24Highways on boundaries of municipalities

### 24 Highways on boundaries of municipalities > > (1)  Subject to this section, where 2 corporations would, apart from this subsection, each be liable to repair one side of a local highway that forms or follows the common boundary of the municipal districts of those corporations, they are jointly liable to repair the whole width of that highway. > > > (2)  Subject to [subsection (3)](#GS24@Gs3@EN) , where a local highway – > > > > > > (a) crosses the boundaries between 2 municipalities; > > > > > > > (b) meets another road on such a boundary; or > > > > > > > (c) is a boundary road for 2 municipalities – > > > > the level of the highway shall not be altered unless the corporations of those municipalities agree on the new level. > > > (3)  The Minister may settle a question as to the level of a new local highway, including the payment of the expenses incurred in its alteration, and such a settlement is binding on the corporations to which it relates as if it were an agreement to which they were parties. > > > (4)  Where a local highway is maintainable by more than one corporation and a bridge carrying the highway over a river or stream lies partly in one municipality and partly in another, the Minister may, by order, direct that, for the purposes of this Act, the bridge, together with the approaches to it, and any land that is necessary for the convenient construction and use of the bridge, shall be deemed to be entirely within one of those municipalities, and, in respect of that bridge, those approaches, that land, and the highway, this Act has effect accordingly.