(a) The city manager is authorized to accept and approve on behalf of the city any legal instrument executed by any person, which grants, gives, conveys, quitclaims, or releases any right in real property, whether such right is fee simple or any lesser title, estate, or right, where the total consideration to be paid by the city for the title, estate, or right is $10,000 or less.
(b) The city manager is authorized to acquire any title, estate, or right in real property by settlement, acceptance of a commissioner’s award, or payment of a court judgment if:
(1) the city council has previously authorized eminent domain proceedings on the real property; and
(2) the total consideration to be paid by the city for the title, estate, or right in the real property is $10,000 or less.
(c) Any such grant, gift, conveyance, quitclaim, release, settlement, acceptance of a commissioner’s award, or payment of a court judgment mentioned in this section must be approved by:
(1) the head of the city department concerned;
(2) the city attorney; and
(3) the city controller, if the amount of cash consideration to be paid by the city exceeds $10. (Ord. Nos. 12734; 15279; 17131; 19875; 20951)