{"id":93,"date":"2006-05-25T08:31:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=93"},"modified":"2006-05-25T08:33:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T16:33:36","slug":"municipal-limitation-periods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Municipal Limitation Periods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most municipal legislative schemes give municipalities a break on limitation periods. Mostly for good reason. Municipalities are big creatures and undertake activity in a wide variety of areas. Actions hiding under the carpet for several years or more would make the municipality a sitting target and your tax dollars go up.<\/p>\n<p>You should be aware that in British Columbia you must:<\/p>\n<p>1. Notify a municipality of the incident that has caused you a problem within two months of the date that the incident occurred; and<\/p>\n<p>2. Begin your law suit against a municipality within six months of the date of the incident that occurred.<\/p>\n<p>There are some exception to these rules but the arguments are technical and a challenge even for skilled counsel. They also only apply to specific fact patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Two months notice, six months action. Easy to remember and easy to apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most municipal legislative schemes give municipalities a break on limitation periods. Mostly for good reason. Municipalities are big creatures and undertake activity in a wide variety of areas. Actions hiding under the carpet for several years or more would make the municipality a sitting target and your tax dollars go up. You should be aware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-municipal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}