The Comptroller shall be charged with, and shall exercise a general supervision over all officers of the city, charged in any manner with the receipt, collection or disbursement of the city revenues, and the collection and return of revenues into the city treasury. He or she shall be the fiscal agent of the city, and as such, shall have charge of all deeds, mortgages, contracts, judgments, notes, bonds, debts and chooses in action, belonging to the city except such as are directed by statute or ordnance to be deposited elsewhere and shall possess and carefully preserve all assessment warrants and the return thereof made by any collector or receiver of assessments or special taxes, and all leases of markets, wharfing privileges and other property of the city. He or she shall have supervision over the city debts, contracts, obligations, loans and liabilities of the city, the payment of interest, and over all generally, in subordination to the Mayor and the City Council, to exercise supervision over all interests of the city, as, in any manner, may concern or relate to city finances, reveries and property.
(1980 Code, § 5.004)