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PEORIA PARK DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellant." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "JUSTICE SLATER\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nDefendant Peoria Park District brings this appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 308(a) (134 Ill. 2d R. 308(a)) for resolution of the following questions certified by the circuit court of Peoria County:\n(1) \u201cIs a local governmental entity immune from liability for negligent acts arising from a hayrack ride pulled by two mules which it operates on its own property under 111. Rev. Stat., ch. 85, paragraph 3-106?\u201d and\n(2) \u201cIs a local governmental entity immune from liability for negligent acts arising from a hayrack ride pulled by two mules which it operates on its property under 111. Rev. Stat., ch. 85, paragraph 3\u2014 109?\u201d\nThis case arises from an accident in defendant Peoria Park District\u2019s W.H. Sommer Park on July 4, 1989. According to the pleadings of record, on that date plaintiff Jennifer McCuen was celebrating her birthday with friends and participating in the park\u2019s \u201ccountry birthday party\u201d and mule-drawn hayrack ride. While defendant\u2019s employee was engaged in harnessing the mules, they suddenly bolted and ran off with the driverless hayrack, causing several riders to fall or jump off, injuring themselves. On July 2, 1990, the injured plaintiffs brought suit against the governmental entity alleging negligence and willful and wanton misconduct. Defendant moved to dismiss the complaint. The trial court denied the motion with respect to the negligence counts and granted in part and denied in part the motion with respect to the willful/wanton counts. Defendant moved for Rule 308(a) certification, and that motion was granted with respect to the negligence counts.\nThe statutory bases for defendant\u2019s motion to dismiss plaintiffs\u2019 negligence claims are contained in the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (the Act) (111. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 85, par. 1 \u2014 101 et seq.).\nSection 3 \u2014 106 of the Act provides:\n\u201cNeither a local public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury where the liability is based on the existence of a condition of any public property intended or permitted to be used for recreational purposes, including but not limited to parks, playgrounds, open areas, buildings or other enclosed recreational facilities, unless such local entity or public employee is guilty of willful and wanton conduct proximately causing such injury.\u201d 111. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 85, par. 3 \u2014 106.\nSection 3 \u2014 109 provides in pertinent part,\n\u201c(a) Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is liable to any person who participates in a hazardous recreational activity, including any person who assists the participant, or to any spectator who knew or reasonably should have known that the hazardous recreational activity created a substantial risk of injury to himself or herself and was voluntarily in the place of risk, or having the ability to do so failed to leave, for any damage or injury to property or persons arising out of that hazardous recreational activity.\n(b) As used in this Section, \u2018hazardous recreational activity\u2019 means a recreational activity conducted on property of a local public entity which creates a substantial (as distinguished from a minor, trivial, or insignificant) risk of injury to a participant or a spectator.\n\u2018Hazardous recreational activity\u2019 also means:\n(3) Animal racing, including equestrian competition, *** rodeo ***.\u201d 111. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 85, pars. 3 \u2014 109(a), (b).\nIt is well established that because the Act is in derogation of common law, it must be strictly construed against the local public entity. (Kirnbauer v. Cook County Forest Preserve District (1991), 215 Ill. App. 3d 1013, 576 N.E.2d 168.) With respect to the immunity granted by section 3 \u2014 106, the question is whether that section extends to the operation of a hayrack ride.\nPlaintiffs do not dispute that the hayrack and mule team were \u201cpublic property\u201d and were being used in the park for recreational purposes. Instead, plaintiffs argue that their complaint is not grounded on \u201cthe existence of a condition\u201d of the property. Plaintiffs\u2019 complaint charges that defendant\u2019s employee was negligent in his operation of the ride and handling of the mules. It does not allege that \u201cproperty\u201d was improperly maintained or defective. Plaintiffs assert that section 3 \u2014 106 does not immunize the defendant from all negligent acts, but only from negligence from failure to maintain its property. We agree.\nThe primary rule of statutory construction is to ascertain the intent of the legislature. (Annen v. Village of McNabb (1990), 192 Ill. App. 3d 711, 548 N.E.2d 1383.) The best indicator of that intent is the language of the statute itself. (Beghr Willowbrook Venture v. Village of Willowbrook (1991), 217 Ill. App. 3d 614, 576 N.E.2d 853.) When the statute is clear and unambiguous, courts will give the language its plain and ordinary meaning and will not read exceptions into the statute. Beghr Willowbrook Venture, 217 Ill. App. 3d at 617, 576 N.E.2d at 855.