(A) The city shall seek compensation or remuneration from any person or persons arising out of damage to any city property or facility or injury to any city employee.
(B) For claims by the city in an amount of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) or less, the Risk Manager shall be authorized to direct the City Attorney to collect such monies as being owed to the city by filing such claim in the County Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Brevard County.
(C) For claims by the city in an amount greater than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) and less than or equal to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), the City Manager shall be authorized to collect such monies as being owed to the city by directing the City Attorney to file such claim in the Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Brevard County.
(D) For claims by the city in an amount greater than twenty- five thousand dollars ($25,000) and less than or equal to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), the Risk Management Committee shall be authorized to collect such monies as being owed to the city by directing the City Attorney to file such claim in the Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Brevard County.
(E) For claims by the city in an amount greater than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), the City Council shall collect such monies as being owed to the city by directing the City Attorney to file such claim in the Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Brevard County.
(F) The authorization to settle a claim that has been filed by the city to collect monies owed to the city shall lie with the City Manager for claims of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or less, the Risk Management Committee for claims greater than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) and less than or equal to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), and the City Council for all other claims.
(Ord. 2009-55, passed 12-3-09; Am. Ord. 2013-12, passed 2-21-13)