The city engineer must be a practical surveyor and engineer. The city engineer shall keep an office in some convenient place in the city and the governing body, by ordinance, shall prescribe the city engineer’s duties and compensation for services performed for the city. All surveys, profiles, plans, or estimates made by the city engineer for the city are the property of the city and must be carefully preserved in the office of the engineer and must be open to the inspection of all interested persons. The surveys, profiles, plans, estimates, and all books and papers pertaining to the city engineer’s office shall be delivered by the engineer at the expiration of the city engineer’s term of office to the successor city engineer or to the governing body of the city.