[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Williamson 6-27-1978
by L.L. No. 1-1978. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Defense and indemnification of officers and employees — See Ch. 18.
No civil action shall be maintained against the Town of Williamson or
any of its officers or employees for damages or injuries to person or property
sustained by reason of any highway, bridge or culvert being defective, unsafe,
dangerous or obstructed unless written notice of such defective, unsafe, dangerous
or obstructed unless written notice of such defective, unsafe, dangerous or
obstructed condition of such highway, bridge or culvert was actually given
to the Town Clerk or Town Superintendent of Highways and there was a failure
or neglect to repair or remove the defect, danger or obstruction complained
of within a reasonable time after the receipt of such notice.
No civil action shall be maintained against the town or any of its officers
or employees for damages or injuries to person or property sustained solely
by reason of the existence of snow or ice upon any highway, bridge or culvert,
which the said town has the responsibility to maintain, unless written notice
thereof, specifying the particular place, was actually given to the Town Clerk
or the Town Superintendent of Highways and there was a failure or neglect
to cause such snow or ice to be removed or to make the place otherwise reasonably
safe within a reasonable time after receipt of such notice.
The Town Superintendent of Highways shall transmit in writing to the
Town Clerk, within 10 days after the receipt thereof, all written notices
received by him pursuant to this chapter.
The Town Clerk shall keep an indexed record, in a separate book, of
all written notices received of the existence of a defective, unsafe, dangerous
or obstructed condition in or upon or of any accumulation of ice or snow upon
any town highway, bridge or culvert, 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 of the person from whom the notice is received.
The record of each notice shall be preserved for a period of five years after
the date it is received.
