HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0161ORDINANCE 140. 1 C
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LY -NWOOD REGULATING
THE PRESENTATIONS OF CL•AIIVIS OR DEMANDS AND THE
PREPARATION. OF WARRANTS, AND REPEAL ING'ORDIN
ONCE NO. 4 OF SAID CITY OF LYNl'dOOD.
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The C Council of the City of Lynwood do ordain
as follows
SECTION 1: That the Superintendent of the Water
Department,. Chief of Police, Fire Chief, City Clerk, City
Treasurer and the Superintendent of Streets shall on or be-
fore the first regular meeting of the City Council i.n.each
month and on or before the next regular meeting of each
month transmit to the City 'Clerk a list in duplicate of the
names of employees in their respective departments, together
with a record of the time.of the service of each employee,
from the first of the month to the-fifteenth of -'the month and
from the' fifteenth of ` the" month• ="to° °the•= en.d = -of -, the= monthi.re_
spectively for each of such reports,and department heads
shall include in said list a statement of any time during
v✓hich any employee was off duty and the cause thereof and
shall certify to the correctness of such reports.
SECTION 2: The City Clerk shall prepare one pay-
roll demand for each of said lists and upon the approval of
the warrant therefor by,the City Council, the City Clerk shall
transmit to the City Treasurer, the warrant, together with
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the duplicate payroll, upon which duplicate payroll the City
Clerk shall certify that the sane -is a true and correct copy
of the original payroll list attached to said warrant as ap-
orov,ed by the City Council, and the CityTreasurer shall there-
upon have authority to pay to each of the persons mentioned
on said duplicate payroll list, the amount specified thereon.
The City Clerk shall prepare separate demands for
the salary or gages of all officers or employees of the City
not specified in the lists above mentioned.
SECTION 3: All bills and payrolls after approval
by the various heads of departments above mentioned, shall
be transmitted to the City Clerk not later than Monday noon
prior to the meeting at which the same are presentable to
the Council as provided in this ordinance.
S ECTION 4: Claims against the City based upon
smitten contracts and all claims for goods, wares and mer-
chandise furnished to the City and for services rendered to
the City, not based upon written contracts, shall be presen-
ted in writing to the City Clerk. On receipt of such claims
the City Clerk shall transmit the same to the various depart-
ments for whom services are rendered or materials purchased,
and the head of such department shall return same to the
City Clerk with the endorsement thereon of the accuracy and
the correctness of the items thereon. Upon return of the
sane the City Clerk shall prepare warrants therefor for pre-
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sentation to the City Council, provided, however, that no
warrant for materials furnished to the City shall be prepared
by the C,ty Clerk unless there is attached thereto requisi-
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tions 'signed by the eammissioner having char e.of the Depart-
ment for which such materials were purchased, except in the
case of materials purchased out of a petty cash fund in the
(hands of some department head, in which latter case the war-
rant shall be prepared by the City Clerk and presented to
the C ty Council and shall have attached thereto the record
of disbursements out of said petty cash fund and certified
to the accuracy thereof by the particular department head, and
except claims of Utilities and disbursements by the Welfare
Committee and such other claims as in the discretion of the
City Clerk do not require requisitions attached thereto, which 1.
said claims shall be certified as to the accuracy thereof
by the particular department head against which the claim is
rendered.
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SECTION 5: All claims and demands, after approval
by the head of the Department for which materials were fur-
niched or services rendered., and before the authorization
of a warrant therefor by the City Council, shall be examined
by the Commissioner having supervision of said department,
and if the claim is a proper one, said commissioner shall
endorse his approval thereon.
SECTION 6: No warrant for materials furnished br
services rendered to the shall be presented by the
City Clerk to the City Council that was prepared contrary
to the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 7: All warrants in payment of claims and
demands against said City shall be signed, after approval by
the City Council, by the Mayor and counter- signed by the City
Clerk, and said warrants shall. thereupon constitute the City
Treasurer's authority to make payment of said claims and de-
mands against said City.
SECTION 8: No action shall be brought on any claim
for money or damages against the City of Lynwood or any of-
ficer thereof until a demazd'for the same has been resented
as herein provided and rejected in whole or in part. If re-
jected in part action may be brought to recover the whole.
All claims for damages against the City must be presented
within six months after the occurence from which the damages
arose and all other claims or demands shall be presented
within six months after the last item of the account or claim
occurred. No action shall be brought against said City or
any officer thereof upon any claims or demand that has been
in whole approved by the Council, provided,however, nothing
herein contained shall be construed to deprive the homer of
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.any demand of his right to resort to Writ of Mandamus or other
proceeding against the Council or Officer of said City to com-
pei it or him to act upon such claim or demand or to pay the
same when approved by the Council.
SECTION 9: This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30)
days after its final passage and approval.
SECTION 1 0: Ordinance No. 4 of said City of Lynwood
is hereby repealed.
SECTION 'll : The City shall certify to the pass-
age of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published
once in the Lynwood Tribune, a weekly newspaper of general cir-
culation, printed, published and circulated within said City of
Lynwood and which is
PASSED AND
APPROVED:
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CITY CLERn, CITY 0
hereby designated for that purpose.
ADOPTED this s6 day of / May, 1931.
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD.
F 'N11OOD.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS AT-GEL ss.
CITY OF LYNWOOD. )
I, R. W. Anderson, City Clerk_ of the .City of Lynti"rood,
California,-do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was
duly passed and adopted by the City Council of said City at a
regular session of said City Council, held on the
y6 9 day of May, 1931, and that the same was adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN:
y am ; NOES: COUNCILMEN:
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}?BSENT: COUNCILMEN
Alitness my ft and and the seal of said City this �L =
1931. _
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`,�" CITY CLERK, CITY. OF LYNWOOD.