13-2420. Same; manager of collections and accounts; appointment; qualifications; duties; reports; salary; bond; assistants; bonds.
The waterworks board may appoint a manager of collections and accounts, who shall be an experienced accountant, and it shall be the manager's duty to keep a regular set of books for the water plant, showing in detail the business transactions of said plant. The manager's term of office shall be during the pleasure of said board, and he or she shall have general supervision and charge of all office employees of said department under the direction of the waterworks board. It shall be the manager's duty immediately following the close of each month to make a complete report to the waterworks board, and to the governing body of said city, showing the transactions of the preceding month and the financial condition of the water department. Such report shall also include a correct account of all collections, appropriations, expenditures and approved claims entitled to payment.
The salary of the manager of collections and accounts shall be fixed by the waterworks board, and he or she shall give a good and sufficient surety company bond in a sum to be fixed by the waterworks board, conditioned for the faithful performance of duties and for a true and faithful accounting of all moneys that may come into the manager's hands by reason of his or her position. Cost of said bond shall be paid out of revenue of said department. The waterworks board may appoint such assistants to the manager of collections and accounts as they deem necessary, and when the duties of said assistants require them to receive and receipt for moneys said board shall require said assistants to give a good and sufficient surety company bond, the sum of which in each case shall be fixed by said board, conditioned for the faithful performance of said assistants' duties and for a true and faithful accounting of all moneys that may come into said assistants' hands by reason of their position. The cost of said bonds shall be paid out of the revenue of said department.
History: L. 1937, ch. 143, § 7; March 16.