Title 2 ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL*
Chapter 2.12 CITY ATTORNEY
2.12.030 Powers and authority.
A. The city attorney is authorized and empowered to make and execute any
bond, affidavit or other instrument in the name of the city, that may be
necessary in any action, suit or proceeding in which the city may be a party,
signing the same as city attorney.
B. He shall have the power and authority
to file and swear to complaints in the municipal court, upon information against
any and all violators of city law, when, in his judgment, convictions therein
can be secured; and complaints so made and sworn to upon information shall be of
the same force and validity as if made and sworn to from personal knowledge. He
shall likewise have the power and authority to “nolle prosequi” and
cause to be dismissed, in either the municipal or district courts, unjust,
vexatious and unwarranted prosecutions to which the city is a party. (Prior code
§ 2-11).
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