(a) Separate gift account funds for the Carmel/Clay Fire Department, the Carmel Police Department, the Carmel/Clay Parks and Recreation Department, the Department of Community Relations and the Carmel Redevelopment Commission Gift Fund - Commissioner Dinner and the Carmel Redevelopment Commission Gift Fund - Marketing are hereby established.
(b) These gift account funds shall be individually maintained by the Controller and all gifts to each of said departments shall be placed in the individual gift account for the Department.
(c) The uses to be made of the monies placed in the aforesaid account funds shall be at the discretion of the Board of Public Works and Safety for the Police Department, the Board of Public Works and Safety for the Fire Department, the Department of Community Relations for its fund, the Parks Board for the Parks Department fund, and the Carmel Redevelopment Commission for its funds, giving preference to the directions of the donor(s) with regard to their gifts(s). All such donations shall be made in compliance with applicable law. If a donation is found to have been made in violation of applicable law, the City, in its sole discretion, may return all or any portion of said donation to the donor or otherwise apply said donation as allowed by law.
(d) The Departments may accept gifts for their respective gift account fund from persons acting in their individual capacity and in their own behalf, from business organizations and corporations, and from not-for-profit organizations and service groups.
(e) The Carmel Redevelopment Commission shall not accept donations to its Gift Account Fund - Commissioner Dinner if the Fund account balance exceeds $10,000.00. Vendors of the Carmel Redevelopment Commission may not contribute more than $1,500.00 to the Carmel Redevelopment Commission Gift Account Fund - Commissioner Dinner in a calendar year. Donations to the Carmel Redevelopment Commission Gift Account - Commissioner Dinner may only be accepted if they are intended to pay for the meals served to Commissioners at meetings of the Carmel Redevelopment Commission. Funds from the Carmel Redevelopment Commission Gift Account Fund - Commissioner Dinner may only be expended to purchase the meals that are to be served to the Commissioners at Carmel Redevelopment Commission meetings.
(`91 Code, § 2-112) (Ord. D-204, 2-19-79; Ord. D-1609-02, 12-2-02; Ord. D-1879-07, 11-19-07; Ord. D-2067-11, 11-7-11; Ord. D-2352- 17, As Amended, § 2, 3-6-17; Ord. D-2446-18, § 2, 1-7-18; Ord. D-2505-19, 12-16-19)