The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
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FARM CROSSINGS, CATTLE GUARDS, FENCES, AND WATERCOURSES
(Cite as: 5 V.S.A. § 3648)
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§ 3648. Complaint regarding fences, guards, crossings, watercourses
A person through whose land a railroad passes, after such road is in operation, and
after 10 days’ notice by registered or certified letter addressed to the principal
office of such railroad, may make complaint in writing to the Transportation Board
that he or she is aggrieved by the neglect or default of a railroad corporation in
constructing or maintaining fences, cattle guards, or farm crossings that the corporation
is bound to construct or maintain, or by its stopping, impeding, or altering a watercourse,
or by its making or stopping a ditch. The Board shall give reasonable notice to the
petitioner and to the railroad corporation and to any other parties having an interest
in the subject matter of the complaint of the time and place of hearing thereon, and
such notice shall be given by registered or certified mail or by personal delivery. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 61.)