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Section 24-2-8. – Acceptance and opening of highway on land specially granted.

§ 24-2-8. Acceptance and opening of highway on land specially granted. Except as otherwise provided by special act concerning particular cities and towns, whenever the owner of any land shall make a deed thereof to the town in which the land lies, for the especial purpose of being used and improved as a public highway, […]

Section 24-2-8.2. – Repealed.

§ 24-2-8.2. Repealed. History of Section.P.L. 1985, ch. 481, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 1986, ch. 198, § 57, effective June 18, 1986. For present similar provisions of law, see § 24-2-8.1.

Section 24-2-9. – Common law rights and remedies preserved.

§ 24-2-9. Common law rights and remedies preserved. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed as to hinder or prevent the public from acquiring, by dedication or user, lands or any interests in lands for highways or other public uses, according to the course of the common law, or to take away or […]

Section 24-2-10. – Liability of town for maintenance of highways.

§ 24-2-10. Liability of town for maintenance of highways. Nothing contained in § 24-2-9 shall be so construed as to render any town liable for the mending and repairing of any highway, unless the highway shall have been declared to be a public highway by the town council of the town wherein it lies. History […]

Section 24-2-7. – Proceedings and plats as evidence of highway.

§ 24-2-7. Proceedings and plats as evidence of highway. The proceedings before the town council under §§ 24-2-1 — 24-2-6, insofar as the proceedings shall not have been set aside on appeal as provided in § 24-2-3, with the accompanying plat or duly certified copies thereof, shall forever thereafter be conclusive evidence upon the town […]

Section 24-2-1. – Creation of public highways by use.

§ 24-2-1. Creation of public highways by use. All lands which have been or shall be quietly, peaceably, and actually used and improved and considered as public highways for the space of twenty (20) years, and which shall be declared by the town council of the town wherein they lie to be public highways, shall […]