§ 2.72.010. Claims for damages.

All claims for damages against the city shall be presented to and filed with the city council within the applicable period of limitations within which an action must be commenced. No ordinance or resolution shall be passed allowing such claim or any part thereof, or appropriating any money or other property to pay or satisfy the same or any part thereof, until the claim has first been referred to the proper department or committee, nor until such department or committee has made its report to the council thereon pursuant to such reference. All claims for damages arising out of tortious conduct must locate and describe the conduct and circumstances which brought about the injury or damage, describe the injury or damage, state the time and place the injury or damage occurred, state the names of all persons involved, if known, and shall contain the amount of damages claimed, together with a statement of the actual residence of the claimant at the time of presenting and filing the claim and for a period of six months immediately prior to the time the claim arose. If the claimant is incapacitated from verifying, presenting and filing the claim in the time prescribed or if the claimant is a minor, or is a nonresident of the state absent therefrom during the time within which the claim is required to be filed, the claim may be verified, presented and filed on behalf of the claimant by any relative, attorney or agent representing the claimant. No action shall be commenced against the city for damages arising out of tortious conduct until sixty days has elapsed after the claim has first been presented to and filed with the city council.

(Ord. 1702 § 1, 1993: Ord. 1520 § 1, 1991)