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Dear Mayor McCune:

We are in receipt of your request for an Attorney General's Opinion regarding the ownership of certain roads in DeSoto Parish ("Parish"). In the scenario that you have presented, the Parish and the Town of Stonewall ("Town") share the responsibility for maintaining certain roads. In terms of shared responsibility, you have informed us that the general manner in which this maintenance is supposed to work is by one or the other of the Town or Parish doing necessary work and the nonmaintaining entity reimbursing the other for its proportionate share of the costs. Your request…