TITLE 44 PROPERTY

Section 9. Easements, 44-9-1 through 44-9-92.

ARTICLE 3 PRIVATE WAYS

44-9-60. Conditions for converting private ways into public roads.

Once a private way is established, the judge of the probate court may declare it a public road, provided it is of sufficient length and importance and the number of persons who habitually use it can and will do as much work thereon as is their proper share in working the road alone or in connection with adjacent public roads.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 709; Code 1868, § 771; Code 1873, § 741; Code 1882, § 741; Civil Code 1895, § 682; Civil Code 1910, § 828; Code 1933, § 83-122.)