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.
Subchapter
006
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TIME FOR OPENING OF ROAD
(Cite as: 19 V.S.A. § 765)
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§ 765. Time limits
When the Supreme or Superior Court orders a highway to be laid out or altered, it
shall fix the time within which owners of lands taken shall remove their buildings,
fences, timber, wood, and trees, and open the land for working, and the time when
it shall be opened to be occupied; which time, without consent of the owner, shall
not be less than two months, nor less than six months if the lands taken have buildings.
The court may order sections of a highway to be completed in different times as circumstances
may require, but the whole period shall not be less than one year. When the court
orders the building of a bridge, it shall fix the time within which it shall be completed,
which shall not be less than six months. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)