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DES:djk 06/19/90 (003/8) Expenditures made, liabilities incurred, or warrants issued in excess of any of the budget appropriations as originally approved or as thereafter increased or decreased shall not constitute an obligation or liability of the City. Any official making or incurring such expenditures in an amount known to him or her to be in excess of the available balance of the appropriation against which it is drawn, shall be liable therefor upon his or her official bond. The City Manager and the City Council shall approve no claims and the Director of Finance shall issue no warrant or check for any expenditure in excess of existing appropriations except on an order of a Court of competent jurisdiction or for an emergency as herein provided. SECTION 5. Emergency Expenditures. Upon the happening of any emergency caused by fire, flood, explosion, storm, earthquake, epidemic, riot or insurrection, or for the immediate preservation of public order, peace, health or safety, or for the restoration to a condition of usefulness of any public property, the usefulness of which has been destroyed by accident or Act of God, or for the relief of an area stricken by calamity, or to meet monetary expenditure required by law, the City Council may, upon 2/3rds vote of the members present at any regular, adjourned or special meeting, adopt a resolution stating the facts constituting the emergency, thereby making the expenditure necessary to meet such emergency. All emergency expenditures shall be paid by warrant or check from any fund properly chargeable therewith and the Director of Finance is hereby authorized and directed to pay such warrants. 4 2024 ¡ ,-"._-,...>.,..