(a) The director of the department of transportation and public works shall be the custodian of and responsible for maintaining all maps, plans, profiles and field notes, grid coordinates and other records and memoranda belonging to the city pertaining to his or her office and the work thereof, all of which he or she shall keep in proper order and condition, with full indexes thereof. All maps, plans, profiles, field notes, grid coordinates, estimates and other memoranda of professional work made or done by him or her or under his or her direction and control shall be the property of the city.
(b) The director of transportation and public works shall have charge of the opening, construction, paving, lighting, signing, marking, maintenance, reconstruction and repair of all streets, boulevards, alleys, sidewalks, thoroughfares, stormwater facilities and public ways other than those solely serving or within water and sanitary sewer facilities. He or she shall have charge of the development and implementation of all city transportation programs to provide for the efficient mobility needs of Fort Worth citizens in all areas of public transportation. He or she shall have charge of the planning, design, construction, maintenance and repair of all public facilities owned and operated by the city except those specifically delegated to the Property Management Department, the water department or otherwise by this chapter. He or she shall have the right to delegate this responsibility in writing to other departments, under mutually agreed terms, where special circumstances deem such action appropriate.
(c) The city engineer shall be a professional engineer registered and licensed to practice in the State of Texas. If the director of the department of transportation and public works is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas, he or she may serve as the city engineer or he or she may appoint a duly licensed employee of the department to serve as the city engineer. The city engineer shall approve or accept all plans and specifications relating to the construction, reconstruction, repair or maintenance of public or private facilities located on, under, above or along city property and rights-of-way, such approval or acceptance to be evidenced by his or her signature on such plans and specifications. No such work shall be commenced unless and until such approval or acceptance has been obtained.
(d) The city traffic engineer shall be a professional engineer registered and licensed to practice in the State of Texas. If the director of transportation and public works is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas, he or she may also serve as the city traffic engineer or he or she may appoint a duly licensed employee of the department to serve as the city traffic engineer. The city traffic engineer shall exercise the powers and duties so provided in Chapter 22 of this code and other ordinances of the city relative to traffic.
(e) The director of transportation and public works shall act to coordinate activities within the department. The director shall provide overall management functions for the department, including contract management, fiscal control, personnel/safety programs and administration of the city’s infrastructure improvement projects in cooperation with other city departments.
(f) The department shall be responsible for enforcing compliance with city construction contract provisions and specifications by performing recurring inspections during the construction of city projects.
(g) The department of transportation and public works shall be responsible for providing planning, design, construction inspection, project management and related engineering services for city infrastructure improvement projects as requested in cooperation with other city departments and which are not otherwise covered in Chapter 35 of the code.
(h) The department shall be structured, in part, as an internal services fund for the provision of services to other city departments. As such, the department will establish rates to recover the cost of service from the other city departments. Costs will be allocated to other city departments based upon actual level of services provided by the department of transportation and public works for the respective departments.
(i) The department of transportation and public works shall be responsible for providing survey services as requested by other city departments.
(1964 Code, §§ 42-2, 42-3) (Ord. 8658, § 1, passed 10-5-1982; Ord. 18319-09-2008, § 2, passed 9-30-2008; Ord. 21650-02-2015, §§ 3, 5, passed 2-17-2015; Ord. 23503-12-2018, § 2, passed 12-11-2018; Ord. 23656-05-2019, § 2, passed 5-7-2019, eff. 6-1-2019)