Section 11May 21, 2007, Sec./Art. 11

Power to Delegate. - (a) The executive director may, by an instrument in writing, delegate and/or appoint an acting director designated as officer-in-charge whenever he/she shall be unable to perform the duties of his/her office due to illness, absence or other cause, and in such case the person so appointed may perform all the duties imposed on the executive director by law until such temporary designation is deemed revoked.

Such power to delegate shall be subject to the provision of Section 40, Chapter 8, Book IV of Executive Order No. 292.

(b) The executive director may also, in writing, delegate any of his/her functions under this Act, subject to conditions, limitations or restrictions as hellish thinks fit, to a person or class of persons who may perform those functions in the same manner and with the same effect as if those functions had been conferred on him or them under this Act, subject to the provision of Section 40, Chapter 8, Book IV of Executive Order No. 292.

(c) A person purporting to act pursuant to a delegation made under this section shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be presumed to be acting in accordance with the terms of the delegations.