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The chief financial officer shall prepare a written form of demand and proposed check for each approved invoice and claim. Supporting documents such as the purchase order, and invoice or claim for payment shall be attached thereto. Demands shall be individually audited by the chief financial officer or designee, who shall certify as to the accuracy of each demand and the availability of funds for payment thereof. Such demands may be in the form of check-warrants and when approved by all officers as required by this code, shall be delivered to the assistant city treasurer. The assistant city treasurer shall subscribe a direction to the depository of funds to pay the funds to the order of the payee, which action shall convert the warrant, or demand, to a bona fide check.
(`64 Code, Sec. 2-88) (Ord. No. 801, 2977, 3031)
(A) All demands against the city shall, before being paid, be presented to and approved by the proper officer.
(B) Demands for which no appropriation has been made shall be presented to the city council; and all other demands shall be presented to the city manager; provided, that any person dissatisfied with the refusal of the city manager to approve any demand, in whole or in part, may present the same to the city council, and the approval of such demand by the city council shall have the same effect as its approval by the city manager.
(`64 Code, Sec. 2-89) (Ord. No. 801)
(A) All demands approved by the proper board, commission or officers shall be presented to the city's chief financial officer, who shall examine the same; and if the amount thereof is legally due and there remains on the books an unexhausted balance or an appropriation against which the same may be charged, the chief financial officer shall approve such demand and draw and sign the warrant on the city treasury therefor, payable out of the proper fund.
(B) (1) Objections of the chief financial officer to any demand may be overruled by the city council, and the chief financial officer shall thereupon draw the warrant as directed by the city council.
(2) Such warrants, when presented to the assistant city treasurer, shall be paid by the chief financial officer out of the fund therein designated if there be sufficient money in such fund for that purpose.
(3) A warrant not paid for lack of funds shall be registered, and all registered warrants shall be paid in the order of registration when funds are available therefor.
(C) The chief financial officer shall draw warrants for payment of municipal or other bonds payable out of funds in the treasury upon presentation and surrender of the proper bonds and coupons, without approval of any body or officer.
(`64 Code, Sec. 2-90) (Ord. No. 801, 2977, 3031)
Notwithstanding any language in this division 5 to the contrary, the payroll functions of the City of Oxnard shall be delegated to and managed by the director of human resources. The budget and the general accounting divisions of the finance department will continue to have ‘read-only access’ to the payroll database and reports.
(Ord. No. 2977)
DIVISION 6. FIRE
(A) There shall be a fire department, headed by a fire chief, together with such subordinate employees as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the department.
(B) In the fire department, and subject to the authority of the fire chief, there may be a volunteer force.
(`64 Code, Sec. 2-91)
DIVISION 7. POLICE DEPARTMENT
(A) There shall be a police department, headed by the police chief, together with such subordinate employees as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the department. The police chief may deputize or appoint qualified persons as reserve officers who shall not be employees nor entitled to compensation except as provided by resolution of the city council.
(B) The police chief is the department director of the Oxnard Police Department and the head officer.
(`64 Code, Sec. 2-92) (Ord. No. 1668)
The police chief shall have authority to provide fingerprint and identification services upon request in accordance with a schedule of time and fees approved by the city manager. Such fees shall not exceed the reasonable expense of providing the service. No fee shall be charged for required fingerprinting in connection with a city permit for which a person has already paid a fee.
(`64 Code, Sec. 2-92.1) (Ord. No. 1279)
(A) The city council hereby adopts Oxnard police department Policy Manual Section 708 (the “policy”) which shall govern the use of military equipment by the Oxnard police department. The policy may be amended by the police chief or the police chief’s designee, subject to city council approval.
(B) The policy shall be made publicly available on the Oxnard police department’s website for as long as the military equipment is available for use or as otherwise ordained by the city council.
(C) The Oxnard police department shall submit an annual military equipment report to the city council containing the information required by Cal. Gov't Code, Section 7072 and the city council shall thereafter determine whether each type of military equipment identified therein complied with the standards for approval set forth in Cal. Gov't Code, Section 7071(d).
(D) The city council shall on an annual basis and at a regular meeting thereof review this section and vote on whether to renew it pursuant to Cal. Gov't Code, Section 7071(e)(2). At such time, the policy shall be presented to the city council as an attachment to the annual report.
(E) The definitions set forth in Cal. Gov't Code, Section 7070 shall apply to this section of the city code. Any provision of state law referred to herein shall mean and include any amended or successor provision thereof.
(Ord. No. 3014, 3031)
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