(a) The travel expenses of any City official or employee attending meetings, conferences or conventions relating to municipal affairs outside the City or while engaged in any official business, including travel, lodging, meals, fees, tips and gratuities, and other business related expenses shall be paid by the City or such person shall be properly reimbursed for the expense so incurred if the travel is first authorized by the Mayor and the director of the department to which the employee is assigned or in the case of a member of Council by the President of Council and if the Director of Finance certifies that funds are appropriated and available for such purposes. The maximum reimbursement for meals shall be twenty dollars ($20.00) per day proportioned as follows - breakfast, five dollars ($5.00), lunch, six dollars ($6.00) and dinner, nine dollars ($9.00).
(b) Any City official or employee required to travel outside the City in the performance of their duties or on official business on behalf of the City shall be compensated for the use of such personal automobile at the maximum rate as permitted by Internal Revenue Service Regulation.
(c) An application for payment of travel expenses and mileage allowance pursuant to this section shall be accompanied by a detailed expense account and shall be promptly submitted after the expense has been incurred.
(Ord. 89-10. Passed 6-17-91.)