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The City Manager shall recommend end~ the City Council shall consider and adopt by ordinance rules and regulations governing the contracting and purshaslng of all services, supplies, material, and equip- ment required by any office, department, agency, officer, or employee of tho City government. Section 422. COMPETITIVE BIDDING. Subject to the provisions of this Charter and rules and regulations prescribed by the City Council by ordinance, ample opportunity shall be given for competitive bidding before making purchases of, or contracts for, supplies, materials, or equipment. Section 423. INDEPENDENT AUDIT. Prior to the beginning of each fiscal year the City Council shall designate a qualified certified public accountant who shall make an independent audit of the accounts and other evidences of financial transactions of the Cityguvernment dur- ing the ensuing fiscal year and shall submit his report to the City Council and the City Manager at the end of such fiscal year. Three copies of his report shall be placed in tho office of the Clerk of tho Council where the copies of tho report shall be made available for inspection by the gen- eral public. Such certified public accountant shall have no personal interest, direct or indirect, in the fiscal affairs of the City government or of any of the officers of the City. Section 424. PUBLICATION OF Z.EGAL NOTICES. Ail ordinances finally adopted under the provisions of this Charter shall be published in tho English language by st least one insertion in the official newspaper as hereinsfter defined. In the event there is no official newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City, such ordinances and other legal notices pertaining to City affairs may be published by posting for at least ten days in at least three public places in the City within fifteen days after final adoption of the ordinances. No ordinance shall be valid or take effect without publication or posting, but no defect or irregularity in proceedings taken under this section, or failure to designate an official newspaper, shall invalidate any publication or post- ing where the same is otherv.,ise in conformity with this Charter or law or ordinance. In tho event there is more than one newspaper of general circula- tion published in the City, the City Council, annually, prior to the begin. ning of each fiscal year, shall publish · notice inviting bids and contracts for the publication of all legal notices or other matter required to be published, in a newspaper of general circulation published and circu- lated in said City during the ensuing fiscal year. In the event there is only one newspaper of general circulation published in the City, then the City Council shall have the power to contract for the ensuing fiscal year with such newspaper for the printing and publishing of such legal notices without being required to advertise for bids therefor. The news- paper with which the City Council makes a contract for the ensuing fiscal year shall be designated as the official newspaper for the publi- cation of ordinances and other legal notices and matters. ¸',4