General — California Government Code — Claims And Actions Against Public Entities And Public Employees — General Provisions Relating To Liability — Liability Of Public Entities — Failure to discharge duty imposed by mandatory enactment

Current through the 2016 Legislative Session

Where a public entity is under a mandatory duty imposed by an enactment that is designed to protect against the risk of a particular kind of injury, the public entity is liable for an injury of that kind proximately caused by its failure to discharge the duty unless the public entity establishes that it exercised reasonable diligence to discharge the duty.