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
:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 3, § 263)
-
§ 263. Authorization to make improvements without petition; assessment of costs
The City Council shall have power, without such petition, to make one or more of the
improvements above specified, and to assess against the owner or owners of the lands
or buildings abutting upon such street, lane, or alley, and adjoining the part where
such improvements shall be made, whether made upon petition or otherwise, so much
of the cost and expense of making such improvements as it shall judge such lands or
buildings to be benefited thereby; but in no case shall the cost and expense of making
such improvements be assessed against the abutting owner on either side of any such
street or portion thereof in excess of one-half of such cost and expense in the construction
of sidewalks, or in excess of one-fourth of such cost and expense in the making of
any of the other improvements specified in the preceding section and the City shall
pay one-half of the cost and expense of all improvements therein mentioned, provided
that all assessments for street improvements heretofore made shall remain in full
force and effect until paid or abated.