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HomeMy Public PortalAbout00001 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1 AN ORDINANCE to provide the method of drawing vouchers on the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County for payment of expenses incurred by the Board of Trustees prior to July 1, 1954. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT: Section One. All expenses incurred by the Board of Trustees prior to July 1, 1954, shall be billed to the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District in duplicate. Upon receipt of any bill, the Acting Secretary-Treasurer, or the Secretary- Treasurer as the case maybe, shall examine the same, and if he finds it to be correct, shall draw two vouchers, each for one half of such bill, one upon the City of St. Louis and one upon St. Louis County. Section Two.. The vouchers drawn in accordance with Section One of this ordinance shall be on forms showing the date, the amount of the bill, to whom it is payable, for what purpose the expenditure was made, and shall bear the certificate of the Acting Secretary-Treasurer or the Secretary-Treasurer that the bill is correct, that the expenditure was authorized and necessary, and that it had not been previously certified in whole or in part. Section Three. The Temporary Chairman of the Board of Trustees shall certify the appointment of the Acting Secretary- Treasurer to the Comptroller of the City of St. Louis and to the County Auditor of St. Louis County, together with the certified signature of the Acting Secretary-Treasurer, and a certified copy of this ordinance. Upon the appointment of a permanent Secretary- Treasurer, the Temporary Chairman of the Board or Chairman of the Board, as the case maybe, shall make like certification of such fact, and the authority of the Acting Secretary-Treasurer to draw vouchers shall immediately cease and determine. Section Four. By reason of the fact that it will be impossible for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District to function without any method for paying its obligations, an emergency exists within the meaning of the Plan, and this ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its enactment. 3 The foregoing Ordinance was adopted April 5, 1954.