Roquemore v. City of Forsyth

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• “municipalities generally have a ministerial duty to keep their streets in repair, and they are liable for injuries resulting from defects after actual notice, or after the defect has existed for a sufficient length of time for notice to be inferred”
• while a city’s decision regarding whether to provide lighting on a particular city street is a discretionary function, a city’s failure to repair or maintain a malfunctioning streetlight is a ministerial duty, for which there is liability after actual or constructive notice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).