7-6-4221. Filing of estimate of revenues and expenses with clerk -- exception. (1) Before July 1 of each year, the clerk of each city shall notify in writing each official in charge of an office, department, service, or institution of the municipality to file with the clerk, before July 10, detailed and itemized estimates, both of the probable revenues from sources other than taxation and of all expenditures required by the office, department, service, or institution for the current fiscal year.
     (2) (a) The council shall submit to the clerk the estimate of expenditures for all purposes for the council. The council shall also submit to the clerk detailed estimates of all expenditures for construction or improvement purposes proposed to be made from the proceeds of bond issues not yet authorized and from the proceeds of tax levies that are required to be submitted and approved at an election to be held.
     (b) The mayor of the municipality shall submit to the clerk a detailed estimate showing the amount to be appropriated from funds belonging to the municipality to defray the municipality's portion of the cost of making improvements in special improvement districts and maintaining them and of installing lighting systems in special lighting districts and maintaining them.
     (c) The city treasurer shall prepare the estimates for interest and debt reduction.
     (d) The clerk shall prepare all other estimates that properly fall within the duties of the clerk's office.
     (3) The estimates required in this section must be submitted on forms provided by the clerk and prescribed by the department of commerce. The form may be varied or departed from only with permission and approval of the department. Each of the officials shall file the estimates within the time and in the manner provided in the form and notice.
     (4) In the absence or disability of an official, the duties required in this section or 7-6-4223 devolve upon the official or employee in charge of the office, department, service, or institution for the time being.
     (5) This section does not apply to a city that has adopted the alternative accounting method provided for in Title 7, chapter 6, part 6.

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 121, L. 1931; re-en. Sec. 5083.3, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 49, Ch. 348, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 213, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 11-1403(part); amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 274, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 287, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 51, Ch. 430, L. 1995.