§ 709. Notice and hearing
The selectboard shall promptly appoint a time and date both for examining the premises and hearing the persons interested, and give 30 days’ notice to the petitioners, and to persons owning or interested in lands through which the highway may pass or abut, of the time when they will inspect the site and receive testimony. The selectboard shall also give notice to any municipal planning commission in the town, post a copy of the notice in the office of the town clerk, and cause a notice to be published in a local newspaper of general circulation in the area not less than ten days before the time set for the hearing. The notice shall be given by certified mail sent to the official residence of the person(s) required to be notified. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Chapter 7 - Laying Out, Discontinuing, and Reclassifying Highways
§ 702. Width of highways and trails
§ 706. Duties of commissioners appointed by the Supreme or Superior Court
§ 707. Powers of Supreme and Superior Courts
§ 710. Survey or order of discontinuance
§ 711. Selectboard’s return; recording
§ 712. Damages paid or tendered
§ 714. Possession after time expires
§ 717. Evidence of highway completion or discontinuance
§ 726. Petition to Superior Court
§ 729. Commissioners; selection
§ 741. Appointment of commissioners
§ 742. Commissioners’ report; judgment on report
§ 743. Opening of highway stayed; damages
§ 751. Service of citation; commissioners
§ 752. Court may refuse to appoint commissioners
§ 753. Hearing by commissioners
§ 754. Survey; determining damages
§ 755. Petitioners especially benefited
§ 757. Filing of survey and appraisal
§ 759. Orders on report; costs
§ 760. Order to require payment to town
§ 772. Service of petition; costs
§ 775. Title to discontinued highway
§ 776. Damages for highways discontinued before completion
§ 782. Application; service of citation
§ 784. Suspension of assessment upon discontinuance of highway or bridge
§ 790. Laying out highway or bridge on or near line between two towns
§ 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
§ 809. Value of discontinued highway
§ 811. Benefits to landowner considered
§ 816. Access roads; State aid; application