(A) Lake County, Indiana and the Lake County Highway Department shall not be responsible and assume no responsibility for repairing or replacing any damaged mailboxes when:
(1) The mailbox face is located less than eight inches from the edge of the pavement to the face of the mailbox regardless of the circumstances causing the damage;
(2) The mailbox is damaged as a result of objects, snow sleet, ice, water, or other precipitation thrown by a plow;
(3) The mailbox is found to have been in an unsound condition prior to the damage, regardless of the circumstances causing the damage; or
(4) The mailbox is damaged by any person who is not acting under the direction or at the request of Lake County, Indiana.
(B) Except as provided in division (A) of this section, Lake County, Indiana through the Lake County Highway Department shall be responsible for replacing or repairing damaged mailboxes when:
(1) The mailbox is physically struck by a Lake County owned and operated maintenance truck;
(2) The mailbox is physically struck by a Lake County owned and operated snowplow; or
(3) The mailbox is physically struck by a snowplow owned and operated by a subcontractor performing precipitation removal operations at the request of the Lake County Highway Department.
(C) Damaged mailboxes that are replaced by Lake County, Indiana shall be new, but not necessarily identical to the damaged mailbox. Lake County, Indiana and the Lake County Highway Department shall not provide any approaches to a mailbox.
(Ord. 1384D, passed 5-12-2015)