(1) Where there is any obligation by law or by custom or Highway

otherwise, on any landlord or proprietary body to maintain a village authority to: road or track on which the public bave or have acquired a permanent require the right of way, and such road or track is not in the opinion of Doptictor any highway authority properly maintained, that authority may ISSUE road land to a notice to the landlord or the proprietor to repair the road or track repair the within such a reasonable time and in such manner as may be specified road properly in the notice. where he is

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2) If at the end of the specified period the repairs have not tion to do so. been carried out in the manner specified, and the landlord or the proprietor has not furnished any satisfactory explanation for non-com- pliance, the highway authority may move the State Government to transfer control of the road or track to it or to any other highway authority under sub-section (1) of Section 24.

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H (3) The State Goverpment, while directing the transfer of control

li of such village road or treck to any highway authority, may determine

; whether any, and if so what, portion of the cost of repair which

H the highway authority may incur shall be recovered from the landlord

H or the proprietor in discharge of his obligation to maintain the road or track.

18 fhghwey © 26. (1) Where the control of a village road or track has been equre taken over by a highway authority as a result of a notification issued onary under sub-section (1) of Section 24 and the ownership of the land right of constituting the road or track vests in a landlord or proprietary body, thre the highway authority shall acquire by direct negotiation or, failing In villages. negotiation, by resort to the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, the reversionary rights, if any, of the landlord or proprietary body to the land by paying suitable compensation. To determining the compensation payable under sub-section (1), regard shall be had to the fact that the reversionary Tight is very remote.

1. (3) The amount, if aoY, payable by the proprietor under sub- section (3) of Section 25 may be set off against the compensation payable to him under sub-section (1).