§ 12-101 Salaries; retroactive increases forbidden.

Any action taken by the head of an agency or by the mayor to increase the salary of any officer or person whose salary is paid out of the city treasury, to take effect prior to the date of such action is void.

§ 12-102 Salaries; increases after fixation in budget permitted.

The head of an agency subject to the provisions of section one hundred twenty-four of the charter, or the mayor shall have the power to increase, during any fiscal year, the salary of any officer or person paid from the city treasury even after such salary shall have been fixed in the budget for such fiscal year.

§ 12-103 Salaries; of county officials.

The salaries of all county officers in counties within the city, unless otherwise provided by law, shall be fixed by the mayor.

§ 12-104 Payment of claims of certain employees authorized.

The mayor is hereby authorized to inquire into, hear and determine any claim heretofore or hereafter filed against the city, or any agency, or the board of education, by a duly appointed employee or his or her estate, where it is shown that such employee failed and neglected to cash the check paid to such employee for services rendered, notwithstanding a bar to the payment of any such claim by limitation of time or otherwise. The mayor may, after due consideration, authorize payment of such claim, and such claim shall thereupon be paid in such amount as the mayor shall determine to be just, in full satisfaction thereof, provided that the claimant or his or her estate, shall execute and deliver a release upon receipt of such payment, in such form as shall be approved by the corporation counsel. The allowance in payment of such claim shall be without any interest whatsoever.