SB-1017 Summary

• Codifies the "Premises Liability Act" establishing duty of care standards for property possessors toward invitees and licensees based on Michigan common law.

• Property possessors must use ordinary care to protect invitees from unreasonable risks of harm if they knew or should have known of the dangerous condition.

• Property possessors are liable to licensees only if they knew of an unreasonable risk, failed to warn the licensee, and the licensee did not know of the danger.

• Property possessors owe no duty to protect invitees or licensees from open and obvious conditions unless special features make the condition unavoidable or create unreasonably high risk of severe harm.

• Act excludes trespassers from protection, does not create duties for non-possessor owners, and does not affect comparative fault or other existing legal defenses; takes effect 90 days after enactment.