Section 61: Power to require adoption
consolidated text (as at 2013, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
61. Power to require adoption
(1) A majority in number of the owners of land having a frontage on a
built up private road, or as many of those owners as have between them
more than half of the aggregate length of all the frontages on both sides of
the road, may, by notice in writing, request the local authority to exercise its
powers under section 49 to—
(a) secure the carrying out of such road works in that road as the
local authority requires before declaring the road to be a public
road; and
(b) declare the road to be a public road,
and on receipt of the notice, the local authority shall proceed to exercise the
powers conferred upon it under this Part.
(2) For the purposes of this section a road shall be deemed to be built up
if the aggregate length of the frontages on both sides of that road constitutes at least one half of the aggregate length of all the frontages on both
sides of that road.
(3) This section shall apply to a part of a road as it applies to a road,
which the owners of land having a frontage on that part of the road elect to
treat as constituting a road for the purposes of this section.
[S. 61 amended by s. 3 of Act 26 of 2002.]
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PART IV – APPEALS AND DETERMINATION OF COMPENSATION