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Local Government Act 1974

Roads (other than regional roads), service lanes, and access ways - Formation, alteration, stopping, and closing of roads

337: Alteration of pipes and drains

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"Council can ask you to change pipes and drains under roads and pay for the changes"

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If you own a pipe, drain, or other apparatus under a road, the council can ask you to change it. They will send you a written notice telling you what to do. If you do not make the changes within a reasonable time, the council can do it for you. The council will pay for the changes and any damage that happens because of them. You can get this money back from the council if you are affected by the changes.

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Part 21Roads (other than regional roads), service lanes, and access ways
Formation, alteration, stopping, and closing of roads

337Alteration of pipes and drains

  1. The council may, by notice in writing, require the owner of any pipe, drain, or other apparatus of any kind on or under a road to raise, lower, or otherwise alter the same as the council directs, and if that alteration is not made within a reasonable time the council may make the same as it thinks fit; but, subject to the provisions of any other Act or to any agreement between the council and the person affected, the cost of any such alteration and any damage occasioned thereby shall be paid by and may be recovered from the council by any person affected.

Notes
  • Section 337: inserted, on , by section 2 of the Local Government Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 43).