13-2420. Same; manager of collections and accounts; appointment; qualifications; duties; reports; salary; bond; assistants; bonds.
13-2420
13-2420. Same; manager of collections and accounts; appointment;
qualifications; duties; reports; salary; bond; assistants; bonds.
The waterworks board may appoint a manager of collections and accounts,
who shall be an experienced accountant, and it shall be the manager's duty
to keep a regular set of books for the water plant, showing in detail the
business transactions of said plant. The manager's term of office shall be
during the pleasure of said board, and he or she shall have general
supervision and charge of all office employees of said department under the
direction of the waterworks board. It shall be the manager's duty
immediately following the close of each month to make a complete report to
the waterworks board, and to the governing body of said city, showing the
transactions of the preceding month and the financial condition of the
water department. Such report shall also include a correct account of all
collections, appropriations, expenditures and approved claims entitled to
payment.
The salary of the manager of collections and accounts shall be fixed by
the waterworks board, and he or she shall give a good and sufficient surety
company bond in a sum to be fixed by the waterworks board, conditioned for
the faithful performance of duties and for a true and faithful accounting
of all moneys that may come into the manager's hands by reason of his or
her position. Cost of said bond shall be paid out of revenue of said
department. The waterworks board may appoint such assistants to the manager
of collections and accounts as they deem necessary, and when the duties of
said assistants require them to receive and receipt for moneys said board
shall require said assistants to give a good and sufficient surety company
bond, the sum of which in each case shall be fixed by said board,
conditioned for the faithful performance of said assistants' duties and for
a true and faithful accounting of all moneys that may come into said
assistants' hands by reason of their position. The cost of said bonds shall
be paid out of the revenue of said department.
History: L. 1937, ch. 143, § 7; March 16.