[Adopted by MC 2018-22, September 11, 2018]
Each department, division and bureau shall have such personnel
as are authorized by law and provided for in the annual budget. The
compensation of each officer and employee shall be in such amount
as shall be authorized by this Code and appropriated pursuant to law.[1]
(a)
Every officer or employee of the City who, by virtue of his/her office
or position, is entrusted with the receipt, custody or expenditure
of public moneys or funds and any other officer or employee who may
be required so to do by the Council shall, before entering upon the
duties of his/her office or position, execute and deliver a surety
bond in such amount as may be fixed by resolution of Council, binding
him/her to the City in its corporate name and conditioned upon the
true and faithful performance of his/her duty. Each officer or employee
required by law to give bond shall execute such a bond with sufficient
surety and deliver the same to the Clerk, except that the Clerk shall
deliver his/her bond to the City Comptroller before s/he enters upon
the discharge of the duties of his/her office or employment.
(b)
If any officer or employee shall neglect to execute and deliver his/her
bond as herein required within thirty (30) days after due notification
of his/her election or appointment, his/her office may be declared
vacant by the Council.
(c)
In every case in which any person is required by the laws of the
state or by any ordinance of the City to give bond for the faithful
performance of his/her duties, such bond shall be secured by a corporate
surety authorized to do business in this State and the premium therefor
shall be paid by the City. Each such bond shall be approved by the
Corporation Counsel as to form and sufficiency, and nothing in this
section shall be construed to prevent the use of one (1) or more blanket
bonds when so approved.
Every officer and employee of the City shall be subject to the
conflict of interest and ethics provisions of the Charter, State Law
or this Code.[1]
(a)
All the books, maps, papers, accounts, statements, vouchers and other
documents whatsoever acquired or produced in any City department shall
be carefully and conveniently filed, kept and preserved, and be and
remain the sole property of the City and shall not at any time be
removed from the offices of such department except when required for
use in the official business of the City, and shall then be returned
to such office without delay. Each City officer shall be responsible
for assuring that the requirements of this section are complied with
in respect to his/her particular office. This section shall be subject
to the provision of "Destruction of Public Records Law (1953)" (N.J.S.A.
47:3-15 et seq.).
(b)
All public documents and records of the City shall during office
hours be open to public search, inspection and examination subject
to and within the limitations prescribed by law; and provided that
such search, inspection and examination may be made under such regulations
as the officer having custody of such records, books and documents
shall establish for the safety and preservation thereof.
Upon the termination of the term of office or the employment
of any officer or employee, s/he shall forthwith deliver to his/her
successor, or if there be no successor, to the Clerk or other person
who may be designated by the Council to receive the same, all moneys,
papers, books, memoranda, accounts and any data of any nature whatever
pertaining to his/her office.
(a)
The public, administrative and executive business offices of the
City shall be open for the transaction of public business daily except
Saturdays and Sundays and holidays established by Council resolution
or administrative directive between such hours as the Mayor may prescribe
with the approval of the Council, except as otherwise provided by
law.
(b)
The Police and Fire Divisions, and other personnel in times of emergency,
shall provide City services for twenty-four (24) hours a day, 7 days
a week. The Mayor, Business Administrator or a department head may
require any officer or employee to be in attendance for work on any
day or days whenever s/he determines that a public exigency or emergency
so requires.
