CHAPTER 1. General Provisions Relating to Liability

Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1681.

§§ 814–827 · 38 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Scope of Part §§ 814–814.2 · 2 sections

   • § 814 Nothing in this part affects liability based on contract or the right to obtain relief other than money or damages against a public entity or public employee.
   • § 814.2 Nothing in this part shall be construed to impliedly repeal any provision of Division 4 (commencing with Section 3201) or Division 4.5 (commencing with Section…
2. ARTICLE 2. Liability of Public Entities §§ 815–818.9 · 14 sections

   • § 815 Except as otherwise provided by statute: (a) A public entity is not liable for an injury, whether such injury arises out of an act or omission of the public…
   • § 815.2 (a) A public entity is liable for injury proximately caused by an act or omission of an employee of the public entity within the scope of his employment if the…
   • § 815.3 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, unless the elected official and the public entity are named as codefendants in the same action, a public…
   • § 815.4 A public entity is liable for injury proximately caused by a tortious act or omission of an independent contractor of the public entity to the same extent that…
   • § 815.6 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…
   • § 816 A public entity is not liable for injury arising out of any activity conducted by a member of the California National Guard pursuant to Section 316, 502, 503,…
   • § 818 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public entity is not liable for damages awarded under Section 3294 of the Civil Code or other damages imposed…
   • § 818.2 A public entity is not liable for an injury caused by adopting or failing to adopt an enactment or by failing to enforce any law.
   • § 818.4 A public entity is not liable for an injury caused by the issuance, denial, suspension or revocation of, or by the failure or refusal to issue, deny, suspend…
   • § 818.5 The Department of Motor Vehicles is liable for any injury to a lienholder or good faith purchaser of a vehicle proximately caused by the department’s negligent…
   • § 818.6 A public entity is not liable for injury caused by its failure to make an inspection, or by reason of making an inadequate or negligent inspection, of any…
   • § 818.7 No board, commission, or any public officer or employee of the state or of any district, county, city and county, or city is liable for any damage or injury to…
   • § 818.8 A public entity is not liable for an injury caused by misrepresentation by an employee of the public entity, whether or not such misrepresentation be negligent…
   • § 818.9 A court or county, its employees, independent contractors, and volunteers shall not be liable because of any advice provided to small claims court litigants or…
3. ARTICLE 3. Liability of Public Employees §§ 820–823 · 17 sections

   • § 820 (a) Except as otherwise provided by statute (including Section 820.2), a public employee is liable for injury caused by his act or omission to the same extent…
   • § 820.2 Except as otherwise provided by statute, a public employee is not liable for an injury resulting from his act or omission where the act or omission was the…
   • § 820.21 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, the civil immunity of juvenile court social workers, child protection workers, and other public employees…
   • § 820.25 (a) For purposes of Section 820.2, the decision of a peace officer, as defined in Sections 830.1 and 830.2 of the Penal Code, or a state or local law…
   • § 820.4 A public employee is not liable for his act or omission, exercising due care, in the execution or enforcement of any law. Nothing in this section exonerates a…
   • § 820.6 If a public employee acts in good faith, without malice, and under the apparent authority of an enactment that is unconstitutional, invalid or inapplicable, he…
   • § 820.8 Except as otherwise provided by statute, a public employee is not liable for an injury caused by the act or omission of another person. Nothing in this section…
   • § 820.9 Members of city councils, mayors, members of boards of supervisors, members of school boards, members of governing boards of other local public entities,…
   • § 821 A public employee is not liable for an injury caused by his adoption of or failure to adopt an enactment or by his failure to enforce an enactment.
   • § 821.2 A public employee is not liable for an injury caused by his issuance, denial, suspension or revocation of, or by his failure or refusal to issue, deny, suspend…
   • § 821.4 A public employee is not liable for injury caused by his failure to make an inspection, or by reason of making an inadequate or negligent inspection, of any…
   • § 821.5 A public entity or a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is not liable for failing to prohibit or restrict the time that cargo tank…
   • § 821.6 A public employee is not liable for injury caused by his instituting or prosecuting any judicial or administrative proceeding within the scope of his…
   • § 821.8 A public employee is not liable for an injury arising out of his entry upon any property where such entry is expressly or impliedly authorized by law. Nothing…
   • § 822 A public employee is not liable for money stolen from his official custody. Nothing in this section exonerates a public employee from liability if the loss was…
   • § 822.2 A public employee acting in the scope of his employment is not liable for an injury caused by his misrepresentation, whether or not such misrepresentation be…
   • § 823 Neither the widow, widower, nor the heirs of a peace officer, as defined in Sections 830.1, 830.2, and 830.32 of the Penal Code, shall be liable individually…
4. ARTICLE 4. Indemnification of Public Employees §§ 825–825.6 · 4 sections

   • § 825 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, if an employee or former employee of a public entity requests the public entity to defend him or her against…
   • § 825.2 (a) Subject to subdivision (b), if an employee or former employee of a public entity pays any claim or judgment against him, or any portion thereof, that the…
   • § 825.4 Except as provided in Section 825.6, if a public entity pays any claim or judgment against itself or against an employee or former employee of the public…
   • § 825.6 (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if a public entity pays any claim or judgment, or any portion thereof, either against itself or against an…
5. ARTICLE 5. Indemnification of Certain State Agents § 827 · 1 section

   • § 827 A provider of health care, as defined in Section 56.05 of the Civil Code, its officers, employees, agents, and subcontractors, who are defended by the Attorney…