[Adopted as Title 2, Ch. 2.22, of the 1986 Code]
The City Collector's official bond shall be made to cover all
of his duties under this code.
A.
The City Collector shall be charged on the books of the City Auditor with the amount of all claims due the City and filed with the City Auditor, as provided in Chapter 42, Finances, Article I, Claims Against City, § 42-5, and shall be credited with the amounts collected and paid over to the City Treasurer.
B.
He shall also be credited with the corrections or abatements by an
authorized officer, committee or board when approved by the City Auditor.
The City Collector shall, on Monday of each week, pay over to
the City Treasurer all moneys by him collected to and including the
preceding Friday.
The City Collector shall file weekly with the City Auditor a
statement showing the claims collected since his previous report,
and shall pay over to the City Treasurer the amount so collected.
The City Collector may use all means of collecting taxes which
are provided for by the General Laws.
A.
The City Collector shall receive and receipt all bills and lists
committed to him by the Water Registrar, as provided in this article,
and proceed to collect the same as speedily as possible, giving such
notices and making such demands as may be prescribed by such board,
and he shall account to the Water Commissioners for the amounts stated
in such lists, either in bills, paid or unpaid, or in certificates
of abatements. On the first day of every week, he shall pay over to
the City Treasurer all money collected by him on account of such department
and notify the Water Registrar of such payments.
B.
He shall transmit monthly to such board a list of the unpaid bills
in his hands, which were committed to him on the first of the month
next preceding, with memoranda thereon stating the reasons for their
nonpayment, so far as may be known to him.
C.
At the close of each fiscal year, he shall promptly transmit to such
board a complete and detailed list, or report, of all unpaid bills
in his hands at that date, with a statement of the amount of the same.
