Section 1. General Duties: The City Clerk shall keep the corporate seal, and all the documents, official bonds, papers, files and records of the City not by this Act or the ordinances of the City entrusted to some other officer; he shall be Clerk of the Council, he shall attend its meetings; record all its proceedings, ordinances and resolutions, and shall countersign and register all licenses granted; he shall, when required, make and certify under the seal of the City, copies of the papers and records filed and kept in his office, and such copies shall be evidence in all places of the matters therein contained, to that same extent and as the original would be; and for the making of such copies for any person other than an officer of the City, he shall collect fees allowed county clerks for like services, he shall possess and exercise the powers of township clerk so far as the same are required to be performed within the City; he shall have authority to administer oaths and affirmations.
Section 2. To Act as Accountant: The City Clerk shall act as City Accountant, and as such he shall install and have supervision over the accounts of all departments and offices of the City. As such Accountant he may require from all officers and departments of the City from time to time, such reports of money, receipts and disposition thereof, together with such financial and operating statements as shall exhibit each transaction complete and the cost thereof.
Section 3. Accounting System: An accounting procedure shall be devised and maintained for the City adequate to record in detail all transactions affecting the acquisition, custodianship and disposition of values, including cash receipts and disbursements, and which shall conform to any uniform accounting system required by law. The recorded facts above provided for shall be presented periodically to officials and to the public in such summaries and analytical schedules in detailed support thereof as shall be necessary to show the full effect of such transaction for each fiscal year upon the finances of the City, and in relation to each department of the City government, including district summaries and schedules for each utility owned and operated.
Section 4. To be Purchasing Agent: The City Clerk shall act as purchasing agent for the City and as such he shall purchase all supplies for the City under the order of the Mayor and the Council.