§ 3.48.020. Cancellation of uncollectible delinquent accounts receivable and claims for damage to City property.

A.

The Director of Financial Management is authorized and directed to terminate further efforts to collect, and to order removed from the accounts of the City, any account or claim of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or less, or portion thereof, that the City has against any other person, firm, or corporation in any of the circumstances set forth in Subsection C. of this Section.

B.

The City Manager is authorized and directed to terminate further efforts to collect, and to order removed from the accounts of the City, any account or claim in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or portion thereof, that the City has against any other person, firm, or corporation in any of the circumstances set forth in Subsection C. of this Section.

C.

Collections may be terminated pursuant to Subsections A. or B. of this Section in, and only in, one (1) or more of the following circumstances:

1.

The collection of the account or claim is barred by the statute of limitations;

2.

The department initially responsible therefor, collection services, any collection agency with whom the City has contracted to collect such account or claim, and the City Attorney have exhausted every reasonable means of collecting the account or claim and the Director of Financial Management under Subsection A., or the City Manager under Subsection B. of this Section, is of the opinion that further efforts to collect the account or claim will constitute an idle and useless act and an unnecessary expenditure of public funds;

3.

An account or claim or portion of an account or claim which is the subject of a settlement or compromise agreement authorized by the City Council;

4.

That portion of an account or claim in excess of small claims court jurisdiction which the City Attorney has advised should be waived and which is not recoverable from the judgment debt or following judgment by the small claims court on the account or claim; or

5.

The collection account represents the portion of an account otherwise due and owing that is in excess of maximum payment received from Medicare/Medicaid for the payment of that account.

(Ord. C-6510 § 1, 1988: Ord. C-5388 § 1, 1978: prior code § 2710.1)