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1912

COMPILED ORDINANCES

OF THE

CITY OF DETROIT

CHAPTER 1.

OFFICIAL BONDS.

(As Amended May 21, 1901, and October 29, 1912.)

official bonds.

Section 1. Official bonds of officers of the city, unless other- Amounts of wise specially designated, shall be required in the following named amounts, to-wit: City Treasurer, two hundred thousand dollars; Commissioner of Public Works, fifty thousand dollars; City Controller, thirty thousand dollars; Superintendent of House of Correction, twenty-five thousand dollars; Deputy City Controller and Deputy City Treasurer, twenty thousand dollars each; City Assessors and Clerk of the Recorder's Court, ten thousand dollars. each; Corporation Counsel, Chief Accountant, Deputy Clerks of Recorder's Court, Boiler Inspector, Assistant Boiler Inspectors, Inspector of Buildings, Secretary of Poor Commission and Superintendent of Poor Commission, five thousand dollars each; Secretary of Department of Buildings, three thousand five hundred dollars; City Clerk and Clerks of the Markets, three thousand dollars each; Deputy City Clerk, Clerk and Assistant Clerks of Police Court and City Physicians, two thousand dollars each; Gas Meter Inspector, Weighmasters, Pound Masters and Wood Inspectors and all officers of the Department of Buildings, except Inspector and Secretary, one thousand dollars each. (Approved October 29, 1912.)

Bonds given before entering

upon duties.

Sec. 2. Every officer aforesaid shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give bond in the penal sum provided and the surety thereon shall be such Guaranty or Indemnity Company, as shall have been awarded the contract with the city for supplying such guaranty. The premiums on said bonds shall be paid by the City of Detroit. On or about the first Monday in each year, the Controller shall advertise for five days in the official newspaper of Controller to the city for proposals for furnishing such bonds for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of July following. Such proposals

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advertise.

Surety Company bonds

only.

shall be opened by the Committee on Ways and Means of the Council on a day to be named in the advertisement, and by said committee submitted to the Council with such recommendations as said committee may choose to make, and the Common Council shall. award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. Provided, That the Common Council may reject all of said bids, and order a readvertisement: Provided, That if such surety company shall refuse to become surety for such officer aforesaid and such officer shall file a bond with any other guaranty or indemnity company as surety, which the Common Council shall approve, such bond shall be received, but no higher premium shall be paid than that speci fied in the contract aforesaid.

Hereafter no official bond shall be received or approved unless the surety thereon be a guaranty or indemnity company as herein. provided. (Approved May 21, 1901.)

CHAPTER 2.

Bond.

To report each day detailed statement of receipts to Controller.

Deposit daily all receipts.

Keep in vaults sinking fund securities.

CITY TREASURER.

(Approved July 13, 1871.)

Section 1. The City Treasurer shall give a bond, with two or more sufficient sureties, in such sum as the Common Council may by ordinance from time to time determine; which bond shall be approved of and conditioned as is now or hereafter may be required by law, and which shall be deposited with the City Clerk.

Sec. 2. He shall, on the evening of each day, report under oath to the City Controller a statement in detail of the entire amount of his receipts from all sources, subsequent to the last item in his preceding statement, and also showing the sources from which and the account on which the same was received, and also the disbursements made by him during the day. The Controller shall thereupon examine said reports and report to the Council on Tuesday of each week such facts in relation thereto as he may deem necessary, and shall transmit said reports with his approval or disapproval thereon, to said Common Council.

Sec. 3. The City Treasurer shall deposit daily his entire receipts from all sources, and all money and checks on hand, to the credit of the City of Detroit, in such bank as may be designated by the Common Council as the depository of the funds of the city. He shall also deposit, in the vaults of some reliable trust security or safe deposit company of the City of Detroit, to be designated by the Common Council, all moneys, bonds and other securities held by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, which last shall be

made special deposits and shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope, having indorsed thereon a memorandum of its contents, and which, so sealed and indorsed, shall be placed in a metal box with a secure lock, to be provided by the city, and marked "Detroit Sinking Fund." All such special deposits shall be made and held subject to the order of the Mayor, Controller and Treasurer of the City of Detroit. (As amended July 12, 1882.)

Sec. 4. He shall pay out no money save by his check upon said bank, except his ordinary disbursements on pay rolls of city officers and city laborers; and such check, to render it valid, shall have written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, upon the same paper, therewith a duplicate of the warrant of the Controller, authorizing or requiring the payment of the sum thereby drawn for. All warrants drawn by the Controller upon the Treasurer for the payment of money shall be drawn and signed in duplicate, one of which shall have written or printed upon its face the word "original," which shall be kept and filed in his office by the Treasurer; and the other of which shall have written or printed on its face the word "duplicate," which last shall be and remain unsevered from the check of the Treasurer: Provided, however, and it is expressly ordained, That all moneys belonging to the "Board of Education of the City of Detroit," and to the "Detroit Metro- . politan Police Fund," shall be drawn and paid out by said Treasurer in such mode and manner as shall be prescribed by said Board, and the Board of Police Commissioners, in conformity with the law.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Ways and Means to examine, at least once in each month, the books, papers, vouchers, securities, deposits and disbursements of the said Treasurer, and in case they find any defalcation, discrepancy or irregularity in the same, to at once notify his bondsmen thereof, and also to report the same to the Council at the next session.

Sec. 6. The Controller shall keep in his office a book for the registration of receipts of all moneys paid into the office of the City Treasurer and shall countersign the same. He shall also keep a book showing the receipts and disbursements of each day in detail. (Approved February 27, 1912.)

Sec. 7. Whenever the Common Council shall have directed the City Controller to draw his warrant on the Street Opening Fund in favor of the City Treasurer for any sum or sums for the payment of awards of a jury in the matter of opening a street or an alley, the City Treasurer shall, upon receipt thereof, deposit such sum in the city depository to the credit of a fund to be known as the Street Opening Award Fund, and no money shall be paid out of said Street Opening Award Fund except upon the check of said City Treasurer, countersigned by the City Controller. And it shall be the duty of the City Controller to keep an account of said fund,

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