The Vermont Statutes Online
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.
(Cite as: 5 V.S.A. § 3783)
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§ 3783. Alteration, petition for; hearings
The selectboard of a town within which a public highway crosses or is crossed by a
railroad, or the general manager or attorney of a railroad corporation whose road
crosses or is crossed by a public highway, may bring their petition in writing to
the Transportation Board alleging that public safety requires an alteration in the
crossing, its approaches, the method of crossing, the location of the public highway,
the elimination of the crossing, the closing of the public highway crossing and the
substitution of another crossing not at grade, or the removal of obstructions to the
sight at the crossing, and praying that the same may be ordered, or proceedings may
be instituted by the Agency of Transportation or the Board of its own motion and without
petition. The Board shall appoint a time and place for hearing the petition on notice
of not less than 10 days to the petitioners, the railroad, the municipality in which
the crossing is situated, the owners of the land adjoining the crossing, and adjoining
that part of the highway to be changed in grade, and to the Attorney General, who
shall, as the Attorney General or through the State’s Attorney of the county where
the crossing is located, represent the interests of the State at the hearing. After
notice and the hearing, the Board shall determine what alterations, changes, or removals,
if any, shall be made and by whom. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 63; 2021, No. 105 (Adj. Sess.), § 43, eff. July 1, 2022.)