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Cal. Gov. Code § 835

Liability of Public Entities

Known as the Government Claims Act

The act spans §§ 810–998 (301 sections).

Applied in 93 court decisions — leading case First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles (1987)

Most recently applied in Perlov v. Port Auth. of N.Y. & N.J. (December 2020)

Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1681.

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

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.

Except as provided by statute, a public entity is liable for injury caused by a dangerous condition of its property if the plaintiff establishes that the property was in a dangerous condition at the time of the injury, that the injury was proximately caused by the dangerous condition, that the dangerous condition created a reasonably foreseeable risk of the kind of injury which was incurred, and that either:

(a) A negligent or wrongful act or omission of an employee of the public entity within the scope of his employment created the dangerous condition; or

(b) The public entity had actual or constructive notice of the dangerous condition under Section 835.2 a sufficient time prior to the injury to have taken measures to protect against the dangerous condition.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.