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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 8658.-y ,;`. ORDINANCE NO. (~ (p ~~ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 42 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH TEXAS (1964) AS AMENDED BY ESTABLISHING A DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS ESTABLISHING AND ORGAN- IZING THE DEPARTMENT PRESCRIBING QUALIFICATIONS AND DUTIES OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS DEFINING POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE DIREC- TOR OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS AND AMENDING SECTION 26-2 CITY TRAFFIC ENGINEER-OFFICE CREATED APPOINTMENT OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH TEXAS (1964) AS AMENDED BY ESTABLISHING THE OFFICE OF CITY TRAFFIC ENGINEER WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCES REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PROVISIONS OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE IN CONFLICT HEREWITH PROVID- ING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE WHEREAS a Department of Public Works is provided for in Chapter VIII Section 1 of the City Charter of the City of Fort Worth and WHEREAS the City Council finds upon recommendation of the City M anager that the Department of Public Works should be merged into and incorporated into a new and additional department WHEREAS the City Council deems it necessary for the efficient operation of the municipal government to create and establish a Department of Transportation and Public Works NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH TEXAS nc+nmr~r.T l That Chapter 42 Department of Public Works of the Code of the City of Fort Worth Texas (1964) as amended is hereby amended to provide for a Department of Transportation and Public Works and Sections 42-1 through 42-4 thereof are hereafter amended to read as follows Section 42 1 Departments Established and Organized A Department of Transportation and Public Works is hereby established which department shall be under the supervision of the Director of Transportation and Public Works who shall be subject to appointment and removal by the City Manager The salary of the Director of Transpor- tation and Public Works shall be in accordance with the Compensation Plan of the City .,. 4 N ~ f . ~ ~~.. Section 42-2 Qualifications and Duties of the Director of Department of Transportation and Public Works The Director of the Department of Transportation and Public Works shall be a professional engineer regis- tered and licensed to practice his profession in the State of Texas He shall be the custodian of and responsible for maintaining all maps plans profiles and field notes grid coordinates 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 indexes thereof All maps plans profiles field notes grid coordinates estimates and other memo- randa of professional work made or done by him or under his direction and control shall be the property of the City Section 42 3 Further Powers and Duties of Director of Transportation and Public Works The Director of Transportation and Public Works shall have charge of the opening construction paving lighting signing marking maintenance reconstruction and repair of all streets boulevards alleys sidewalks thoroughfares and public ways other than those solely serving or within water and sanitary sewer facilities He shall have charge of the development and implementation of all City transportation programs to provide for the effi- cient mobility needs of Fort Worth citizens in all areas of public transportation. He shall have charge of the planning design construction maintenance and repair of all public buildings owned or operated by the City and of all public facilities owned and operated by the City except those specifically delegated otherwise by this ordinance (such as Water Works facilities) He shall have the right to delegate this responsibility in writing to using departments under mutually agreed terms where spe- cial circumstances deem such action appropriate. The Director of the Department of Transportation and Public Works shall serve as the City Engineer for the City or he may appoint an employee of the department to serve as City Engineer and said employee shall b e a pro- fessional engineer registered and licensed to practice his profession in the State of Texas The City Engineer shall approve all plans and specifications relating to the con- struction reconstruction repair or maintenance of public or private facilities located on under above or along City property and rights-of-way such approval to be evi- denced only by his signature on such plans and specifica- tions No such work shall be commenced unless and until such approval has been obtained The Director of Transportation and Public Works shall also b e responsible for the installation and proper timing of official traffic control devices to conduct engineering analysis of traffic accidents and to devise remedial measures to conduct engineering investigation of traffic conditions and to cooperate with the other City officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions and to carry out the means to improve traffic conditions and to carry the additional powers and -2- .