The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
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Title 19 : Highways
Chapter 007 : Laying Out, Discontinuing, and Reclassifying Highways
Subchapter 005 : PROCEEDINGS IN SUPERIOR COURT ON REFUSAL OF SELECTBOARD TO ACT
(Cite as: 19 V.S.A. § 750)-
§ 750. Petition
When the selectboard does not lay out, alter, or discontinue a highway, or when a highway is laid out by the selectboard and is not built and opened for use within three years, or if discontinued by the selectboard before it is built and opened, persons who are either voters or landowners, and whose number is at least five percent of the voters, of the town may apply for relief by petition in writing to the Superior Court for the same county, or in either county when the highway or bridge is in two counties, for any of these purposes. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
