CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 1010
Affirmative Defense—Recreation Immunity—Exceptions
(Civ. Code, § 846)
[Name of defendant] is not responsible for [name of plaintiff]’s harm if
[name of defendant] proves that [name of plaintiff]’s harm resulted from
[his/her/nonbinary pronoun/name of person causing injury’ s] entry on or
use of [name of defendant]’s property for a recreational purpose.
However, [name of defendant] may be still responsible for [name of
plaintiff]’s harm if [name of plaintiff] proves that
[Choose one or more of the following three options :]
[[name of defendant] willfully or maliciously failed to protect others from
or warn others about a dangerous [condition/use/structure/activity] on
the property.]
[or]
[a charge or fee was paid to [name of defendant/ the owner] for permission
to enter the property for a recreational purpose.]
[or]
[[name of defendant] expressly invited [name of plaintiff] to enter the
property.]
If you find that [name of plaintiff] has proven one or more of these three
exceptions to immunity, then you must still decide whether [name of
defendant] is liable in light of the other instructions that I will give you.
New September 2003; Revised October 2008, December 2014, May 2017, November
2017, May 2021, May 2023
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
d5a155a3ff2894ec8086ca319aec74ffa3742e475d51fa260de979cf4e8b5602
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