Unless otherwise provided by law or such order, every annual appropriation order of the City Council shall be deemed to contain the following standard provisions:
a. No more than one-quarter (1/4) of the funds appropriated for any fiscal year for permanent personnel shall be expended for such purpose in any ninety (90) day period except with the express approval of the Mayor and City Council.
b. No official or employee of the City shall receive overtime pay in excess of ten (10%) percent of his annual salary in any twelve (12) month period unless such excess payment is expressly approved by the Mayor and City Council.
c. All salaries for non-civil service positions in excess of fifteen thousand ($15,000.00) dollars annually and all changes in such salaries shall be subject to approval of the City Council.
d. Unless expressly approved by the Mayor and City Council, no department or agency of the City shall employ in any position within such department or agency any number of persons in excess of the number approved by the City Council.
e. Unless expressly approved by the Mayor and City Council, no department or agency of the City shall expend funds in excess of two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars for contractual services for any purpose unless such funds and purposes were included on Form 6 of a program budget submitted to the Council in connection with an annual appropriation order prior to the expenditure of such funds.
f. Unless expressly authorized by the Mayor and City Council, no person paid from funds appropriated by this order shall be paid by any agency other than the agency for which such person actually works.
g. Passage of this order does not, either directly or implicitly, authorize, or purport to authorize, any department or agency head or any other appointing authority to disregard the provisions of Chapter 31 of the Massachusetts General Laws or the provisions of any other special or general law.
h. Funds appropriated by this order shall not be used to advertise the name of any City official whether elected or appointed.
i. Unless otherwise provided by law, or written contract predating such expense, after a payroll expense has been incurred by payment from any City payroll account such expense shall not be charged to any other account without approval of the Mayor and City Council.
j. The City Auditor shall not knowingly approve any expenditure of funds in violation of this order and the Auditor is lawfully convicted of such violation the Auditor shall be subject to a fine not to exceed one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars for each such offense.
(Ord. 1980 c. 8 § 1)