§ 2-5. Hiring of appraisers and experts in connection with lawsuits and hearings.  


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  • In connection with lawsuits pending or threatened and in connection with hearings before the city council or before other bodies by which hearings are, from time to time, had, the mayor is hereby authorized, if the necessity or propriety thereof becomes evident, to procure or cause to be procured, the services of such appraisers and such experts in the matter of values and damages as he may deem proper; the city council hereby authorizes the making with such appraisers and such experts of such agreements for the payment to them for their services as may be deemed proper by the mayor, and payment therefor out of funds appropriated, or hereafter appropriated, from which such payments may lawfully be made.

(Code 1968, § 2-16)