(A) Office Created, Appointment: There is hereby created the office of city engineer of the city who shall be registered under the provisions of the Illinois professional engineering act who shall be appointed by the mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the council on the first Tuesday in May of each year, or as soon thereafter as may be, and shall hold his office for the term of one year, and until his successor is duly appointed and qualified.
(B) Oath, Bond: He shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the oath prescribed by law for the city officers, and shall execute a bond to the city in the penal sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), with sureties to be approved by the council, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.
(C) Duties:
1. Said engineer shall have charge of all public improvements, commenced or to be commenced by the city which are to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessment or special taxation, and such other public improvements as require the skill of a civil engineer. He shall have special charge of the construction and inspection of all public and private sewers and catch basins laid on or in any public street, alley or way, and of the construction and repair of all bridges and viaducts constructed by the city.
2. The city engineer shall advise the city on all engineering matters; he shall, when required, advise the city council or any city officer in all matters of engineering, in which the interest of the corporation are involved. He shall, when required by the mayor, council, or any committee thereof, furnish written opinions upon any subject submitted to him pertaining to the city or its interests.
3. The city engineer shall draw and examine such plans, specifications, and other papers as may be required of him by the mayor, council or any committee thereof, and he shall examine and pass upon the engineering sufficiency of any and all plans, specifications, and papers submitted to him pertaining to the city or its interests, when required by the mayor, council, or any committee thereof.
(D) Submit Estimates And Specifications: The city engineer shall, when requested by the mayor, the board of local improvements, the council or any committee thereof, make out and submit plans, estimates and specifications for public work, which may be proposed or ordered by the council or the board of local improvements.
(E) Superintend Public Works: He shall daily or as often as may be necessary, examine all public works under his charge and see that the same is properly executed, and if the contractor therefor shall neglect or refuse to execute such work in accordance with his contract and specifications, said engineer may suspend the work, and shall, thereupon, report the facts to the mayor.
(F) Inspect Materials: He shall, when required, receive, inspect or measure any lumber, brick, stone or other material to be used in any public work of the city, and, if necessary, shall keep an accurate account of the quantity or quality of the same, the cost thereof, of whom received and for what purpose used or to be used, and he shall examine all bills for materials so received by him, and, if found correct, shall certify the same to the council for allowance.
(G) Establish Grades And Boundaries: He shall, when required by the council of the committee on streets and alleys thereof, make a survey of the grade or boundary of any street, avenue or alley of the city, and prepare a plat or profile thereof and report the same to the council, and no such survey or grade or boundary shall be deemed established or valid until the plat or profile shall be approved by the council. Any plat, profile or other paper belonging to the office of the city engineer shall be returned to him by the clerk as soon as the council shall have no further use of the same.
(H) Furnish Grades, Make Surveys: He shall give or mark the grade of any street or alley, where established, for any person desiring to erect any building or enclosure or to lay any sidewalk thereon, when directed to do so by the council. He shall make all surveys within and for the city when called upon.
(I) Field Notes, Errors: It shall be the duty of the city engineer to provide himself, so far as practicable, with copies of field notes of the original surveys of the town and city of Canton, and to make his own surveys in accordance therewith; he shall carefully note all errors or discrepancies in the original surveys or resurveys as soon as discovered.
(J) Plats, Surveys Or Sewers And Water Mains: Said engineer shall keep in his office plats of all grades or boundaries of streets and alleys established by the council, correcting the same when any grade shall be changed, and adding thereto when any new grade or boundary shall be established. He shall also keep correct surveys of all public sewers and water mains within the city, showing the location, length and dimensions of the same, respectively. He shall record in a suitable book, to be provided by the city, the profiles of all surveys of grades and boundaries established, and preserve the original papers relating thereto, and shall otherwise keep a systematic record of all the transactions pertaining to his office.
(K) Other Duties: He shall also perform such other duties as may be required of him by the board of local improvements and the mayor or council in the prosecution and construction of any public improvements within or under the control of the city, as shall require the skill and experience of a civil engineer.
(L) Assistants: He shall be allowed such assistants and other clerks and subordinate help as the necessities of his office may require, and the council, by ordinance or resolution, shall from time to time authorize him to employ.
(M) Monthly Reports: It shall be the duty of said engineer to make monthly, written reports to the city treasurer and city clerk of all monies received by his office arising from any official act, and to pay over to the city treasurer, at least once each month, all monies so received by him.
He shall likewise make a monthly written report at the first meeting of the council in each month of the monies so received by him and of all his acts and doings for the preceding month.
(N) Annual Reports: The city engineer shall annually, on or before the first Tuesday in May of each year, make out and submit to the council a written report showing in detail the public works or improvements undertaken or completed in connection with his office during the preceding fiscal year, and the cost thereof to the city.
(O) Preserve Papers And Turn Over To Successor: Said engineer shall carefully preserve in his office all plats and records of surveys, and all books, maps and papers pertaining thereto, and upon expiration of his term of office, or his resignation or removal therefrom, he shall deliver to his successor in office all such books, maps, plats, records and effects of every description belonging to the city or appertaining to said office.
(P) Office Hours: The office hours of the city engineer shall be from eight o'clock (8:00) A.M. until twelve o'clock (12:00) noon and from one o'clock (1:00) P.M. until five o'clock (5:00) P.M. from Monday through Friday. (Ord. 1279, 5-1-1990)
(Q) Building Official/Zoning Enforcement Officer: The city engineer shall perform the functions of building official under the various uniform codes as the same may be from time to time adopted by the city; further, the city engineer shall act as the zoning enforcement officer and shall cause the various zoning laws to be faithfully enforced. As the building official and as the zoning enforcement officer, he shall act as a staff advisor to the joint planning and zoning commission. He shall give written opinions and reports when requested to do so by the chairman of the joint planning and zoning commission. He shall cause written variances to issue in conformity with the decisions of the joint planning and zoning commission. (Ord. 1279, 5-1-1990; amd. Ord. 3041, 12-3-2013)