# Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847, Section 54: Future streets may be declared highways.


If any street, not being a public highway at the passing of the special Act, be then or thereafter paved, flagged, or otherwise made good, to the satisfaction of the commissioners, then, on the application of the greater part in value of the occupiers of the houses and lands in such street, the commissioners shall, by writing under their common seal, if they be incorporated, or if they be not incorporated, then under the hands of five of the commissioners, declare the same to be a public highway, and thereupon the said street shall become a public highway, and shall be thereafter repaired by the commissioners out of the rates levied under this and the special Act; and such declaration shall be entered among the proceedings of the commissioners, and notice of such declaration shall be put up in some conspicuous place in or near such street.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/54 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-54
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