[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of North Collins 1-5-1993 as L.L. No. 1-1993. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Streets and sidewalks — See Ch. 150.
No action or special proceeding shall be prosecuted or maintained
against the Village of North Collins, Village Coordinator of Public
Works, other officers, agents, employees or appointees of the Village
of North Collins for personal injury, wrongful death or damage to
real or personal property alleged to have been sustained by reason
of the negligence or wrongful act of such Village of North Collins
or the Coordinator of Public Works, other officers, agents, employees
or appointees of the Village of North Collins for the defective, unsafe,
out-of-repair, dangerous or obstructed condition, including the existence
of snow, ice, loose gravel or other foreign substance thereon, of
any village-owned, leased or otherwise controlled property of any
kind, including but not limited to streets, roads, highways, sidewalks,
bridges, lands, culverts, sluices, street or traffic control signs,
poles, standards, gravel pits, driveways, buildings and other structures,
equipment, disposal sites, streams or bodies of water, drains, parks,
playgrounds, recreation areas, tennis courts, swimming pools, wading
pools, pavilions, waterlines, sewer lines and utilities, either aboveground
or underground, unless written notice thereof was actually given to
the Village Clerk of the Village of North Collins or the Coordinator
of Public Works of the Village of North Collins previously thereto
and there was a failure or neglect within a reasonable time after
the giving of such notice to repair or remove such condition complained
of.
Such written notice shall contain the name and address of the
person giving such notice, date of existence and condition complained
of.
The Village of North Collins, Coordinator of Public Works, other
officers, agents, employees or appointees of the Village of North
Collins shall transmit, in writing, to the Village Clerk of the Village
of North Collins, within 10 days after the receipt thereof, all written
notices received by said Village Clerk pursuant thereto.
Recordkeeping requirements pertaining to such notices, including
preservation of the notices, shall be as set forth in Subdivision
g of § 4-402 of the Village Law of the State of New York,
as amended from time to time or other statutes amendatory thereto.
Nothing herein shall be construed as enlarging in any way the
liability of the Village of North Collins, Coordinator of Public Works,
other officers, agents, employees or appointees of the Village of
North Collins.
Nothing herein shall be deemed in any way to alter or amend
the time limitations nor service requirements of §§ 50-e
through 50-i of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York
as the same now exist or may be hereafter amended.
