A. Any claim for salaries and wages of District officers and employees shall be presented to the Auditor in the number and on the forms prescribed by the Auditor. The claim shall be certified by the head of the department or office in which the officer or employee is employed.

B. Any claim for mileage, travel and other expenses of District employees shall be presented to the Auditor on forms prescribed by the Auditor. The claim shall be signed by the claimant and certified by the head of the department or office whose appropriations are charged with the expenditure.

C. Any claim for transportation of District officers or employees, or other authorized persons, payable to public carriers, shall be presented to the Auditor on forms prescribed by the Auditor. The claims shall be certified by the officer whose appropriations are charged with the expenditure.

D. Any claim for principal or interest shall be based solely upon presentation of the matured bond, interest coupon, or other evidences of indebtedness.

E. Any claim by the State or a department or agency of or by another public entity relating to a cause of action for death or for injury to person or to personal property or growing crops shall be presented to the Clerk of the District. Any other claim by the State or a department or agency thereof or by another public entity shall be presented to the Auditor on forms prescribed by the Auditor and such claim shall be certified by the officer directing the expenditure, where appropriate.

F. Wherever in this section certification of a claim is required to be made by the head of a department or office, it shall be deemed to include certification by his designated subordinate; wherever in this section certification is required on a claim, the claimant shall present the claim to the designated officer for certification before presentation to the Auditor or Risk Manager, but if within ten days after presentation to such officer the officer has failed or refused to certify the claim, the claimant may present the uncertified claim to the Auditor or Risk Manager, including thereon an appropriate notation showing presentation to the designated officer and his failure or refusal to certify.

G. As an alternative procedure to that specified in this section for the filing of any of the foregoing claims, any claimant of a claim under this chapter may file such claim with the Clerk of the District on the form provided by the Auditor or risk manager but need not obtain certification of the claim prior to such filing.

H. Whenever, as prescribed in subsection A of this section, certification of a claim is required to be made by the head of a department or office for salaries and wages of County officers and employees and a state of extreme emergency, state of disaster, or state of local disaster exists as defined in Chapter 2.26 of this code, including an emergency resulting from a labor controversy, during the period of such state of extreme emergency, state of disaster, or state of local disaster, including an emergency resulting from a labor controversy, it will be presumed in absence of receipt by the Auditor of information to the contrary that no change in the payroll status of the County officers and employees in the department or office has occurred and that work by the officers and employees has been performed during normal working hours. In such event, salaries and wages of such County officers and employees may be paid without a certification of a claim from the head of the Department or office as otherwise provided. Any amounts paid in excess of salaries and wages due and owing to such County officers and employees by reason of this provision shall be recovered by the County from such County officers and employees in the same manner as other overpayments for salaries and wages are recovered. (Ord. 115 §1, 2006)