Powers and duties.

[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]The Department of Public Works shall have the following powers and duties, to be exercised under the general supervision of the director of the division indicated:A. Community Development Division: to have oversight of building plan review, land use planning and zoning administration, permitting, inspection and compliance, property maintenance code enforcement, and building/fire inspection. To manage community development services and activities including the processing of land use applications and coordinating code compliance.B.

to provide professional engineering advice to the town and supervise inspection of construction within the town. To supervise preparation of plans for major public works projects, and the preparation of legal descriptions for deeds and easements.C. Highway Division: to have exclusive charge and supervision of the design, construction, repair, maintenance, cleaning and lighting of all highways, roads, streets, culverts, bridges, parking facilities and stormwater drainage systems under the jurisdiction of the town or any special district or agency thereof.D. Sewers Division: to construct, operate and maintain sewers, pumping stations, force mains, treatment plants and other facilities for the collection, conveyance and disposal of all sanitary sewage within the Town of Webster and the sanitary sewer districts established and existing in the town and to perform such duties and exercise such powers as may be granted to the town by Chapter 257, Sewers, of this Code.[1][1]Editor's Note: Original § 56-5 of the 1991 Code, Transferal of existing departments and officers, which immediately followed this section, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch.

1, General Provisions, Art. I).