HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 850ORDINANCE NO. 850
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM
DESERT, CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTION 1.04.095 TO THE CODE
OF THE CITY OF PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA, RELATING TO
FEES FOR ABATEMENT NUISANCES.
The City Council of the City of Palm Desert, California, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN as
follows:
SECTION 1: That Section 1.04.095 be, and the same hereby is, added to the Municipal
Code of the City of Palm Desert, California, to read as follows:
"Section 1.04.095. Recovery of Attorneys' Fees in Nuisance
Abatement Action. In any action, administrative proceeding or
special proceeding, brought by the City to abate a nuisance, the
prevailing party shall be entitled to a recovery of reasonable
attorneys' fees. This section shall apply only if the City elects, at
the initiation of the individual action or proceeding, to seek
recovery of its own attorneys' fees. The amount of attorneys' fees
in the action, administrative proceeding or special proceeding, shall
not exceed the amount of reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the
City in the action or proceeding."
[Statutory Derivation, Government Code, Section 38773.5(b).]
SECTION 2: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance
and shall cause the same to be published once in the Palm Desert Post, a newspaper of general
circulation, printed, published and circulated within the City of Palm Desert.
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Ordinance 850
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 11th day of September , 1997, by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: BENSON, CRITES, SNYDER, SPIEGEL and KELLY
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
ATAST:
SHEILA R. -MLIGANlerk
City of Palm Desert, Cal' brqla
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