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    No Civil Action for Condition of Highways #3

    TOWN OF HANCOCK

    LOCAL LAW NO. 3 YEAR OF l98l

    A Local Law providing that no civil action may be maintained against the Town of Hancock or any official thereof for any injuries or damages resulting from any property of the Town of Hancock being defective, out of repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed in any manner unless there has been prior written notice of such specific condition given.

    BE IT ENACTED BY THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HANCOCK, as follows:

    Section l. No civil action shall be maintained for damages or injuries to person or property against the Town of Hancock for injuries or damages resulting from any property of the Town of Hancock being defective, out or repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed unless, prior to the occurrence of the injuries or damage, the Town of Hancock through the Town Clerk shall have been given actual written notice of the condition complained of and shall have failed or neglected within a reasonable time to repair or remove such condition.

    Section 2. Insofar as the provisions of this local law are inconsistent with the provisions of any other local law or act, the provisions of this local law shall be controlling.

    Section 3. This local law shall take effect on the twentieth day following its enactment.

    STATE OF NEW YORK:
    COUNTY OF DELAWARE:

    I, RUTH J. SCHOONMAKER, Town Clerk of the Town of Hancock, Delaware County, New York, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that I have compared the preceding copy of Local Law No. 3, Year of l98l with the original thereof, duly adopted by the Town Board of such Town at a Special Meeting of such Board on the 21st day of October, l98l, and that the same is a true and correct copy of such Local Law of the whole thereof.
    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Town this 20th day of November, l98l.
    RUTH J. SCHOONMAKER
    TOWN CLERK, TOWN OF HANCOCK

    STATE OF NEW YORK:
    COUNTY OF DELAWARE:

    I, F. GERALD MACKIN, Town Attorney of the Town of Hancock, Delaware County, New York, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that the within certified copy of Local Law No. 3 Year of l98l contains the correct text of said Local Law and that all proper proceedings have been had or taken for enactment of such Local Law.
    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 20th day of November, l98l.
    F. GERALD MACKIN
    TOWN ATTORNEY, TOWN OF HANCOCK

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