§ 742. Commissioners’ report; judgment on report
The commissioners shall give notice to one or more of the selectboard members and to the appellants of the time and place where they will examine the area and hear testimony. After completing their inquiries, they shall make a report to the court. The court may accept or reject the report in whole or in part, and by its order or decree may establish, alter, resurvey, or discontinue the highway, and may render judgment for the appellants for any damages as they have severally sustained. When this allowance is greater than was offered by the selectboard members, the court may tax costs for the appellants, or for either party, as is just. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1997, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 14, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.)
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