The Office of City Attorney is hereby created in and for this
City.
The City Attorney shall annually, on or before the first meeting
of the City Council in April of each year, report, in writing, to
the City Council a detailed statement of all suits instituted and
pending in the courts of record wherein the City is plaintiff or defendant.
In said report, he shall state the names of the parties to the suits,
the date of the commencement of each suit, the nature thereof, and
the several steps taken by him to bring the same to a final issue.
He shall also give a list of all cases disposed of during his term
of office, and subsequent to his last report, with such explanatory
remarks as he may think proper to add thereto, to the end that the
Council may be kept fully advised as to the legal affairs of the City.