[Amended 1-28-2003 by Ord. No. 1-2003]
The Mayor shall be the chief executive and administrative officer of the Township. He shall:
A. 
Enforce the Charter and ordinances of the Township and all general laws applicable thereto.
B. 
Supervise all of the departments of the Township government.
C. 
Require each department to make a written annual report and such other reports of its work as he may deem desirable.
D. 
Require each department to make and submit a written annual report to the Township Clerk by January 31 of each year, itemizing the category of documents (i.e., permanent, semipermanent etc.) retained pursuant to the document retention policy, the documents scheduled to be destroyed and the anticipated storage needs (i.e., boxes) for newly retained documents, as well as the length of storage for those newly retained documents, [i.e., permanent, semipermanent (five to seven years), etc.].
E. 
Appoint all officers and employees for whose election or appointment no other provision is made by Charter, ordinance or general law.
F. 
From time to time make such recommendations for action by the Council as he may deem in the public interest.
G. 
Report annually at the beginning of the year to the Council and the public on the work of the previous year and the condition and requirements of the Township government for the current year.
H. 
Have such other functions, powers and duties as are provided by Charter or ordinance.
[Amended 9-25-1990 by Ord. No. 40-90]
As provided by the Charter, Section 3.12 (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-1 et seq.), the Mayor shall designate the Business Administrator, any other department head or the Township Clerk to act as Mayor whenever the Mayor shall be prevented, by absence from the municipality, disability or other cause, from attending to the duties of his office. During such time, the person so designated by the Mayor shall possess all the rights, powers and duties of the Mayor. Whenever the Mayor shall have been unable to attend to the duties of his office for a period of 60 consecutive days, for any of the above-stated reasons, an Acting Mayor shall be appointed by the Council, who shall succeed to all the rights, powers and duties of the Mayor or the then Acting Mayor.
A. 
The veto power of the Mayor, as provided by the Charter, extends only to ordinances.
B. 
Ordinances adopted by the Council shall be submitted to the Mayor, and he shall, within 10 days after receiving any ordinance, either approve the ordinance by affixing his signature thereto or return it to the Council by delivering it to the Municipal Clerk, together with a statement setting forth his objections thereto or to an item or part thereof. No ordinance or any item or part thereof shall take effect without the Mayor's approval, unless the Mayor fails to return an ordinance to the Council within 10 days after it has been presented to him or unless the Council, upon reconsideration thereof, on or after the third day following its return by the Mayor, shall, by a vote of 2/3 of the members, resolve to override the Mayor's veto.
Whenever a vacancy exists in any office required by the Charter or ordinance to be filled by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the Council, the Mayor may temporarily fill such vacancy, in the absence of any contrary provision in the Charter or ordinance, by appointing an acting officer, including the designation of himself as an acting department head in the event of a vacancy in such office. Such appointee shall have all of the functions, powers and duties of the office until it shall be filled permanently. Any such appointment shall terminate not later than 60 days after the date of the appointment, unless the Council shall, by resolution, authorize one or more extensions of such period. Whenever any such vacancy exists in any office required by the Charter or ordinance to be filled by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the Council as contemplated by this section: the Mayor shall make nominations to fill such office and transmit the same to the Council for its advice and consent no later than 60 days from the date such vacancy occurred, unless the Council shall, by resolution, authorize one or more extensions of such period.
Except as provided in § 5-8 herein relative to interim appointments, the Mayor shall not designate himself nor appoint himself the department head of any department, except that the Mayor may be the department head of the Department of Police subject to the advice and consent of the Council.