§ 2-55. Public works department.

(a)

Established. A public works department is hereby established and shall be under the general control of the mayor and the city council.

(b)

Director; powers and duties. The head of this department shall be known as the director of public works. He shall be appointed by the mayor subject to the city council's approval. The director of public works has authority over all streets and alleys within the city, all city parks and swimming pool maintenance. The swimming pool manager will be in charge of the pool operations, parkways, all water mains, wells, pumps, pump houses, storage tanks, all sewer lines, waste treatment plants and all city storm sewers shall be under the direct supervision of the director of public works and in addition it shall be his duty to see that the laws of the state and the ordinances of the city relating to weed control and eradication are observed. He shall have supervision of all labor and custody of all the property used and maintained for the purposes of such department and he shall have authority to hire necessary labor, and make expenditures for materials on the city's behalf for snow removal, weed control and eradication, the repair and the cleaning of debris off streets, alleys, parks, parkways and storm sewers in case of damage from storms and other causes under such conditions and to such amounts as the city council may from time to time by resolution provide.

(Code 1999, § 2.2.4)

State law reference

Municipal public works, Minn. Stat. chs. 440—446A.