The city staff is empowered and directed to take all practical and reasonable steps to recover civil damages for any negligent, wilful, or unlawful damaging or taking of property of the city, including the institution of appropriate legal action.
(Ord. 951 § 1, 1982)
For the purposes of Section 12.12.010, damage to public property shall include, but not be limited to, the spilling of any material onto any street or other public property which requires the city to use its crews or to expend sums of money for labor to remove and dispose of such materials from the public streets or other public places, and the cost of such removal and disposal shall constitute civil damages to the city which may be recovered by the city pursuant to Government Code Section 53069.6 and pursuant to Section 12.12.010 of this code.
(Ord. 951 § 1, 1982)