No original document, paper or file belonging to the city shall be taken or removed, or permitted to be taken or removed, from any office or from the custody of any officer of the city; provided, however, that any duly qualified and acting officer of the city may be permitted by the officer having custody of any such document, paper or file, to remove the same from such office for a period not to exceed ten con-secutive days, upon giving proper receipt therefor. But in such case the document, paper or file must be returned to the officer having custody thereof at any time upon his demand or the demand of his regular deputy or assistant, and in any event within ten days from the time the same is received.
('86 Code, § 2.12.010) (Ord. 1798, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 1.12.010