7-6-4209. Manner of making payment for judgments against municipalities. (1) On receipt of the certificate of a justice of the peace or the clerk of the court in which any judgment is rendered, showing the amount of a judgment against a municipality and the date of its entry, the governing body shall direct that the amount of the judgment be paid from the general fund if there is sufficient money in the general fund to pay the judgment, exclusive of the appropriations for the current fiscal year.
     (2) The governing body shall at the proper times levy and cause to be collected a tax on all the property of the municipality for the payment of the judgment within a period of 3 years from its presentation if there is not sufficient money, as provided in subsection (1), in the general fund to pay the judgment.
     (3) This section does not apply to a municipality that has adopted the alternative accounting method provided for in Title 7, chapter 6, part 6.

     History: En. Sec. 14, Ch. 458, L. 1997.