Riverside Municipal Code Ch. 3.28 Warrants

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Editor's note— For Charter provisions pertaining to the registration of warrants, see Char. § 1112.

For the purposes of this chapter, the word "controller" means the Controller of the City; the word "treasurer" means the Chief Financial Officer of the City; the word "warrant" means any claim or demand against the Treasury of the City, or the City, or any department or fund thereof, which has been audited and approved for payment.

Registered warrants are expressly excluded from the definition of "warrant" and from the operation of this chapter.

The date which a warrant bears shall be deemed to be the date when it was issued and was payable.

(Ord. 7341 § 3, 2016; Prior code § 2.1)

The Controller is authorized and directed to cancel each warrant issued and payable on or after January 1, 1950, which is not presented to the Chief Financial Officer for payment on or before the thirty-first day of December of the second calendar year immediately following the calendar year during which it was issued. The entire calendar year during which the warrant was issued shall be excluded from the computation of time within which a warrant must be presented for payment.

(Ord. 7341 § 3, 2016; Prior code § 2.2)

The Chief Financial Officer shall refuse payment of each warrant which has been cancelled or should be cancelled for failure of presentation for payment as provided in Section 3.28.020. The Chief Financial Officer shall not incur any liability in person or on his official bond by reason of payment of any warrant which has been cancelled or which should have been cancelled as provided in Section 3.28.020, if such payment was the result of accident, inadvertence or excusable neglect.

(Ord. 7341 § 3, 2016; Prior code § 2.3)

The Controller shall prepare a list of cancelled warrants in duplicate annually and shall keep the original of the list in his office and furnish the Chief Financial Officer with the copy of such list. The record of cancelled warrants shall show the serial number of each warrant, together with the date when and the amount for which it was issued, the fund against which it was issued, the payee, and the date of cancellation.

Such cancellation shall be made on the record or register of claims, demands and warrants, and on the fact of any claim, demand or warrant in the possession of the Auditor.

(Ord. 7341 § 3, 2016; Prior code § 2.4)

The Treasurer shall keep a record of such cancelled warrants as may be presented to him for payment, and shall include the date of presentation for payment. Copies thereof shall be furnished to the Controller from time to time as requested.

(Ord. 7341 § 3, 2016; Prior code § 2.5)