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services.
Duties. -- The county highway engineer shall, subject to the
policies of the county executive, perform the following functions:
- Prepare and publish a county-wide inventory and classification of
the county highway system so that the total county federal aid
secondary system is included in the county primary or arterial
system of roads.
- Prepare and keep a perpetual inventory of all bridges and culverts
serving the county highway system. The inventory must show the
location, dimensions, condition, and the year of construction for
all bridges and major culverts.
- Prepare and publish standards of design, construction, and
maintenance of the county arterial, feeder, and local roads that
make the best and most economical use of local road materials
- Prepare a long-range county-wide program of road and bridge
construction and improvements, with the proposed projects arranged
in order of priority. The program of proposed projects must cover a
period of at least four (4) years.
- Investigate requests and petitions for road or bridge improvements
that are received either by the county executive or at public
hearings, and make recommendations to the county executive.
- Prepare surveys, designs, plans, and specifications for all county
road and bridge construction projects, prepare contracts, and
advertise for bids.
- Make construction and materials inspection of all county road and
bridge construction projects, inform the executive of the status of
construction work, and certify completed construction projects.
- Develop a county-wide program of traffic safety that provides for
traffic control signs, signals, and speed limits, warning protection
at railroad crossings, load limits, and detour routings.
- Inspect and approve the construction of subdivision streets that
are to be taken into the county highway system, and recommend
appropriate action to the executive when roads and streets in subdivisions
are taken into the county highway system.
- Prepare engineering estimates and make recommendations to the
executive concerning the materials and equipment needed in the
annual budgeting of both construction and maintenance funds.
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