The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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LOCATION, CONDEMNATION, AND CONSTRUCTION
(Cite as: 5 V.S.A. § 3542)
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§ 3542. Right to alter highway
When it is necessary for a railroad corporation to lay out its road upon or by the
side of a highway, or upon a bridge owned by a town or the Agency of Transportation,
the railroad corporation shall give notice thereof to a member of the selectboard
of the town (where the proposed alteration involves a town highway) or the Secretary
of Transportation (where the proposed alteration involves a State highway). When the
railroad corporation cannot agree with the selectboard members or with the Agency
of Transportation on a road to be worked or a bridge to be built by the railroad corporation,
in place of such road or bridge, or on the amount of damages, the Transportation Board
shall direct it to build such road or bridge, as a substitute for the road or bridge
so located upon, as the interest of the public and the parties require. Upon the construction
of such road or bridge, the road or bridge so located upon shall vest in the railroad
corporation. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 47.)