Stamper Ex Rel. Stamper v. Kanawha County Board of Education

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• concluding that recreational use statute fashioned after the Model Statute was intended to benefit private landowners
• concluding that state legislation fashioned after model act was intended to benefit private landowners despite legislature’s slight modification to specify that owner “ ‘shall include, but not be limited to, tenant, lessee, occupant ór person in control of the premises’ ”
• reasoning that because state and local governments possessed sovereign immunity, “it is difficult to conceive that the legislature intended to extend additional land use immunity to these bodies”
• characterizing section 29-12A-6 as \a procedural statute dealing primarily with statutes of limitations. It does not contain substantive limitations.\
• characterizing section 29-12A-6 as A a procedural statute dealing primarily with statutes of limitations. It does not contain substantive limitations. @
• “Specifically, W. Va. Code, 29-12A-4(c)(3) and (4) (1986), permit liability claims to be filed against a political subdivision for injuries or death arising from the negligent failure to maintain its property.”

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