The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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TOWN LIABILITY FOR NEGLECTING REPAIRS
(Cite as: 19 V.S.A. § 991)
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§ 991. Fine
When a town, liable to keep in repair a highway or bridge, fails to do so, it may
be indicted for this neglect by a grand jury of the county, and may be fined at the
discretion of the court, whether any special damage has been sustained or not. The
fine so assessed shall be spent in repairing the highway or bridge, under the direction
of a commissioner appointed by the court. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)