Chapter 3.20 — DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS

(a) The director of public works shall attend to and carry out all duties appertaining to general municipal engineering involving the city, and shall attend to all special assessment proceedings and carry on in all work generally performed by a municipal engineer for the city.

(b) The director shall also be the supervisor and director of all divisions of public works in the city, specified as follows:

(1) The director shall have supervision and direction of all work relating to grading, paving, cleaning, lighting and repairing of streets and sidewalks; the building and repairing of streets and sidewalks; the building and repairing of sewer and storm drains; the disposal of sewage, garbage and rubbish. The director shall also act as the superintendent of streets of the city.

(2) The director shall have supervision and control of all work in connection with and relating to the water division of the city.

(3) The director shall be the custodian of all city maps, plans, profiles, field notes and other city records appertaining to the director's office with the indices thereof, and shall turn them over to the director's successor who shall give a duplicate receipt therefor, one of which shall be filed with the city clerk.

(c) The director of public works may designate qualified persons to exercise duties described above, and these authorized persons may sign or approve plans, maps, surveys, and specifications as directed by the director and as allowed by state law.

(d) All work done or made by the director of public works in connection with the duties of the office of director of public works, including maps, plans and memoranda, shall be the property of the city. (1941 Code § 402, Ord. 398, (1943); Ord. 499, (1950); Ord. 1181 § 1, (1980); Ord. 1618 § 2, (1999); Ord. 1806 § 2A, (2007))