No civil action shall be maintained against the Incorporated Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson 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 and obstructed, or in consequence of the existence of snow or ice thereon, unless written notice of the defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition, or the existence of the snow or ice, relating to the particular place, had, prior to the happening of the event causing the damages or injuries to persons or property, actually been given to the Village Clerk of the Incorporated Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson and there had been a failure or neglect on the part of said village to cause such a condition to be otherwise made reasonably safe within a reasonable time after the receipt of such written 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 or to waive any existing limitation now applicable to any claim or cause of action against the Incorporated Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson.