(1) Promptly make all necessary surveys of streets, alleys, avenues, easements, public property and all other surveys required by the council.

(2) Approve the line of any lot on any public or private property or the grade of any street, alley, or avenue, and cause the lines to be marked in some substantial and permanent manner.

(3) Maintain horizontal control and vertical elevations of the streets, alleys and avenues, and where such streets, alleys and avenues are not yet established place either permanent horizontal or vertical control that he or she shall deem necessary or useful.

(4) Superintend all surveys authorized by the ordinances of the City.

(5) Furnish the council with all plans and specifications for laying out, grading and regulating streets and public ways.

(6) Construct and keep in his or her office a set of corrected maps of the city showing thereon the several additions thereto, the streets, alleys, avenues and public properties, and promptly to correct and alter the maps as circumstances may require.

(7) Keep in his or her office the original records, field books and plans relating to the surveys connected with the city and an accurate record of all surveys and adjustments of property lines and also such plans of such parts of the city and in such form and with such details as shall from time to time be required for official purposes, all of which shall be the property of the City.

(8) Review and approve all plans and specifications of all public or private streets, alleys, avenues, and ways.

(9) Make such alterations upon the official profiles that may from time to time become necessary to indicate any changes that may have been made or may be ordered in the established grade of any street or part of street. (Code 1979, § 34-16)