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  "id": "prop_nyc_sidewalk_prior_written_notice_required",
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  "domain": "torts.sidewalk",
  "title": "Suing the City over a sidewalk defect requires prior written notice",
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  "statement": "No civil action can be maintained against the City of New York for injury caused by a defective sidewalk unless the City received written notice of the specific condition (or gave written acknowledgement of it) and failed to repair it within fifteen days; prior written notice is a condition precedent that the plaintiff must plead and prove. Section 7-210 left this requirement in place.",
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    "Two exceptions apply: a defect the City created by affirmative negligence, and special use (see prop_ny_prior_written_notice_two_exceptions)."
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      "locator": "§ 7-201(c)(2)",
      "text": "No civil action shall be maintained against the city for damage to property or injury to person or death sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, wharf, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk"
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      "source": "src_cornell_katz_v_city_of_new_york",
      "locator": "87 NY2d at 243",
      "text": "prior written notice of a defect is a condition precedent which plaintiff is required to plead and prove to maintain an action against the City"
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