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TAKAHASHI: I think State law provides for fiscal years for the Counties, if I'm not mistaken. YOSHIYAMA: So, that was out already. Thank you. RAY: Anybody else? Sue. IRVINE: I guess I did have one more question on Section 13-18, still on the same page, 30. You'd mentioned claims. Personal injury and property should be eliminated from this section? TAKAHASHI: No, no. It should be expanded. IRVINE: But what if you just take that out and just say "claims"? Maybe this is for the lawyer. TAKAHASHI: Yes. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know why specifically to personal injury and property damage, because there are a few incidental claims that could well come along. IRVINE: It says no action shall be maintained for the recovery of damages • for any injury to persons or property by reasons of negligence, etc. If you just took that out, for any injury, it wouldn't be just property or persons, is that correct, Chris? YUEN: I have to say that this section is really a dead letter. It just doesn't have any effect as long as a person files suit within the applicable State Statutes of Limitation. The fact that they have not made a claim to the County Clerk is not going to bar them. There's overriding Statutes of Limitations that apply. I would say that it is probably not worth troubling the public to actually remove it from the Charter, but it does not actually have the effect that it says in the Charter. IRVINE: I guess that's the other thing I was going to ask, about this two years, because there's not anything about Statute of Limitations, but maybe, it's just a worthless section. YUEN: Yes, it doesn't mean anything. IRVINE: If we rewrite this whole thing, we can omit it. YUEN: If we were starting from scratch, you would probably take it out. What happened is that there have been Court decisions that say that there's. a Statute of Limitations and you follow that, and not the Charter.