Chapter 3.20
CLAIMS AND DEMANDS

Sections:

   3.20.010   Claims for Money or Damages

   3.20.020   Auditing Prerequisite to Payment

   3.20.030   Form of Claim

   3.20.040   Claim Prerequisite to Suit

   3.20.050   Suit

   3.20.060   Departmental Approval of Claims

   3.20.070   Approval by Finance Director

   3.20.080   Prepayment of Demands

   3.20.090   Register of Demands

   3.20.100   Record of Approved Demands

   3.20.110   City Council Approval

3.20.010 Claims for Money or Damages.

   A.   As a prerequisite to bringing suit thereon against the City or any officer, department, commission or board of the City, any claim for money or damages (including claims which would otherwise be excepted by Government Code Section 905) which is not governed by any other statutes or regulations expressly relating thereto, shall be presented and acted upon in accordance with Title 1, Division 3.6, Part 3, Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 900) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 910), of the Government Code.

   B.   All claims against the City for money or damages not otherwise governed by the Tort Claims Act, Government Code Sections 900 et seq., or another State law (hereinafter in this Chapter, “claims”) shall be presented within the time, and in the manner, prescribed by Part 3 of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code (commencing with Section 900 thereof) for the claims to which that Part applies by its own terms, as those provisions now exist or shall hereafter be amended, and as further provided by this Chapter.

   C.   This Section shall relate only to the bringing of suit upon any claim and shall not be deemed to apply to the authority of the Finance Director, the City Council and other officers to process and pay, in the ordinary course of business, the just obligations of the City, such as routine salaries and wages, principal and interest on bonds, payments of purchases, and other like expenditures for which there is an express budget appropriation, and in connection with which there is no dispute as to the obligation and amount being payable.

[Ord. No. 461, Section 3, 5/9/07.]

3.20.020 Auditing Prerequisite to Payment.

No payment shall be made from the City treasury or out of the funds of the City unless the demand which is to be paid is duly audited as prescribed herein or by other provisions of law.

[Ord. No. 461, Section 3, 5/9/07.]