[Adopted 3-28-1972 by Ord. No. 468]
Pursuant to the authority of N.J.S.A. 40A:9-140, there is hereby created the office of Municipal Engineer.
The Mayor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the Council, a Municipal Engineer, who shall be a person (meaning an individual, partnership or professional corporation) licensed as a professional engineer in the State of New Jersey, for a term of one year commencing January 1 and terminating December 31 in each year.
The Municipal Engineer shall provide professional engineering advice and assistance to the Mayor and Council; provide engineering advice to the Planning Board for the review of subdivision applications and plats, master planning studies; maintain the Borough Official Map and Borough Zoning Map; prepare plans and specifications for public works authorized by the Mayor and Council and make such field surveys as may be required therefor; make such inspections of the work of public contractors as may be necessary or desirable; supervise the performance of public works contracts and certify the amounts due and payable thereunder; and provide any and all other professional engineering advice and assistance as may be required of him by statute or as requested of him by the Mayor and Council, whether by ordinance, resolution or otherwise.
The compensation to be paid the Municipal Engineer shall be as the Mayor and Council shall hereafter, from time to time, prescribe by the annual Salary Ordinance.[1]
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 53, Salaries.