~, duties imposed by the Code In this regard the Director of Transportation and Public Works may serve as the City Traffic Engineer or may appoint an employee of the depart- ment to serve as the City Traffic Engineer who shall per- form such powers and duties enumerated herein or as enumerated in Chapter 26 of the City Code. Section 42-4 Appointment of Employees The Director of Transportation and Public Works shall have the power to appoint employ and remove such officers assistants employees and personnel as he may deem necessary for the efficient administration of the affairs of the Department of Transportation and Public Works and to prescribe and fix their duties scope of authority and qualifications CF(`TTf1T~T 7 That Section 26-2 of Chapter 26 'Motor Vehicles and Traffic of the Code of the City of Fort Worth Texas (1964) as amended is hereafter amended to read as follows Section 26-2 City Traffic Engineer-Office Created Ap- pointment The Office of City Traffic Engineer within the Department of Transportation and Public Works is hereby established The City Traffic Engineer shall be the Director of Transportation and Public Works or an employee of the department appointed by the Director of Transportation and Public Works and shall exercise the powers and duties so provided in this Code and other ordi- nances of the City relative to traffic. C Fi'(' T T (1TT ~ That this ordinance shall repeal every prior ordinance and pro- vision of the Fort Worth City Code in conflict herewith but only insofar as any portion of such prior ordinance or provision shall be in conflict and as to all other ordinances or provisions of the Fort Worth City Code not in direct conflict herewith this ordinance shall be and is hereby made cumulative SECTION 4 It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections paragraphs sentences clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable and if any phrase clause sentence paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitu- tional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the -3- s• :4. r- r remaining phrases clauses sentences paragraphs and sections of this ordinance since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such un- constitutional phrase clause sentence paragraph or section. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage and it is so ordained APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY City Attorney Date ! _ ~`~ ~ ~ Z ADOPTED / C~ S-~`i EFFECTIVE / C `s-~ -v -4- ~:_ ~'~ F'$-.- ~~F FILE Y ~ T~,J'~J ~+ ~ p ~y~j ,~1 1 C17Y MAwAUBR i ~`` /~IU!/ ® G 'iaf/~~ ~®(L/W U I~IL~~ ~®~~ lf~~~(Lil(.(L(ti~®~ ACCOUNTING-2 ~ v/~ ~RANSPOF A DA E ~ ~ e REFERENCE SUBJECT ORDINANCE ESTABL D PAGE 105/82 ~~ BER MENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS 1 G-5440 & DESIGNATING ITS DIRECTOR AS TRAFFIC iof In 1975 the City Charter was amended to provide for the establishment by ordinance of a Department of Public Works Pursuant to that Charter amendment Ordinance No 7292 w.as adopted by the City Council on January 26 1976 That ordinance is now codified in the City Code as Chapter 42 "Department of Public Works Recently the City ManagEr recommended combining the Department.. of Transportation and the Department of Public. Works into a single department Accordingly it is necessary that an ordinance be adopted amending Chapter 42 of the City Code by providing for the establishment and regulation of the Department of Transportation and Public Works Likewise since these two departments will be combined it is necessary to amend by ordinance Chapter 26 of the City Code to establish the office of City Traffic Engineer within the Department of Transportation and Public Works and to provide that the Director of Transportation and Public Works or an employee appointed by him shall be the City Traffic Engineer RECOMMENDATION It ~.s recommended that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance establishing and regulating the Department; of Transportation and Public Works and designating its Director as the City Traffic Engineer GG kc 1 ~ APPRO v ~ f ~~TY i > OCT ~ 1982 '~ ..~ 'g82 ADOPTED ORDINANCE NO ~'~ S~, ~ r 'c ~ of ~'orc W u i'th, Ye,~ SUBMITTED FORTH CITY MANAGER'S j DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL: PROCESSED BY OFFICE BY 1 ~ ^ APPROVED ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT HEAD: William WOCad ^ OTHER (DESCRIBE) CITY 'SECRETARY FOR ADDITIONAL IN FORWJT11l.am WOOd Est 7607 CONTACT W~- DATE