[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Dundee 4-22-1980 by L.L. No. 1-1980. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No civil action shall be maintained against the Village of Dundee,
New York, for damages or injuries to person or property sustained
in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or
crosswalk being out of repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed, or
in consequence of the existence of snow or ice thereon, unless it
appears that written notice of the defective, unsafe, dangerous or
obstructed condition, or of the existence of the snow or ice, was
actually given to the Village of Dundee, New York, through its specified
officer, and there was a failure or neglect within a reasonable time
after the giving of such notice to repair or remove the defect, danger
or obstruction complained of or to cause the snow or ice to be removed
or the place made otherwise reasonably safe.
The Village of Dundee, New York, shall keep an indexed record,
in a separate book, of all written notices which it shall receive
of the existence of said defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed
condition, or of such snow or ice, which record shall state the date
of receipt of the notice, the nature and location of the condition
stated to exist and the name and address from whom the notice is received.
The specified village officer to which said written notice is
required to be given shall be the Village Clerk of the Village of
Dundee, New York, and the indexed record of all written notices which
the Village of Dundee shall receive shall be made and kept by the
Village Clerk of the Village of Dundee, New York.
The record of notices of defect shall be a public record.
The record of each such notice shall be preserved for a period
of five years after the date it is received.
