(A) Generally. Except as to an annual salary, fees of jurors or witnesses fixed by law or wages or salaries of employees which have been fixed on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis by the Council and which by law are authorized to be paid on a payroll basis, any account, claim or demand against the city which can be itemized in the ordinary course of business, the Council shall not audit or allow the claim until the person claiming payment, or his or her agent, reduce it to writing, in items.
(B) Form and effect of declaration on check.
(1) The declaration provided for in division (B) above shall be printed on the reverse side of the check, above the space for endorsement thereof by the payee, as follows:
The undersigned payee, in endorsing this check declares that the same is received in payment of a just and correct claim against the city, and that no part of it has heretofore been paid.
(2) When endorsed by the payee named in the check, the statement shall operate and shall be deemed sufficient as the required declaration of claim.
(C) Signing checks. All checks shall be signed by the Mayor and the City Administrator or Assistant City Administrator.
(Prior Code, § 2.09)