[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Garden City: Art. I, 1-21-1954 as L.L. No. 1-1954. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Defense and indemnification of employees — See Ch. 9.
Streets and sidewalks generally — See Ch. 178.
[Adopted 1-21-1954 as L.L. No. 1-1954]
Section 341-a of the Village Law,[1] as added by Chapter 650 of the Laws of 1927, as it applies to the Incorporated Village of Garden City, New York, is hereby changed, superseded and amended to read as follows:
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Editor's Note: For current provisions, see § 6-628 of the Village Law.
No civil action shall be brought or maintained against the Incorporated Village of Garden City, New York, for damages or injuries to person or property sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk being defective, out of repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed or in consequence of the existence or accumulation of snow or ice upon any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk unless written notice of the existence of such condition, relating to the particular place, had, prior to the happening of the event causing such damages or injuries to person or property, actually been given to the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Garden City, New York, and there had been a failure or neglect on the part of said village to cause such condition to be corrected or such snow or ice to be removed or the place otherwise made reasonably safe within a reasonable time after the receipt of such notice.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall be held to revive any claim or cause of action now barred by any existing requirement or statute of limitations nor to waive any existing limitation now applicable to any claim or cause of action against the Incorporated Village of Garden City, New York.