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House Amendment 9006

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 2277, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 1, by striking lines 11 through 17, and
  1  4 inserting the following:
  1  5    "NEW SUBSECTION.  15.  Any claim to recover
  1  6 compensation for injuries received by a skateboarding
  1  7 or in-line skating participant in a skateboarding or
  1  8 in-line skating accident which occurred at a publicly
  1  9 designated skateboarding or in-line skating facility,
  1 10 based upon or arising out of an act or omission of an
  1 11 officer or employee of the municipality or the
  1 12 municipality's governing board.
  1 13    For the purposes of this section, a publicly
  1 14 designated skateboarding or in-line skating facility
  1 15 means a site that complies with all of the following:
  1 16    a.  The site has been designated by a municipality
  1 17 as being open to skateboarding or in-line skating.
  1 18    b.  The site has signs posted by the municipality
  1 19 that indicate in black letters a minimum of one inch
  1 20 high, the following:
  1 21    WARNING.  Under Iowa law, a municipality is not
  1 22 liable, except under very limited circumstances, for
  1 23 injuries to, or the death of, a person participating
  1 24 in skateboarding or in-line skating at a designated
  1 25 skateboarding or in-line skating facility pursuant to
  1 26 Iowa Code chapter 670.
  1 27    c.  Users of the site are required by ordinance to
  1 28 wear helmets, elbow pads, and knee pads, and the site
  1 29 has signs posted notifying users of the requirement,
  1 30 and that any person failing to comply with the
  1 31 ordinance will be subject to citation.
  1 32    Nothing in this subsection is intended to limit the
  1 33 liability of a public entity with respect to any other
  1 34 duty imposed pursuant to existing law, including the
  1 35 duty to protect against dangerous conditions of public
  1 36 property." 
  1 37 
  1 38 
  1 39                               
  1 40 SHOULTZ of Black Hawk 
  1 41 SF 2277.205 77
  1 42 jls/jl/28
     

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