2006 New York Code - Liability Of County For Torts.

 
    §  53.  Liability of county for torts. 1. Upon compliance with section
  fifty-two each county shall be  liable  under  the  same  rules  of  law
  applicable  to  the  state, for damage or injury, or death, to person or
  property sustained by reason of  the  torts  of  its  officers,  agents,
  servants and employees.
    2.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of any law defining real property
  owned by tax title or owned for purposes of reimbursement of  assistance
  granted,  as  held  and  used  for  a public purpose, no county shall be
  liable by reason of such property being defective, out of repair, unsafe
  or dangerous, unless the county is in the  actual  physical  possession,
  control  and  operation  thereof  as  owner, or deriving a direct income
  therefrom; and with no greater liability  than  that  imposed  upon  the
  individual owner of property.
    3.  Nothing  herein  shall repeal or modify the exclusive liability as
  imposed and provided in the workmen's compensation law.