Hallsville Powers and Duties of Clerk as Treasurer ordinance (§ 115.120)

A. The Treasurer shall perform such duties as may be prescribed for him/her by statute or ordinance. He/she shall receive all money paid to the City, either directly from the person paying it or from the hands of such other officer as may receive it, and the Treasurer shall disburse monies on warrants drawn by order of the Board of Aldermen. He/she shall keep a just account of all monies received and disbursed and a regular list of all warrants paid by him/her and shall cancel each one so paid by writing or stamping the date of payment of the same on or across its face.

B. The Treasurer shall make duplicate receipts in favor of the proper parties for all monies paid into the treasury, and whenever any warrants are presented for payment and there is no money in the treasury, to pay the same, he/she shall register the same in a book kept for that purpose, stating correctly the date, amount, number, in whose favor drawn, and the date the same was presented; and all warrants so presented shall be paid in the order in which they shall be presented for payment.

C. No Treasurer shall refuse the payment of any warrant legally drawn upon him/her and presented for payment, for the reason that warrants of prior presentation have not been paid, when there shall be money in the Treasury sufficient to pay such prior warrants and any such warrant so presented; but such Treasurer shall, as he/she shall receive money into the treasury, set the same apart for payment of warrants previously presented and in the order presented so that no warrant of subsequent presentation shall remain unpaid by reason of the holder of the same failing to present such warrant for payment after funds shall have accrued in the treasury for the payment of same.

D. No interest shall be paid on any warrant presented for payment after the funds for the payment of same shall have been set apart, the date of which setting apart shall be registered by the Treasurer.

E. As often, and in such manner as may be required by the Board of Aldermen, the Treasurer shall furnish an account of the receipts and expenditures of said City.

F. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to submit to the Board of Aldermen on or before the first day of June in each year, a report showing the receipts and expenditures of the treasury and amount of money on hand.

G. The Treasurer of the City of Hallsville shall, once every year, settle his/her accounts with the Board of Aldermen, and if he/she resigns or be removed from office or if he/she dies, his/her executor- administrator shall immediately make such settlement and deliver to his/her successor in office all things pertaining thereto, together with all monies belonging to such City, and at the close of every term for which such Treasurer shall have been appointed, from whatever cause it shall occur, the Board of Aldermen shall immediately proceed to ascertain by actual examination and count the amount of balance and funds in the hands of the treasury to be accounted for. They shall also allow such Treasurer such sum for his/her services as they deem just and reasonable.