The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 23 V.S.A. § 1008)
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§ 1008. Ordinances in municipalities
(a) The legislative body of a municipality may adopt ordinances as to the operation, use,
and parking of motor vehicles, including angle parking; as to the location, design,
and structure of traffic lights; as to “stop” signs and “yield right of way” signs
at intersections; as to “no-passing” zones; and as to streets designated for one-way
traffic in the thickly settled portions of the municipality and may cause any street
or highway of adequate width to be divided by appropriate markings into three or more
lanes and may, by ordinance, regulate the direction of travel and the turning of vehicles
proceeding in those lanes and the passing of vehicles in one lane by overtaking vehicles
in another lane, may cause markers, buttons, or signs to be placed within or adjacent
to intersections and thereby direct the course traveled by vehicles turning at an
intersection, and when markers, buttons, or signs are so placed no driver may turn
a vehicle at an intersection other than as directed by the markers, buttons, or signs.
However, signs indicating the ordinances must be conspicuously posted in and near
all areas affected. Ordinances may not be established on any State highway as defined
by 19 V.S.A. § 1(20). Ordinances on all State highways may be made only by the Traffic Committee under
section 1003 of this title, except that the Traffic Committee may authorize the legislative body of a municipality
to regulate parking within a thickly settled area of a municipality, particularly
described in the authorization, on State highways. The board of school directors of
a union high school district may adopt ordinances as to the operation, use, and parking
of motor vehicles within the boundaries of its school property.
(b) The legislative body of a municipality may adopt ordinances as to the use of lights
at night on motor vehicles at rest or in motion on well lighted streets.
(c) Municipal motor vehicle ordinances shall not duplicate or contradict any provision
of this title. (Added 1971, No. 258 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 1, 1973; amended 1971, No. 258 (Adj. Sess.), § 13, eff. March 1, 1973; 2017, No. 74, § 61; 2025, No. 18, § 42, eff. May 13, 2025.)