Michigan Laws 691.1403 – Defective highways; knowledge of defect, repair
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 691.1403
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Governmental agency: means this state or a political subdivision. See Michigan Laws 691.1401
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
No governmental agency is liable for injuries or damages caused by defective highways unless the governmental agency knew, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known, of the existence of the defect and had a reasonable time to repair the defect before the injury took place. Knowledge of the defect and time to repair the same shall be conclusively presumed when the defect existed so as to be readily apparent to an ordinarily observant person for a period of 30 days or longer before the injury took place.