Sec. 159. - Certificate of auditor.

No contract, agreement, or other obligation, involving the expenditure of money, shall
               be entered into, nor shall any ordinance, resolution, or order for the expenditure
               of money be passed by the council, or be authorized by any officer of the city, unless
               the auditor first certify to the council or the proper officer, as the case may be,
               that the money required for such contract, agreement, obligation or expenditure, is
               in the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which it is to be drawn, and not appropriated
               for any other purpose, which certificate shall be filed and immediately recorded.
               The sum so certified shall not thereafter be considered unappropriated until the city
               is discharged from the contract agreement or obligation. Provided, however, that when
               the United States of America, the State of Ohio, or any political subdivision thereof
               makes a grant of money to the City of Columbus, or enters into an agreement with the
               City of Columbus for the making of any such grant of money, the amount thereof is
               deemed appropriated for such purpose, and is deemed in the process of collection within
               the meaning of Section 160 of this Charter. Provided, further, that whenever the City of Columbus enters into
               a contract with the United States of America, the State of Ohio, or a political subdivision
               thereof which entails a continuing financial obligation covering a period of more
               than one year, the City of Columbus must appropriate and the auditor must certify
               only that amount of money necessary to satisfy the current yearly obligation of the
               aforementioned contract.
               
            
               (Adopted 11-2-71.)