§ 13-5. Powers and duties.

The Orange County Consumer Fraud Investigative Unit shall have the authority to continue the performance of those powers and duties originally granted to it by Orange County Ord. No. 78-21, including the following:

(1)

To receive, process, gather and assemble information pertinent to complaints of alleged unfair and deceptive acts or practices as well as potential consumer frauds which occur in the course of a consumer transaction and to further investigate same;

(2)

To refer all such investigative information to the state attorney, ninth judicial circuit, or any other appropriate enforcing authority or agency having jurisdiction over the subject matter of the complaint;

(3)

To conciliate consumer disputes through conference with the interested parties; and

(4)

To be directly under the supervision and control of the state attorney, ninth judicial circuit.

(Code 1965, § 9B-5; Ord. No. 80-21, § 5, 12-1-80)