# Highways Act 1980, Section 44: Person liable to maintain highway may agree to maintain publicly maintainable highway.

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Where any person is liable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription to maintain a highway, he may enter into an agreement with the highway authority for that highway for the maintenance by him of any highway maintainable at the public expense by the highway authority; but nothing in this section affects the duty of a highway authority to maintain a highway as respects which any such agreement is made.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/44 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980/section-44
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