(a) The funds of the municipality may be paid out of a depository only at the direction of a designated officer.
(b) Except as provided in Subsection (g), a designated officer may draw a check on a depository only on a warrant signed by the mayor and attested by the secretary of the municipality.

(c) If there is sufficient money in a fund in a depository against which the proper authority has drawn a warrant, the designated officer on presentation of the warrant shall draw a check on the depository in favor of the legal holder of the warrant, retain the warrant, and charge the warrant against the fund on which it is drawn. The designated officer may not draw a warrant on a fund in a depository unless the fund has sufficient money to pay the warrant.
(d) A designated officer may not draw a check on any funds designated in the depository services contract as time deposits until notice has been given and the notice period has expired under the terms of the contract with the depository.
(e) The mayor and secretary of the municipality may not draw a warrant on a special fund in a depository or under the control of the designated officer that was created to pay the bonded indebtedness of the municipality other than to pay the principal of or interest on the indebtedness or to invest the fund as provided by law.
(f) The designated officer may not pay or draw a check to pay money out of a special fund that was created to pay the bonded indebtedness of the municipality other than to pay the principal of or interest on the indebtedness or to invest the fund as provided by law.
(g) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections (b) through (f), the governing body of a municipality may adopt procedures:
(1) governing the method by which the designated officer is authorized to direct payments from the funds of the municipality on deposit with a depository;
(2) governing the method of payment of obligations of the municipality, including payment by check, draft, wire transfer, or other method of payment mutually acceptable to the municipality and the depository; and
(3) the governing body determines are necessary to ensure the safety and integrity of the payment process.
(h) If a municipality adopts procedures in accordance with Subsection (g), a copy of the adopted procedures shall be filed with the depository. The designated officer and the depository shall agree upon record-keeping safeguards and other measures necessary to ensure the safety and integrity of the payment process. The safeguards must be approved by the governing body of the municipality if the governing body finds that the safeguards are consistent with and do not contravene the procedures adopted under Subsection (g).