\nIn our opinion, a plain reading of section 3 \u2014 106 indicates that immunity is afforded only when liability is \u201cbased on the existence of a condition\u201d of the property. That is, there is no liability for injuries caused by defective, unsafe or negligently maintained public property intended for recreational use absent willful and wanton conduct. Here, plaintiffs\u2019 complaint is not based on the existence of a condition of the hayrack or mules. Plaintiffs have not alleged that the property involved was defective, unsafe or negligently maintained. Plaintiffs simply allege that defendant\u2019s employee failed to use reasonable care in the operation of the ride and handling of the mules. If the legislature had intended to provide immunity for all acts of negligence which take place on recreational property, it could have done so. Instead, it limited immunity to instances where the liability is based on a condition of the recreational property itself. In order to grant immunity to the defendant, we would have to ignore the \u201ccondition of the property\u201d language of section 3 \u2014 106. This we cannot do.\nOur decision is supported by the case law interpreting section 3\u2014 106. Nearly all of the cases in which immunity was granted under this section involved unsafe or defective conditions of the public property itself. (See, e.g., Davis v. Chicago Housing Authority (1990), 136 Ill. 2d 296, 555 N.E.2d 343 (charging negligent maintenance and operation of playground); Annen v. Village of McNabb (1990), 192 Ill. App. 3d 711, 548 N.E.2d 1383 (alleging failure to maintain restroom in park); Jarvis v. Herrin City Park District (1972), 6 Ill. App. 3d 516, 285 N.E.2d 564 (charging failure to maintain, inspect and repair slide in park).)\nThe only case which appears to apply section 3 \u2014 106 in the absence of an allegation of liability based on a condition of public property is Burdinie v. Village of Glendale Heights (1990), 139 Ill. 2d 501, 565 N.E.2d 654. In Burdinie, plaintiff claimed damages for injuries allegedly resulting because the municipal defendant\u2019s employee, a swimming instructor at the public pool, negligently instructed plaintiff, a nonswimmer, to jump into the pool\u2019s shallow end. Plaintiff jumped, struck his head and was injured. Plaintiff\u2019s complaint contained no allegation of a faulty pool or recreational facility, only allegations of negligent conduct on the part of the public entity\u2019s employee.\nThe Burdinie court first addressed those sections of the Act which it found to be relevant to plaintiff\u2019s complaint. Concerning section 3 \u2014 106, the court stated that \u201c[sjection 3 \u2014 106 applies to situations where an unsafe condition exists on municipally controlled property intended for recreational use.\u201d (Burdinie, 139 Ill. 2d at 512, 565 N.E.2d at 660.) However, the court did not point to any unsafe condition which made section 3 \u2014 106 applicable. In fact, the court noted that plaintiff\u2019s complaint did not allege an unsafe condition in or around the pool. Nevertheless, the court held that because plaintiff failed to allege willful and wanton conduct on the part of the municipal employee, his complaint failed to \u201cstate a cause of action under section 3 \u2014 106.\u201d Burdinie, 139 Ill. 2d at 513.\nIn light of the Burdinie court\u2019s statement that section 3 \u2014 106 applies to situations where an unsafe condition exists on recreational property, it appears that section 3 \u2014 106 should have been found to be inapplicable in Burdinie since no unsafe condition was involved in that case. This inconsistency may be attributable to what appears to be some confusion in the Burdinie opinion concerning the difference between failing to state a cause of action and barring an action based on governmental immunity. At four different points, the Burdinie opinion states that plaintiff\u2019s complaint failed to \u201cstate a cause of action under [the Act].\u201d However, it is well settled that the Act does not impose duties, but only confers immunities. (Vessey v. Chicago Housing Authority (1991), 145 Ill. 2d 404, 583 N.E.2d 538; Havens v. Harris Township (1988), 175 Ill. App. 3d 768, 530 N.E.2d 284.) In Porter v. City of Urbana (1980), 88 Ill. App. 3d 443, 445, 410 N.E.2d 610, 612, the court stated:\n\u201cThe Tort Immunity Act is not a catalog of duties or a source of rights; it does not create new liabilities where none already exist. [Citation.] Thus, we must look to other statutes and to the common law to determine whether the complaint states a cause of action.\u201d (Emphasis added.)\nIn light of the above authority, we fail to see how a complaint can \u201cstate a cause of action\u201d under the Tort Immunity Act. In any event, we believe our decision here is supported by the majority of the case law and the general proposition enunciated by the Burdinie court that section 3 \u2014 106 applies to situations where an unsafe condition exists on municipally controlled recreational property.