§ 11-47-190 — When Municipality Liable; Joint Liability of Other Persons or Corporations

Alabama § 11-47-190

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 11: Counties and Municipal Corporations
• Ch. 47: Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally
• Art. 8: Liability for Negligence of Agents, Etc

Text

No city or town shall be liable for damages for injury done to or wrong suffered by any person or corporation, unless such injury or wrong was done or suffered through the neglect, carelessness, or unskillfulness of some agent, officer, or employee of the municipality engaged in work therefor and while acting in the line of his or her duty, or unless the said injury or wrong was done or suffered through the neglect or carelessness or failure to remedy some defect in the streets, alleys, public ways, or buildings after the same had been called to the attention of the council or other governing body or after the same had existed for such an unreasonable length of time as to raise a presumption of knowledge of such defect on the part of the council or other governing body and whenever the city or town shall be made liable for damages by reason of the unauthorized or wrongful acts or negligence, carelessness, or unskillfulness of any person or corporation, then such person or corporation shall be liable to an action on the same account by the party so injured. However, no recovery may be had under any judgment or combination of judgments, whether direct or by way of indemnity under Section 11-47-24, or otherwise, arising out of a single occurrence, against a municipality, and/or any officer or officers, or employee or employees, or agents thereof, in excess of a total $100,000 per injured person up to a maximum of $300,000 per single occurrence, the limits set out in the provisions of Section 11-93-2 notwithstanding.

Legislative History

(Code 1907, §1273; Code 1923, §2029; Code 1940, T. 37, §502; Acts 1994, No. 94-641, p. 1202, §1.)