Vermont § 70 - Excess expenditures prohibited; assessments for street improvements credited to Streets Division of the Public Works Department

§ 70. Excess expenditures prohibited; assessments for street improvements credited to Streets Division of the Public Works Department

• (a) No superintendent, board, or commission member or corresponding executive officer
  of any City department, with the exception of the Health, Police, and Fire Departments,
  and then only in case of an emergency, shall expend any money or incur any obligation,
  unless there is an available appropriation from which the same may be paid and to
  which it may be charged, and shall not at any time expend any money or incur any obligation
  in excess of such appropriation. In case any such superintendent, board, or commission
  member or corresponding executive officer of any City department violates this provision,
  the City Chief Administrative Officer shall report such occurrence to the Mayor and
  to the City Council. The Mayor shall advise the City Council as to whether there was
  appropriate justification for such violation and if the Mayor and City Council agree
  that such violation was unjustified, the Mayor may recommend and the City Council
  may determine that the office shall thereupon become vacant and shall be forthwith
  filled for the unexpired term by the officials authorized to make the original appointment
  in such case. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the City Council
  to remove a duly-elected school commissioner or the Superintendent of Schools. (b) Except as otherwise provided by resolution of the City Council, all assessments for
  street improvements shall be credited to the Streets Division of the Public Works
  Department and be available to said Division as an appropriation for its use only
  when and as collected and paid to the Chief Administrative Officer. (Amended 1999, No. M-7, § 6, eff. May 19, 1999.)