§ 3-1-8. Payment of claims.

Subject to the provisions of subsection 1-1-1(c), no claim against the city shall be paid except those certified by the director of the appropriate department or his or her designee, and by means authorized by the director of finance. The director of finance shall cause to have examined all payrolls, bills and other claim and demands against the city and shall issue no payment unless he finds that the claim is in proper form, correctly computed and duly certified; and that it is justly and legally due and payable, that an appropriation has been made therefor which has not been exhausted, and that the payment has been otherwise legally authorized; and that there is money in the city treasury to make payment. He may require any claimant to make oath to the validity of a claim. He may investigate any claim, and for that purpose may examine witnesses under oath, and if he finds a claim to be fraudulent, erroneous or otherwise invalid, he shall not issue payment therefor.

(Laws of Fla. 1931, Ch. 15425, § 44; Ord. No. 17-98, § 1, 5-28-98; Ord. No. 16-10, § 32, 9-9-10)