Vermont Statutes
Chapter 7 - Laying Out, Discontinuing, and Reclassifying Highways
§ 750. Petition

§ 750. Petition
When the selectboard does not lay out, alter, or discontinue a highway, or when a highway is laid out by the selectboard and is not built and opened for use within three years, or if discontinued by the selectboard before it is built and opened, persons who are either voters or landowners, and whose number is at least five percent of the voters, of the town may apply for relief by petition in writing to the Superior Court for the same county, or in either county when the highway or bridge is in two counties, for any of these purposes. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)

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