§ 2-45. Chief financial officer.

The mayor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the city council, a chief financial officer, who additionally shall serve as the municipal clerk as provided in MCA 1972 § 21-15-17 through 21-15-21, as amended, to administer and manage the finances of the city and to coordinate and direct the operation of the departments and functions of the municipal government assigned in section 2-46. The qualifications and experience for the position of chief financial officer shall be a person who has received a college or university degree from an accredited institution and who possesses at least four years of experience in accounting, financial management, auditing or management of an organization, business or governmental entity. The chief financial officer shall be responsible for the assigned departments and functions and answerable to the mayor for the performance of these duties and shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor. The chief financial officer, in addition to serving all of the function of municipal clerk, shall serve as treasurer, auditor, registrar and primary records custodian for the municipal government and shall be responsible for the duties vested in the municipal clerk under the laws of the State of Mississippi, including, but not limited to, the duties described in MCA 1972 §§ 21-15-19, 21-15-21, 21-23-11, 21-23-12, 21-33-27, 21-33-41, 21-33-47, 21-33-67, 21-35-11, 21-35-13, 21-39-05, 21-39-07, 21-29-13, 21-39-19, 21-41-13, 21-41-21 and those responsibilities of clerk and registrar assigned under the Mississippi Elections Code. The municipal court clerk will report to the chief financial officer for the purposes of operations, collection of fines, and management of the court clerks and staff.

(Ord. of 2-17-98, § 1; Ord. of 6-17-14(2))