Sec. 674.211. - Compensation.

(a) Compensation for services or for the taking or use of private property shall be owed by the City only to the extent that: (1) A claimant may not be deemed to have volunteered his services or property without compensation; and (2) The taking or use exceeds the legal responsibility of the claimant to render the services or make the property available. Compensation owed for personal services shall be only such as the Council may have fixed and for which funds shall have been specifically appropriated. Compensation for private property shall be owed only if the property was commandeered or otherwise used in coping with a disaster and its use or destruction was ordered by the Mayor or a member of the disaster emergency forces of the City. A person claiming compensation for the use, damage, loss or destruction of private property or for services shall file a claim as provided in Chapter 112 . (b) Nothing in this Section applies to or authorizes compensation for the damaging or destruction of standing timber or other property in order to provide a firebreak or damage resulting from the release of waters or the breach of impoundments in order to reduce pressure or other danger from actual or threatened flood. Nothing in this Section shall be construed as authorizing compensation to be paid beyond the amount of funds available for this compensation nor except to the extent that the Legislature may have waived the sovereign immunity of the City. (Ord. 79-1242-665, § 2; Ord. 83-591-400, § 1) Note— Former § 430.211.