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ORDINANCE ND. I9361 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORISING THE CITY FINANCE G FFICER TD MODIFY, COMPROMISE, OR CANCEL CLAIMS DUE THE CITY; ADDING SECTION 2.582 TO THE EUGENE CODE, I9lI; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. THE CITY OF EUGENE DDE5 ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: 5ectian I. There is hereby added to the Eugene Code, 197I, a new sec tion, to be numbered and provide: 2.582 Finance De artment - Modification Cam romise or Cancellation of Claims. ~Z} As used in this section "claim" shall mean any sum due the city from another and includes but is not limited to taxes, assessments, fines, fees, charges, rents, penalties, payments, amounts due the city on contracts or arising from damages sustained by the city. It sha11 also in- clude any interest due thereon. ~2~ Except as provided in subsections ~3~ and ~4~ of this section, it shall be the duty of the finance officer to collect all claims in fu11 and to take all actions necessary in the discretion of the finance officer to collect the claims. (3) when in the discretion of the finance officer it appears in the best interest of the city or it appears the cast of requiring timely pay- ment is not justified, the finance officer may extend the time for payment of a claim or the rate of interest thereon, or bath. In consideration far such a modification of the claim, the finance officer may require additional security to insure its payment. ~4) The finance officer may compromise, settle, or cancel any claim when it is in the city`s financial interest and: ~a} inhere 1 i ti gati on involving the vat i di ty of the c1 ai m i s pending or seriously threatened and there is a grave legal ques- tion as to the validity of the claim; fib} i~hen, notwithstanding section 2.58D, accepting payment in the form of property of equal or greater value than the claim insures payment of the claim that otherwise may be uncallectible or collectible at great expense to the city; ~c~ inhere good and sufficient cause is shown and the amount of the claim i s $ID or 1 ess; ~d~ then any claim has been delinquent for seven or more years and: I. All reasonable efforts have been made to effect col- t ecti on , 2. The person against whom the city has a claim cannot be located or is dead, and 3. The claim is wholly uncollectible. ~e~ ir~hen the finance officer determines that the administra- tion and collection costs involved would exceed the amount that can reasonably be expected to be recovered; ~ f ~ i~hen the property against whi ch a city 1 i en exists i s Ordinance - 1