(a) Collection of Assessments, Levies, Etc. The City Recorder shall collect assessments, levies, licenses, water rents and all other bills, accounts and charges placed into his hands by Council and as may be required by law, and shall duly give receipt therefor. He shall be chargeable with all such taxes, levies, licenses, water rents, charges or other collections placed in his hands for collection and shall account therefor to the Common Council, as required by law.
(b) Keeping or Paying Out Money. The City Recorder shall be ex-officio treasurer and shall issue all checks when properly signed and when he has sufficient funds in hand to so pay. He shall keep all money collected by him in banks in the City. He shall not pay out any of such funds except upon such orders as are herein specified as allowed by law.
(c) Monthly Reports to Council; Settlement of Accounts.
(1) It shall be the duty of the City Recorder to make a report to Council, at its regular meeting in each month, of the gross amount collected and disbursed by him during the preceding month and the balance of money remaining at the end of the month.
(2) The recorder shall make full settlement of his accounts as required by the rulings of the State Tax Commissioner and by the laws of the State and as Council, by resolution, may require.
(d) Fiscal Accounts and Records. The City Recorder shall keep complete and accurate fiscal accounts and records, as required by law and as prescribed by the State Tax Commissioner and other state officers having authority to prescribe the same, and in accordance with directives from Council.
(e) Rules, Etc. to Which Recorder Subject. The City Recorder shall be subject to the provisions of the City Charter and to acts of the legislature relating to such officer and his duties, and to all applicable provisions of this Code and other ordinances, resolutions and orders of Council.
(f) Oath of Office. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, the City Recorder shall take and subscribe the oath of office required by law in such cases for the faithful performance of his duties.