35. The chairman of the executive committee shall direct the affairs and activities of the Community and its officers and employees, over whom he shall have a right of supervision and control. He shall see to the observance and faithful and impartial carrying out of this Act and of the by-laws of the Community and of the decisions taken by it.
He shall sign, together with the secretary, all the contracts of the Community, except those entered into following a delegation authorized by any provision of this Act. However, the executive committee may appoint another person to sign, together with the secretary, all the contracts of the Community, any category of such contracts or any given contract. No such person may sign a contract except where the chairman and the vice-chairmen are unable or refuse to do so, in the circumstances referred to in section 36.
The chairman of the executive committee may, for cause, suspend any officer or employee of the Community, with or without pay. He shall in such a case make a report to the executive committee at the first meeting thereafter and state his grounds in writing.
The officer or employee who is suspended without pay ceases thereupon to receive his salary and, where that is the case, the allowance to which he is entitled. The suspension lasts until the next meeting of the Council or of the executive committee, according to which of them is competent to dismiss the officer or employee or to reduce his salary.
The Council or the executive committee, as the case may be, may extend the suspension or impose another penalty in accordance with this Act.
1969, c. 84, s. 35; 1982, c. 18, s. 10; 1993, c. 68, s. 9; 1995, c. 71, s. 26.