Section
40.01 Fiscal year for county
40.02 Depository banks
40.03 Prevention of overexpenditures
40.04 Purchase orders; contracts
40.05 Inventory of office equipment and furniture
40.06 Tax collection; fees
40.07 Authorization for tax law suits
40.08 Fees for document copies
40.09 Petty cash funds
40.10 Sheriff’s Department Impress Fund
40.11 Interest on undisturbed taxes
40.12 Voiding of long-standing county- issued payment checks
40.13 Property sales tax
40.14 Vital records automation fee
40.15 Historic Preservation Commission Fund
40.16 Fee for NSF checks
40.17 Payment of real estate taxes by credit card
40.18 Special service area assessment collection policy
40.19 Cash reserve policy
40.20 Year-end reserve period policy
40.21 Expenditure of RTA tax revenue policy
40.22 Capital Assets Policy Manual
40.23 Civil union fee
40.24 Payment of fees and fines by credit card
40.25 Fee for issuance of attorney identification cards
The fiscal year shall begin on December 1 and end November 30 of each year.
(1980 Code, § 40.01) (1933 p. 30; 1947 pp. 125—126, adopted 6- -1947; 1947 p. 193, adopted 8- -1947; Res. adopted 6-24-1968, p. 383) (Sup. Rec. Bk. 216, pp. 175—176; Sup. Rec. Bk. 223, pp. 439—440; Sup. Rec. Bk. 223, pp. 505—506; Sup. Rec. Bk. 237, p. 494)
No depository, designated from time to time by the County Treasurer as the active bank, shall be a bank whose aggregate capital stock and surplus is less than 75% of the amount of the funds or public moneys in the custody of the Treasurer on deposit in that bank.
(1980 Code, § 40.02) (1966 pp. 96—97, adopted 3-9-1966) (Sup. Rec. Bk. 237, p. 116)
(A) The County Board shall instruct the County Auditor to record the amounts of all orders and contracts against the proper appropriations, as encumbrances, before these orders and contracts are placed with the vendor or contractor.
(B) The County Auditor shall be instructed to place no order which brings the total of expenditures and encumbrances of all sorts against an appropriation to an amount exceeding the total of the appropriation, but shall return all orders to the proper committee, notifying the committee that the order is in excess of its appropriation.
(C) No person or committee shall place an order or make a contract which shall be chargeable against the county or any funds of the county, without passing this order or contract into the hands of the County Auditor who shall handle this order as described above.
(D) Any person making any contract or placing any order, without presenting the contract or order to the County Auditor to be charged against the appropriation and checked with the appropriation for overexpenditures, shall by the action assume full liability for the amount of the order or contract.
(E) The Finance Committee of the County Board shall be instructed to indicate the person or committee responsible for the expenditure of each part of the appropriation ordinance, and to inform the members of the County Board of this designation of responsibility.
(F) No person or committee other than the indicated committee, shall be permitted to make charges or to incur liability against that appropriation.
(G) The designated committee or individual shall be held liable for over-expenditures of their appropriations.
(1980 Code, § 40.03) (1940 p. 400, adopted 12- -1940) (Sup. Rec. Bk. 220, pp. 301—302)
Cross-reference:
Approval of certain expenditures by County Board, see § 30.08
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