City of Passaic, NJ
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2023-11-09
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Part I, Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 5 Administration of Government
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Article III Mayor
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration of Government
- Ch 5 Art III Mayor
- § 5-24 Functions, powers and duties.
- § 5-25 Acting Mayor.
- § 5-26 Appointment of acting officers.
- § 5-27 Office staff.
- Ch 7 Contracts
- Ch 8 Credit Card Payments
- Ch 9 Domestic Violence Crisis Intervention Team
- Ch 11 Elections
- Ch 15 Emergency, State of
- Ch 17 Enterprise Zone Development Corporation
- Ch 18 Ethics
- Ch 18A Financial Disclosure Statements
- Ch 19 Fire Department
- Ch 23 Health Officer
- Ch 25 Insurance
- Ch 29 Land Development Procedures
- Ch 30 Historic Preservation Commission
- Ch 32 (Reserved)
- Ch 33 Parking Authority
- Ch 35 Personnel Policies
- Ch 39 Police Department
- Ch 40 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 44 Redevelopment Agency
- Ch 46 Retirement
- Ch 49 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 59 Videotaping City Council Meetings
- Ch 61 Volunteer First Aid, Rescue and Ambulance Squads
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 70 Adult Entertainment
- Ch 71 Alarm Devices
- Ch 75 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 79 Amusement Devices
- Ch 83 Apartment Rental Businesses
- Ch 87 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 89 Auto Body Repair Facilities
- Ch 90 Automotive Repair Facilities
- Ch 90A Barbershops, Cosmetology and Hairstyling
- Ch 91 Body Piercing
- Ch 93 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 95 Buildings, Vacant
- Ch 99 Carnivals, Bazaars and Fairs
- Ch 100 Certificates of Occupancy and Tenancy
- Ch 101 Child-Care Services
- Ch 102 Clothing Bins
- Ch 103 Clubs
- Ch 107 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 109 (Reserved)
- Ch 110 Corporations, Representation of
- Ch 113 Curfew
- Ch 115 Dance Halls
- Ch 116 Demolition of Structures
- Ch 117 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 121 Dry-Cleaning Machines
- Ch 122 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 123 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Dwelling Units
- Ch 128 Employer Regulations
- Ch 129 Entertainment
- Ch 133 Fees
- Ch 135 Filming
- Ch 137 Fire Hydrants
- Ch 139 Fire Prevention
- Ch 143 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 145 Florists
- Ch 149 Food Establishments
- Ch 151 Foreclosing Mortgages and Vacant Property, Registration of
- Ch 153 Games of Chance
- Ch 157 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 161 Graffiti
- Ch 162 Grocery Stores
- Ch 165 Heating of Residential Property
- Ch 169 Insurance
- Ch 173 Junkyards and Junk Shops
- Ch 175 Landscaping
- Ch 176 Library
- Ch 177 Licenses
- Ch 179 Littering
- Ch 181 Loading Zones
- Ch 185 Multiple Dwellings
- Ch 189 (Reserved)
- Ch 193 Noise
- Ch 194 Public Seating
- Ch 195 Paint, Spray
- Ch 197 Parades and Flag-Raising Ceremonies
- Ch 199 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 201 Parking, Off-Street
- Ch 203 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 207 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 211 Peddling, Soliciting and Canvassing
- Ch 215 Police and Fire Equipment
- Ch 217 Poultry Markets
- Ch 219 Property Maintenance
- Ch 223 Public Health Nuisance Code
- Ch 227 Rat Control
- Ch 229 Real Estate Practitioners
- Ch 230 Recycling
- Ch 231 Rent Control
- Ch 231A Rental Property
- Ch 232 Recreational Cannabis Establishments
- Ch 234 Sales, Garage, Yard, Porch and House
- Ch 235 Sales, Special
- Ch 239 Sewers
- Ch 240 Sexual Offenders, Registry of
- Ch 243 Shopping Carts
- Ch 245 Sidewalk Sales
- Ch 247 Signs
- Ch 251 Smoking
- Ch 255 Snow and Ice and Other Impediments, Removal of
- Ch 256 (Reserved)
- Ch 257 Storage Tanks, Underground
- Ch 258 Storm Sewers
- Ch 258A Stormwater Control
- Ch 259 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 263 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 267 Swimming Pools
- Ch 271 (Reserved)
- Ch 275 Taxation
- Ch 277 Taxicabs
- Ch 278 Limousines
- Ch 280 Telephones, Outdoor
- Ch 281 Tenancies, Protected
- Ch 283 Tobacco
- Ch 284 Tractor-Trailers
- Ch 285 Transient Merchants
- Ch 289 Trees and Shrubbery
- Ch 293 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 295 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 297 Vehicles, Towing of
- Ch 298 Vehicles, Vending
- Ch 299 Vending Machines
- Ch 301 Waterfront
- Ch 303 Wells
- Ch 317 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A321 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A323 Telephone Facilities
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
The Mayor shall be the chief executive and administrative
officer of the City. He shall:
A.
Enforce the Charter and ordinances of the City.
B.
Supervise all of the departments of the City government.
D.
Appoint all officers and employees for whose election
or appointment no other provision is made by Charter or ordinance.
[Added 7-11-1985 by Ord. No. 865-85]
E.
From time to time make such recommendations for action
by the Council as he may deem in the public interest.
F.
Report annually at the beginning of the year to the
Council and public on the work of the previous year and the conditions
and requirements of the City government for the current year.
G.
Have such other functions, powers and duties as are
provided by the Charter and code.
H.
The Mayor shall be a full-time position in the City
of Passaic.
[Added 8-2-2001 by Ord. No. 1517-01]
A.
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:69A-42, the Mayor shall designate
the Business Administrator, any other department head or the City
Clerk to act as Mayor whenever the Mayor shall be prevented, by absence
from the municipality, disability or other cause, from attending to
the duties of his office. During such time, the person so designated
by the Mayor shall possess all the rights, powers and duties of the
Mayor.
B.
As provided by the Charter, whenever the Mayor shall
have been unable to attend to the duties of his office for a period
of 60 consecutive days, for any of the above stated reasons, an acting
Mayor shall be appointed by the Council, who shall succeed to all
the rights, powers and duties of the Mayor or the then Acting Mayor.
C.
Any Acting Mayor must be a bona fide resident of the
City of Passaic.
[Added 5-2-1991 by Ord. No. 1138-91]
[Amended 3-21-1991 by Ord. No. 1131-91]
A.
Whenever a vacancy exists in any office required by
the Charter or code to be filled by the Mayor with the advice and
consent of the Council and there is no holdover incumbent, the Mayor
may temporarily fill such vacancy, in the absence of any contrary
provision in the Charter or ordinances, by appointing an acting officer
to serve at the pleasure of the Mayor.
B.
Such appointee shall have all of the functions, powers
and duties of the office. Any such appointment shall terminate not
later than 90 days after the date of the appointment. Any reappointment
or subsequent appointment of the same person serving in such acting
position beyond such ninety-day period must have the consent, by resolution,
of the City Council.
