The network of near - and voetwegen was in 1841, captured in the Atlas of Buurtwegen. Today there are many who do not weigh more, but they still have the force of law. The Flemish majority parties have now a new decree ready that two goals should serve.
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More powers for municipalitiessecond, municipalities also have more competencies to the network of municipality roads also effective to maintain. Certainly, a owner today to make a fence to place it on a buurtweg over its domain, then, the city can do little outside of a long struggle for the court to accept.
Thanks to the new decree, the municipality of 'administrative penalties' imposed and own the technical service commitment to the barricade to open it. The costs can then be passed on to the owner.