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NO BARRELS, NO TAPE Q: While riding my bicycle on a sidewalk, I fell. Two months earlier, the Town had
excavated a portion of the sidewalk and backfilled it with a temporary patch, cordoning off the
area with safety barrels and yellow caution tape. By the time of my accident, the safety barrels
and yellow caution tape were gone.
A: With exceptions, liability for injuries sustained as a result of a dangerous condition on
a public sidewalk is placed on the municipality, and not on the owner of the abutting land. The
exceptions are when the landowner actually created the dangerous condition, made negligent
repairs that caused the condition, created the dangerous condition through a special use of the
sidewalk, or violated a statute or ordinance imposing liability on the landowner for failing to
maintain the sidewalk.
Even where a statute or ordinance imposes a duty on a landowner to maintain and
repair the abutting sidewalk, the owner will often seek to establish that nevertheless it had no
duty to maintain this particular portion of the sidewalk or lacked constructive notice of the
condition that caused your accident.
With respect to the Town, quite possibly it has enacted a ‘prior written notice’ law.
Under such a law, the Town may not be subjected to liability for injuries caused by a dangerous
condition which comes within the ambit of the law unless it has received prior written notice of
the alleged defect or dangerous condition, or an exception to the prior written notice requirement
applies.
In general, there are two recognized exceptions to such a law – that the municipality
affirmatively created the defect through an act of negligence or that a special use resulted in a
special benefit to the locality. The affirmative-act exception is limited to work by the municipality
that immediately results in the existence of a dangerous condition.
Even if the Town did not receive prior written notice of the dangerous condition, your
attorney will argue that its work on the sidewalk immediately left it in a condition that was
dangerous to pedestrians and bicyclists.
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