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Alhambra, California Code of Ordinances
Alhambra, California Code of Ordinances
CHARTER
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE II: ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL
TITLE III: FINANCE
TITLE IV: FRANCHISES
TITLE V: BUSINESS LICENSES AND REGULATIONS
TITLE VI: HEALTH AND SANITATION
TITLE VII: ANIMALS
TITLE VIII: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REVENUE BOND LAW
TITLE IX: PUBLIC PEACE AND SAFETY
TITLE X: BICYCLES
TITLE XI: VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
TITLE XII: PARKING LOTS
TITLE XIII: STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
TITLE XIV: PARKS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS
TITLE XV: WATER
TITLE XVI: SEWERS
TITLE XVII: INDUSTRIAL WASTE
TITLE XVIII: COMMUNITY NOISE AND VIBRATION CONTROL
TITLE XIX: FIRE
TITLE XX: BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION
TITLE XXI: OIL AND GAS WELLS
TITLE XXII: SUBDIVISIONS
TITLE XXIII: ZONING
TITLE XXIV: SOLAR ENERGY
TABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES
PARALLEL REFERENCES
ARTICLE X. DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND EX OFFICIO CITY TREASURER, ASSESSOR AND TAX AND LICENSE COLLECTOR
SEC. 65. POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTOR OF FINANCE - EX OFFICIO CITY TREASURER.
   The director of finance shall receive and safely keep all moneys that shall come to the city by taxation or otherwise, and pay the same out on demands legally audited in the manner provided by this Charter; and without such auditing he or she shall disburse no public moneys whatever, except principal and interest of the municipal debt when payable.
   The director of finance shall also be ex officio city treasurer. He or she shall issue receipts to all persons paying money into the treasury. He or she shall make a record at the close of each business day showing all moneys received during the day, together with the number of each receipt given by him or her therefor, for what account and from whom received and to what fund applied.
   He or she shall, each month, make out and present to the council, a full and complete statement of the receipts and expenditures for the preceding calendar month; and he or she shall make such special reports from time to time as may be required by the council.
   He or she shall perform such other duties as are or shall be required of him or her by this Charter or by the laws of this state and ordinances not in conflict with such Charter.
Editor's note: This section was amended by Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 72, which was approved by the voters of the city at an election held June 7, 1966. This section was further amended by the voters of the city on March 26, 1996.
SEC. 66. SAME - EX OFFICIO CITY ASSESSOR.
   The director of finance shall also be ex officio city assessor and it shall be his or her duty as such city assessor, in addition to any duty that may be elsewhere prescribed for him or her by this Charter or by ordinance, to make out annually, within such time as may be prescribed by ordinance of the city, either now or hereafter in force, a full, true and correct list of all property, both real and personal, taxable by law, within the limits of said city, with the valuation thereof, and assess the same to the persons by whom it was owned or claimed, or in whose possession or control it was, at 12 o'clock meridian on the first Monday in March next preceding, unless such duty be delegated to the county tax assessor by the city council.
   He or she shall perform such other duties as shall be required of him or her by this Charter or by the laws of this state and ordinances not in conflict with such Charter.
Editor's note: This section was amended by Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 72, which was approved by the voters of the city at an election held June 7, 1966. This section was further amended by the voters of the city on March 26, 1996.
SEC. 67. SAME - EX OFFICIO CITY TAX AND LICENSE COLLECTOR.
   The director of finance shall also be ex-officio city tax and license collector, and as such tax and license collector he or she shall receive and collect all city taxes, general and special, and other city revenues not otherwise provided for by this Charter or by ordinance.
   He or she shall keep proper books, showing all moneys collected by him or her as tax or license collector; he or she shall also keep a book which shall contain a record of every certificate of sale issued or deed given by or on behalf of the city for real estate sold for delinquent taxes or assessments, which said book shall be properly indexed and shall be at all suitable times open to public inspection.
   He or she shall make daily deposits of all moneys received by him or her in his or her capacity as tax or license collector.
   He or she shall perform such other duties as are or shall be required of him or her by this Charter or by the laws of this state and ordinances not in conflict with such Charter.
Editor's note: The section was amended by Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 72, which was approved by the voters of the city at an election held June 7, 1966. This section was further amended by the voters of the city on March 26, 1996.
SEC. 68. SAME — ACTING GENERAL ACCOUNTANT AND FISCAL AGENT.
   The director of finance shall act as the general accountant and fiscal agent of the city, and shall exercise a general superintendence over all the officers of the city charged in any manner with the receipt, collection or disbursement of the city revenues, and shall prescribe the method of keeping the books and accounts of the city, subject to the approval of the council.
   He or she shall keep a complete set of books, as prescribed by the council, in which he or she shall set forth in a plain and businesslike manner, every money transaction of the city, so as to show at all times the state of each fund, from which source the money was derived and for what purpose any money was expended, and also all collections made and paid into the treasury by each officer or any other person.
   The director of finance shall audit, before payment, all demands against the city and approve the same only when legally due and drawn upon the proper fund. If allowed by him or her he or she shall endorse such warrant with the word “allowed” and the date of said allowance, and sign his or her name thereto. If in his or her judgment any demand is incorrect, defective, or improperly drawn, he or she shall return the same to the council with his or her objections.
   He or she shall keep a record of all demands audited by him or her showing numbers, dates, amounts, names of claimants, purpose and from what fund drawn, whether approved or not.
   It shall be his or her duty to apportion among the several funds all public money at any time in the city treasury, not by law or ordinance specifically apportioned or appropriated.
   He or she shall report to the council each month, and oftener if required by it, the condition of each fund in the city treasury, and also the receipts and disbursements.
   He or she shall make and present a report to the council not later than the ninetieth day following the close of each fiscal year, showing all financial business transactions of the city for the preceding fiscal year.
   He or she shall, on or before the first day of May in each year, make and present to the council a report as to the revenue and expenses of the city for the current fiscal year, in which he or she shall set forth estimates of (1) the revenue from other sources than taxation; (2) the itemized expenditures; (3) the itemized amounts necessary to be raised by taxation for each fund.
   He or she shall perform such other duties as are or shall be required of him or her by this Charter or by the laws of this state and ordinances not in conflict with such Charter.
Editor's note: This section was reenacted by Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 72, which was approved by the voters of the city at in election held June 7, 1966 (Section 62 was amended, renumbered as Section 68 and placed in Article 10). This section was further amended by the voters of the city on March 26, 1996.