Monte Sereno Municipal Code Ch. 5.05 Attorney's Fees

The prevailing party in any judicial action and/or administrative proceeding to abate a nuisance and/or to enforce any provision of this Code shall recover the incurred attorney's fees as follows:

A. The recovery of attorney's fees shall be limited to those individual judicial actions or administrative proceedings in which the City elects, at the initiation of that individual judicial action or administrative proceeding, to seek recovery of its own attorney's fees; and

B. In no judicial action or administrative proceeding shall an award of attorney's fees to a prevailing party exceed the amount of reasonable attorney's fees incurred by the City in the judicial action or administrative proceeding.

(Ord. 144 § 2 (part), 2005)