Vermont Statutes
Chapter 7 - Laying Out, Discontinuing, and Reclassifying Highways
§ 772. Service of petition; costs

§ 772. Service of petition; costs
When a petition is made to the Superior or Supreme Court to discontinue a highway laid out by commissioners appointed by either of the courts, which has not been built agreeably to the orders of the court, the petition shall be served on one or more of the original petitioners for the laying of the highway, as well as on one or more selectboard members of the town or towns through which the highway is laid, or the petition, on motion, shall be dismissed. If commissioners are appointed and report adversely to the request of the petition, the original petitioners shall, in the discretion of the court, be entitled to costs. (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