(b) The fiscal officer is the head of the city department of finance. The fiscal officer shall do the following:

1. (1) Prescribe the form of reports and accounts to be submitted to the department.
2. (2) Sign and issue all warrants on the city treasury.
3. (3) Audit and revise all accounts and trusts in which the city is concerned.
4. (4) Keep separate accounts for each item of appropriation made for each city department, including a statement showing the amount drawn on each appropriation, the unpaid contracts charged against it, and the balance remaining.
5. (5) At the end of each fiscal year, submit under oath to the city legislative body a report of the accounts of the city published in pamphlet form and showing revenues, receipts, expenditures, and the sources of revenues.
6. (6) Maintain custody of the records of the department and turn them over to the fiscal officer's successor in office.
7. (7) Perform duties prescribed by statute concerning the negotiation of city bonds, notes, and warrants.
8. (8) Keep a register of bonds of the city and of transfers of those bonds.
9. (9) Manage the finances and accounts of the city and make investments of city money, subject to the ordinances of the legislative body.
10. (10) Issue city licenses on payment of the license fee.
11. (11) Collect fees as fixed by ordinance.
12. (12) Pay into the city treasury, once each week, all fees and other city money collected by the department during the preceding week, specifying the source of each item.
13. (13) Prescribe payroll and account forms for all city offices.
14. (14) Prescribe the manner in which salaries shall be drawn.
15. (15) Prescribe the manner in which creditors, officers, and employees shall be paid.
16. (16) Provide that all salaries are payable monthly, unless the legislative body establishes more frequent payments.
17. (17) Notify the city executive of the failure of any city officer to collect money due the city or to pay city money into the city treasury.

18. (18) Draw warrants on the city treasury for miscellaneous city expenditures not made under the direction of a department and not specifically fixed by statute.

    [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-1-6-10 part; 18-1-6-11 part; 18-1-6-12 part; 18-2-1-11 part.]

    As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.189-1988, SEC.3.