President vs Board of Directors

I am new to the HOA idea & have purchased into a townhome Association (built in 1996)where the By-laws give only the President all the "duties & responsibilities" for administering & maintaining the Association. The VP & Secretary have no duties. The Treasurer is appointed & just signs the check that are billed to him. The President decides what will be repaired, replaced, companies to hire, contracts to sign alone. In all organization that I belong to, the Board of Directors has the duties & responsiblities to administer & maintain with each Board officer given duties & responsibilites so what is the rule? The Declaration simply states that the Association will be governed through the Board of Directors & the Articles of Incorporation state how the Directors are elected & the Officers are chosen. Thank you for responses & suggestions of how Declarations are written.

If your secretary doesn't have any duties, who is taking the minutes of this one man show? Harold

I do not think that I made myself clear, the By-laws state that the President can do everything. The Secretary does take notes & does minutes, then the President adds her interpretation. Some minutes are not signed--they say that the "Special Meeting" do not need them. My question is: do most HOA Bylaws state that the "Board of Directors has the all the duties & responsibilities of running the Association" with officer positions then given their individual duties & responsibilities later; or are their HOAs where 1 officer is the President & does it all?