page_title: Parish Assembly (Jersey)
section_title: Roads Committee
hierarchical_section_title: Parish Assembly (Jersey) / Municipal structure / Roads Committee
caption_attribution_description: Road marker in La Route de Vinchelez, St Ouen, Jersey, dated May 1935, giving names of the Connétable and members of the Roads Committee.
context_page_description: A Parish Assembly in Jersey is the decision-making body of local government, comprising ratepayers and electors of the parish.
  The Parish Assembly:
  sets the annual domestic rate according to the budget proposed by the Connétable;
  elects members of the municipality, including the Roads Committee, Roads Inspectors, Vingteniers, Constable's Officers;
  recommends liquor licences to the licensing bench;
  adopts road names;
  authorises the Procureurs du Bien Public to enter into contracts in the name of the parish;
  may discuss other matters as proposed by the Connétable, or at the written request of a number of members of the Assembly
context_section_description: A Roads Committee of five elected principals is also available to offer advice on a range of issues; chiefly related to the roads. Centeniers are the highest ranking police officers in Jersey and are elected.
  In Jersey, the Roads Committee (French: Comité des Chemins) is the highway authority for Parish roads in each Parish. In accordance with the Loi (1914) sur la Voirie it superintends the repair and maintenance of by-roads in the Parish, establishes boundary stones, issues Choses Publiques licenses, examines planning applications that fall within its responsibilities, supervises refuse collection, adjudicates fines during the Visite du Branchage, and proposes new road names, as may be necessary, for approval by the Parish Assembly. The Connétable presides over the Roads Committee which also includes the Rector and three Principals of the Parish [five Principals for St Helier] elected for a term of three years by the Parish Assembly.
  Instructions are passed to Roads Inspectors whose duty it is to ensure that the repairs are carried out.
  In St. Helier, the larger Roads Committee also undertakes additional non-statutory responsibilities with regard to parks and other matters, and acts, in the absence of a municipal council, as an advisory body to the Connétable. By convention, the two Procureur du Bien Public of St. Helier attend meetings of the Roads Committee, but cannot vote.
caption: Road marker stone in Saint Ouen dated 1935 inscribed with the names of the Roads Committee
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