For purposes of this chapter the following definitions apply:
"Collection costs" means the expenses and time incurred by the city or its agents to collect any debt due and owing.
"Debt due and owing" or "debt" means a specified sum of money owed to the city for fines, penalties, fees, interest, or other types of charges or costs imposed by this code, or administrative or judicial judgments after: (i) the period granted for payment has expired; (ii) the exhaustion of, or the failure to exhaust, judicial review procedures; or (iii) in the case of tax debt, an assessment has become final under Section 3-4-330 of this code.
"Department" means the department of finance.
(Added Coun. J. 11-19-08, p. 48243, Art. II, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. I, § 1)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary and in addition to any other late penalty, interest, or other types of charges or costs provided for in this code:
(a) any person who fails to pay any debt due and owing, which debt is a result of that person's default in the payment of a fine or any installment of a fine, shall be liable for the city's collection costs and attorney's fees incurred by the city in the collection of the debt; and
(b) the comptroller may charge such debtor specified in subsection (a) of this section, collection costs and attorney's fees incurred by the city for collection of the fine. Any collection cost and attorney's fees billed shall be separately stated and identified in the department's billings. Any collection cost billed may be either the collection costs incurred as a result of the debtor's failure to pay the fine or a set amount specified in a ruling to be published by the department, based on the average cost incurred by the city in collecting such fines generally.
(Added Coun. J. 11-19-08, p. 48243, Art. II, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. I, § 1)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary and in addition to any other late penalty, interest, or other types of charges or costs provided for in this code:
(a) any person who fails to pay any debt due and owing, other than the debt specified in Section 1-19-020, shall be liable for the city's collection costs in the collection of the debt; and
(b) the comptroller may charge such debtor specified in subsection (a) of this section, if the debt has remained unpaid for more than thirty days after the debt is due and owing, the costs incurred by the city in collecting the debt and may bill the debtor for the city's collection costs incurred as of the date of the billing. Any collection costs billed shall be separately stated and identified in the department's billings. Any collection costs billed may be either the collection costs incurred as a result of the debtor's failure to pay the debt or a set amount specified in a ruling to be published by the department, based on the average cost incurred by the city in collecting such debts generally.
(Added Coun. J. 11-19-08, p. 48243, Art. II, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. I, § 1)
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