| | 1999 Ski Safety News Waiver Article - Chalat Law Offices |
 | | The effect is to shift all financial responsibility for the negligent operation of the lifts and tows, or clear cut acts of negligence in the operation of the area, onto either the skiers themselves, or the parents of an injured child. |
 | | Codification of the respective duties of the skiers/snowboarders and the ski area operator, as expressed in the Ski Safety Act, and of the regulation of lifts and tows by the Tramway Board confirm that a ski area safety is an issue of public concern and an indication of its public importance. |
 | | Here we have a statute that specifically exempts ski lifts from the scheme of inherent danger, and by direct implication preserves the common law duties of the lift operator, yet the ski area operator, by contract, is attempting to place the operation of its lifts into the realm of inherent dangers. |
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