The Municipal Engineer shall make all surveys, estimates and calculations necessary to be made for the establishment of any public utilities, and the costs of labor and materials therefor. He or she shall accurately make all plats, sections and maps as may be necessary under the direction of the governing body. Upon request, he or she shall make estimates of the cost of labor and material which may be done or furnished by contract with the municipality, and make all surveys, estimates and calculations necessary to be made for the establishment of grades, building of culverts, sewers, electric light system, waterworks, power plant, public heating system, bridges, curbing and gutters and the improvement of streets and erection and repair of buildings, and shall perform such other duties as the governing body may require. When a municipality has appointed a Board of Public Works, and the governing body has by ordinance so authorized, the Board shall have the right to utilize its own engineering staff, and shall have the right to hire consulting engineers for the design and installation of extensions and improvements of the works under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Works. Whenever the governing body has authorized, the Board of Public Works shall have the right to purchase material and employ labor for the enlargement and improvement of the water and electric departments.
(1976 Code, § 1-213) (Ord. 720, passed 9-1-1983)
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Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-150, 17-405, 17-568.01, 17-919, 81-839