The City Treasurer.
Section 26
SEC. 26. The City Treasurer.—His powers and duties.— There shall be a City Treasurer and one Assistant City Treasurer who shall have charge of the department of finance and shall act as the chief fiscal officer and financial adviser of the City and custodian of its funds. The City Treasurer and the Assistant City Treasurer shall receive a compensation as provided for by existing laws. The City Treasurer shall have the following general powers and duties: (a) He shall collect all taxes due the city, all licenses authorized by law or ordinances, all rents due for lands, markets and other property owned by the city, and all further charges of whatever nature fixed by law or ordinance; shall administer markets and slaughterhouses, and shall receive and issue receipt for all costs, fees, fines and forfeitures imposed by the municipal court. (b) He shall collect all miscellaneous charges made by the engineering department and by the other departments of the city government, and all charges made by the city engineer for inspections, permits, licenses, and the installations, maintenance, and services rendered in the operation of the privy system. (c) He shall collect, as deputy of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, by himself or deputies, all taxes and charges imposed by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines upon persons or property in the city, depositing daily such collections in any depository bank of the government. (d) Unless otherwise specifically provided by law or resolution, he shall perform in and for the city the duties imposed by law or resolution upon provincial treasurers in general as well as other duties imposed upon him by law. (e) He shall purchase and issue all supplies, equipments or other property required by the city, through the purchasing agent, or otherwise, as may be authorized, subject to the general provisions of law relating thereto. (f) He shall be accountable for all funds and property of the city and shall render such accounts in connection therewith as may be prescribed by the Auditor General. (g) He shall deposit daily all city funds and collections in any bank duly designated as Government depository. (h) He shall disburse the funds of the city in accordance with duly authorized appropriations, upon properly executed vouchers bearing the approval of the Mayor, and/ or before the twentieth day of each month he shall furnish the Mayor and the Municipal Board, for their information, a statement of the appropriation, expenditures, and balances of all funds and accounts as of the last day of the month preceding.