A.
All papers, documents, or instruments requiring the signature of the mayor, including all resolutions, orders, ordinances, contracts, minutes, notices, warrants, deeds, leases, papers and records of the city, shall bear the personal signature of the mayor except that the city clerk may apply a facsimile of the signature of the mayor to those papers, documents, or instruments which have been delivered to the mayor, but not to warrants. Those papers, documents, or instruments bearing the facsimile signature of the mayor shall be accorded the same force and effect as though personally signed by the mayor. A certificate by the clerk that a copy of that document has been delivered to the mayor shall be prima facie evidence of the delivery.
B.
The finance director shall safeguard the device used to apply the facsimile signature of the mayor, and the city clerk shall obtain the device from the finance director as needed, and shall cause to be applied the facsimile signature only when so authorized by resolution, ordinance, minute order, or by the instruction of the mayor.
(Ord. 07-09 § 1 (part), 2007)