Contracts Certified.

   Section 46.   No contract, agreement or other obligation involving the expenditure of money, shall be entered into, nor shall any ordinance, resolution, or order for the expenditure of money be passed by the council or by any officer of the city, unless the director of finance and public record shall first certify to the council or to the proper officer, as the case may be, that the money required for such contract, agreement, obligation, or expenditure, is in the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which it is to be drawn, and not appropriated for any other purpose, which certificate shall be filed and recorded in the records of the council. The sum so certified shall not thereafter be considered unappropriated until the city is discharged from the contract, agreement or obligation.

   All moneys actually in the treasury to the credit of the fund from which they are to be drawn, and all moneys applicable to the payment of the obligation or appropriation involved, that are anticipated to come into the treasury before the maturity of such contract, agreement or obligation, from taxes or assessments, or from sales or services, products or by-products, or from any city undertakings, fees, charges, accounts and bills receivable or other credits in process of collection; and all moneys applicable to the payment of such obligation or appropriation, which are to be paid into the treasury prior to the maturity thereof, arising from the sale or lease of lands or other property, and moneys to be derived from lawfully authorized bonds, or notes sold and in process of delivery, shall, for the purpose of such certificate, be deemed in the treasury to the credit of the appropriate fund and subject to such certification.

(Amended 11-8-2022)