Township of Hillside, NJ
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2015-12-15
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 4 Administration of Government
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Article V Department of Law
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration of Government
- Ch 4 Art V Department of Law
- § 4-15 Director.
- § 4-16 Functions.
- § 4-17 Succession.
- § 4-18 Organization.
- Ch 8 (Reserved)
- Ch 12 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 (Reserved)
- Ch 20 (Reserved)
- Ch 23 (Reserved)
- Ch 26 (Reserved)
- Ch 29 (Reserved)
- Ch 35 (Reserved)
- Ch 38 Fire Department
- Ch 44 Health, Board of
- Ch 47 Historian, Local
- Ch 55 Library
- Ch 58 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 60 Local Emergency Management Council
- Ch 64 Meetings
- Ch 70 Officers and Employees
- Ch 73 Personnel
- Ch 75 Physician
- Ch 78 Police Department
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 82 (Reserved)
- Ch 84 Purchasing
- Ch 88 Recreation Advisory Council
- Ch 89 Senior Citizen Transportation Services
- Ch 91 Senior Citizens Advisory Council
- Ch 93 Swimming Pool Commission
- Ch 96 (Reserved)
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 103 Air Pollution
- Ch 106 Alarm Systems
- Ch 108 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 110 Amusement Devices
- Ch 113 Animals
- Ch 114 Arts, Council on the
- Ch 115 Body Art Facilities
- Ch 117 Bowling and Skee-Ball Alleys and Poolrooms
- Ch 121 Building, Housing and Property Maintenance
- Ch 122 Vacant Property Registration and Maintenance
- Ch 124 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 130 Checks, Fraudulent
- Ch 134 Circuses, Carnivals and Traveling Shows
- Ch 140 Dance Halls
- Ch 143 Disabled Veteran Tax Refund
- Ch 147 Drugs
- Ch 151 Emergencies
- Ch 154 Filming
- Ch 155 Firearms
- Ch 157 Fire Prevention
- Ch 160 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 164 Games of Chance
- Ch 167 Golf Courses
- Ch 171 Graffiti
- Ch 178 Insurance
- Ch 182 Junkyards and Junk Dealers
- Ch 186 Landscaping
- Ch 188 Land Use
- Ch 203 Licenses
- Ch 207 Liquid-Fuel-Burning Equipment
- Ch 210 Loitering
- Ch 210A Public Urination and Defecation
- Ch 211 Schools
- Ch 212 Massage Parlors and/or Therapy Centers
- Ch 213 Salons and Ancillary Services
- Ch 214 Newsracks
- Ch 217 Noise
- Ch 220 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 223 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 228 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 232 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 239 Records
- Ch 249 Sales
- Ch 253 Sewers
- Ch 257 Soil Removal
- Ch 261 Solid Waste
- Ch 265 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 269 Swimming Pools
- Ch 272 Taxation
- Ch 274 Taxicabs, Omnibuses, Jitneys and Liveries
- Ch 277 Tennis Courts
- Ch 279 Towing
- Ch 280 Trailers
- Ch 282 Tree Removal
- Ch 283 Trees and Shrubs
- Ch 288 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 291 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 295 Vending Machines
- Ch 300 Yard Waste
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 306 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 310 (Reserved)
- Ch 313 Electronic Smoking Device Establishments
- Ch 316 Communicable Diseases
- Ch 322 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 326 Food Establishments, Retail
- Ch 330 Graduate Nurse, Public Health
- Ch 336 Heat, Furnishing of
- Ch 341 Inspections
- Ch 345 Meat, Sale of
- Ch 349 Milk
- Ch 355 Personnel
- Ch 359 Poultry
- Ch 363 Records
- Ch 367 Rodent Control
- Ch 371 Rummage and Secondhand Sales
- Ch 375 Sanitation and Drainage
- Ch 381 Toilet Facilities
- Appendix
- Ch A390 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A391 Utilities
- Ch A392 Veterans Memorial Building and Property
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Amended 1-6-1998]
The Department of Law shall be headed by a director
who shall be the Township Attorney and who shall be an attorney at
law of the state, qualified by training and experience. This position
may be full-time but shall be part-time unless otherwise stated. The
Township Attorney shall be compensated as provided by annual Salary
Ordinance and as may be otherwise approved by consent of the Council.
[Amended 9-23-2014 by Ord. No. O-14-10]
The Director of the Department of Law shall perform all appropriate
functions associated therewith, including:
A.
Serving
as legal advisor to the Township, Mayor, members of Council, Township
Clerk, Business Administrator, Township Engineer, and administrative
department heads.
B.
Preparing
and advising as to form and sufficiency of ordinances and Council
resolutions, if requested, prior to passage. Preparing, reviewing
and approving, prior to the publication or the execution thereof by
or on behalf of the Township, contracts, deeds, requests for proposals
and requests for qualifications, information for bids, and other documents
and instruments.
C.
Conducting
appeals from orders, decisions or judgments affecting any interest
of the Township as directed by the Council.
D.
Instituting,
prosecuting, defending, compromising or settling any actions, suits,
litigation or proceedings, in which the Township is or shall become
involved, subject to the approval of Mayor and Council.
E.
Rendering
opinions, in writing or orally, as requested, upon any question of
law or procedure submitted to the Township Attorney by Council, the
Mayor, the Township Clerk, the Business Administrator, the Township
Engineer, or by administrative department heads.
F.
Selecting
duly authorized special counsel with demonstrated qualifications by
training and experience to institute, prosecute, defend or handle,
and supervising and monitoring all such actions, suits, litigation,
proceedings and matters as are necessary, advisable or appropriate
for special counsel to handle on behalf of the Township.
G.
Maintaining
a record of all actions, suits, litigation, proceedings and matters
which relate to the Township's interests and to report thereon
as the Mayor and Council may require.
All papers, documents, memoranda, reports and
other materials relating to the administration of the Department of
Law shall be and remain the property of the Township. Upon termination
of his or her service with the Township, the Attorney shall forthwith
surrender to his or her successor all such property, together with
a written consent to substitution of his or her successor in all legal
actions, suits and litigation proceedings then pending to which the
Township is a party. However, the former Attorney may remain as Attorney
of Record to represent the Township in those matters in which the
Mayor believes the best interests of the Township will be served by
retaining the former Attorney.
The Department of Law shall be organized pursuant to plan approved as provided in § 4-9 of this chapter.
