The public works department shall have charge of general engineering, traffic engineering, flood control, street and sewer construction and maintenance, assessments, building inspection, care of public buildings, collection and disposal of refuse, and installation, maintenance and removal of parkway trees and parkways. (1957.)
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For similar Charter provision, see Charter, Art. X, § 5.
The city engineer must be a civil engineer, who has practiced his profession not less than five years next before his appointment. He shall possess the same power in making surveys, plats and certificates, as is given by law to city engineers and to county surveyors. He shall be the custodian of and shall be responsible for all maps, plans, profiles, field notes and other records and memoranda belonging to the city, and pertaining to his office and to the work thereof, all of which he shall keep in proper order and condition, with full indexes thereof, and shall turn over the same to his successor, taking from him duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he shall file with the clerk. All maps, plans, profiles, field notes, estimates and other memoranda of surveys and other professional work made or done by him or under his direction or control, during his term of office, or that he may have received from his predecessor, shall remain the property of the city.
Editor's Note: The catchline of this section originally read as follows: "City engineer."
The maintenance services administrator shall have the general care and supervision of streets and of the maintenance and repair thereof and the care of and custody of tools and implements belonging to the City of Glendale and used for street construction and repair. (1953; 1957.)
(Res. No. 04-238 § 1, 2004)
The building official shall have charge of the issuing of building permits and shall see that no permit is issued unless the building plans show conformity to all state laws and all ordinances of the city applicable thereto. He shall see that the laws and ordinances regulating the construction of buildings are enforced. He shall perform all duties that are imposed by existing ordinances of the city on the building inspector, the plumbing inspector and the inspector of electric wiring.
(Res. No. 04-238 § 1, 2004)