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ORDINANCE NO. 1618
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME CLARIFYING THE DUTIES OF
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS TO ALLOW THE DIRECTOR TO
DESIGNATE QUALIFIED PERSONS TO APPROVE CITY PLANS, MAPS,
SURVEYS, AND SPECIFICATIONS
The CITY COUNCIL ofthe CITY OF BIIRLINGAME does hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 3.20 of the Municipal Code sets forth the general duties and
obligations ofthe Director of Public Works. However, the Chapter does not specifically allow
the Director to delegate these duties to other qualified persons, in particular the execution of
plans, maps, surveys, and specifications. The City employs a number of qualified engineers and
others who are allowed by State law to approve and execute these documents. This ordinance
would expressly permit that delegation. It is not intended as a change to current law, but only
as a clarification of existing law.
Section 2. Section 3.20.010 is amended to read as follows:
.3.20.010 Powers and duties.
(a) The director of public works shall attend to and carry out all duties appertaining to
general municipal engineering involving the city, and shall attend to all special assessment
proceedings and carry
on in all work generally performed by a municipal engineer for the city.
(b) The director shall also be the supervisor and director of all divisions of public works
in the city, specified as follows:
(1) The director shall have supervision and direction of all work relating to grading,
paving, cleaning, lighting and repairing of streets and sidewalks; the building and repairing of
streets and sidewalks; the building and repairing of sewer and storm drains; the disposal of
sewage, garbage and rubbish. The director shall also act as the superintendent of streets of the
city.
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(2) The director shall have supervision and control of all work in connection with and
relating to the water division of the city.
(3) The office and duties of the chief building official as defined in this code shall be
under the supervision and direction of the director of public works.
(4) The director shall be the custodian of all city maps, plans, profiles, field notes and
other city records appertaining to the director's office with the indices thereof, and shall tum
them over to the director's successor who shall give a duplicate receipt therefor, one of which
shall be filed with the city clerk.
(c) The director of public works may designate qualified persons to exercise duties
described above, and these authorized persons may sign or approve plans, maps, surveys, and
specifications as directed by the director and as allowed by state law.
(d) All work done or made by the director of public works in connection with the duties
of the office of director of public works, including maps, plans and memoranda, shall be the
property of the city.
Section 3. This ordinance shall be published as required by law.
Mayor
I, NDITH A. MALFATTI, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do hereby
certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting ofthe City Council held
on the 16 day of August 1999, and adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of
the City Council held on the 8 day of September 1999, by the following vote:
AYES`. COUNCILMEMEERS: GALLIGAN, JANNEY, KNIGHT, O'MAHONY,
NOES: COUNCILMEMEERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
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Deputy City Clerk