Title
Ordinance amending the City Code at Title One - Administrative, Article III - Organization, various chapters, to amend references to the Bureau of Animal Care and Control to reflect its operation under the purview of the Department of Public Safety.
Body
The Council of the City of Pittsburgh herebyenacts as follows:
Section 1. Amending Title One - Administrative, Article III - Organization, Chapter 119, Department of Public Works, Section 119.02, as follows:
CHAPTER 119: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
§ 119.01 DIRECTOR AS HEAD.
The Department of Public Works shall be under the charge of a Director, who shall be the head thereof.
§ 119.02 POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTOR.
The Director of Public Works shall have the following powers and duties:
(a) The planning, improvement, resurfacing, repair, cleaning and sprinkling, maintenance and lighting of streets, sidewalks and all other public ways;
(b) The repair and maintenance and the operation of bridges and viaducts, drains, ditches, sewers, public squares and structures of every kind by City forces for public use; and
(c) Be responsible for helping City residents maintain a clean and healthful environment;
(d) Provide:
(1) For the collection and disposition of all residential solid waste;
(2) [The Animal Control Program]
[(3)] The Environmental Control Program; and
([4]3) Such other services as may be required to fulfill the purposes of the department; and
(e) The Director of Public Works and employees so designated by the Director are authorized to enforce all Code provisions relating to animals, refuse, and noxious weeds and grass; and
(f) Be primarily responsible for the management, planning, engineering and construction of all major capital construction programs;
(g) The making and preserving of all surveys, maps, plans, drawings, estimates for public work and engineering;
(h) Traffic control maintenance and traffic/transportation planning; and
(i) The Director...
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