The head of each department, under the supervision of the township
committee and subject to this revision and all other ordinances, shall:
a. Prescribe written rules and regulations for the internal organization
of the department and the duties of subordinate officers and employees
within the department.
b. Assign functions, powers and duties to subordinate officers and employees
within the department and modify such assignments as need appears.
c. Supervise the work of the department and such other organization
units as may be assigned to such department by the township committee
or the administrator.
d. Delegate to subordinate officers such of his powers as he may deem
necessary for efficient administration.
e. Report at least monthly to the township committee or the administrator
on the work of the department.
All offices of the Township of Roxbury shall be open five days
each during those hours established by resolution of the township
committee, except Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays.
The employment policies established herein are intended:
a. To provide the township committee with an instrument for better budgeting.
b. To eliminate guesswork and needless negotiation when hiring an employee
or when making a meritorious promotion.
c. To assure a faithful and deserving employee of an adequate and reliable
wage progression.
d. To reward such employee for the years of service devoted to the township.
e. To enable the township committee to fix salaries of township personnel
to accord with cost of living or other economic or social changes.
The provisions of this section shall apply alike to all officers,
employees or positions in the township regardless of the time of the
creation of the office or position or of the time of the appointment
or the employment of the officer or employee.
All personnel for the township shall be appointed or hired by
the township committee or by the municipal administrator.
No full time municipal employee shall engage in any outside
employment which will impair the performance of his duties or be detrimental
to the municipal service.
The township committee shall have the power to remove any employee
or appointed official, on any formal charge, whenever the interests
of the township demand such a removal.
Every officer and employee of the township, upon the expiration
of his term for any cause whatsoever, shall deliver to his successor
all books and records of his office which may be the property of the
township; and, if no successor has been appointed within two weeks
after the termination of office such property shall be delivered either
to the township committee or to the municipal administrator.
All officers and employees of the township shall receive such
salaries as may be provided by ordinance or by contract. No officer
or employee shall be entitled to retain any portion of any fees collected
by him in the performance of his duties as municipal officer or employee.
An employee obtaining a special license, such as a sewer operators
State license, may receive additional compensation as may be established
in the salary section by the township committee, provided that his
acquisition of such license will enable him to perform duties or functions
necessary to a township operation.
Leave with pay, not exceeding three days, shall be granted by
the municipal administrator to any employee, in the event of death
in his immediate family. For the purpose of this section "immediate
family" shall include: (1) the employee's spouse, child, parent,
brother or sister; (2) the child, parent, brother or sister of his
spouse, or (3) a relative living under the same roof.
For salary grades and ranges, wages, compensation and fees of
all officers and employees of the township, see annual salary ordinances
and collective bargaining agreements of the township. Such ordinances
and agreements are not included in these Revised Ordinances, but are
saved from repeal. See Adopting Ordinance.
A pension in the sum of one thousand two hundred ($1,200.00)
dollars per annum shall be paid to the widow or to the minor child
or children of a volunteer fireman who shall have died as the result
of injuries sustained in the course of performance of duty as a member
of a township volunteer fire company, as provided in Sections 43:
12-28. 1 et seq. of the Revised Statutes of the State of New Jersey.
The pension shall be paid to the widow, during her widowhood,
or to the minor child or children of such fireman, if he shall leave
no widow surviving him, or to such minor child or children after the
death of such widow.
Provisions shall be made in the municipal budget for the payment
of any such pension which shall be paid in the same manner as municipal
employees are paid.