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 dutyto keep a regular set of books for the water plant, showing in detail thebusiness transactions of said plant. The manager's term of office shall beduring the pleasure of said board, and he or she shall have generalsupervision and charge of all office employees of said department under thedirection of the waterworks board. It shall be the manager's dutyimmediately following the close of each month to make a complete report tothe waterworks board, and to the governing body of said city, showing thetransactions of the preceding month and the financial condition of thewater department. Such report shall also include a correct account of allcollections, appropriations, expenditures and approved claims entitled topayment.

      The salary of the manager of collections and accounts shall be fixed bythe waterworks board, and he or she shall give a good and sufficient suretycompany bond in a sum to be fixed by the waterworks board, conditioned forthe faithful performance of duties and for a true and faithful accountingof all moneys that may come into the manager's hands by reason of his orher position. Cost of said bond shall be paid out of revenue of saiddepartment. The waterworks board may appoint such assistants to the managerof collections and accounts as they deem necessary, and when the duties ofsaid assistants require them to receive and receipt for moneys said boardshall require said assistants to give a good and sufficient surety companybond, the sum of which in each case shall be fixed by said board,conditioned for the faithful performance of said assistants' duties and fora true and faithful accounting of all moneys that may come into saidassistants' hands by reason of their position. The cost of said bonds shallbe paid out of the revenue of said department.

      History:   L. 1937, ch. 143, § 7; March 16.