ROADS ACT 1993 - SECT 217
Roads authority may recover cost of paving, kerbing and guttering footways
ROADS ACT 1993 - SECT 217
Roads authority may recover cost of paving, kerbing and guttering footways
217 Roads authority may recover cost of paving, kerbing and guttering footways
(1) The owner of land adjoining a public road is liable to contribute to the
cost incurred by a roads authority in constructing or paving any kerb, gutter
or footway along the side of the public road adjacent to the land.
(2) The
amount of the contribution is to be such amount (not more than half of the
cost) as the roads authority may determine.
(3) The owner of land the subject
of such a determination becomes liable to pay the amount determined on
receiving notice of that amount.
(4) This section does not apply to the
renewal or repair of any paving, kerb or gutter in respect of which
contributions have previously been paid and does not apply to the Crown as
regards public open space.
(5) In this section, a reference to a gutter
includes, in the case of a roadway that is laid to the kerb in a permanent
manner, a reference to such part of the roadway as is within 450 millimetres
of the kerb.