2-152-210 Costs of obtaining bonds.

   The cost of obtaining all bonds of officers or employees payable to the city shall be paid out of the funds of the city. In the case of officers and employees whose salaries are paid from the general corporate fund, the cost of obtaining bonds for such officers and employees shall be paid out of said general corporate fund. In the case of officers and employees whose salaries are paid out of any special or separate fund, the cost of obtaining bonds for such officers or employees shall be paid out of the special or separate fund from which their salaries are paid. In the case of officers or employees serving without compensation, the cost of obtaining bonds for such officers or employees shall be paid out of the fund being administered by such officers or employees.

(Prior code § 25-17)

2-152-220 Bond approval and certification conditions.

   No bond of an officer or employee payable to the city shall be approved until the corporation counsel shall have certified thereon that such bond is properly executed as to form, and the comptroller shall have certified thereon that the sureties on such bond are of sufficient financial responsibility for the amount of the penalty of such bond.

   The comptroller shall examine the sureties on such bond touching their sufficiency, and require such examinations to be reduced to writing and signed and sworn to by such sureties.

(Prior code § 25-18)

2-152-230 Acknowledgment.

   The execution of any bond of an officer or employee shall be acknowledged before some person authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and a certification of such acknowledgment shall be made thereon.

(Prior code § 25-19)

2-152-240 Endorsement and filing.

   After the approval of the bond of any officer or employee as required, the date of approval shall be endorsed thereon and the same shall be filed with the city clerk if an official bond, except that the bond of the city clerk shall be filed with the treasurer, and if the bond is that of a subordinate official payable to the city it shall be filed with the city comptroller, otherwise with the officer to whom such bond is payable.

(Prior code § 25-20)

2-152-250 Surety requirements.

   The bond of any officer or employee shall be executed with two or more sureties; provided, that where an accredited surety company executes any such bond only one surety shall be required, but no surety company shall be accepted as the sole surety on any bond, the penalty of which exceeds ten percent of the capital and surplus of the surety. In all cases the bond shall be executed in such a way and by such number of surety companies as will keep the total liability of each of the sureties within ten percent of the capital and surplus of each of such sureties.

(Prior code § 25-21)

2-152-260 Justification by sureties.

   All sureties executing bonds of city officers or employees shall justify separately on the back of the bond, under oath, that they are respectively worth the sums stated in such justifications over and above all debts and liabilities by them owing or incurred or for which their property is liable or encumbered at the time of justification, over and above all exemptions by law of their property from execution. The sums stated in such justifications shall in the aggregate equal the amount of such bond. Where any such bond is executed by a surety company, such justification shall be in the form of an affidavit of one of its officers or duly accredited agent showing that the surety company is worth a sum in excess of the penalty of the bond over and above all debts, liabilities and exemptions.

(Prior code § 25-22)

ARTICLE III. REPORTS, RULES AND RECORDS (2-152-270 et seq.)

2-152-270 Annual reports by department heads.

   Every head of a department, board or other agency of the city shall, from time to time as required by the mayor, but in any case not less than once in each year, report in writing to the office of the mayor the transactions of his office during the preceding year, together with such information and recommendations as he may deem necessary or proper. The mayor shall cause such information to be compiled into a comprehensive annual city report, which incorporates the activities of the city departments, boards and agencies.

   Nothing herein contained shall be construed as relieving any such head of a department, board or agency of the city government of full compliance with all statutory provisions relating to the submission of reports, but the report herein required shall be submitted in addition to any report required to be made by virtue of statutory provisions.

(Prior code § 25-23)

2-152-280 Copies of reports.

   Any edition of an annual or special report issued by the head of a department, board or other agency of the city government shall be approved by the city council as to the number of copies. The number of copies of any such report to be set aside for the use of the department, board or other agency issuing the same, and the number of such copies which shall be made available for distribution or sale, shall be determined and fixed by a board consisting of a representative of the Chicago Public Library, chosen by the president of the board of directors, a representative of the finance committee of the city council and the head of the department, board or agency issuing such report. Provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed to apply to orders, regulations, instructions, directions, notices, leaflets or circulars of information printed for officials' use and issued by a department, board or agency of the city government.

(Prior code § 25-24; Amend Coun. J. 12-13-00, p. 48076, § 4)

2-152-290 Reserved.

Editor's note – Coun. J. 3-31-04, p. 20916, § 1.1, repealed § 2-152-290, which pertained to surplus publications.