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Title 19: Highways
Chapter 007: Laying Out, Discontinuing, and Reclassifying Highways
- Subchapter 001: General Provisions
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§ 701. Definitions
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§ 702. Width of highways and trails
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§ 703. Widening of highways
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§ 704. Survey and boundaries
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§ 705. Papers to be recorded
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§ 706. Duties of commissioners appointed by the Supreme or Superior Court
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§ 707. Powers of Supreme and Superior Courts
- Subchapter 002: Laying Out, Altering, Reclassifying, or Discontinuing Highways by Petition to Selectboard
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§ 708. Petition
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§ 709. Notice and hearing
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§ 710. Survey or order of discontinuance
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§ 711. Selectboard's return; recording
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§ 712. Damages paid or tendered
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§ 713. Time for vacating land
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§ 714. Possession after time expires
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§§ 715, 716. Repealed. 1999, No. 156, § 21(2) and 21(3), eff. May 29, 2000.
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§ 717. Evidence of highway completion or discontinuance
- Subchapter 003: Appeal from Selectboard's Award of Damages
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§ 725. Arbitration
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§ 726. Petition to Superior Court
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§ 727. Application
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§ 728. Service
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§ 729. Commissioners; selection
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§ 730. Commission
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§ 731. Impartial appraisals
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§ 732. Report
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§ 733. Costs
- Subchapter 004: Petition to Superior Court
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§ 740. Petition
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§ 741. Appointment of commissioners
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§ 742. Commissioners' report; judgment on report
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§ 743. Opening of highway stayed; damages
- Subchapter 005: Proceedings in Superior Court on Refusal of Selectboard to Act
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§ 750. Petition
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§ 751. Service of citation; commissioners
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§ 752. Court may refuse to appoint commissioners
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§ 753. Hearing by commissioners
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§ 754. Survey; determining damages
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§ 755. Petitioners especially benefited
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§ 756. Filing of report
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§ 757. Filing of survey and appraisal
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§ 758. Opposing report
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§ 759. Orders on report; costs
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§ 760. Order to require payment to town
- Subchapter 006: Time for Opening of Road
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§ 765. Time limits
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§ 766. Extension of time
- Subchapter 007: Discontinuance of Highways
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§ 771. Procedure
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§ 772. Service of petition; costs
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§§ 773, 774. Repealed. 2005, No. 178 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.
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§ 775. Title to discontinued highway
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§ 776. Damages for highways discontinued before completion
- Subchapter 008: Neglect of Town to Build Highways or Bridges
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§ 781. Assessment
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§ 782. Application; service of citation
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§ 783. Trial by jury; costs
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§ 784. Suspension of assessment upon discontinuance of highway or bridge
- Subchapter 009: Highways Involving Two or More Towns
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§ 790. Laying out highway or bridge on or near line between two towns
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§ 791. Apportioning expenses
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§ 792. Petition to selectboard
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§ 793. Proceedings by selectboards
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§ 794. Highway near but not on line between towns
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§ 795. Town not assessed for highway in another town
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§ 796. Petition by selectboard
- Subchapter 010: Provisions Relating to Damages
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§ 808. Payment of damages
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§ 809. Value of discontinued highway
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§ 810. Allowance lands
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§ 811. Benefits to landowner considered
- Subchapter 011: Community Service Areas
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§ 816. Access roads; State aid; application
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§ 817. Application; contents
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§ 818. Transportation Board; action
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§ 819. Other investigation