La Quinta Municipal Code Ch. 3.16 Claims for Money or Damages

As a prerequisite to bringing suit thereon against the city or any officer, department, commission or board of the city, any claim for money or damages (including claims which would otherwise be excepted by Section 905 of the Government Code) which is not governed by any other statutes or regulations expressly relating thereto, shall be presented and acted upon in accordance with Title 1, Division 3.6, Part 3, Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 900) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 910), of the Government Code as those provisions now exist or shall hereafter be amended.

This section shall relate only to the bringing of suit upon any claim, and shall not be deemed to apply to the authority of the director of finance, the city council, and other officers to process and pay, in the ordinary course of business, the just obligations of the city, such as routine salaries and wages, principal and interest on bonds, payments for purchases and services, and other like expenditures for which there is an express budget appropriation, and in connection with which there is no dispute as to the obligation and amount being payable.

(Ord. 529 § 5, 2015; Ord. 2 § 1, 1982)

In accordance with Section 935.4 of the California Government Code, the city council may authorize an employee of the city to perform the claim procedures and functions of the city subject to the limitation contained therein that the employee's ability to allow, compromise, or settle a claim against the city shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) as that amount may be amended from time to time by Section 935.4 of the California Government Code or successor statute, and also subject to the claim processing policies and procedures adopted by resolution of the city council as may be amended from time to time.

(Ord. 529 § 5, 2015; Ord. 2 § 1, 1982)