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23 §3655. Personal injury actions; limitations; damages; notice

§3655. Personal injury actions; limitations; damages; notice A person who receives any bodily injury or suffers damage in the person’s property through any defect or want of repair or sufficient railing in any highway, town way, causeway or bridge may recover for the same in a civil action, to be commenced within one year from […]

23 §3656. Repair within 6 years; location conclusive

§3656. Repair within 6 years; location conclusive When on trial of any such action or indictment as provided for in section 3655 it appears that the defendant county or town has made repairs on the way or bridge within 6 years before the injury, it shall not deny the location of such way or bridge. […]

23 §3551. Raising of money

§3551. Raising of money Towns shall annually raise money to be expended on town ways and highways and for the repair of bridges, and the same shall be assessed and collected as other town taxes and expended for said purposes by a road commissioner or commissioners.  

23 §3658. Sidewalk accident; no town liability

§3658. Sidewalk accident; no town liability No town is liable to an action for damages to any person on foot on account of snow or ice on any sidewalk or crosswalk nor on account of the slippery condition of any sidewalk or crosswalk.  

23 §3659. Protection of private water supplies

§3659. Protection of private water supplies In the event a land owner believes that a private water supply on his land has been destroyed or rendered unfit for human consumption by a political subdivision constructing, reconstructing or maintaining a public highway under its jurisdiction, the owner may apply in writing to the political subdivision for […]

23 §3601. Apportionment of damages or benefits

§3601. Apportionment of damages or benefits Whenever the city government lays out any new street or public way, or widens or otherwise alters or discontinues any street or way in a city, and decides that any persons or corporations are entitled to damage therefor, and estimates the amount thereof to each in the manner provided […]

23 §3701. Defective crossings; notice to railroad of action against town

§3701. Defective crossings; notice to railroad of action against town In a civil action against a town for damages alleged to have occurred by reason of a defect in a railroad crossing constituting part of a highway which said town is obliged to keep in repair, the railroad company owning or occupying such crossing may […]

23 §3602. Notification to owners

§3602. Notification to owners After said assessment provided for in section 3601 has been made upon such lots or parcels and the amount fixed on each, the same shall be recorded by the city clerk, and notice shall be given within 10 days after the assessment by delivering to each owner of said assessed lots […]