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Section 14.1 Advisory Committees or Boards:
   The city commission or city manager with the approval of the commission may from time to time appoint such committees or boards as are deemed appropriate to advise and consult with them, and with appropriate department heads, regarding any municipal activity. Such committees or boards shall serve at the pleasure of the commission which shall also determine what, if any, compensation shall be paid.
Section 14.2 Notice to City of Claim for Injuries:
   The city shall not be liable in damages sustained by any person, either to his person or property, by reason of the negligence of the city, its officers, or employees, nor by reason of any defective highway, street, bridge, sidewalk, cross-walk or culvert, or by reason of any obstruction, ice, snow or other encumbrance upon such street, sidewalk, crosswalk or public highway, situated in the city, unless such person shall serve or cause to be served, within sixty (60) days after such injury shall have occurred, a notice in writing, upon the Clerk, which notice shall set forth substantially the time and place of such injury, the nature of the defect, the manner in which it occurred, and the extent of such injury as far as the same has become known, the names and addresses of the witnesses known at the time by claimant, and a statement that the person receiving such injury intends to hold the city liable for such damages as may have been sustained by him. No person shall bring any action against the city for any damages to person or property arising out of any obstruction, ice, snow, or other encumbrance upon such street, sidewalk, crosswalk or public highway, situated in the city unless he shall also present to the Clerk his claim in writing and under oath, setting forth particularly the nature and extent of such injury and the amount of damages claimed by reason thereof which claims shall be presented to the Commission by the Clerk.
   It shall be a sufficient bar and answer in any court to any action or proceeding for the collection of any demand or claim against the city, under this section, that the notice of injury and the verified proof of claim, as in this section required, were not presented and filed within the time and in the manner as herein provided.
Section 14.3 Publication and Mailing of Notices:
   The Commission shall determine the method of publication of all notices, ordinances, and proceedings for which a mode of publication is not prescribed by this charter or by law. The Commission may determine that such publication may be made in a newspaper which is printed or circulated in the city, or that such publication may be made by posting in the office of the Clerk and in five (5) other public places in the city. In case publication is made by posting, a notice of such posting, setting forth by a descriptive phrase, the purpose of or nature of the notice, ordinance, or proceeding posted, and location of the places where posted, shall be published at least once in a newspaper published and circulated in the city within seven (7) days after such posting was done.
   In any case in which this charter requires the mailing of notices, the affidavit of the officer or employee responsible for such mailing that such notice was mailed shall be prima facie evidence of such mailing.
Section 14.4 No Estoppe by Representation:
   No official of the city shall have power to make any representation or recital of fact in any franchise, contract, document or agreement, contrary to any public record of the city. Any such representation shall be void and of no effect as against the city.
Section 14.5 City Records:
   All records of the city shall be public.
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