[Amended 1-28-2003 by Ord. No. 1-2003]
The Mayor shall be the chief executive and administrative officer
of the Township. He shall:
A. Enforce
the Charter and ordinances of the Township and all general laws applicable
thereto.
B. Supervise
all of the departments of the Township government.
C. Require
each department to make a written annual report and such other reports
of its work as he may deem desirable.
D. Require
each department to make and submit a written annual report to the
Township Clerk by January 31 of each year, itemizing the category
of documents (i.e., permanent, semipermanent etc.) retained pursuant
to the document retention policy, the documents scheduled to be destroyed
and the anticipated storage needs (i.e., boxes) for newly retained
documents, as well as the length of storage for those newly retained
documents, [i.e., permanent, semipermanent (five to seven years),
etc.].
E. Appoint
all officers and employees for whose election or appointment no other
provision is made by Charter, ordinance or general law.
F. From
time to time make such recommendations for action by the Council as
he may deem in the public interest.
G. Report
annually at the beginning of the year to the Council and the public
on the work of the previous year and the condition and requirements
of the Township government for the current year.
H. Have
such other functions, powers and duties as are provided by Charter
or ordinance.
[Amended 9-25-1990 by Ord. No. 40-90]
As provided by the Charter, Section 3.12 (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-1
et seq.), the Mayor shall designate the Business Administrator, any
other department head or the Township Clerk to act as Mayor whenever
the Mayor shall be prevented, by absence from the municipality, disability
or other cause, from attending to the duties of his office. During
such time, the person so designated by the Mayor shall possess all
the rights, powers and duties of the Mayor. Whenever the Mayor shall
have been unable to attend to the duties of his office for a period
of 60 consecutive days, for any of the above-stated reasons, an Acting
Mayor shall be appointed by the Council, who shall succeed to all
the rights, powers and duties of the Mayor or the then Acting Mayor.
Whenever a vacancy exists in any office required by the Charter
or ordinance to be filled by the Mayor with the advice and consent
of the Council, the Mayor may temporarily fill such vacancy, in the
absence of any contrary provision in the Charter or ordinance, by
appointing an acting officer, including the designation of himself
as an acting department head in the event of a vacancy in such office.
Such appointee shall have all of the functions, powers and duties
of the office until it shall be filled permanently. Any such appointment
shall terminate not later than 60 days after the date of the appointment,
unless the Council shall, by resolution, authorize one or more extensions
of such period. Whenever any such vacancy exists in any office required
by the Charter or ordinance to be filled by the Mayor with the advice
and consent of the Council as contemplated by this section: the Mayor
shall make nominations to fill such office and transmit the same to
the Council for its advice and consent no later than 60 days from
the date such vacancy occurred, unless the Council shall, by resolution,
authorize one or more extensions of such period.
Except as provided in §
5-8 herein relative to interim appointments, the Mayor shall not designate himself nor appoint himself the department head of any department, except that the Mayor may be the department head of the Department of Police subject to the advice and consent of the Council.