2019 Code of Alabama
Title 15 - Criminal Procedure.
Chapter 18 - Sentence and Punishment.
Article 9 - Community Punishment and Corrections.
Section 15-18-183 - Recovery of damages; exemption from civil liability.
The recovery of damages under any judgment or judgments against an authority established under this section shall be limited to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for bodily injury or death for one person in any single occurrence. Recovery of damages under any judgment or judgments against an authority shall be limited to three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) in the aggregate where more than two persons have claims or judgments on account of bodily injury or death arising out of any single occurrence. Recovery of damages under any judgment or judgments against an authority shall be limited to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) damages or loss of property arising out of any single occurrence. Counties shall be exempt from civil liability for any injury or loss to any person resulting from the operation of a community punishment and corrections program established under this article. This section shall not be construed as limiting any other immunities from civil liability or defenses established under the Constitution of Alabama or any other section of the code or common law, to which counties, authorities, state departments, agencies, courts, or nonprofit entities might be entitled.
(Acts 1991, No. 91-441, p. 795, §14; Act 2003-353, p. 930, §1.)
