The head of the Department shall be the Director who shall be qualified by education and experience. Unless separate appointments shall be made by the Township Manager as authorized by ordinance adopted by the Township Council, the Director of the Department shall also fulfill the responsibilities of Superintendent of the Parking Utility and shall carry out the duties and functions of this position as set forth herein and as assigned by the Township Manager.
[Added 12-16-2025 by Ord. No. O-25-60]
It shall be the function of the Utility to budget and account for the parking operations undertaken by the Township. The Department shall be to preserve, care for, lay out, construct, maintain, improve and operate lands, buildings, and facilities used for the provision of public parking and the enforcement of the Township's laws and regulations concerning parking; to construct, reconstruct, alter, provide, renew and maintain buildings or other structures and equipment and provide for the care, custody and control thereof in the operation of the Utility; to raise money necessary to pay for the lands, rights or interest therein acquired for parking activities, and for improving and equipping the same; to pay or make provision for the payment of the reasonable expenses in each fiscal year of the Utility; to pay to those persons entitled thereto the interest and principal on notes and bonds of the Utility, and to deposit and accumulate reserve funds or reserves. The Department shall have the following duties and responsibilities:
The Utility shall be governed by the ordinances, the Administrative Code, and the resolutions adopted by the Township Council and by administrative directives.
The financial affairs of the Utility shall be governed in accordance with the statutes applying to the financial affairs of the municipality and utilities in general.
The Utility may, from time to time, acquire such real property as may be authorized by the Township Council by duly adopted ordinances according to the laws of the State of New Jersey.
The Utility shall have authority to charge and collect monies for the use of the Utility's facilities whether they be user charges, rental fees, or lease payments, and to use these monies to defray the cost of acquisition of lands, buildings and facilities, rights and interests therein, to equip the facilities, to pay the Utility's current expenses and to pay the interest and principal on notes and bonds all in accordance with such duly adopted ordinances and/or resolutions of the Township Council. The initial rates and fees shall be as currently on file with the Department of Finance.