7-3-1315. Certification of certain obligations by finance director. (1) No contract, agreement, or other obligation, other than contracts pertaining to work or improvements to be paid for by special assessments, involving the expenditure of any funds shall be entered into nor shall any order for such expenditures be valid unless the director of finance shall first certify to the commission that the object or purpose for which such expenditure is to be made and the amount thereof is provided for by an appropriation in the annual budget or in a supplemental budget and that the same has not been expended. The certificate of the director of finance shall be filed and made a matter of record in his office, and the appropriation for such purpose shall thereafter be considered as having been set aside and expended to the amount of such contract, agreement, or obligation.
     (2) All contracts, agreements, or other obligations entered into, all ordinances and resolutions passed, and all orders adopted contrary to the provisions of subsection (1) shall be void, and no person whatever shall have any claim or demand against the municipality thereunder, nor shall the commission or any officer of the municipality waive or qualify the limitations fixed by subsection (1) or fasten upon the municipality any liability whatever in excess thereof.

     History: En. Secs. 62, 63, Ch. 121, L. 1923; re-en. Secs. 5520.63, 5520.64, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3503, 11-3504.