§ 16.130. Generally.  


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  • The city finance officer shall keep such books and records as shall be convenient and necessary for the preservation of the accounts of all transactions and business of the city, and shall be the custodian of all instruments relating thereto, including those hereinafter referred to, unless by law, the charter, or ordinances of the city, the same are required or permitted to be kept elsewhere. Such deeds or other instruments involving title to property purchased by the city and agreements conferring any easement or right upon the city to the use of property, as are required to be filed for record, shall be so filed for record by the city finance officer, who shall pay any fee necessary for the recording or filing of such instruments from the fund hereinafter created. Upon the return of such instrument after its recording or filing, the same shall be retained by the city finance officer as a record of his office relating to a transaction of the city or its business, unless the same shall be by the charter or law of the state required to be deposited elsewhere. (Code 1960, As Amend., § 507.010; Pet. No. 249854, § 15, 7-14-89)