(A) There is hereby established the office of Superintendent of Utilities.
(B) The Superintendent of Utilities shall serve during the pleasure of the Mayor and City Council. The Utilities Superintendent shall be subject to the orders of the governing body by resolution and shall be under the immediate supervision of the City Administrator. He or she shall be liable on his or her official bond as fixed in this chapter for the faithful performance of his or her duties. He or she shall receive such salary, payable in equal semimonthly installments out of the Light Fund Maintenance, as may be fixed by resolution of the City Council, and he or she may be removed at any time by a three-fourths vote of the members of the City Council.
(C) The duties of the Superintendent of Utilities shall be such as are provided in this code. He or she may be ex officio City Engineer, Light Commissioner, Water Commissioner, Sewer Commissioner, Plumbing Inspector and Electrical Inspector.
(D) The Superintendent of Utilities shall have charge of the utilities provided for in this code.
(E) He or she shall have supervision over the operators of all utilities provided for in this code, their assistants and employees, who shall obey his or her orders.
(F) In the exercise of those functions, the Superintendent of Utilities shall have the following powers and duties.
(1) He or she shall turn over to the City Treasurer forthwith all money coming into his or her hands by virtue of his or her office and shall take the City Treasurer’s receipt in duplicate therefor, one of which shall be filed in the records of the office of the Superintendent of Utilities.
(2) He or she shall cause to be read all meters as provided in Ch. 3 of this code of ordinances.
(3) He or she shall have authority to purchase material, employ labor and otherwise make any expenditures and create such obligations as are necessary and incidental to the efficient operation of the water, sewer and lighting system subject to the approval of the Mayor and City Council, except as to such repairs as are necessary in cases of emergency, when such approval shall not be required.
(4) The account of each patron of the water and lighting system shall be separately kept by the City Treasurer and all money paid on account in connection with the operation of the light system shall be receipted for by the employee or officer receiving such payment and a duplicate of such receipt shall be kept on file in the office of the Superintendent of Utilities.
(5) Upon request therefor, he or she shall deliver to the Mayor and City Council the books of his or her office containing original entries and all other books for the inspection of such body.
(6) He or she shall, at the last regular meeting of the Mayor and City Council in April of each year, submit an estimate of the whole cost of providing for and maintaining the Light, Water and Sewer Department for the next municipal year. Such estimate shall be in detail and shall contain a list of the kind and amount of supplies that will probably be needed for the ensuing year.
(7) He or she shall perform such other duties as the Mayor and City Council may, from time to time by resolution, prescribe.
(2005 Code, § 1-319)