The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
015
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WEIGHT, SIZE, LOADS
(Cite as: 23 V.S.A. § 1397)
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§ 1397. Weight limit signs
(a) When the weight limit on a highway or bridge has been adjusted by the Secretary of
Transportation, the selectboard of a town, the trustees of an incorporated village,
or the city council of a city, as to the legal load limit, then the Secretary, selectboard,
trustees, or city council shall have each restricted highway or bridge posted for
the legal load limit permitted. The notices shall be of a permanent nature and shall
be placed at each end of each restricted highway in each town, village, or city affected
or on the approaches to each restricted bridge. The notices shall state the legal
load limit permitted to be operated over the highway or bridge.
(b) The notices specified in subsection (a) of this section may be omitted when the restricted
highway is a class 4 town highway or a class 3 town highway serving only one residence. (Amended 1991, No. 214 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. May 27, 1992; 1993, No. 186 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 1995, No. 73 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2021, No. 184 (Adj. Sess.), § 44, eff. July 1, 2022.)