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
004
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VILLAGE AS HIGHWAY DISTRICT
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 217, § 401)
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§ 401. Highway district
All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted
a highway district of the Town of Derby, and three-fourths of all highway taxes assessed
upon the ratable estate in the highway district shall be paid in money by the Selectboard
of the Town of Derby to the Treasurer of the Village to be used and applied by the
Trustees in building, repairing, and sustaining the highways, streets, walks, alleys,
sidewalks, and lanes; and if any portion of the tax so paid into the treasury of the
Village in the judgment of the Trustees shall not be needed for the purposes specified
in this section, the same may, in the discretion of the Trustees, be expended in improving,
beautifying, or lighting the streets or commons of the Village, and no highway surveyor
shall be required or chosen by the Town for said Village. The tax shall be paid over
by the Selectboard on or before the first day of July in each year. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 311, eff. July 1, 2023.)