Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable under this chapter for an injury caused by the failure to provide traffic or warning signals, signs, markings or devices described in the Vehicle Code. Nothing in this section exonerates a public entity or public employee from liability for injury proximately caused by such failure if a signal, sign, marking or device (other than one described in Section 830.4) was necessary to warn of a dangerous condition which endangered the safe movement of traffic and which would not be reasonably apparent to, and would not have been anticipated by, a person exercising due care.
Cal. Gov. Code § 830.8
General
Known as the Government Claims Act
The act spans §§ 810–998 (301 sections).
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California (1976)
Most recently applied in 207 Cal. App. 4th 124 - Mixon v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (May 2012)
Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1681.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.