§ 14. Cash basis fund set up; transfer of sums from cash basis fund to other funds.

The council may by ordinance create and maintain a permanent revolving fund to be known as the cash basis fund, for the purpose of putting the payment of the running expenses of the city on a cash basis. For this purpose the council may provide that from the money collected from the annual tax levy, and from the money received from other sources, a sum equal to not less than two and one-half cents ($.02½) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of the assessed value of said property shall be placed in such fund until the accumulated amount of such fund shall be sufficient to meet all legal demands against the treasury for the first four (4) months or other necessary period of the succeeding fiscal year.

The council shall have the power to transfer from the cash basis fund to any other fund or funds such sum or sums as may be required for the purpose of placing such fund or funds, as nearly as possible, on a cash basis. It shall be the duty of the council to provide that all moneys so transferred from the cash basis fund shall be returned thereto before the end of the fiscal year.