Section 12-114. Fees paid to city  


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  • a. Every officer of the city government
      shall be paid a fixed salary and all fees, percentages or commissions or
      other money paid to such officer in his or her official capacity,  shall
      be  the  property  of  the  city.  All  sums so received, including sums
      received for licenses or permits, shall be paid over not later than  the
      next  succeeding business day after receipt thereof, except as otherwise
      provided by law, to the commissioner of finance without deduction.
        b.  Each  such  officer  who  shall  receive  any  fees,  perquisites,
      commissions  or percentages, or money paid to such officer in his or her
      official capacity, or any other money which should be paid over  to  the
      city,  shall  make a detailed return to the comptroller, under oath, and
      in such form as the comptroller shall prescribe, showing the  amount  of
      all  such fees, commissions, percentages, perquisites and money received
      by him or her since the last preceding statement and return, and showing
      when, from whom and for what reason such money was received.
        c. The comptroller may require any such officer to make such statement
      and return to him or her, if it has not been made  as  herein  provided,
      and  he  or  she shall order the commissioner of finance to withhold the
      salary of such officers until such return  is  produced,  and  upon  the
      production  of  said  return  the  comptroller shall immediately issue a
      release to the commissioner of finance for the salary so withheld.
        d. This section shall not apply to city marshals.