\nAccordingly, we hold that the answer to the first certified question is no \u2014 that is, a local governmental entity is not immune from liability under section 3 \u2014 106 for negligent acts arising from a hayrack ride pulled by two mules which it operates on its own property.\nWith respect to the second certified question, we do not hesitate to agree with the trial court in its decision that the mule-drawn hayrack ride involved in this case is not the type of \u201chazardous recreational activity\u201d for which a public entity is granted immunity under section 3 \u2014 109 of the Act. The risks assumed by participants in animal racing, equestrian competition and rodeos, which the Act specifically enumerates among such activities (111. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 85, par. 3\u2014 109(b)(3)), cannot rationally be compared to the ride plaintiffs embarked upon in this case. Accordingly, we answer the second certified question in the negative, because we hold that section 3 \u2014 109 of the Act has no applicability to the recreational activity involved in this case.\nHaving determined that defendant is not immune from liability for acts of negligence by virtue of section 3 \u2014 106 or section 3 \u2014 109 of the Act, we affirm the order of the circuit court of Peoria County denying defendant\u2019s motion to dismiss the negligence counts of plaintiff\u2019s complaint and remand this cause for further proceedings.\nAffirmed and remanded.\nMcCUSKEY, P.J., concurs.", "type": "majority", "author": "JUSTICE SLATER" }, { "text": "JUSTICE BARRY,\ndissenting in part and concurring in part:\nIn my opinion, my colleagues\u2019 technical reading of the immunity granted by section 3 \u2014 106 cannot withstand analysis. While it is true that most of the cases tested under section 3 \u2014 106 involve unsafe or defective physical aspects of the public entity\u2019s property itself (see e.g., Davis v. Chicago Housing Authority (1990), 136 Ill. 2d 296, 555 N.E.2d 343 (charging negligent maintenance and operation of playground); Jarvis v. Herrin City Park District (1972), 6 Ill. App. 3d 516, 285 N.E.2d 564 (charging failure to maintain, inspect and repair slide in park)), governmental immunity has prevailed as well under section 3 \u2014 106 where the injured plaintiff charged only negligent conduct by defendant\u2019s employee in the use of public property. Burdinie v. Village of Glendale Heights (1990), 139 Ill. 2d 501, 512, 565 N.E.2d 654, 660.\nContrary to my colleagues\u2019 assessment, I do not believe that our supreme court was confused, inconsistent or in error when it determined that the injured plaintiff in Burdinie was precluded from recovery against the municipal defendant by virtue of the immunity granted by section 3 \u2014 106 of the Immunity Act. In Burdinie, plaintiff claimed damages for injuries allegedly resulting because the municipal defendant\u2019s employee, a swimming instructor at the public pool, negligently instructed plaintiff, a nonswimmer, to jump into the pool\u2019s shallow end, whereupon plaintiff jumped, struck his head and was injured. The court stated that section 3\u2014 106 \u201capplies to situations where an unsafe condition exists on municipally controlled property intended for recreational use\u201d and \u201ccontemplates liability only if the municipality or municipal employee acts in a \u2018willful and wanton\u2019 manner.\u201d (139 111. 2d at 512, 565 N.E.2d at 660.) Because plaintiff\u2019s complaint was framed in terms of negligence only, our supreme court ruled that it did not state a cause of action under section 3 \u2014 106.\nIt is apparent to me that the Burdinie court correctly interpreted the term \u201ccondition\u201d as alluded to in the statute to mean not only a defective, unsafe or negligently maintained aspect of public property, but an employee\u2019s negligent conduct or acts in connection with the use of such property as well. This interpretation is consistent with the Burdinie court\u2019s prefatory statement that \u201c[tjhere is no municipal liability *** for negligence resulting in injuries occurring on public property intended for recreational purposes, unless the local public entity is guilty of willful and wanton conduct (111. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 85, par. 3 \u2014 106).\u201d (139 Ill. 2d at 506-07, 565 N.E.2d at 658.) As in the case on appeal today, there was no allegation in Burdinie of a faulty pool or recreational facility, only allegations of negligent conduct on the part of the public entity\u2019s employee. It is my opinion that in rejecting plaintiff\u2019s negligence counts pursuant to section 3 \u2014 106, the Burdinie court left no doubt but that the term \u201ccondition\u201d embraced the employee\u2019s negligent conduct, which created the situation making the injury possible on public recreational property, as well as the physical attributes of such property.