(A) (1) Except as may be otherwise provided by this code or by state law, the City Treasurer shall collect all taxes, fines, special assessments, and other money due the city, and shall receive from all city officers and employees money paid to them for the city, and all city money so collected or received by him or her shall be deposited promptly in a depository designated for such purpose by the Common Council.
(2) He or she shall not pay out any money of the city except as it shall have appropriated and ordered by the Common Council to be paid, and he or she shall sign all checks, drafts, and warrants against the City Treasury or any depository of the city only upon order so to do, signed by the Mayor and City Clerk.
(B) The City Treasurer shall not accept an order for the payment of money unless all blanks have been properly filled in. He or she shall preserve in his or her office all orders paid by him or her to be used in making his or her settlement with the city.
(C) If, when an order is presented to the City Treasurer, there are no funds for the payment thereof, the person entitled to receive the sum of money specified in such order may require the City Treasurer to endorse thereon or write across the face thereof the words “Presented for Payment”, with the proper date, and sign the same, and the order if it was due, at the time of presentment, shall in such case be payable with legal interest from the date of such presentment.
(D) No payment shall be paid in advance, except as may be provided otherwise by the Common Council in any case and stated in the order to the City Treasurer.
(E) Failure of the City Treasurer to comply with this section shall be prima facie evidence of a cause for reprimand or suspension or grounds for dismissal.
(Prior Code, § 2-44)
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As to payment of money out of Municipal Treasury, see W. Va. Code 8-13-22