District Of Columbia § 3-1203.02 - Responsibilities of Mayor.

Planning, developing, and maintaining procedures to ensure that the boards receive administrative support, including staff and facilities, sufficient to enable them to perform their responsibilities;

Processing and providing licenses as required and approved by the boards;

Providing investigative and inspection services;

Holding hearings on cases pursuant to guidelines established in when requested to do so by the board, and appointing hearing officers to enable the boards to hold hearings;

Furnishing expert services in noncompliance cases brought in an administrative or court proceeding;

Providing budgetary and personnel services;

Maintaining central files of records pertaining to licensure, inspections, investigations, and other matters requested by the boards;

Furnishing facilities and staff for hearings and other proceedings;

Providing information to the public concerning licensing requirements and procedures;

Publishing and distributing procedural manuals concerning licensing and inspections and other materials prepared by the boards;

Assisting, supplying, furnishing, and performing other administrative, clerical, and technical support the Mayor determines is necessary or appropriate;

Issuing rules, as the Mayor may periodically determine to be necessary to protect the health and welfare of the citizens of the District, for the temporary licensure for a fixed period of time not to exceed 90 days and under conditions to be prescribed by the Mayor by rule, of applicants for licensure to practice a health occupation in the District, except the Mayor may provide for the issuance of temporary licenses to applicants for licensure to practice social work and marriage and family therapy for a period not to exceed 1 year, and to applicants for licensure to practice as anesthesiologist assistants for a period not to exceed 2 years;

Making necessary rules relating to the administrative procedures of the boards; and

Issuing all rules necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter.