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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="5-108" title_number="5" title_name="Limitations, Prohibited Actions, and Immunities" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Limitations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided by this section, no cause of action for damages accrues and a person may not seek contribution or indemnity for damages incurred when wrongful death, personal injury, or injury to real or personal property resulting from the defective and unsafe condition of an improvement to real property occurs more than 20 years after the date the entire improvement first becomes available for its intended use.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as provided by this section, a cause of action for damages does not accrue and a person may not seek contribution or indemnity from any architect, professional engineer, or contractor for damages incurred when wrongful death, personal injury, or injury to real or personal property, resulting from the defective and unsafe condition of an improvement to real property, occurs more than 10 years after the date the entire improvement first became available for its intended use.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Upon accrual of a cause of action referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, an action shall be filed within 3 years.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “supplier” means any individual or entity whose principal business is the supply, distribution, installation, sale, or resale of any product that causes asbestos-related disease.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This section does not apply if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The defendant was in actual possession and control of the property as owner, tenant, or otherwise when the injury occurred;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>In a cause of action against a manufacturer or supplier for damages for personal injury or death caused by asbestos or a product that contains asbestos, the injury or death results from exposure to asbestos dust or fibers which are shed or emitted prior to or in the course of the affixation, application, or installation of the asbestos or the product that contains asbestos to an improvement to real property;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>In other causes of action for damages for personal injury or death caused by asbestos or a product that contains asbestos, the defendant is a manufacturer of a product that contains asbestos; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>In a cause of action for damages for injury to real property that results from a defective and unsafe condition of an improvement to real property:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The defendant is a manufacturer of a product that contains asbestos;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The damages to an improvement to real property are caused by asbestos or a product that contains asbestos;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>The improvement first became available for its intended use after July 1, 1953;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>The improvement:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>Is owned by a governmental entity and used for a public purpose; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>Is a public or private institution of elementary, secondary, or higher education; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>The complaint is filed by July 1, 1993.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A cause of action for an injury described in this section accrues when the injury or damage occurs.</text>
  </level>
</section>
