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.
Section 44: Person liable to maintain highway may agree to maintain publicly maintainable highway.
Highways Act 1980 · 1980 c. 66View on legislation.gov.uk
Part IV: Maintenance of Highways
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