Every undertaking of the City involving the expenditure of City money shall be in writing, in the form of a purchase order or a contract as may be appropriate, and no officer or employee of the City shall have authority to enter into any oral agreement involving the expenditure of money. The City Manager shall sign all contracts on behalf of the City and he and the Director of Finance shall sign all purchase orders. The Director shall attach to each contract a certificate signed by the Director, and there shall be attached to or included in each purchase order a certificate of the Director that the estimated amount of money required to meet the obligation of the City by such contract or purchase order has been lawfully appropriated and in the proper fund or in the process of collection to the credit of the fund involved, free from any prior encumbrance. In the case of a contract to continue beyond the current fiscal year and to involve expenditures of money in future years, the Director shall only certify as to the money estimated to be paid by the City thereunder during the current fiscal year.
(Ord. 1419. Passed 6-18-62.)