Vermont Statutes
Chapter 7 - Laying Out, Discontinuing, and Reclassifying Highways
§ 710. Survey or order of discontinuance

§ 710. Survey or order of discontinuance
After examining the premises and hearing any interested parties, and if the selectboard judges that the public good, necessity, and convenience of the inhabitants of the municipality require the highway to be laid out, altered, or reclassified as claimed in the petition, it shall cause the highway to be surveyed in accordance with the provisions of section 33 of this title if the highway right-of-way cannot be determined and shall place suitable monuments to properly mark the bounds of the survey. If the selectboard decides to discontinue a highway, the discontinuance shall be in writing setting forth a completed description of the highway. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1993, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 2021, No. 105 (Adj. Sess.), § 353, 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