Borough of Totowa, NJ
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2023-09-26
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 61 Officers and Employees
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Article III Borough Attorney
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 6 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 12 Claims Approval
- Ch 17 Cooperative Pricing
- Ch 22 Court, Municipal
- Ch 27 Drug and Alcohol Testing
- Ch 32 Election Districts
- Ch 38 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 43 Fire Department
- Ch 49 Firemen's Survivors' Pensions
- Ch 55 Intermunicipal Services Agreement
- Ch 61 Officers and Employees
- Ch 61 Art III Borough Attorney
- § 61-8 Creation of office.
- § 61-9 Qualifications.
- § 61-10 Duties.
- § 61-11 Appointment.
- § 61-12 Position to be part-time; compensation.
- § 61-13 Designation of Borough property; succession.
- Ch 66 Parking Utility
- Ch 72 Personnel Policies
- Ch 75 Police Department
- Ch 78 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 84 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 89 Seal and Emblem
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 100 Alarm Devices
- Ch 105 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 110 Amusement Devices
- Ch 115 Animals
- Ch 122 Automotive Sales
- Ch 133 Business and Insurance Registry
- Ch 135 Campaign Materials
- Ch 137 Cannabis
- Ch 142 Circuses, Carnivals and Mobile Rides
- Ch 148 Commercial Security
- Ch 153 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 170 Energy Aggregation Program
- Ch 175 Fertilizer Application
- Ch 178 Filming, Commercial
- Ch 180 Firearms
- Ch 186 Fire Prevention
- Ch 189 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 192 Florists
- Ch 197 Games of Chance
- Ch 202 Gasoline Stations and Tanks
- Ch 208 Graffiti
- Ch 214 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 221 Housing Standards
- Ch 232 Landscapers, Commercial
- Ch 236 Licensing
- Ch 241 Littering
- Ch 250 Massage Establishments
- Ch 256 Motels, Hotels and Tourist Lodges
- Ch 261 Newsracks
- Ch 266 Noise
- Ch 272 Obscene Material
- Ch 275 Outdoor Dining
- Ch 279 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 284 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 289 (Reserved)
- Ch 292 Precious Metals and Gems
- Ch 295 Property Maintenance
- Ch 300 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 310 Sales, Special
- Ch 314 School Enrollment
- Ch 320 Sewers
- Ch 325 Sex Offender Registration
- Ch 336 Soil Removal and Grading
- Ch 341 Solid Waste
- Ch 349 Storm Sewers
- Ch 352 Stormwater Control
- Ch 356 Street Naming and Numbering
- Ch 361 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 367 Swimming Pools
- Ch 370 Tattoo Artists
- Ch 372 Taxicabs
- Ch 377 Theaters
- Ch 380 Towers and Towing
- Ch 383 Trees
- Ch 388 Utilities
- Ch 394 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 398 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 402 Vehicles, Recreational
- Ch 407 Water
- Ch 415 Zoning and Land Use
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 420 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 425 Animals
- Ch 429 Barbershops and Beauty Parlors
- Ch 433 Burials and Interments
- Ch 438 Communicable Diseases
- Ch 440 Dumping
- Ch 443 Fees
- Ch 447 Food and Beverages
- Ch 452 Housing Standards
- Ch 460 Milk Vending Machines
- Ch 464 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 468 Officers and Employees
- Ch 472 Plumbing
- Ch 477 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Ch 486 Swimming Pools
- Ch 490 Water Supplies, Individual and Semipublic
- Ch 494 Weed Control
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
- Table of Datelines
- Ch TOD Table of Datelines
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
[Adopted 6-5-1962 by Ord. No. 793 (Ch.
23, Art. III, of the 1974 Code)]
There is hereby created the office of Borough
Attorney of the Borough of Totowa.
The Borough Attorney shall be an attorney at
law of the State of New Jersey.
He shall perform the duties of Borough Attorney
in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey and the ordinances
of the Borough of Totowa and shall be the legal adviser of the Mayor,
the Borough Council and the other officers and the various municipal
boards, which are not represented by their own counsel, in matters
relating to their duties and the business of the Borough.
He shall be appointed and shall hold office
as prescribed by law.
The office of Borough Attorney shall be a part-time
office, and the Borough Attorney shall receive compensation, as provided
in the annual Salary Ordinance adopted by the Mayor and Council,[1] for his attendance at meetings of the Mayor and Council.
He shall receive such other compensation for additional legal work
performed as may be authorized by the Mayor and Council.
[1]
Editor's Note: The currently effective Salary Ordinances are
on file in the office of the Borough Clerk and are available for examination
during office hours.
[Added 11-12-1974 by Ord. No. 1027]
All original copies of papers, documents, memoranda,
reports and all other materials relating to the administration of
the legal duties of the Attorney shall be and remain the property
of the Borough. Upon the termination of his services with the Borough,
the Attorney shall forthwith surrender to any successor all such property
at no cost, together with a written consent to the substitution of
any successor in all legal actions and proceedings then pending to
which the Borough is a party.
