What is the test for determining whether a public entity is liable for injury caused by a dangerous condition of its property?

As we have stated, Government Code section 835 provides the sole statutory basis for imposing liability on public entities as property owners. (Cerna v. City of Oakland (2008) 161 Cal.App.4th 1340, 1346-1347.) Under that statute, a public entity is " 'liable for injury caused by a dangerous condition of its property if the plaintiff establishes that the property was in a dangerous condition at the time of the injury, that the injury was proximately caused by the dangerous condition, that the dangerous condition created a reasonably foreseeable risk of the kind of injury which was incurred, and that either: [] (a) A negligent or wrongful act or omission of an employee of the public entity within the scope of his employment created the dangerous condition; or [] (b) The public entity had actual or constructive notice of the dangerous condition... a sufficient time prior to the injury to have taken measures to protect against the dangerous condition.' " (Id. at p. 1347.) A "dangerous condition" means "a condition of property that creates a substantial (as distinguished from a minor, trivial or insignificant) risk of injury when

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