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COUNTY IMMUNE FROM SUIT BASED UPON DESIGN OF STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEM, PLAINTIFFS DID NOT RAISE A QUESTION OF FACT ALLEGING NEGLIGENT MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM.

The Third Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the county’s motion for summary judgment should have been granted. During a hurricane, a county drainage system overflowed and damaged plaintiffs’ property. The county was immune from suit based upon the design and placement of the drainage system. And the plaintiff’s failed to raise a question of fact concerning the allegation the county negligently maintained the drainage system:

… [T]o the extent that plaintiffs’ negligence claim alleges that defendant failed to adequately design or redesign the drainage system, it cannot be maintained. Decisions “‘determining when and where [drainage ditches] shall be built, of what size and at what level, are of a quasi judicial nature, involving the exercise of deliberate judgment and large discretion . . . [which] is not subject to revision by a court or jury in a private action for not sufficiently draining a particular lot of land'” … .

The act of maintaining a drainage system, on the other hand, is ministerial in nature and, thus, governmental immunity will not insulate defendant from plaintiffs’ alternative claim that it did so negligently … . “Nonetheless, [defendant] is not an insurer of its [drainage] system and cannot be held liable for injury unless it is shown that the injury was caused by active negligence in the maintenance of the system” … . Watt v County of Albany, 2016 NY Slip Op 04281, 3rd Dept 6-2-16

 

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