[Amended 5-13-1996 by Ord. No. 96-10]
A director may serve as a Division Head without
additional compensation. Whenever a vacancy exists in the office of
Head of any Division by reason of resignation, removal, disability
or otherwise, the director of the department may fill such vacancy
temporarily by appointing an Acting Head of such Division, who shall
have and perform all the functions, powers and duties of such Division
Head until the office shall be filled permanently.
No officer or employee elected or appointed
shall:
A. Directly or indirectly use or attempt to use the officer's
or employee's office, position or employment to secure or obtain any
unwarranted, preferential, favored, discriminatory or unlawful rights,
benefits, advantages or privileges for the officer or employee or
any others.
B. Vote for the adoption or defeat of any legislation
or for the payment or nonpayment of any indebtedness owing or allegedly
owing by this Township in which the officer or employee has a direct
or indirect personal, pecuniary or other private interest.
C. Recommend or lobby for the adoption or defeat of any
legislation or the institution or defense of any legal or quasi-legal
action whatever in which the officer or employee has or may have a
direct or indirect personal, pecuniary or other private interest.
D. Approve or disapprove or in any way recommend the
payment of any bill, voucher or indebtedness owed or allegedly owed
by the Township in which the officer or employee has a direct or indirect
personal, pecuniary or other private interest.
E. Accept other employment or professional retainers
or the promise thereof that might reasonably conflict with the performance
of official duties or that might reasonably tend to impair the officer's
or employee's independent or impartial judgment or action in the exercise
or performance of the officer's or employee's official duties.
Upon the termination of office or employment
of any officer, employee or board member, the appropriate individual
shall forthwith deliver to the successor or, if there be no successor,
to the Township Clerk or other person who may be designated by the
Council to receive the same all moneys, papers, books, memoranda,
accounts and data of any nature whatever pertaining to the appropriate
individual's office.
Every municipal officer or employee who receives
funds on behalf of the Township shall pay over said funds to the Chief
Financial Officer in a time period prescribed by law, together with
an itemized report detailing the items for which said funds had been
received.
All ordinances heretofore adopted by the Township
Council of the Township of West Windsor or the Board of Health of
the Township of West Windsor, to the extent that the same are consistent
with this chapter, are continued in full force and effect. All references
in said ordinances to the Township Council, Township Board of Health
or any board, body, department or office shall be construed to mean
such board, body, department or office to which the respective functions,
powers and duties are allocated and assigned by this chapter.
Unless otherwise provided for, rates of compensation
established for persons holding office or employment on the effective
date of this chapter shall be continued with respect to the office
or employment to which they respectively may be transferred.
Any board, office, agency, function or employment
not specifically reconstituted or continued by this chapter shall
be deemed abolished.