There is hereby established the office of Municipal Engineer.
The Municipal Engineer shall work under the direction of the
Council and Manager of the Municipality in carrying out the following
duties:
A. To fix, establish and locate all sidewalk and street grades.
B. To prepare plans, specifications and estimates of all engineering
work except such work as is assigned by contract or otherwise to consulting
engineers and, whenever required, furnish the Manager or Council with
reports, information or estimates on any Municipal engineering work.
C. Immediately after the completion of any Municipal improvements, the
cost of which in whole or in part is to be paid by the owners of abutting
property, to determine and certify the day or time on which the particular
improvement was completed and file such certificate with the Manager.
The time mentioned in such certificates shall be conclusive on all
parties. The time of completion shall be taken to mean the time of
the completion of the whole contract for the improvement. He shall
also furnish the Municipal Manager with a certificate showing the
time at which any such particular improvement was commenced, and such
certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the time when said improvement
was begun.
D. To make and keep, for the benefit of the Municipality, correct minutes,
maps, records, plans, specifications and estimates of all matter pertaining
to Municipal, surveys or public works and maintain a record of such
minutes, maps, records, plans, specifications and estimates when prepared
by the consulting engineers or any other engineer working on behalf
of the Municipality, and to deliver all such work, whether prepared
by the Municipal Engineer or maintained by the Municipal Engineer,
to his successor or to such persons as the Council may direct.
E. To perform such other engineering services as the Council or Manager
may from time to time direct.
The Municipal Engineer shall be well-skilled in the sciences
of civil engineering and building and in the practical application
thereof and certified by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a registered
civil engineer. He shall be paid such salary and expenses as are fixed
by the Council from time to time and shall continue in office until
a successor is selected by the Council.
The Municipal Engineer, together with his necessary assistants,
may at all reasonable hours enter into or upon any pieces of land
within the Municipality and survey and measure the same in order to
perform the service and duties required of him by virtue of the office.
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No. 2042]
If any person shall alter, deface, remove or destroy any monument,
mark post or pin made or set up by the Engineer or his assistants,
he shall forfeit and pay for each offense a fine not exceeding $600,
plus costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine
and costs, be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 30 days.
The Municipal Engineer shall be furnished with an office and
the necessary instruments, books, etc., at the expense of the Municipality,
and his office shall be kept open for the transaction of business
during such hours as he and the Council may designate.
The Municipal Engineer shall, in addition to the work described
in the foregoing sections, attend the meetings of the Council and
prepare all plans, specifications and information necessary for the
Council to understand properly and to act intelligently upon any engineering
question under consideration.
The Municipal Engineer, on his removal from office, by resignation
or otherwise, shall deliver to his successor or, if no successor is
appointed at the time of his removal, to the Manager all records,
books, instruments, etc., which are or may be the property of the
Municipality.
The assistant engineers and other assistants shall perform such
duties as the Engineer shall direct. The Engineer and assistants shall
give their undivided attention to Municipality work.