093_HB1495

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to civil immunities.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section   5.  The  Local  Governmental  and  Governmental
 5    Employees Tort Immunity Act is amended  by  changing  Section
 6    3-105 as follows:

 7        (745 ILCS 10/3-105) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-105)
 8        Sec.  3-105.   (a)  Neither  a  local public entity nor a
 9    public employee is liable for an injury caused by the  effect
10    of  weather  conditions  as  such  on  the  use  of  streets,
11    highways,  alleys, sidewalks or other public ways, or places,
12    or the ways adjoining any of the foregoing, or  the  signals,
13    signs,  markings,  traffic  or  pedestrian  control  devices,
14    equipment  or  structures  on or near any of the foregoing or
15    the ways adjoining any of the foregoing. For the  purpose  of
16    this  section,  the  effect  of  weather  conditions  as such
17    includes but is not limited to  the  effect  of  wind,  rain,
18    flood, hail, ice or snow but does not include physical damage
19    to  or deterioration of streets, highways, alleys, sidewalks,
20    or other public ways or place or the ways  adjoining  any  of
21    the  foregoing,  or  the signals, signs, markings, traffic or
22    pedestrian control devices, equipment  or  structures  on  or
23    near  any  of  the foregoing or the ways adjoining any of the
24    foregoing resulting from weather conditions.
25        (b)  Without implied limitation, neither a  local  public
26    entity  nor a public employee is liable for any injury caused
27    by the failure of a local public entity or a public  employee
28    to  upgrade  any existing street, highway, alley, sidewalk or
29    other public way or place, or the ways adjoining any  of  the
30    foregoing,  or  the  signals,  signs,  markings,  traffic  or
31    pedestrian  control  devices,  equipment  or structures on or
 
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 1    near such street, highway, alley, sidewalk  or  other  public
 2    way or place, or the ways adjoining any of the foregoing from
 3    the  standards,  if  any,  which  existed  at the time of the
 4    original dedication to, or acquisition of, the right  of  way
 5    of  such street, highway, alley, sidewalk or other public way
 6    or place, or the ways adjoining any of the foregoing, by  the
 7    first local public entity to acquire the property or right of
 8    way,  to  standards  which  are  or  may be applicable or are
 9    imposed by any government or  other  person  or  organization
10    between  the  time  of  such  dedication and the time of such
11    injury.
12        (c)  Neither a local public entity nor a public  employee
13    or  agent  of  the  local public entity, nor any other person
14    engaged by the  local  public  entity,  public  employee,  or
15    agent,  who  removes or attempts to remove snow or ice from a
16    street, sidewalk, or other  public  way  is  liable  for  any
17    injury   that   results  from  a  condition  caused  by  that
18    undertaking unless the alleged  misconduct  was  willful  and
19    wanton.  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  relieve the local
20    public entity of the duty to exercise ordinary  care  in  the
21    maintenance of its property as set forth in Section 3-102.
22    (Source: P.A. 84-1431.)

23        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
24    becoming law.