Chapter 2.08
CLERK-TREASURER
Sections:
2.08.020 Termination of office of treasurer.
2.08.030 Clerk to take over duties of treasurer.
2.08.050 Treasurer to keep moneys – Records.
For statutory provisions authorizing the consolidation of the offices of clerk and treasurer, see RCW 35.27.180 and 35.27.190. For statutory provisions authorizing abandonment of consolidation and providing the means by which abandonment is accomplished, see RCW 35.27.200. For statutory provisions defining the duties of the treasurer, see RCW 35.27.170. For provisions defining the duties of the clerk, see RCW 35.27.220 and 35.27.230.
2.08.010 Duties – Bond.
In addition to those duties prescribed by law for the city clerk it shall be his duty to keep the corporate seal and all papers and documents belonging to the city of Westport, to file them in his office under appropriate heads; to attend the sittings of the council and to keep a journal of their proceedings and a report of all their resolutions and ordinances; to sign all warrants and licenses issued in pursuance of the orders and ordinances of the council and to affix the corporate seal on all such licenses; to sign all deeds, leases, contracts, bonds and other documents when authorized by the council; to keep an appropriate account in a suitable book under appropriate heads of all expenditures and all orders drawn of the treasurer and all warrants issued in pursuance thereof; he shall also issue all licenses and keep in an appropriate book an account of all licenses issued with the names of the persons to whom issued, the date of their issuance, the time for which the same were granted and the sum paid therefor, and perform such other duties as he may be required to perform by the ordinances of the town of Westport. Before entering upon the duties of his office he shall execute and deliver to the town a good and sufficient bond in the sum of $5,000. (Ord. 4 § 1, 1914)
2.08.020 Termination of office of treasurer.
From and after June 7, 1948, the elective office of town treasurer within the town of Westport shall be terminated. (Ord. 209 § 1, 1948)
2.08.030 Clerk to take over duties of treasurer.
Any and all duties which prior to this time have been performed by the town treasurer shall hereafter be performed by the town clerk in addition to such other duties as the town clerk already may have had. (Ord. 209 § 2, 1948)
2.08.040 Salary.
The salary of the town clerk-treasurer shall be in a sum to be fixed by the town council from time to time. (Ord. 393 § 1, 1971; Ord. 209 § 3, 1948)
2.08.050 Treasurer to keep moneys – Records.
It shall be the duty of the city treasurer to receive and safely keep all moneys belonging to the town of Westport from whatever source derived; to place the same to the credit of the different funds to which they properly belong in a book kept for that purpose; to distribute said money by the direction of the town council and in accordance with the provisions made by them under the provisions of this chapter or any other provisions of the town; and to make quarterly reports to the council of the condition of the treasury. He shall keep a set of books for the town in which shall be set forth in a plain and business-like manner every moneyed transaction of the town so that he can at any time tell the exact condition of the town’s finances. He shall also issue a call for outstanding warrants of any fund upon which warrants have been previously drawn, whenever there may be funds in the treasury to pay any or all of such warrants; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed as authorizing or permitting the payment of warrants by the treasurer in any other form or manner than in the order of their number of issue against the fund. Such calls shall be made by publication in the official newspaper of the town for the period of one week and interest upon any such warrants shall cease on date of such call. Before entering upon the duties of his office he shall execute and deliver to the town a bond in the penal sum of $50,000. (Ord. 669, 1981; Ord. 4 § 2, 1914)