2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 745 - CIVIL IMMUNITIES › 745 ILCS 10/ - Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act. › Article III - Immunity From Liability For Injury Occurring In The Use Of Public Property

(745 ILCS 10/Art. III heading)
ARTICLE III--IMMUNITY  
		FROM LIABILITY FOR INJURY OCCURRING IN THE USE OF
PUBLIC PROPERTY
(745 ILCS 10/3-101) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-101)
Sec. 3-101. 
		
		As used in this Article unless the context otherwise requires
"property of a local public entity" and "public property" mean real or
personal property owned or leased by a local public entity, but do not
include easements, encroachments and other property that are located on its
property but that it does not own, possess or lease.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)
(745 ILCS 10/3-102) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-102)
Sec. 3-102. 
		
		(a) Except
as otherwise provided in this Article, a local
public entity has the duty to exercise ordinary care to maintain its
property in a reasonably safe condition for the use in the exercise of
ordinary care of people whom the entity intended and permitted to use the
property in a manner in which and at such times as it was reasonably
foreseeable that it would be used, and shall not be liable for injury
unless it is proven that it has actual or constructive notice of the
existence of such a condition that is not reasonably safe in reasonably
adequate
time prior to an injury to have taken measures to remedy or protect against
such condition.
(b) A public entity does not have constructive notice of a condition of
its property that is not reasonably safe within the meaning of Section
3-102(a) if it establishes either:
(1) The existence of the condition and its character of not being
reasonably safe would not have been discovered by an inspection system that
was reasonably adequate considering the practicability and cost of
inspection weighed against the likelihood and magnitude of the potential
danger to which failure to inspect would give rise to inform the public
entity whether the property was safe for the use or uses for which the
public entity used or intended others to use the public property and for
uses that the public entity actually knew others were making of the public
property or adjacent property; or
(2) The public entity maintained and operated such an inspection system
with due care and did not discover the condition.
(Source: P.A. 84-1431.)
(745 ILCS 10/3-103) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-103)
Sec. 3-103. 
		
		(a) A local public entity is not liable under this Article for
an injury caused by the adoption of a plan or design of a construction of,
or an improvement to public property where the plan or design has been
approved in advance of the construction or improvement by the legislative
body of such entity or by some other body or employee exercising
discretionary authority to give such approval or where such plan or design
is prepared in conformity with standards previously so approved. The local
public entity is liable, however, if after the execution of such plan or
design it appears from its use that it has created a condition that it is
not reasonably safe.
(b) A public employee is not liable under this Article for an injury
caused by the adoption of a plan or design of a construction of, or an
improvement to public property.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)
(745 ILCS 10/3-104) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-104)
Sec. 3-104. 
		
		Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is
liable under this Act for an injury caused by the failure to initially
provide regulatory traffic control devices, stop signs, yield right-of-way
signs, speed restriction signs, distinctive roadway markings or any other
traffic regulating or warning sign, device or marking, signs, overhead lights,
traffic separating or restraining devices or barriers.
(Source: P.A. 84-1431.)
(745 ILCS 10/3-105) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-105)
Sec. 3-105. 
		
		(a) Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is liable
for an injury caused by the effect of weather conditions as such on the
use of streets, highways, alleys,
sidewalks or other public ways, or places, or the ways adjoining any of the
foregoing, or the signals, signs, markings, traffic or pedestrian control
devices, equipment or structures on or near any of the foregoing or the
ways adjoining any of the foregoing.
For the purpose of this section, the effect of weather conditions
as such includes but is not limited to the effect of wind, rain,
flood, hail, ice or snow but does not include
physical damage to or deterioration of streets, highways, alleys,
sidewalks, or other public ways or place or the ways
adjoining any of the foregoing, or the signals, signs, markings, traffic or
pedestrian control devices, equipment or structures on or near any of the
foregoing or the ways adjoining any of the foregoing resulting from weather
conditions.
(b) Without implied limitation, neither a local public entity nor a
public employee is liable for any injury caused by the failure of a local
public entity or a public employee to upgrade any existing
street, highway, alley, sidewalk or other public way or place, or the ways
adjoining any of the foregoing, or the signals, signs, markings, traffic or
pedestrian control devices, equipment or structures on or near such street,
highway, alley, sidewalk or other public way or place, or the ways
adjoining any of the foregoing from the standards, if any, which existed at
the time of the original dedication to, or acquisition of, the right of way
of such street, highway, alley, sidewalk or other public way or place, or
the ways adjoining any of the foregoing, by the first local public entity
to acquire the property or right of way, to standards which are or may be
applicable or are imposed by any government or other person or organization
between the time of such dedication and the time of such injury.
(c) Nothing in this Section shall relieve the local public entity of the
duty to exercise ordinary care in the maintenance of its property as set
forth in Section 3-102.
(Source: P.A. 84-1431.)
(745 ILCS 10/3-106) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-106)
Sec. 3-106. 
		
		Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is liable
for an injury where the liability is based on the existence of a condition
of any public property intended or permitted to be used for recreational
purposes, including but not
limited to parks, playgrounds, open areas, buildings or other enclosed
recreational facilities,  unless such local entity
or public employee is guilty of willful and wanton conduct proximately
causing such injury.
(Source: P.A. 84-1431.)
(745 ILCS 10/3-107) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-107)
Sec. 3-107. 
		
		Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is liable
for an injury caused by a condition of: (a) Any road which provides access
to fishing, hunting, or primitive camping, recreational, or scenic areas
and which is not a (1) city, town or village street (2) county, state or
federal highway or (3) a township or other road district highway. (b) Any
hiking, riding, fishing or hunting trail.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)
(745 ILCS 10/3-108) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-108)
Sec. 3-108. 
		
		(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, neither a local
public entity nor a
public employee who undertakes to supervise an activity on or the use of any
public property is liable for an injury unless the local public entity or
public employee is guilty of willful and wanton conduct in its supervision
proximately causing such injury.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, neither a local public entity
nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by a failure to supervise
an activity on or the use of any public property unless the employee or the
local public entity has a duty to provide supervision imposed by common law,
statute, ordinance, code or regulation and the local public entity or public
employee is guilty of willful and wanton conduct in its failure to provide
supervision proximately causing such injury.
(Source: P.A. 90-805, eff. 12-2-98.)
(745 ILCS 10/3-109) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-109)
Sec. 3-109. 
		
		(a) Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is
liable to any person who participates in a hazardous recreational activity,
including any person who assists the participant, or to any spectator who
knew or reasonably should have known that the hazardous recreational
activity created a substantial risk of injury to himself or herself and was
voluntarily in the place of risk, or having the ability to do so failed to
leave, for any damage or injury to property or persons arising out of that
hazardous recreational activity.
(b) As used in this Section, "hazardous recreational activity" means a
recreational activity conducted on property of a local public entity which
creates a substantial (as distinguished from a minor, trivial, or
insignificant) risk of injury to a participant or a spectator.
"Hazardous recreational activity" also means:
(1) Water contact activities, except diving, in     places where or at a time when lifeguards are not provided and reasonable warning thereof has been given or the injured party should reasonably have known that there was no lifeguard provided at the time.
(2) Diving at any place or from any structure where     diving is prohibited and reasonable warning as to the specific dangers present has been given.
(3) Animal racing, archery, bicycle racing or     jumping, off-trail bicycling, boat racing, cross-country and downhill skiing, sledding, tobogganing, participating in an equine activity as defined in the Equine Activity Liability Act, hang gliding, kayaking, motorized vehicle racing, off-road motorcycling or four-wheel driving of any kind, orienteering, pistol and rifle shooting, rock climbing, rocketeering, rodeo, spelunking, sky diving, sport parachuting, body contact sports (i.e., sports in which it is reasonably foreseeable that there will be rough bodily contact with one or more participants), surfing, trampolining, tree climbing, tree rope swinging where the person or persons furnished their own rope, water skiing, white water rafting, and wind surfing.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), this Section does
not limit liability which would otherwise exist for any of the following:
(1) Failure of the local public entity or public     employee to guard or warn of a dangerous condition of which it has actual or constructive notice and of which the participant does not have nor can be reasonably expected to have had notice.
(2) An act of willful and wanton conduct by a public     entity or a public employee which is a proximate cause of the injury.
Nothing in this subsection creates a duty of care or basis of liability
for personal injury or for damage to personal property.
(d) Nothing in this Section shall limit the liability of an independent
concessionaire, or any person or organization other than the local public
entity or public employee, whether or not the person or organization has a
contractual relationship with the public entity to use the public property, for
injuries or damages suffered in any case as a result of the operation of a
hazardous recreational activity on public property by the concessionaire,
person, or organization.
(Source: P.A. 89-111, eff. 7-7-95; 89-502, eff. 6-28-96.)
(745 ILCS 10/3-110) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-110)
Sec. 3-110. 
		
		Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is
liable for any injury occurring on, in, or adjacent to any waterway, lake,
pond, river or stream not owned, supervised, maintained, operated, managed
or controlled by the local public entity.
(Source: P.A. 84-1431.)