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Title 19: Highways

Chapter 7: Laying Out, Discontinuing, and Reclassifying Highways

• Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
•    § 701. Definitions

•    § 702. Width of highways and trails

•    § 703. Widening of highways

•    § 704. Survey and boundaries

•    § 705. Papers to be recorded

•    § 706. Duties of commissioners appointed by the Supreme or Superior Court

•    § 707. Powers of Supreme and Superior Courts

• Subchapter 2: LAYING OUT, ALTERING, RECLASSIFYING, OR DISCONTINUING HIGHWAYS BY PETITION TO SELECTBOARD
•    § 708. Petition

•    § 709. Notice and hearing

•    § 710. Survey or order of discontinuance

•    § 711. Selectboard's return; recording

•    § 712. Damages paid or tendered

•    § 713. Time for vacating land

•    § 714. Possession after time expires

•    §§ 715, 716. Repealed. 1999, No. 156, § 21(2) and 21(3), eff. May 29, 2000.

•    § 717. Evidence of highway completion or discontinuance

• Subchapter 3: APPEAL FROM SELECTBOARD'S AWARD OF DAMAGES
•    § 725. Arbitration

•    § 726. Petition to Superior Court

•    § 727. Application

•    § 728. Service

•    § 729. Commissioners; selection

•    § 730. Commission

•    § 731. Impartial appraisals

•    § 732. Report

•    § 733. Costs

• Subchapter 4: PETITION TO SUPERIOR COURT
•    § 740. Petition

•    § 741. Appointment of commissioners

•    § 742. Commissioners' report; judgment on report

•    § 743. Opening of highway stayed; damages

• Subchapter 5: PROCEEDINGS IN SUPERIOR COURT ON REFUSAL OF SELECTBOARD TO ACT
•    § 750. Petition

•    § 751. Service of citation; commissioners

•    § 752. Court may refuse to appoint commissioners

•    § 753. Hearing by commissioners

•    § 754. Survey; determining damages

•    § 755. Petitioners especially benefited

•    § 756. Filing of report

•    § 757. Filing of survey and appraisal

•    § 758. Opposing report

•    § 759. Orders on report; costs

•    § 760. Order to require payment to town

• Subchapter 6: TIME FOR OPENING OF ROAD
•    § 765. Time limits

•    § 766. Extension of time

• Subchapter 7: DISCONTINUANCE OF HIGHWAYS
•    § 771. Procedure

•    § 772. Service of petition; costs

•    §§ 773, 774. Repealed. 2005, No. 178 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.

•    § 775. Title to discontinued highway

•    § 776. Damages for highways discontinued before completion

• Subchapter 8: NEGLECT OF TOWN TO BUILD HIGHWAYS OR BRIDGES
•    § 781. Assessment

•    § 782. Application; service of citation

•    § 783. Trial by jury; costs

•    § 784. Suspension of assessment upon discontinuance of highway or bridge

• Subchapter 9: HIGHWAYS INVOLVING TWO OR MORE TOWNS
•    § 790. Laying out highway or bridge on or near line between two towns

•    § 791. Apportioning expenses

•    § 792. Petition to selectboard

•    § 793. Proceedings by selectboards

•    § 794. Highway near but not on line between towns

•    § 795. Town not assessed for highway in another town

•    § 796. Petition by selectboard

• Subchapter 10: PROVISIONS RELATING TO DAMAGES
•    § 808. Payment of damages

•    § 809. Value of discontinued highway

•    § 810. Allowance lands

•    § 811. Benefits to landowner considered

• Subchapter 11: COMMUNITY SERVICE AREAS
•    § 816. Access roads; State aid; application

•    § 817. Application; contents

•    § 818. Transportation Board; action

•    § 819. Other investigation

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