California Government Code

§ 831.7

GOV § 831.7 Effective Jan 1, 2015Div. 3.6 · Title 1 · Part 2 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)Neither a 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 public entity that 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.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 913, Sec. 17. (AB 2747) Effective January 1, 2015.