No action or proceeding to recover or enforce any claim, debt or
demand against the city shall be brought until the expiration of thirty
(30) days after the same has been presented, in writing, to the City
Council. All actions brought against the city, upon any contractual
liability, express, implied or quasi-contract, must be begun within
one (1) year from the time when the cause of action accrued; or, for
injury to a person or property because of negligence, within one (1)
year and ninety (90) days from the time of receiving such injuries;
and, in all other cases, within six (6) months after the cause of
action accrued. No civil action shall be maintained against the city
for damages or injuries to persons or property sustained in consequence
of the existence of snow or ice upon any sidewalk, crosswalk, street,
path or place or in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert,
sidewalk, crosswalk, grating, opening, drain or sewer being of faulty
design or construction, defective, out of repair, unsafe, dangerous
or obstructed unless, previous to the occurrence resulting in such
damages or injuries, written notice of the existence of such snow
or ice at the particular place or of the defects or unsafe, dangerous
or obstructed condition of the particular place shall have been filed
in the office of the City Clerk of the city, and it shall be made
to appear that there was a failure or neglect within a reasonable
time after the filing of such notice to remedy the condition.