2-152-300 Operation expenses – Annual estimates.

   The head of every department, board or other agency of the City government shall prepare and submit to the Comptroller, on or before the first day of November in each year, an estimate of the whole cost and expense of providing for and maintaining his office during the ensuing fiscal year, which estimate shall be in detail and shall be laid before the City Council by the Comptroller with the Comptroller's annual estimates. The Department of Public Health and the Department of Buildings shall also submit to the Comptroller at said time a statement of all expenditures from appropriations for the maintenance of said department.

(Prior code § 25-26; Amend Coun. J. 2-24-21, p. 27657, Art. V, § 2)

2-152-310 Rules and regulations for departments and agencies.

   The head of each department, board or other agency of the city government shall prescribe such rules and regulations for the governance of his department, board or other agency as he shall deem necessary and proper.

   He shall furnish a copy of said rules and regulations to all subordinate officers and employees in his department, board or other agency and all said officers and employees shall be subject to such rules and regulations so prescribed and to the provisions of this Code.

(Prior code § 25-27)

2-152-320 Daily financial reports – Receipts.

   In accordance with the provisions of Illinois Public Funds Accounting Act, it is hereby made the duty of all officers or agents of the city who receive any funds, monies or other things of value, by virtue of their offices or positions, except the city treasurer, to keep an account of all such receipts, by entries on written or printed forms provided for such purpose by the city. Said forms shall provide for an original and at least two copies of each entry, to be made by the same operation, and shall show the date and amount of each receipt, and the account for which the payment or delivery was made.

   Each day's receipts shall be separately paid over or delivered to the city treasurer not later than the close of business of the next succeeding day, and therewith one copy of the record of receipts shall be delivered to the city treasurer. A copy of said record shall be delivered to the comptroller, as the officer designated by the city council to receive such record, not later than five days after the time required for the payment to the treasurer, and one copy shall be retained by the officer or agent making the payment or report, as a permanent record.

(Prior code § 25-28; Amend Coun. J. 3-31-04, p. 20916, § 4.10)

2-152-330 Financial report and recordkeeping requirements.

   All departments, bureaus, boards or persons connected with the city government are hereby required to make such financial reports as may be ordered by the city council, and to permit examination of all their official records by any member of the city council, or any accredited representative of the press, except such records which by law are required to be kept confidential or which by ordinance are limited to inspection by certain designated persons.

(Prior code § 25-29)

2-152-335 Municipal pension funds – travel reimbursement report.

   Each of the municipal pension funds shall, at the city council meeting of July or the regular meeting held thereafter, file a report with the city clerk regarding travel reimbursed by the pension funds or persons doing business with the pension funds within the preceding year which indicates names of the board member or trustee or employee of the fund who has traveled outside of Illinois, the dates of the trip, the destination of the trip, and the nature of the business conducted on the trip. Upon receipt of this report, the city clerk shall transmit a copy to the committees on finance, and the budget and government operations.

(Added Coun. J. 5-20-98, p. 68164)

ARTICLE IV. CAREER SERVICE REGULATIONS (2-152-340 et seq.)

2-152-340 Reserved.

Editor's note – Coun. J. 4-13-11, p. 113393, § 1, renumbered § 2-152-340 as § 2-152-050, which pertains to residence restrictions.

2-152-350 Uniform salaries within classes and grades.

   Whenever the civil service commission shall, by rule, have classified offices and places of employment in the city into classes and grades, and said offices and places shall have been classed according to the general line and character of work involved in the respective duties thereof, and such commission shall have established grades or ranks within each class, each grade or rank comprising offices and places having substantially similar duties, authority and responsibility, appropriations for salaries for all such offices and places of employment within each grade shall be uniform. No salaries shall be paid by the comptroller or city treasurer for services of any officer or employee unless such person is occupying an office or place of employment according to the provisions of this chapter and is entitled to payment therefor.

(Prior code § 25-31)

2-152-360 Appointments in the service.

   Whenever any grade or rank in the classified service of the city shall have been divided into salary groups, for the purpose of varying compensation according to efficiency and seniority, and the city council shall have appropriated according to such salary groups for the positions in the said grades of service, appointment by the head of the department or by the appointing officer shall be to the group having the lowest fixed salary rate.

(Prior code § 25-32)