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who is found liable or made responsible by a court for the costs incurred by the City in the form of damages, regardless of the cause of action. SECTION 2: II. Governmental function cost recovery. The City of North Olmsted may recover the costs of governmental functions related to opioids marketed, sold, manufactured, dispensed, prescribed, and/or distributed by the responsible party. If a responsible party fails to pay the costs demanded, the City may initiate and recover costs through administrative, civil, and/or criminal action against the responsible party. In that case, the City may also recover attorney's fees, interest, and any other payment or type of damages the court deems proper. SECTION 3: III. Effect of criminal or civil proceedings on governmental function cost recovery. The initiation of administrative or civil proceedings for governmental function cost recovery does not bar the criminal prosecution of a responsible party for any associated violation. Similarly, criminal prosecution does not bar civil collection of costs for the violation giving rise to the criminal prosecution. SECTION 4: IV. Public nuisance. The City of North Olmsted hereby finds and declares the following: 1) That addiction to and abuse of opioids is one of the greatest challenges facing the City; 2) A cause of this increasing crisis is the overabundance of prescription opioids. Vast amounts of prescription opioid pain pills were sold, distributed and prescribed in the City over the past several years which practice continues today; 3) There is evidence showing that approximately four in five heroin users began their addiction by first using and then misusing prescription pain medications containing opioids; 4) The selling, distributing, and prescribing of large amounts of opioid pain pills in the City has created a public health and safety hazard affecting the residents of the City of North Olmsted, resulting in devastation to families, a negative effect on the North Olmsted economy, wasted public resources, and a generation of narcotic dependence; 5) That selling, distributing, and prescribing of prescription opioid pain pills is a hazard to public health and safety, which has created a public nuisance to the citizens of the City of North Olmsted, and said nuisance remains unabated; 6) That, in addition to all other powers and duties now conferred by law upon the City of North Olmsted, the City is authorized to enact ordinances, issue orders, and take other appropriate and necessary actions for the elimination of hazards to public health and