The Commissioner of Recreation and Human Services shall be the head of the Department of Recreation and Human Services and shall be responsible to and report to the Mayor. He or she shall appoint, with the approval of the Mayor, the heads of bureaus, divisions or other operating units that may be established. He or she shall also have such powers and duties as may be assigned by the Mayor and granted to him or her by law or ordinance.
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Editor's Note: Pursuant to § 2, L.L. No. 3-2010, former Part C, Markets, was redesignated as Part B. For former Part B, Cemeteries, see now Part D in Art. VII, Department of Environmental Services.
[§ 4, L.L. No. 10-1979; § 1, L.L. No. 1-2006]
There shall be a Division of Markets, the head of which shall be the Supervisor of Markets who, under the direction and control of the Commissioner, has the government and management of public markets as may be further set forth in the City Code, and who must cause all moneys and revenues received from the operation of the public markets to be deposited with the Treasurer of the City in the enterprise fund for the public markets. He or she has power to lease stands, places and privileges in the public markets to the persons and for the amounts established by the Council, unless Council by ordinance authorizes the establishment of leasing by an alternate procedure. In addition, the Council may require that all or a portion of the lease stands and stalls shall be leased only to the highest bidder, meeting at least the minimum bid established by Council, at either an auction or upon receipt of sealed bids.