(a) No action for damages shall be brought against the City or its employees or agents unless the claim upon which it is based has been presented as provided herein:
(1) A written claim with respect to an injury to person or damage to property shall be presented to the City within 180 days after the personal injury, property damage or death giving rise to the alleged cause of action occurred, by filing the claim with the Clerk of Council. The claim shall contain all of the following:
A. The name and address of the claimant;
B. The address to which the person representing the claim desires notices to be sent;
C. The date, place and other circumstances of the occurrence which gave rise to the claim asserted;
D. A general description of the injury, damage or loss incurred so far as it may be known at the time of presentation of the claim; and
E. The name of the political subdivision, and the name or names, if known, of its employees, agents or other persons, causing or contributing to the injury or loss.
If the written claim required by this section is not filed within the time provided by this section, the City in an action filed against it may interpose a plea that the claim has not been filed or has not been timely filed, and the failure to file the claim within the time provided by this section is a bar to the action or any claim thereunder.
(b) Except as may otherwise be statutorily established, an action against the City or any employee or agent of the City arising out of an injury to person or damage to property, or any cause of action arising from such personal injury or property damage, or any other civil action for money damages, whether brought as an original action, a cross-claim, a counter-claim, a third-party claim, or as a claim for subrogation, shall be brought within two years after the cause of action for the personal injury or property damage, or other damages arose, or within any applicable shorter period for bringing the action provided by the Ohio Revised Code.
(Ord. 1985-20. Passed 9-3-85.)