[Added 8-11-1959; amended
at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
It shall be the duty of the Assessor for the City to keep or
cause to be kept an accurate index of all deeds of lands purchased
by or sold by the City, including tax deeds acquired by the City and
any and all instruments of transfer of real estate in the name of
the City, and such instruments shall be safely kept on behalf of the
City in a place of safe storage as shall be determined by the Assessor.
All heads of departments charged with the expenditure of money
on behalf of the City shall see that all bills incurred by them in
their several departments are presented to the Auditor on or before
the 25th of the month in which such bills have been contracted, or
on or before such day of the month as may be required by the Auditor.
No money shall be paid out of the treasury until the account
has been examined by the Auditor, approved by the City Council Finance
Committee and drawn for by the Mayor.
All persons in the employment of the City whose names are carried
on a payroll shall be paid weekly or semimonthly, and their receipts
on such payroll shall be proper vouchers for the Auditor and City
Council Finance Committee.
No unexpended balance in an appropriation made for any purpose
or for any department, or for a particular purpose of one department,
can be transferred to any other purpose or to any other department
or to any other purpose of the same department except by authority
of the Council, and the City Clerk shall promptly notify the Auditor
and Treasurer of any such transfer.
When the proposal or estimate for the performance of any proposed
labor exceeds the appropriation made therefor, or when the sum appropriated
has been expended, the Mayor shall report the same to the Council,
and no new work shall be undertaken and no further expenditure shall
be made upon the work already commenced until an additional appropriation
is made by the Council for that purpose.
Orders for the borrowing of money for the use of the City, whether
for a temporary or permanent loan, shall have two separate readings,
with an interval of not less than three days between such readings,
in the same manner as now provided in the manner of appropriations,
before being finally passed.
[Added 7-9-1973]
Securities by the City for temporary or permanent loans shall be executed in the name of the City by the manual or facsimile signatures of the officials as required in §
33-11A or
B, but at least one signature on each such bond or note shall be a manual signature. Coupons, if any, attached to such securities shall be executed with the facsimile signature of the Treasurer.