§ 6.2. Actions against town for damages, etc.

(a)

No action shall be maintained against the town for damages for any injury to any person or property alleged to have been sustained by reason of the negligence of the town, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, unless a written statement of the claimant, his agent or attorney, or the personal representative of any decedent whose death is a result of the alleged negligence of the town, its officers, agents or employees, of the nature of the claim and the time and place at which the injury is alleged to have occurred, or to have been received, shall have been filed with the mayor or an attorney appointed by the town council for this purpose, and the town is hereby authorized to appoint such an attorney, within sixty days after such cause of action shall have accrued. Where the claimant is an infant or non compos mentis, or the injured party dies within such sixty days, such statement may be filed within one hundred twenty days. No officers, agents or employees of the town shall have authority to waive such conditions precedent or any of them.

(b)

No order shall be entered or made, and no injunction shall be awarded by any court or judge, to stay proceedings of the town in the prosecution of their works, unless it be manifest that they, their officers, agents, or servants are transcending the authority given them in this Charter, and that the interposition of the court is necessary to prevent injury that cannot be adequately compensated in damages.

(c)

The town council is authorized and empowered to compromise any claim for damages or any suit or action brought against the town.

Editor's note— Code of Virginia, § 8.01-222, provides for a time limit of six months for filing notice of a claim against a town, Charter provisions to the contrary notwithstanding.

Editor's note

Code of Virginia, § 8.01-222, provides for a time limit of six months for filing notice of a claim against a town, Charter provisions to the contrary notwithstanding.