Section 34
SEC. 34. The city treasurer, his powers and duties. -There shall be a City Treasurer who shall have charge of the Finance Department and shall act as chief fiscal officer and financial adviser of the city and custodian of its funds. He shall have the following general powers and duties: He shall collect all taxes due the city, all license s authorized by law or ordinance, all rents due for lands, markets, and other property owned by the city, all further charges of whatever nature fixed by law or ordinance, and shall receive and issue receipt for all costs, fees, fines, and forfeitures imposed by the city court from the clerk thereof and the fees collected by the sheriff or his deputies. He shall collect all miscellaneous charges made by the Engineering Department and by other departments of the city government, and all charges made by the city engineer for inspections, licenses, and the installation, main, maintenance, and services rendered in the operation of the private privy system. Unless otherwise specifically provided by law or regulations, he shall perform in and for the city the duties imposed by law or regulation upon provincial treasurers generally as well as the other duties imposed upon him by law. He shall purchase and issue all supplies, equipment or other property required by the city as may be authorized, subject to the general provisions of law relating thereto. 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. He shall deposit daily all municipal funds and collections in any bank duly designated as Government depository. He shall disburse the funds of the city in accordance with duly authorized appropriations, upon properly executed vouchers bearing the approval of the chief of the department concerned, and on or before the twentieth day of each month he shall furnish the Mayor and the City Board for their administrative information a statement of the appropriation, expenditures and balances of all funds and accounts as of the last day of the month preceding.