[1]
Editor's Note: Ord. 6 S+FS, 8-3-1994 created the Department
of Water and Sewer Utilities. The Division of Billing and Customer
Service (previously in the Department of Finance) and the Division
of Sewers and Water Supply (previously in the Department of Engineering),
and self-liquidating sewer utility in accordance with N.J.S. 40A:2-45
is hereby established.
[Ord. 6 S+FS, 8-3-1994 § 1 — 3; Ord. 6 S+FD, 11-15-1999 § 1]
a.
Divisions. There shall be a Department of Water and Sewer Utilities,
the head of which shall be the Director of Water and Sewer Utilities.
The Department shall consist of the following Divisions:
Billing and Customer Services; and Sewers and Water Supply.
b.
Qualifications of Director. The Director of Water and Sewer Utilities
shall, prior to appointment, be qualified by education, training and/or
experience, in the planning and execution of water and sewer public
works operations and improvements and possess the knowledge and ability
to direct and supervise revenue accounting and collection operations.
The Director's compensation shall be such sum annually as shall
be fixed by ordinance of the Municipal Council.
c.
Duties of the Department. The Director, through the Divisions and
otherwise, shall direct and supervise the functions and activities
for the design, condition and performance of the City's water,
sanitary and storm sewerage systems and develop and maintain methods
to account for water consumption and usage and the implementation
of revenue collection systems related thereto in order to maintain
the self-liquidating requirements of both the water and sewer utilities.
Additionally, the Director of Water/Sewer Utilities, himself, or through
a nominee shall authorize, direct and supervise the preparation of
plans, specifications, and the letting and performance of all service,
professional, and construction contracts under the Department of Water
and Sewer Utilities.
[Ord. 6 S+FS, 8-3-1994 § 4]
Water and sewer rates in the City of Newark shall be established
by ordinances of the Municipal Council.
[Ord. 6 S+FS, 8-3-1994 § 5; Ord. 6 S+FF, 9-7-2005; Ord. 6 S+FG, 9-6-2006]
In accordance with N.J.S. 40A:2-45, a self-liquidating sewer
utility is hereby established and as such the general obligation debt
heretofore authorized and/or issued for sewer purposes becomes a debt
of the sewer utility.
[Ord. 6 S+FS, 8-3-1994 § 6]
There shall be within the Department of Water Utilities, a Division
of Billing and Customer Service the head of which shall be the Manager
of Water Billing and Customer Service.
[Ord. 6 S+FS, 8-3-1994 § 7]
The Division of Billing and Customer Service, under the supervision
of the Director of Water and Sewer Utilities shall be responsible
for the reading of water meters, billing, accounting for water consumption
and wastewater charges at the rates and charges as provided by ordinance,
the repair, maintenance and proper functioning of water meters at
the owner's expense and the receiving of and adjustment, if necessary,
of complaints arising from charges resulting from water usage and
sewer discharge and treatment.
[Ord. 6 S+FS, 8-3-1994 § 8]
There shall be within the Department of Water and Sewer Utilities,
a Division of Sewers and Water Supply the head of which shall be the
Manager of Sewers and Water Supply.
[Ord. 6 S+FS, 8-3-1994; Ord. 6 S+FD, 6-19-1996 § 9, 10]
a.
The Division of Sewers and Water Supply, under the direction of the
Director of Water and Sewer Utilities, shall manage, administer, operate,
maintain, improve and extend the lands, reservoirs, aqueducts, distribution
mains, hydrants, valves and other structures, facilities and appurtenances
of the water works owned by the City for supplying the Division customers
within and outside of the limits of the City; and through the North
Jersey District Water Supply Commission or otherwise, as required
or permitted by statute, shall cooperate with others in providing
additional water supply for Newark's needs and those of others
dependent on Newark for water supply.
b.
The Division of Sewers and Water Supply shall also construct, operate
and maintain the City's sanitary and storm sewerage system, and
administer the City's ordinance relating to sewers and drains
and shall also be responsible for the treatment of wastewater and
stormwater through its contracts with the treatment entities —
Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission and Essex and Union Joint Meeting.
c.
In lieu of the planning, conservation, development and management
of the City's Pequannock Watershed properties by regular City
department, the City of Newark may enter into one or more service
agreement for any or all those purposes. In the event that any such
agreement becomes operative, the department shall coordinate the administration
of the agreement with the other water supply functions of the Division
and the Director of Water and Sewer Utilities shall supervise the
administration of the agreement on behalf of the City of Newark.
d.
The Division of Sewers and Water Supply shall be under the supervision
of a Manager, Division of Sewers and Water Supply.
e.
All of those duties and responsibilities previously assigned to the
Division of Water Accounting and Customer Service within the Department
of Finance and to the Division of Water/Sewer Utility within the Department
of Engineering are now assigned to the Divisions of Billing and Customer
Service and Sewers and Water Supply respectively in the Department
of Water and Sewer Utilities.
