The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 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.
Title 19 : Highways
Chapter 007 : Laying Out, Discontinuing, and Reclassifying Highways
Subchapter 008 : NEGLECT OF TOWN TO BUILD HIGHWAYS OR BRIDGES
(Cite as: 19 V.S.A. § 781)-
§ 781. Assessment
When a town does not perform the order of the Supreme or Superior Court as to building a highway or building a bridge, the court may, on application, assess the town a sum sufficient to build and complete the highway or bridge. The assessment shall be spent in building the highway or bridge under the direction of a commissioner to be appointed by the court. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)