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It is further the intent and purpose of Section 2-5 to prohibit any officer, agent or employee of the city from becoming a member of any organization, which by its charter, rules, bylaws, practices, policy, or conduct undertakes as a body, or through its representatives, to represent its membership in any bargaining for wages, working conditions, rules of employment or otherwise, or which may as a body, or through its representatives or agents, attempt to influence local or state legislation regarding conditions of employment, wages, hours or other matters affecting their service, directly or indirectly, with the city. (Code 1941, Art. 19-6; Ord. Nos. 3392; 5364)
Any person violating the terms or provisions of Section 2-5 shall be subject to summary dismissal by the city council, board, city manager or officer having power to employ and discharge such officer, agent or employee. (Code 1941, Art. 19-6; Ord. Nos. 3392; 5364)
In all hearings and investigations that may hereafter be conducted by the city council, the city manager, or any person or committee authorized by either or both of them for the purpose of making investigations as to city affairs, shall for that purpose subpoena witnesses and compel the production of books, papers, and other evidence material to such inquiry in the same manner as is now prescribed by the laws of this state for compelling the attendance of witnesses and production of evidence in the corporation court. A person receiving a subpoena in accordance with this section may, before the return date specified in the subpoena, petition the corporation court for a motion to modify or quash the subpoena. This provision for pre-compliance review applies to all subpoenas, including but not limited to those issued pursuant to Chapters III, XIII, and XVI of the City Charter or Sections 19-9, 20-10, 20A-8, 37-35, 37A-4, 40A-4, 46-10, or 50-3 of this code unless a separate pre-compliance review is provided. (Code 1941, Art. 22-1; Ord. 31533)
Any person who refuses to be sworn or who refuses to appear to testify or who disobeys any lawful order of the city council, the city manager, or any person or committee authorized by either or both of them, fails to file a motion to quash or otherwise demand a pre-compliance review of the subpoena in accordance with Section 2-8, or who fails or refuses to produce any book, paper, document, or instrument touching any matter under examination, or who is guilty of any contemptuous conduct during any of the proceedings of the city council, the city manager, or any person or committee authorized by either or both of them in the matter of such investigation or inquiry after being summoned to give or produce testimony in relation to any matter under investigation, is guilty of an offense. (Code 1941, Art. 22-2; Ord. Nos. 19963; 31533)
In any case where the city has purchased a tax title to any property under tax foreclosure or may hereafter become the purchaser of a tax title under foreclosure proceedings or tax collector’s deed, the city manager is authorized and directed to execute a quitclaim deed to such person entitled to redeem the property after such person has paid over to the city the amount of taxes, penalties, interest and costs, including the redemption penalty, if any, as provided for by the charter. (Code 1941, Art. 22-3)
The quitclaim deed mentioned in Section 2-10 shall provide that the city releases, quitclaims and surrenders to the grantee such title or interest as it may have acquired, if any, by virtue of the tax foreclosure proceedings and by virtue of the city becoming the purchaser of the tax title under any tax collector’s, sheriff’s or constable’s sale. It shall further provide that the instrument shall release the tax lien and judgment lien on the property described, securing the taxes for the years for which the judgment was recovered, and shall not in any way affect any taxes not included in the judgment. (Code 1941, Art. 22-4)
(a) Any sale of real property or any interest in real property, or the execution of any instrument dealing with or releasing an interest in real property, is sufficient to convey or release such interest when authorized by resolution passed by a majority of the city council and signed by the city manager, or his or her designee, and attested by the city secretary; except that, when such instrument is in effect for a term of not more than one year, is to a city public service franchise holder, and is made for the city’s benefit, then the head of the department concerned is authorized, by permission of the city manager, to execute the instrument conveying a temporary interest in real property. When any instrument states on its face that it is authorized by this section, it is deemed to have been properly authorized and sufficient to convey or release the interest sought to be conveyed or released.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the head of the department concerned, or his or her designee, is authorized, by permission of the city manager, to execute full or partial releases of:
(1) the following notes and liens, upon receipt of any required payment to the city:
(A) a notice of intention to assess for paving;
(B) a mechanic’s and materialman’s lien contract for paving or for water or sewer special assessments;
(C) a street paving certificate;
(D) a demolition lien;
(E) a closure lien;
(F) a lien imposed for civil penalties assessed by the municipal court or the former urban rehabilitation standards board against a structure found to be an urban nuisance;
(G) an abstract of judgment for civil penalties, court costs, and attorney’s fees assessed on property by a court of competent jurisdiction;
(H) a weed cutting lien; and
(I) a promissory note secured by any of the liens described in this subsection; and
(2) a lien on property that, upon investigation, is determined to have been placed in error by the department concerned.
(c) Each release executed under Subsection (b) must refer to this section by number, and this section will be the authority for the release. The release may, but is not required to, be attested by the city secretary. The head of the department concerned shall provide the executed and acknowledged release to the property owner. Unless otherwise required by law or contract, the property owner is responsible for recording the release at his or her own expense, except that the head of the department concerned shall promptly file in the official real property records of the county in which the property is located an executed release of any lien placed in error by the department concerned.
(d) All instruments concerning the conveyance or release of an interest in real property heretofore executed pursuant to a resolution of the city council are in all respects ratified and confirmed as the action of the city council the same as though separately authorized by ordinance. (Ord. Nos. 10893; 11424; 16024; 26517)
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