Vermont Statutes
Chapter 1 - State Highway Law; General Transportation Provisions
§ 21. Picnic areas and parking places

§ 21. Picnic areas and parking places
(a) The Agency may purchase, or lease, or take in the manner provided in chapter 5 of this title, as part of the highway, land adjacent to any route that is needed for the preservation of its scenic character, or for the purpose of providing picnic or camping grounds, or for parking areas for the use of travelers, provided that land taken for these purposes by condemnation proceedings shall not extend in width more than 250 feet from the center of the traveled portion of the highway (except limited access facilities).
(b) The Agency shall, as a matter of policy, consider the establishment of wayside rest areas when constructing or reconstructing State highways, and when requested, town highways. The cost of building or rebuilding the wayside rest areas shall be included in the costs of constructing or reconstructing that highway. The cost of maintenance of these wayside rest areas shall be included in the cost of maintaining that highway.
(c) [Repealed.] (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1989, No. 246 (Adj. Sess.), § 8; 1999, No. 18, § 18, eff. May 13, 1999; 2007, No. 164 (Adj. Sess.), § 33.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 19 - Highways

Chapter 1 - State Highway Law; General Transportation Provisions

§ 1. Definitions

§ 2. Composition of Agency

§ 3. Transportation Board; creation; members

§ 4. Transportation Board; meetings; quorum; compensation

§ 5. Transportation Board; powers and duties

§ 5a. Executive Secretary

§ 5b. Conflicts of interest

§ 6. Other boards, commissions, councils, and committees

§ 7. Secretary; powers and duties

§ 7a. Hearing before Secretary

§ 8. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles; appointment; duties and powers

§ 9. Divisions; general provisions

§ 10. Duties

§ 10a. Procurement of engineering and design services through competitive negotiation

§ 10b. Statement of policy; general

§ 10c. Statement of policy; highways and bridges

§ 10d. Statement of policy; airports

§ 10e. Statement of policy; railroads

§ 10f. Statement of policy; public transportation

§ 10g. Annual report; Transportation Program; advancements, cancellations, and delays

§ 10h. Cooperative interstate agreement

§ 10i. Transportation planning process

§ 10j. Intermodal and multimodal transportation facilities; project planning criteria

§ 10k. Statement of policy; asset management; sale of State property

§ 10l. Agency cooperation with regional planning commissions

§ 10m. Statement of policy; sustainable building components; annual report

§ 11. Transportation Fund

§ 11a. Transportation funds appropriated for the Department of Public Safety

§ 11b. Town Highway Revolving Fund

§ 11c. Deposit in escrow account of amounts retained from progress payments

§ 11d. Funds for rehabilitation of historic bridges

§ 11e. Reimbursements

§ 11f. Transportation Infrastructure Bond Fund

§ 12. Appropriations to Agency of Transportation

§ 12a. Transportation Program provided to the Committees on Transportation

§ 12b. Joint Transportation Oversight Committee

§ 13. Central Garage Fund

§ 14. State highways

§ 15. Changes in the State highway system

§ 15a. Border crossings; cooperation with federal government

§ 16. Duties of Secretary in unorganized towns and gores

§ 17. Contracts; labor preference

§ 18. Wages

§ 19. Small business enterprises

§ 20. Small claims for injury or damage

§ 21. Picnic areas and parking places

§ 23. Rights of action; notice

§ 24. Venue and service

§ 25. Settlement and payment

§ 26. Purchase and sale of property

§ 26a. Determination of rent to be charged for leasing or licensing State-owned property under the Agency’s jurisdiction

§ 27. Throughway designation

§ 28. Regulatory signs

§ 29. Intersecting highways

§ 30. Issue of notes for State highway construction

§ 31. Abandonment of project; reconveyance

§ 32. Assumed width of right-of-way

§ 33. Survey of existing highways; damages

§ 34. Appeal from survey

§ 35. Entrance upon lands for survey

§ 37. Impoundments of water created by beaver

§ 38. Transportation Alternatives Grant Program

§ 39. Agency of Transportation assistance with municipal salt sheds

§ 42. Reports preserved; consolidated transportation report

§ 43. State highway closures

§ 44. Statewide Property Parcel Mapping Program