Section 206. Judgments against the city


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  • The  amount  of  any  judgment
      recovered against the city and payable by it, remaining unpaid, with the
      interest due thereon, in case the time to appeal therefrom  has  expired
      and  no  appeal  has been taken, or a certificate of no appeal therefrom
      has been given by the corporation counsel, or in case such  judgment  is
      finally affirmed, or an appeal taken and the execution thereon shall not
      be stayed, shall be reported to the common council immediately after the
      same  shall  have  become  payable, as aforesaid; and the amount thereof
      shall be included in the next city tax budget. Such judgments  shall  be
      paid  in  the  order of their recovery out of the moneys first paid into
      the city treasury on account of the annual taxes or, prior thereto,  out
      of  the proceeds of tax anticipation notes issued in anticipation of the
      collection of such taxes or out of the proceeds  of  budget  notes.  If,
      however,  there  be any moneys in the treasury to the credit of any fund
      derived from city revenues,  other  than  taxation,  in  excess  of  the
      estimated  revenues  from  such  source, and not otherwise appropriated,
      sufficient to satisfy judgments against the city, the comptroller  shall
      issue  warrants  for  the payment of such judgments out of said funds in
      the order of their recovery. Until the moneys applicable to the  payment
      of  a  judgment  have  been  raised  and paid into the city treasury and
      payment of the judgment has  been  refused,  no  execution  shall  issue
      against  the city unless the amount of such judgment shall not have been
      included in the tax budget.