Vermont Statutes
Chapter 7 - Laying Out, Discontinuing, and Reclassifying Highways
§ 704. Survey and boundaries

§ 704. Survey and boundaries
When the selectboard accepts, lays out, or alters a highway, as provided in this chapter, it shall cause a survey to be made in accordance with the provisions of section 33 of this title and shall mark each termination of the survey by a permanent monument or boundary or refer the termination or survey by course and distance, to some neighboring permanent monument. The survey shall describe the highway and the right-of-way by courses, distances, and width, and shall describe the monuments and boundaries. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1993, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 2021, No. 105 (Adj. Sess.), § 352, eff. July 1, 2022.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 19 - Highways

Chapter 7 - Laying Out, Discontinuing, and Reclassifying Highways

§ 701. Definitions

§ 702. Width of highways and trails

§ 703. Widening of highways

§ 704. Survey and boundaries

§ 705. Papers to be recorded

§ 706. Duties of commissioners appointed by the Supreme or Superior Court

§ 707. Powers of Supreme and Superior Courts

§ 708. Petition

§ 709. Notice and hearing

§ 710. Survey or order of discontinuance

§ 711. Selectboard’s return; recording

§ 712. Damages paid or tendered

§ 713. Time for vacating land

§ 714. Possession after time expires

§ 717. Evidence of highway completion or discontinuance

§ 725. Arbitration

§ 726. Petition to Superior Court

§ 727. Application

§ 728. Service

§ 729. Commissioners; selection

§ 730. Commission

§ 731. Impartial appraisals

§ 732. Report

§ 733. Costs

§ 740. Petition

§ 741. Appointment of commissioners

§ 742. Commissioners’ report; judgment on report

§ 743. Opening of highway stayed; damages

§ 750. Petition

§ 751. Service of citation; commissioners

§ 752. Court may refuse to appoint commissioners

§ 753. Hearing by commissioners

§ 754. Survey; determining damages

§ 755. Petitioners especially benefited

§ 756. Filing of report

§ 757. Filing of survey and appraisal

§ 758. Opposing report

§ 759. Orders on report; costs

§ 760. Order to require payment to town

§ 765. Time limits

§ 766. Extension of time

§ 771. Procedure

§ 772. Service of petition; costs

§ 775. Title to discontinued highway

§ 776. Damages for highways discontinued before completion

§ 781. Assessment

§ 782. Application; service of citation

§ 783. Trial by jury; costs

§ 784. Suspension of assessment upon discontinuance of highway or bridge

§ 790. Laying out highway or bridge on or near line between two towns

§ 791. Apportioning expenses

§ 792. Petition to selectboard

§ 793. Proceedings by selectboards

§ 794. Highway near but not on line between towns

§ 795. Town not assessed for highway in another town

§ 796. Petition by selectboard

§ 808. Payment of damages

§ 809. Value of discontinued highway

§ 810. Allowance lands

§ 811. Benefits to landowner considered

§ 816. Access roads; State aid; application

§ 817. Application; contents

§ 818. Transportation Board; action

§ 819. Other investigation