7-3-4441. Department of public service. Subject to the control and supervision of the city manager in all matters, the director of public service shall manage and have charge of the construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of streets, sidewalks, alleys, lanes, bridges, viaducts, and other public highways; of sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, canals, streams, and watercourses; of boulevards, squares, and other public places and grounds belonging to the municipality or dedicated to public use, except parks and playgrounds. He shall manage market houses, sewage disposal plants and farms, and all public utilities of the municipality. He shall have charge of the enforcement of all obligations of privately owned or operated public utilities enforceable by the municipality. He shall have charge of the making and preservation of all surveys, maps, plans, drawings, and estimates for public work; the cleaning, sprinkling, and lighting of streets and public places; the collection and disposal of waste; and the preservation of contracts, papers, plans, tools, and appliances belonging to the municipality and pertaining to the department.

     History: En. Sec. 65, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5463, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5463, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3264.