Municipal Roads and Streets Act of 1887 No 31a (NSW)

No. XX.

An Act to amend the 117th section of the "Municipalities Act of 1867" in certain respects. [13th December, 1887.]

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that no Municipality shall be compelled to take the charge or WHEREAS it is among other things enacted by the one hundred and seventeenth section of the "Municipalities Act of 1S67,"

management of any new road or street laid down by any proprietor upon or through his own land which shall be less than forty feet in width, or if the same be more than forty feet and less than sixty- six feet in width, unless and until the same shall have been fully made and completed to the satisfaction of the Council. And whereas it is expedient to amend the said section so that it shall not be compulsory on any Municipality to take over any new road or street laid down by any proprietor upon or through his own land, unless such road, street, or lane shall first have been cleared of all obstructions to the satisfaction of the Council. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1. This Act may be cited as the " Municipal Roads and Streets
Act of 18S7," and shall be read with the "Municipalities Act of

2. After the passing of this Act no Council of any Municipality shall be compelled to take the charge or management of any new road or street laid down by any proprietor, not being the Crown, upon or through his own land which shall be of any lawful width until a plan of such proposed road or street shall have been submitted to and approved of by the Council of such Municipality, and unless and until such street or road has been cleared of stumps, timber, underwood, rocks, boulders, and all other obstacles whatever to the satisfaction of the Council of such Municipality. But nothing herein contained shall be construed to relieve proprietors from the obligation of making and completing certain roads and streets of a less width than sixty-six feet pursuant to the provisions of the one hundred and seventeenth section of the said " Municipalities Act of 1867."