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The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.

NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.

Title 19: Highways

Chapter 007: Laying Out, Discontinuing, and Reclassifying Highways

  • Subchapter 001: 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 002: 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 Repealed. 1999, No. 156, § 21(2) and 21(3), eff.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 003: 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 004: PETITION TO SUPERIOR COURT
  •    § 740. Petition

  •    § 741. Appointment of commissioners

  •    § 742. Commissioners' report; judgment on report

  •    § 743. Opening of highway stayed; damages


  • Subchapter 005: 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 006: TIME FOR OPENING OF ROAD
  •    § 765. Time limits

  •    § 766. Extension of time


  • Subchapter 007: 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 008: 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 009: 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 010: PROVISIONS RELATING TO DAMAGES
  •    § 808. Payment of damages

  •    § 809. Value of discontinued highway

  •    § 810. Allowance lands

  •    § 811. Benefits to landowner considered


  • Subchapter 011: COMMUNITY SERVICE AREAS
  •    § 816. Access roads; State aid; application

  •    § 817. Application; contents

  •    § 818. Transportation Board; action

  •    § 819. Other investigation


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