\nFurther, my colleagues\u2019 narrow interpretation of \u201ccondition\u201d violates the cardinal rule of statutory construction that force, effect and meaning should be given to the entire statute so as to render the statute a harmonious, consistent and symmetrical whole (82 C.J.S. Statutes \u00a7346 (1953)). By my view, the majority pits unsafe physical attributes of a public recreation area or facility caused by negligence (the first clause of section 3 \u2014 106) against willful or wanton conduct of a public entity or employee (second clause) and illogically determines that a public employee\u2019s negligent conduct (presumably only to the extent that it does not physically affect the entity\u2019s property) is not subject to the immunity granted by the statute. I cannot believe that this result was contemplated by the legislature.\nBy contrast, applying a broader interpretation to the term (as was done in Burdinie) makes sense of the entire section. I would hold that the immunity afforded in the first clause includes negligent conduct in the creation of a \u201ccondition,\u201d and this conduct was intended by the legislature to be parallel to and contrasted with willful and wanton conduct in the creation of an unsafe condition in the second clause. Otherwise stated, a \u201ccondition\u201d created by the negligence of a public recreational proprietor or its employee is not actionable by virtue of governmental immunity (first clause of section 3 \u2014 106), but such immunity is not available if the \u201ccondition\u201d is caused by \u201csuch local entity or public employee[\u2019s] *** willful or wanton conduct\u201d (second clause). 111. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 85, par. 3-106.\nFinally, as I see it, my colleagues\u2019 holding defeats legislative goals of encouraging the development of parks and other recreational areas (Beckus v. Chicago Board of Education (1979), 78 Ill. App. 3d 558, 397 N.E.2d 178) and protecting local public entities and employees from negligence liability arising from the operation of such public facilities (111. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 85, par. 1 \u2014 101.1). On June 30, 1986, during the House debates on article I of Senate Bill 1200, amending the Tort Immunity Act, Representative Greiman poignantly observed, \u201cThis Amendment puts kids back in the parks. It puts Saturday\u2019s heroes back in the high school football playing field. And yet, it makes sure that communities will still be liable for wanton and willful conduct that disregards, with conscious indifference, the safety of its citizens.\u201d (84th Ill. Gen. Assem., House Proceedings, June 30, 1986 (House Conference Committee Report on Senate Bill 1200).) Senate President Rock similarly addressed practical concerns in explaining the purpose of the legislation: \u201c[W]e set up a joint Senate committee between the Committees on Local Government and Insurance and asked them to go out and hold some hearings and find out, if they could, the extent of the problem with respect to the affordability and availability of liability insurance particularly as it related to local governments, because all of us were aware and somewhat appalled that counties and park districts and municipalities were confronted with the fact that-they were uninsurable or that the insurance that was offered to them was unaffordable. *** Article I is the Tort Immunity Act and the local governments and their representatives insofar as I know are pleased and well they should be, because their problem is addressed and responded to.\u201d (84th Ill. Gen. Assem., Senate Proceedings, at 78-80, June 30, 1986 (Senate First Conference Committee Report on Senate Bill 1200).) (Article 1 of Senate Bill 1200 was enacted into law as Public Act 84 \u2014 1431, effective November 25, 1986.) Obviously, the \u201cloophole\u201d that the majority creates in the statute today will effectively destroy the protections that the local governments and the State legislators thought they had achieved for the benefit of local governments.\nI would hold that the answer to the first certified question is yes \u2014 that is, a local governmental entity is immune from liability for negligent acts arising from a hayrack ride pulled by two mules which it operates on its own property under section 3 \u2014 106. 111. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 85, par. 3 \u2014 106.\nI agree with the majority\u2019s resolution of the second certified question.", "type": "concurring-in-part-and-dissenting-in-part", "author": "JUSTICE BARRY," } ], "attorneys": [ "David B. Collins, of Quinn, Johnston, Henderson & Pretorius, of Peoria (Charles D. Knell, of counsel), for appellant.", "Janssen, Maher, Wertz & Miller, of Peoria (Mark E. Wertz, of counsel), for appellees." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "CINDY McCUEN, Indiv. and as Mother and Next Best Friend of Jennifer McCuen, et al., Minors, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PEORIA PARK DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellant.\nThird District\nNo. 3 \u2014 92\u20140229\nOpinion filed June 3, 1993.\nRehearing denied July 13, 1993.\nBARRY, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part.\nDavid B. Collins, of Quinn, Johnston, Henderson & Pretorius, of Peoria (Charles D. Knell, of counsel), for appellant.\nJanssen, Maher, Wertz & Miller, of Peoria (Mark E. Wertz, of counsel), for appellees." }, "file_name": "0694-01", "first_page_order": 714, "last_page_order": 722 }