68-502. Duties of county engineer.
68-502
68-502. Duties of county engineer.It shall be the duty of the county engineer, in conformity with theregulations and requirements of the secretary of transportation to:
(1) Prepare plans and specifications and estimates for roads, bridgesand culverts to be built by the county;
(2) act for the county in all matters relating to the supervision of theconstruction, repairing, surfacing, resurfacing and maintenance of anyroads, bridges or culverts, or anything pertaining to rivers, streams orwatercourses, for which the county pays any part of the cost thereof;
(3) visit and inspect the highways and culverts in each township of thecounty or district which have been reported as unsafe or in need ofrepair, and advise and direct the township board and the road overseer ofeach township as to the best methods of construction, repair, maintenanceand improvement of such highways and culverts;
(4) prepare plans, specifications and general regulations governing theconstruction and maintenance of township roads and culverts, and uponrequest furnish copies of the same to the township board and to the roadoverseer of the several townships of the county or district;
(5) keep a record of all contracts and of all purchases of material,machinery or apparatus to be used in road construction, in excess of $10,000,approved by thecounty engineer in any township;
(6) study the soil conditions and collect information concerning thevarious deposits of gravel, stone, sand, clay and other road and bridgebuilding materials, and to investigate and determine the most approvedmethods of using the same;
(7) make maps of the roads in the different townships of thecounty or district, and where there are no other records, or the recordsare incomplete, and when ordered by the county commissioners,the county engineer shall make maps of plats and file them in theoffices of the county clerk andtownship clerk, which when passed upon and adopted by the board of countycommissioners shall be the records of such roads where there are no otherrecords, and shall be additional and supplemental records when the formerrecords are incomplete or imperfect;
(8) answer inquiries and to hold at least one public meeting annually toadvise with highway officials in road, bridge and culvert improvement, andto perform all other duties required by law.
History: L. 1917, ch. 264, § 9; R.S. 1923, 68-502; L. 1961, ch.299, § 12; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 115; L. 1984, ch. 253, § 1; July 1.