City of Coral Gables

File #: 15-4442    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 10/16/2015 In control: City Commission
On agenda: 11/10/2015 Final action: 11/10/2015
Enactment date: 11/10/2015 Enactment #: 2015-32
Title: An Ordinance of the City of Coral Gables, Florida, creating a False Claims and Presentations Ordinance to prohibit false or incomplete presentations to or false or fraudulent claims against the City of Coral Gables, providing for enforcement; and providing for a repealer provision, severability clause, codification, and providing for an effective date.
Attachments: 1. Signed Ordinance 2015-32, 2. E-3, 3. Cover Memo - False Claims Ordinance.pdf, 4. Ordinance - False Claims, 5. O-2015-32 Updated 5-12-16- Scrivener's Error, 6. Verbatim Transcript - CCMtg October 27 2015 - Agenda Item E-1 - Ordinance creating false claims and presentation to prohibit false or incomplete presentations

Title

An Ordinance of the City of Coral Gables, Florida, creating a False Claims and Presentations Ordinance to prohibit false or incomplete presentations to or false or fraudulent claims against the City of Coral Gables, providing for enforcement; and providing for a repealer provision, severability clause, codification, and providing for an effective date.

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The City of Coral Gables wishes to insure that individuals presenting before the City Commission or a City Board, or making requests to City Staff, are truthful and forthcoming in the information they provide and which is relied upon by the City. This ordinance allows the City to seek damages and civil penalties for false presentations and statements.

Furthermore, the City wishes to deter persons from causing the City to pay claims that are false, fraudulent, or inflated.  In the event that an individual submits a claim that is false, fraudulent or inflated, the ordinance allows the City to obtain damages and civil penalties from the individual perpetrating the false claim.