A municipality shall establish funds consistent with legal and operating requirements. Each municipality shall maintain according to its own needs some or all of the following funds or ledgers in its system of accounts:

1. A general fund, to account for all monies received and disbursed for general municipal government purposes, including all assets, liabilities, reserves, fund balances, revenues and expenditures which are not accounted for in any other fund or special ledger account. All monies received by the municipality under the motor fuel tax or under the motor vehicle license and registration tax and earmarked for the street and alley fund may be deposited in the general fund and accounted for as a "street and alley account" within the general fund. Expenditures from this account shall be made as earmarked and provided by law. All references to the street and alley fund or to the special fund earmarked for state-shared gasoline and motor vehicle taxes may mean the street and alley account provided in this section;

2. Special revenue funds, as required, to account for the proceeds of specific revenue sources that are restricted by law to expenditures for specified purposes;

3. Debt service fund, which shall include the municipal sinking fund, established to account for the retirement of general obligation bonds or other long-term debt and payment of interest thereon and judgments as provided by law. Any monies pledged to service general obligation bonds or other long-term debt must be deposited in the debt service fund;

4. Capital project funds, to account for financial resources segregated for acquisition, construction or other improvement related to capital facilities other than those accounted for in enterprise funds and nonexpendable trust funds;

5. Enterprise funds, to account for each utility or enterprise or other service, other than those operated as a department of the general fund, where the costs are financed primarily through user charges or where there is a periodic need to determine revenues earned, expenses incurred or net income for a service or program;

6. Trust and agency funds, to account for assets held by the municipality as trustee or agent for individuals, private organizations or other governmental units or purposes, such as a retirement fund or a cemetery perpetual care fund;

7. Internal service funds, to account for the financing of goods or services provided by one department or agency of the municipality to another department or agency, or to another government, on a cost reimbursement basis;

8. A ledger or group of accounts in which to record the details relating to the general fixed assets of the municipality;

9. A ledger or group of accounts in which to record the details relating to the general bonds or other long-term debt of the municipality; or

10. Such other funds or ledgers as may be established by the governing body.

Laws 1979, c. 111, § 12; Laws 1991, c. 124, § 10, eff. July 1, 1991.