If the city refuses to provide an officer or employee with a defense and the officer or employee provides his or her own defense, the officer or employee shall be entitled to recover all necessary and reasonable costs of said defense from the city if the act or omission is judicially determined to have arisen out of the actual or apparent scope of the officer’s duties or employee’s employment and the employee is found to have acted without fraud, malice, or corruption.
(2008 Code, § 2.28.060)