The Common Seal of the City shall bear the device of North Beacon, showing monument, and below such device the date "May 17, 1913," and engraved around it the words "Seal of the City of Beacon, N.Y."
No person shall carry out or remove any papers, specifications, plans or any documents or any property whatever belonging to the City or in the care or custody of the City from the Council room, City offices or buildings without permission from the official in charge and without giving a receipt for the same.
All inspections of records shall be made in the space provided outside the railing enclosing the working office of the City Clerk. No person, except the Mayor, the Council and authorized persons, shall be permitted within such railing during the working hours of such office.
A. 
No account, charge or demand upon the City for any object or purpose or in favor of any person, except the pay of officers receiving an annual salary without reference to the time they are employed, shall be audited or allowed by the Council, unless the person presenting the same shall annex thereto a signed statement that the claim is in all respects just and true; and if the account is for services, that such services have been fully rendered to the extent, in the manner and for the time charged therefor; that there are no offsets against such bills; and that no payments have been made thereon beyond such as are specified in such account, nor unless such account shall specify in detail every item of the same and bear the approval of some person who, upon his own personal knowledge, can certify to the delivery of the items or articles or the rendering of the services listed.
B. 
All accounts presented shall be filed; those allowed in whole or in part and those rejected separately and such as are audited and allowed shall be numbered and marked with the amount at which they are allowed and the day on which they are ordered paid. No account shall be presented to the City Council unless it shall have been filed with the Administrator on or before the Friday preceding the meeting of the Council.
A. 
The Council shall, as soon as practicable and on or before March 15 in each year, cause a thorough audit of all the accounts of the City departments to be made.
B. 
Such annual audit shall be made by an approved certified public accountant of experience in municipal affairs.
C. 
A written report of such audit shall be made to the Council at a regular meeting of the Council and shall be made a part of the minutes of the Council.
D. 
The City Council shall appropriate sufficient money in the annual budget to cover the expenses of such audit and publication of the same.