135.01 Director of Service.
135.02 Engineering services.
135.03 Bureau of Erosion and Flood Control in Division of Engineering.
135.04 Service Director as Platting Commissioner.
135.05 Deposits required for review, inspection and approval services of City Engineer and professional consultants.
CROSS REFERENCES
Department established - see CHTR. Art. V, Sec. 1
Director's powers and duties - see CHTR. Art. V, Sec. 3
Director as member of Board of Control - see CHTR. Art. V, Sec. 8
Supervision and administration of Department by Administrative Director - see ADM. 133.01
Reports to Service Director re hazardous waste in sewers - see S.U. & P.S. 923.09
The Director of Service shall perform such duties and functions in connection with the public service of the City as the Mayor may direct or as Council may specifically provide by ordinance.
Under the authority of the Mayor, he or she may establish such subdepartments as may be necessary and determine the number of superintendents, foremen, deputies, inspectors, clerks, mechanics, truck drivers, equipment handlers, helpers, guards, skilled and common laborers and other persons necessary for the execution of the public work and public service and the performance of the functions of the Department.
(Ord. 9604. Passed 12-29-51.)
When approved by the Mayor, the Administrative Director and/or the Service Director are hereby authorized and empowered to employ or engage the professional services of a registered engineer to perform, in connection with the construction or installation of any public improvement, the various professional services required for such studies, including planning, estimates, conferences, general and detail plans and specifications, proposals, surveys, profiles, inspection, supervision, negotiations, maps, tests and such other general and special engineering services as may be required. Compensation may be paid for such professional engineering services on the basis of a percentage of the entire cost of construction in accordance with the fee schedule recommended by the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers contained in their Code of Professional Practice for Professional Engineering Services. All other fees shall be in accordance with the Code of Professional Practice, the current edition, by the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers. All fees are payable in such installments as the Administrative Director or the Service Director may authorize, but based upon the progress of the project. The engineering services shall be engaged by written agreement in a form approved by the Director of Law. The cost of any special engineering services shall be added to and be a part of the cost of the public improvement for which such services are obtained and the Director of Finance is hereby authorized and empowered to pay for the cost of such engineering services upon the written requisition of the Administrative Director or the Service Director and to charge the same to the cost of the public improvement. In the determination of the cost of the public improvement, no credit shall be made for the cost of land, right of way or compensation for or damage to property. The drawings and specifications, together with all documents, tracings and field notes, shall be and remain the property of the City.
(Ord. 43-1975. Passed 3-3-75.)
There shall be a Bureau of Erosion and Flood Control within the Division of Engineering under the direct supervision of the Director of Service, whose responsibility it shall be to exercise control over erosion and flood problems in the City and to pursue whatever steps are necessary to control and alleviate such conditions to the limit allowed by law. The Director of Service shall provide information to the residents of the City concerning flood control measures and shall be responsible to advise anyone concerned with flood control measures.
(Ord. 82-1974. Passed 5-6-74.)
The Service Director is designated and appointed as the Platting Commissioner of the City. The Director shall provide regulations governing the platting of all lands in order to require all streets and alleys to be the proper width and to be coterminous with adjoining streets and alleys. The Platting Commissioner shall, if plats are prepared and submitted in accordance with the rules as prescribed by him or her, endorse his or her written approval thereon and they shall be submitted to Council for approval or disapproval. No plat shall be entitled to record in the Recorder's Office of Cuyahoga County without such written approvals so endorsed thereon. The regulations provided shall be effective, except that in any case of conflict with any provision in the ordinances of the City, such provision in the ordinances of the City shall be prevailing and controlling.
(Ord. 66-2001. Passed 4-2-01.)
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