Each fund shall be made up of accounts for classifying revenues and expenditures. Revenues shall be classified separately by source. Expenditures shall be departmentalized within each fund and shall be classified into at least the following accounts:
1. Personal services, which may include expenses for salaries, wages, per diem or other compensation, fees, allowances or reimbursement for travel expenses, and related employee benefits, paid to any officer or employee for services rendered or for employment. Employee benefits may include employer contributions to a retirement system, insurance, sick leave, terminal pay or similar benefits;
2. Materials and supplies, which may include articles and commodities which are consumed or materially altered when used, such as office supplies, operating supplies and repair and maintenance supplies, and all items of expense to any person, firm or corporation rendering a service in connection with repair, sale or trade of such articles or commodities;
3. Other services and charges, which may include all current expenses other than those listed in paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 5 or 6 of this section, such as services or charges for communications, transportation, advertising, printing or binding, insurance, public utility services, repairs and maintenance, rentals, miscellaneous items and all items of expenses to any person, firm or corporation rendering such services;
4. Capital outlays, which may include outlays which result in acquisition of or additions to fixed assets which are purchased by the municipality, including machinery and equipment, furniture, land, buildings, improvements other than buildings, and all construction, reconstruction, appurtenances or improvements to real property accomplished according to the conditions of a contract;
5. Debt service, which may include outlays in the form of debt principal payments, periodic interest payments, or related service charges for benefits received in part in prior fiscal periods as well as in current and future fiscal periods; and
6. Fund transfers, which may include permanent transfers of resources from one fund to another.
Added by Laws 1979, c. 111, § 13. Amended by Laws 1991, c. 124, § 11, eff. July 1, 1991; Laws 2002, c. 98, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.
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