[Amended 6-28-2011 by Ord. No. 23-11; 11-24-2009 by Ord. No. 37-09; 12-22-2015 by Ord. No. 33-15; 4-25-2017 by Ord. No. 07-17]
A. Departments:
(1) Department of Administration.
(3) Department of Public Safety.
(4) Department of Public Works.
B. Offices:
(1) Office of the Municipal Clerk.
(2) Office of the Tax Assessor.
C. Statutory boards and commissions:
(2) Environmental Commission.
(3) Historic Preservation Commission.
(4) Municipal Utilities Authority.
D. Advisory boards and commissions:
(1) Americans with Disabilities Advisory Board.
(2) Commission for the Disabled.
(3) Economic Development Advisory Committee.
(4) Information Technology and Telecommunications Advisory Board.
(6) Private Residential Communities Advisory Board.
(8) Senior Citizen Advisory Board.
(11) Ethics Information Committee.
[Amended 4-14-2015 by Ord. No. 09-15]
A. Each department
shall be headed by a director, who shall be appointed by the Mayor
with the advice and consent of the Council.
B. Each of
those departments and heads of those departments provided for in this
chapter shall report to the Business Administrator.
The term of a department head shall be for the term of the office
of the Mayor appointing him or her, and until the appointment and
qualification of his or her successor. Compensation paid to department
heads shall be fixed by Township Council in accordance with N.J.S.A.
40:69A-43a and N.J.S.A. 40:69A-180.
Department heads shall appoint subordinate officers and employees
within their respective departments and may, with approval of the
Mayor, remove such officers and employees subject to the provisions
of Title 11 of the New Jersey statutes or other general law.
All department heads shall be full-time employees. A full-time
employee shall be defined as an employee who regularly works a minimum
of 35 hours per week. Department heads shall be exempt employees for
purposes of the Federal Labor Standards Act. A department head shall
not be employed outside of the Township, or in addition to the position(s)
the employee holds with the Township without prior written permission
of the Mayor.
No department head shall have any interest in any partnership,
sole proprietorship, company, corporation or any other form of business
organization, which has a current contractual relationship with the
Township. A department head shall not enter into any contract individually
with the Township. A violation of this section shall be deemed sufficient
cause to seek removal under N.J.S.A. 40:69A-37.
The internal operation of each department shall be determined
by the director of the department subject to the applicable provisions
of this chapter. Whenever an activity or functional duty shall, by
ordinance, be transferred from one department to another department
of the Township, all the functions, powers and duties thereof shall
be and are transferred as of the effective date of the ordinance.
Vacancies in the office of any department head due to resignation, removal, death or otherwise shall be filled in accordance with the procedures delineated within §
3-18 of this chapter.
In the appointing of any employee, officer or department head,
preference may be given to residents of the Township of Jackson.
Any additional or amended qualifications for offices or positions,
including department heads, shall be prospective only as applied to
filling vacancies after the effective date of this chapter.