.010 Procedures prescribed by the state legislature governing the presentation, consideration and enforcement of claims against charter cities or against officers, agents and employees of those cities shall apply to the presentation, consideration and enforcement of claims against the City.
.020 In the absence of applicable procedures prescribed by the state legislature, and to the extent not inconsistent with state law, all claims for damages against the City must be presented in writing to the City Clerk within six months after the occurrence, event or transaction from which the damages allegedly arose, and shall set forth in detail the name and address of the claimant, the time, date, place and circumstances of the occurrence and the extent of the injuries or damages sustained.
.030 Any claim for money or damages, from whatever cause arising (including claims for the taking of, or damage to, private property pursuant to Section 19 of Article 1 of the California Constitution and claims based on contract) for which no claim is required to be presented by the provisions of the Government Code or for which a claim is not required by any other provision of law shall be presented in accordance with subsection 1.12.060.020.
.040 Any claim required to be presented pursuant to subsection 1.12.060.030 shall be presented not later than six months after the occurrence, event or transaction from which the damages allegedly arose.
.050 Any claim (for other than death or injury to person or personal property or growing crops) for which a claim is required by subsection 1.12.060.020 to be presented within six months shall be presented not later than one year after the accrual of the cause of action, in the event a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the six month claim requirement of subsection 1.12.060.020 is inapplicable thereto.
.060 The filing and rejection of any claim required by this section is a prerequisite to suit thereon. No suit shall be brought for money or damages against the City or any board, commission or officer thereof on any cause of action for which the general law or any City code requires a claim to be presented until a claim or demand for the same has been presented as provided herein and the claim or demand has been rejected in whole or in part. If rejected in part, suit may be brought to recover the whole. Failure to approve or reject any claim or demand within forty-five days from the day it is presented shall be deemed a rejection thereof unless that time is extended by mutual agreement of the City and the claimant. (Ord. 4280 § 1; November 3, 1981: Ord. 4518 § 1; July 24, 1984: Ord. 5389 §§ 1, 2; September 14, 1993: Ord. 6532 § 1; August 9, 2022.)