137.02 PROPERTY LOSS COLLECTION SYSTEM.

   The Safety-Service Director and the Law Director are hereby authorized to enter into a contract with an attorney to provide for the collection of such sums as shall compensate the City for its losses sustained by the failure of individuals to pay for City services utilized and property damaged or destroyed. Such contract shall provide for compensation at customary collection rates, not to exceed fifty percent (50%) of sums actually collected, and shall provide for services including the prosecution of lawsuits and post judgment collection proceedings. The contract shall also provide that the City shall provide all necessary costs and it shall be terminable at will by either party. The property loss collection system shall only be utilized by the City as a supplement to its normal billing and collection procedures, not as an alternative to such procedures.
(Ord. 82-6. Passed 3-30-82.)