(1) Advise the City Manager or any City officer, when requested, on all legal questions arising in the conduct of City business.

(2) Prepare or revise ordinances when so requested by the City Council, any committee or commission thereof, or the City Manager.

(3) Give opinions, orally or in writing, upon any legal matter or question submitted by any City officer.

(4) Attend Council meetings as assigned by the City Manager for the purpose of giving the City Council and City Manager legal advice.

(5) Prepare for execution all contracts and instruments to which the City is a party and approve as to form all contracts, legal instruments, and bonds.

(6) Defend all City officials and employees in any court when authorized to do so by state law, City ordinance, or City resolution.

(7) Have the power to adjust, settle, compromise, or submit to arbitration or mediation any action, causes of action, accounts, debts, claims, demands, disputes, and matters in favor of or against the City or in which the City is concerned as a party, now existing or which may hereafter arise, when it is not covered by any City insurance policy and upon approval of the City Manager.

(8) Handle personnel matters, including City representation before the Employee Discipline Hearing Officer.

(9) Report the outcome of any litigation in which the City has an interest to the City Manager.

(10) Periodically report to the City Manager all pending litigation and the condition thereof in which the City has an interest.

(11) Have charge of all legal services auxiliary to City Council action in connection with the appropriating of property to public use and in the levying of assessments.