No action or proceeding to recover or enforce any claim, debt or demand against the city shall be brought except as hereinbefore provided.
No person shall be disqualified from acting as judge or juror by reason of being an inhabitant or freeholder in the City of Norwich, in any action or proceeding in which the city is a party or interested.
Civil actions to recover any penalty or forfeiture incurred under this Act may be brought in the corporate name of said city and, in any action brought in the City Court, it shall be lawful to complain generally for the amount of such penalty or forfeiture, stating the section of this Act or of the ordinance under which the penalty is claimed, and the defendant may answer by simply denying the truth of the complaint. If such action be brought in the City Court against an alleged owner of real property, the fact that title to real property comes in question on the pleadings, or appears on the trial, shall not deprive the court of jurisdiction, but may be litigated and determined by the judge as the right of the case may appear; but such judgment shall not be evidence concerning the title of real property on any other action or proceeding. The first process, in any such action, brought in the City Court shall be by summons, which may be made returnable forthwith, and an execution may be issued immediately on the rendition of judgment. All penalties and forfeitures shall be forthwith, upon collection, paid to the Director of Finance when any judgment shall be rendered in the City Court in favor of or against the City of Norwich in any action brought for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture, or in any other action in which the City of Norwich shall be a party, the City Judge shall enter said judgment in the City Court records. Whenever a judgment in favor of the city shall be recovered for twenty-five dollars ($25.) or upwards, exclusive of costs, a transcript thereof may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Chenango County and thereupon the same shall become a lien upon the property of the defendant in such judgment to the same extent and may be collected and enforced as provided by law.