If any bonded city officer or employee refuses or neglects to account for and pay over all moneys received by such person by virtue of such person’s office or employment, such person shall be liable for such refusal or neglect upon such person’s official bond, and the director of budget and fiscal services shall bring an action against such person for the recovery thereof, in the name of the city and recover in such action, in addition to the amount so received, 50 percent thereon by way of damages. No order of the council shall be necessary to bring such action. The director of budget and fiscal services’s reasonable expenses, including any attorney fees, if necessarily incurred, shall be a city charge.
(Sec. 6-2.4, R.O. 1978 (1983 Ed.)) (1990 Code, Ch. 5, Art. 1, § 5-1.4)