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HomeMy WebLinkAbout124 - Office of Manager of the Municipal Gas Distributing SystemORDIN.1NCE 124 An ordinance of the Cijry of Newport Beach establishing the office of Manager of the Municipal Gas Distributing System,prescribing his duties fixing the amount of bond and form thereof, the term of employment and the compensation to be paid. The Board of Trustees of the City of Newport Beach, do ordain as follower SECTIONI. The office of manager of the Municipal Gas Distributing System is here- by created in and fot the City of Newport Beach. SECTION 2. The Board of 'Trustees may appoint a competent person to fill the office hereby created by Section 1, and the person so appointed shall dischargelt the duties thereof during his incumbency. Any person appointed to said office shall serve onl;; during the pleasure of the Board'of Trustees, and may at any time by a vote of the majority of the members thereof be removed and thereupon the employment and compensation of any person in said office shall immediately cease. SJ902 2f 3. Any person appointed to fill said office so long as he shall discharge the duties thereof shall receive a compensationfor his services the sum of $80.00 per month payable monthly out of the Gas Distributing System Funds and at the same time and in the same manneras other salaries of the City of Newport Beach are paid. SECTION 4. Every person appointed to fill the office of Manager of the Municipal Gas Distributing System of the City of Newport Beach shall, before such person enters upon his duties thereof,execute to the City of Newport Beach a bond -. to be approved by the Board of Trusteesof the City of Newport Beach with two sufficent sureties in the penal sum of $500.00 conditional for the faithful performance of his official duties as prescribed by this ordinance, together wiyh such other duties as the Board of `rustees may from time to time by resolution prescribe, and require of him to be performed, which bond shall be filed with the Clerk. SECTION 5. It shall be the official duty of any person appointed to fill the said office, so long as such person shall remain in said office, to *ake charge of manage and control all clerical work appertaining to the gas distributing system of the City of Newport Beach; he shall open and neatly and correctly keep a complete set and system of books, showin)z all receipts and expenditures in the acquisition and constuction of said system, andin the maintenance, use and operation thereof. He shall make out all statements of gas used by consumers collect all money belonging to the pity of Newport Beach, by virture of the use and operation of said system, and shall deposit the same as often as once each week with the 'Treasurer of the Uity of Newport Beach and shall demand and re- ceive from the Treasurer duplicate receipt for all money so.de„osited, signed by the 'Treasurer, one of which he shall retain, and immediately file the other with the clerk of the City of Newnort Beach. N o payments to the Treasurer or settlement with him shall be deemed complete untilone of said duplicate= re- receipts shallbe filed with said Clerk. The said person shall also take charge of the said gas distributing system including the installation, maintenance, repairs, and operation of all apparatus and appliances owned by the City of luewport Beach for receiving gas and supplying and furnishing the same to consumers, and the registration of the quanity of gas used, and shall at all times be responsible for the prompt, efficient and economiccal management and operation of said gas distributing system. The Said person shall personally investigate all maters of complaint sKtd:xgasxt±Xtxa in"Xz:k>a4xrwkxaka1i made to him in writing concerning said gas distributing system, and shall promptly rectify anjr just cause of complaint and shall further investigate, pass upon, and approved or disapprovelt each and every claim madeupon the City of Newport Beach concerning said gas distribu- ting system including all demands for gas furnished or for material or labor used and employed therein or otherwise. The said person shall, prior to the hour of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of 1Jewport Beach on the first ;,Ionday of each month, make up and sign a full and detailed report concerning said gas distributing system for the preceding month, which report shallset forth and show all moneys received by him, and the general source thereof, the date of each settlement withthe Treasurer, and the amount deposited, the total amount of a:as received, the total amount consumed, the total amount of mono,. paid outfor gas, the total amount of money received for gas consumed, the amount of money due the City of Newport Beach for gas consumed, the names of consumers who are delinquent more than thirty days in the payment for gas consumed and furnished, the amount of money expended or for which. the City of Necmort leach has become obligated, and a statement showing for what said money was expended or for what the said City h has become obligated. The said person shall also immediately prepare and at all times keep revised up to date a full. true and correct inventory of all proper - ORDINAIM #1124 Continued. municipal ^_s distributing system. SECTIOIT 6. TUis ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty days after its final passage, and in the mean time it shall be printed and published xxnxxtn once in the NewportzRxxx3¢ Dews, a newspaper of general circulation printed, published and circulr:ted in the City of Nevmort Beach. The above and foregoing ordinance ?124 was passed and allppted at a r gular meeting of the 3oard of 'Trustees of the City of Newport Beach held on the 12th. day of June 1916 and on said day was signed and approvedby the president of the Board of trustees the same being passed by the affirmative of the following named members of said Board of `Trustees, to wit: Ayes, Trustees S.R.Jumper, Glenn Helms, G.P.'.Vilson, H.A. Robinson,J.C.LIcCein. Noes, !tone. Absent, Uoneq The above ordinance ;124 is approved by me this 12th. day of June 1916. Attest: President of the Board of Trustees, City of Newport Beach. Clerk of the City of Newport Beach. I, C.'";.Crego, Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance is a true and correct copy of an ordinanc of the Cite of iTewport Beach, number124 and entitled " An ordinance of the City mf Dewport Beach establishing the office of Hanager of the Municipal Gas Distributing System, prescribing his duties, fixing the amount of bond and form thereof, the term of employment and the compensation to be paid." And that said ordinance he.s been printed and published according to law. Clerk of the City of Newport Beac .