7-3-1331. Department of public works. (1) The department of public works is in the charge of a director, who shall manage and have charge of the construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of all public buildings; of roads, streets, alleys, sidewalks, bridges, viaducts, and other public ways; of sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, streams, and watercourses; and of boulevards, parks, playgrounds, cemeteries, and other public places and grounds dedicated to public use. He shall manage and control all public cemeteries, crematories, market places or houses, garbage and sewage disposal plants and farms, and all public utilities belonging to the municipality or any subdivision thereof and shall have charge of the enforcement of the obligations to the municipality of all privately owned or operated public utilities enforceable by the municipality. He shall have charge of the cleaning, sprinkling, and lighting of the streets and the collection and disposal of garbage and waste. He shall also be responsible for the making and preservation of all surveys, maps, plans, drawings, and estimates for such public work and for the preservation of contracts, papers, plans, tools, and appliances belonging to the municipality and pertaining to the functions of the department.
     (2) The director of public works shall have the qualifications prescribed by law for county surveyors, and in addition to the duties required by this part or part 12 and by the ordinances of the municipality, he shall have the powers and shall, either in person or by a deputy having the qualifications prescribed by law for county surveyors, perform the duties required of county surveyors by the laws of the state.

     History: (1)En. Sec. 78, Ch. 121, L. 1923; re-en. Sec. 5520.79, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 11-3519, R.C.M. 1947; (2)En. Sec. 79, Ch. 121, L. 1923; re-en. Sec. 5520.80, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 11-3520, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3519, 11-3520; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 262, L. 1979.