A director may serve as a division head without additional compensation, unless additional compensation is approved by the Council.
Department heads shall appoint subordinate officers and employees within their respective departments, within the limits of available appropriations, and except where authority to appoint is specifically conferred upon the Mayor by the provisions of this Code. Department heads may also suspend, discipline and remove such subordinate officers and employees appointed by them, with the approval of the Mayor, subject to such limitations as may be imposed by law. Each department head shall annually in December furnish the Mayor and Business Administrator with a list of all officers and employees within his (her) department, setting forth the name, address and job title or job description and the then-current annual salary of each such officer and employee.
In addition to the enumerated duties of all departments, divisions, officers and employees as set forth in this Code, each such department, division, officer and employee shall have those additional duties as are directed by the Mayor, Council, or Business Administrator which are generally consistent with their enumerated duties or which are functions usually performed by such departments, divisions, officers or employees.
Whenever a vacancy exists in the office of head of any division by resignation, removal, disability or otherwise, the director of the department may fill such vacancies temporarily by appointing an acting head of such division, who shall have the powers and duties and perform all the functions of such division head until the office shall be filled permanently. Such appointment shall be for a maximum period of 180 days, unless the Council by resolution shall extend such period, and all such appointments shall be with the prior approval of the Mayor.
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All the books, maps, papers, accounts, statements, vouchers and other documents whatsoever acquired or produced in any department shall be carefully and conveniently filed, kept and preserved and be and remain the sole property of the municipality and shall not at any time be removed from the offices of such department except when required for use in official business and shall then be returned to such office without delay. Each department head shall be responsible for enforcing the requirement of this section in his department.
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All public documents and records shall, during usual office hours, be open to public search, inspection and examination, subject to and within the limitations prescribed by law, and provided that such search, inspection and examination may be made under such reasonable regulations as the officer having custody of such records, books and documents shall establish for the safety and preservation thereof.
The public, administrative and executive business offices of the Township shall be open for the transaction of public business daily except Saturdays and Sundays and legal holidays, between such hours as the Mayor may prescribe with the approval of the Council, except as otherwise provided by law. All departments in times of emergency shall provide municipal services for 24 hours a day. The Mayor, Business Administrator or a department head may require any officer or employee to be in attendance for work on any day or days during such hours as may be required whenever he determines that a public emergency or the public interest so requires.
All officers and employees of the Township shall comply with the following statutory requirements and prohibitions:
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Political activity. No municipal officer or employee shall directly or indirectly use or seek to use his authority or official influence to control or modify the political action of another person; nor shall any paid officer or employee, during the hours of duty, engage in any political activity. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent an elective officer from campaigning at any time.
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Interest in contracts or jobs forbidden. No Township officer or employee shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contract or job for work or materials, or the profits thereof, to be furnished or performed for this Township (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-163).
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Acceptance of free services forbidden. No Township officer or employee shall accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person operating within the territorial limits of this Township, any business or service upon terms more favorable than is granted to the public generally (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-164).
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Promise of office or employment forbidden. No candidate for office, appointment or employment and no officer, appointee or employee in the Township shall directly or indirectly give or promise any person any office, position, employment, benefit or anything of value for the purpose of influencing or obtaining the political support, aid or vote of any person, under the penalty of being disqualified to hold the office or employment to which he may be or may have been elected or appointed (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-165).[1]
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Editor's Note: Original Secs. 2-12.7e, Forfeit of office for violation, 2-12.7f, Failure to appear or testify, and 2-13, Municipal Court, as amended, of the 1986 Revised General Ordinances, which immediately followed this subsection, were repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II). In addition, original Sec. 403.15h, which listed employees not entitled to receive payment for overtime, added 2-5-1987 by Ord. No. 375-87, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).