(a) The City Clerk-Treasurer shall be the head of the Department of Finance. He shall be appointed by the Mayor subject to the approval by not less than four-fifths of the members of the Council and Board of Public Affairs in joint session. He shall serve at the pleasure of the Mayor, Council and Board of Public Affairs and may be removed by the Mayor with the approval of not less than four-fifths of the members of the Council and Board of Public Affairs in joint session. The Mayor shall appoint an acting City Clerk-Treasurer in the event of the temporary absence or disability of the Clerk-Treasurer, or in the event of a vacancy in the office. Such acting Clerk-Treasurer shall serve only until the vacancy is filled or until the disability of the Clerk-Treasurer is removed, or he returns from his temporary absence.
(b) The Mayor shall fix the salary of the City Clerk-Treasurer and apportion such salary among the various funds of the City, but such salary and apportionment among the funds shall be subject to the separate approvals of the Council and Board of Public Affairs by a majority vote of the members of each of such bodies.
(c) The Clerk-Treasurer shall attend all meetings of the Council and keep a record of its proceedings, and of all rules, bylaws, resolutions and ordinances passed or adopted, which shall be subject to the inspection of all persons interested. The Clerk-Treasurer shall also attend all meetings of the Board of Public Affairs and keep a complete record of its proceedings. The Clerk-Treasurer with such assistance as shall be provided by the Board of Public Affairs shall also keep all the boooks, records, papers and accounts of the Board of Public Affairs of the City, and do all clerical work in connection with the operation and management of the Electric Light Plant, the Water Works, the Sewage Waste Water Plant, and any public utility or public works operated by the City.
(d) The Clerk-Treasurer shall be the fiscal officer of the City and shall perform all services and discharge all duties and be subject to all obligations required of City Auditors and City Treasurers by the general laws of the State, and he shall give a corporate surety bond for the performance of his duties as such Clerk-Treasurer in such sum as may be required by the Council.
(e) All fees of any kind or nature whatsoever collected by the Clerk-Treasurer, and all compensation other than salary received by the Clerk-Treasurer in any manner whatsoever growing out of or connected with his position as Clerk-Treasurer of the City shall be by him paid into the Treasury of the City on the first Monday of each month. At the first regular meeting of the Council in each and every month he shall submit a full statement of all money received by him by way of fees or compensation, from whom and for what purpose received and when paid into the Treasury.