Every person having a claim or demand against the city shall file with the City Clerk an account or statement thereof, verified under oath, fully setting forth the items. The City Clerk shall present such account or statement to the Common Council at their first meeting thereafter, at which time such statement or account may be allowed in whole or in part, or wholly disallowed. All applications for refunding orders for taxes erroneously assessed shall be verified by the affidavit of the party in whose interest the order is applied for.
(Prior Code, § 2-5)