Public Roads

Cap. 232 · Revised Edition 2020 · 43 sections

s. 1Short title
s. 2Interpretation
s. 3Responsibility of Chief Engineer
s. 4Appointment of District Road Boards
s. 5Functions of Boards
s. 6Minister may declare public roads
s. 7Minister may declare new public roads to be closed or diverted
s. 8Jurisdiction over highways
s. 9Appropriation of uncultivated lands
s. 10Appropriation of cultivated lands
s. 11Contracts and proceedings on the breach thereof, etc
s. 12Power of Chief Engineer to enter upon lands
s. 13Power of Chief Engineer to take materials from uncultivated lands
s. 14Power of Chief Engineer to take materials from cultivated lands
s. 15Power of Chief Engineer to erect buildings
s. 16Power of Chief Engineer to throw rubbish upon adjacent lands
s. 17Power of Chief Engineer to make temporary roads
s. 18Disturbing ancient mounds
s. 19Rights of ownership to relics
s. 20Chief Engineer to give notice
s. 21Power of Chief Engineer to cut overhanging trees
s. 22Power of Chief Engineer to construct fences
s. 23Power of Chief Engineer to make and keep open ditches and lay trunks, etc
s. 24Power of Chief Engineer to place stones, etc., on public roads
s. 25Compensation for injury to property by authorised officer
s. 26Where the erecting of temporary premises is allowed
s. 27Survey by registered surveyor to be sufficient evidence until contrary is proved
s. 28Removal of obstructions or encroachments
s. 29Closing new public road for certain time after making
s. 30Power to prohibit vehicular traffic over public road
s. 31Recovery of expenditure for damage to public road
s. 32Owner to have bridge, etc., over drain leading to his house
s. 33Pigs straying liable to be destroyed
s. 34Proceedings
s. 35Power to Chief Engineer to grant permission for erection of gates or grids
s. 36Licence to lay tramway along road
s. 37Obstruction of officers
s. 38Offences relating to milestones, etc., temporary fences, stones, ditches, fences, buildings and sign boards
s. 39Injuring public road by driving animals, and obstructing free passage
s. 40Obstructing passage of water from public road, and allowing water, etc., to flow there from
s. 41Hauling or trailing timber, etc
s. 42Miscellaneous offences
s. 43Power to make by-laws