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.