{"id":15,"date":"2012-07-24T08:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/city-attorney\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:23:05","slug":"civil-division","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/city-attorney\/civil-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Division"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Civil Division consists of the City Attorney, five Assistant City Attorneys, and three legal assistants.\u00a0 The purpose and function of the Civil Division is to:<\/p>\n

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  1. advise and assist in the preparation of legislation affecting the Municipal Code;<\/li>\n
  2. prepare and advise on the legality, correctness, and form of all contracts, bonds, and other legal instruments to which the City is a party;<\/li>\n
  3. advise the City Council, the City Manager, all department heads, and other administrative officials, boards and commissions regarding legal matters;<\/li>\n
  4. represent the City as attorney in all Civil legal proceedings in which the City is a party, including tort claims, land use, environment, code enforcement, labor and employment, contracts and utilities;<\/li>\n
  5. provide legal representation and recommendations toward appropriate disposition of claims or suits at law or equity to which the City may be a party involving property rights or money claims;<\/li>\n
  6. preserve in its office copies of all opinions rendered by the department; and<\/li>\n
  7. perform other legal duties that may be required by the City Charter, ordinance, the City Council, or the City Manager.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Civil Division consists of the City Attorney, five Assistant City Attorneys, and three legal assistants.\u00a0 The purpose and function of the Civil Division is to: advise and assist in the preparation of legislation affecting the Municipal Code; prepare and advise on the legality, correctness, and form of all contracts, bonds, and other legal instruments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/city-attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/city-attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/city-attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/city-attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/city-attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/city-attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/city-attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/city-attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}