[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Bergenfield 12-16-1975 by Ord. No. 1046 as Sec. 2-9 of the Revised General Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Boards, committees and commissions — See Ch. 5.
Departments — See Ch. 17.
Mayor and Borough Council — See Ch. 46.
Officers and employees — See Ch. 50.
The Borough government shall be organized into the following departments corresponding to the standing committees of the Borough Council, a Department of Law which shall report to the Mayor and Council as a body and additional separate offices, boards and commissions which are not assigned to particular departments.
A. 
Departments.
(1) 
Department of Finance.
(2) 
Police Department.
(3) 
Fire Department.
(4) 
Department of Public Works — Sanitation.
(5) 
Department of Community Affairs.
(6) 
Department of Parks and Recreation.
(7) 
Department of Law.
B. 
Separate offices.
(1) 
Administrator.
(2) 
Public Defender.
(3) 
Engineer.
C. 
Boards and commissions.
(1) 
Municipal Court.
(2) 
Board of Adjustment.
(3) 
Planning Board.
(4) 
Board of Health.
(5) 
Board of Commissioners of Assessments.
(6) 
Housing Authority.
(7) 
Shade Tree Commission.
(8) 
Rent Levelling Board.
(9) 
Library Board.
(10) 
Local Assistance Board.
The Chairman of a department, subject to the code and the approval or direction of the Council, shall:
A. 
Prescribe the internal organization of the work of his department.
B. 
Approve or disapprove payrolls, bills and claims chargeable to department appropriations.
C. 
Provide such information and reports on the work of the department as may from time to time be required by the Council.
D. 
Exercise such other or different powers of administrative supervision and direction as the Council may delegate to him.