Recorder

Section 34.

The recorder is the clerical and accounting officer of the city. He is the clerk of the council. His name of office shall be "recorder of Falls City." He shall keep a fair and correct journal of the proceedings of the council, and file and keep all papers and books connected with the business of the council. He shall keep proper books of account, showing therein all sums appropriated, the date thereof, and out of what fund, the date of all warrants, and the amount thereof drawn thereon, and to whom payable; and he shall do all other things that may be prescribed by ordinance or are proper and necessary to a correct understanding of the city's finance. Such books and papers are city property, and must be safely kept as such, subject to inspection at any time by a committee of the council, and must be delivered to his successor in office.

Section 35.

All demands and accounts against the city shall be presented to the recorder, with the necessary evidence in support thereof, and he shall audit the same and report them to the council with all convenient speed, together with any suggestions or explanations which he may deem proper and pertinent; and when the council shall order any demand or account to be paid, the recorder must draw a warrant upon the treasurer for the amount ordered to be paid, which warrant must be drawn on the general or special fund applicable to the payment thereof, and must be signed by the mayor and attested by the recorder. No warrants shall draw interest until being presented to the treasurer and indorsed "not paid for want of funds," and interest shall cease after publication of notice that funds have been provided. The recorder must issue all licenses authorized by ordinance, upon the delivery to him of the money or a receipt of the treasurer for the amount of money required for such license, and the filing with him of an approved bond when a bond shall be required by ordinance. The recorder and municipal judge are authorized to administer any oath, take any deposition, or any acknowledgment to any instrument authorized or required to be taken by any law of this state, or by city ordinance. The recorder and municipal judge shall perform all the duties required of them by this act and by the ordinances of the city. The municipal judge is the judicial officer of the city, and shall hold a court therein at such place as the council shall provide, which shall be known as the municipal court; and he has jurisdiction of all misdemeanors defined and made punishable by ordinance, and of all actions brought to enforce payment on any bond running if favor of the city, or to recover or to enforce any forfeiture or penalty declared or given by any such ordinance, when the amount thereof, exclusive of interest and cost shall not exceed $500, and he shall have full power to enforce any such judgment he may render, and to issue a transcript thereof to the Circuit Court for the State of Oregon in the County of Polk. Whereupon such judgment shall be entered by the clerk of said Court in the lien docket thereof, and said judgment shall henceforth be of the same force and effect, and may be enforced in the same manner as judgments of the said Circuit Court.