South Australian Consolidated Acts

HIGHWAYS ACT 1926 - SECT 27CA

27CA—Vesting of roads outside districts

        (1)         All public roads which are outside a district, together with the timber growing thereon, and the bridges thereof, and all public works connected therewith, and all lamps, direction boards, mile stones, mile posts, posts, rails, walls, chains, fences, and other things erected thereon or affixed thereto shall be vested in the Minister of Local Government and be under the care, control, and management of the Commissioner.

        (2)         For the purposes of this section—

"public road" means—

            (a)         all streets and roads delineated and shown on the public maps or plans of the State as laid out for public purposes by the Crown;

            (b)         all streets and roads opened under any Act relating to the opening of new streets and roads;

            (c)         all streets and roads conveyed or transferred to the Minister of Local Government by the owners thereof in fee simple and accepted by the said Minister as public streets or roads;

            (d)         all streets and roads which have been dedicated to the public.

        (3)         Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect any power of the Minister of Lands under section 9 of the Crown Lands Act 1929 .