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
003
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SEWER SYSTEM
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 215, § 302)
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§ 302. Petition for appeal of damage award or fee assessment
(a) When any person or corporation shall be dissatisfied with the decision of the trustees
in the award of damages for land taken for the sewer or drain, or in any assessment
for contribution for the same, the person or corporation may petition the Orleans
County Court for a reassessment of damages or contribution, and any number of persons
agreed may join in the petition, but the petition shall not delay the laying or repairing
of the sewer or drain.
(b) The petition shall be served on the Clerk of the Village within 60 days after the
awarding of damages or the assessment for contribution and shall be filed in the office
of the Village Clerk. The proceedings shall be had in the court on the petition as
is provided by law for the reassessment for lands taken for highways, except as provided
in this charter, and the commissioners provided by the court shall notify one of the
Trustees of the Village, of the time and place when they will hear the matter. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 300, eff. July 1, 2023.)