The prevailing party in any civil action or administrative proceeding filed to abate a public nuisance and violation of any provision of this code may recover its attorneys’ fees. The recovery of attorneys’ fees by a prevailing party is limited to only those individual actions or proceedings in which the city elects, at the initiation of that individual action or proceeding, to seek recovery of its own attorneys’ fees. In no action shall an award of attorneys’ fees to a prevailing party exceed the amount of reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred by the city in the action or proceeding. (Ord. 1425 § 1, 2002)