Sec. 5. City engineer.
The engineer shall have not less than five (5) years' practical experience as a civil engineer. He shall perform all the engineering and surveying required in the carrying on of public works and improvements done under the authority of the mayor and council. All maps, plats, profiles, filed notes, estimates and other memoranda of surveys and other professional work made or done for or under his direction or control during his term of office shall be and continue to be the property of the city. He shall be custodian of and responsible for all maps, plats, profiles, field notes and other records and memoranda belonging to the city, pertaining to his office and the work thereof, all of which he shall keep in proper order and condition, with full and complete indexes thereto. He shall have the decision, subject, however, to any ordinances that the mayor and council may enact, as to the proper locality and height of telegraph, telephone, electric light and other poles, as well as. the proper alignment and height above the ground of telegraph, telephone, electric light and other wires, the depth below the surface and alignment of all water, gas, sewer and other pipes and conduits, the grade and proper alignment of all streets and street railway tracks. He shall perform such other and further duties as are or may be required of him by this Charter, by ordinance, or the laws of the state.
   Cross References: Appointment, term and removal of city engineer, ch. V, § 6.