Vermont Statutes
Chapter 1 - State Highway Law; General Transportation Provisions
§ 7a. Hearing before Secretary

§ 7a. Hearing before Secretary
(a) In the administration of the laws relating to highways, the Secretary may conduct hearings, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and take testimony. He or she may also cause depositions to be taken and order the production of books, papers, and records relating to the matter under investigation. The fees for travel and attendance of witnesses and fees for officers shall be the same as for witnesses and officers before a Civil Division of the Superior Court and shall be paid by the State upon presentation of proper bills of cost to the Commissioner of Finance and Management. The fees of witnesses summoned or used by the petitioner shall be paid by him or her. The Secretary may appoint a hearing examiner to conduct hearings.
(b) A person aggrieved by the decision of a hearing under subsection (a) of this section may have the decision reviewed on the record by the Superior Court pursuant to Rule 74 of the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure unless otherwise specifically provided by law. (Added 1993, No. 61, § 9, eff. June 3, 1993; amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 19 - Highways

Chapter 1 - State Highway Law; General Transportation Provisions

§ 1. Definitions

§ 2. Composition of Agency

§ 3. Transportation Board; creation; members

§ 4. Transportation Board; meetings; quorum; compensation

§ 5. Transportation Board; powers and duties

§ 5a. Executive Secretary

§ 5b. Conflicts of interest

§ 6. Other boards, commissions, councils, and committees

§ 7. Secretary; powers and duties

§ 7a. Hearing before Secretary

§ 8. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles; appointment; duties and powers

§ 9. Divisions; general provisions

§ 10. Duties

§ 10a. Procurement of engineering and design services through competitive negotiation

§ 10b. Statement of policy; general

§ 10c. Statement of policy; highways and bridges

§ 10d. Statement of policy; airports

§ 10e. Statement of policy; railroads

§ 10f. Statement of policy; public transportation

§ 10g. Annual report; Transportation Program; advancements, cancellations, and delays

§ 10h. Cooperative interstate agreement

§ 10i. Transportation planning process

§ 10j. Intermodal and multimodal transportation facilities; project planning criteria

§ 10k. Statement of policy; asset management; sale of State property

§ 10l. Agency cooperation with regional planning commissions

§ 10m. Statement of policy; sustainable building components; annual report

§ 11. Transportation Fund

§ 11a. Transportation funds appropriated for the Department of Public Safety

§ 11b. Town Highway Revolving Fund

§ 11c. Deposit in escrow account of amounts retained from progress payments

§ 11d. Funds for rehabilitation of historic bridges

§ 11e. Reimbursements

§ 11f. Transportation Infrastructure Bond Fund

§ 12. Appropriations to Agency of Transportation

§ 12a. Transportation Program provided to the Committees on Transportation

§ 12b. Joint Transportation Oversight Committee

§ 13. Central Garage Fund

§ 14. State highways

§ 15. Changes in the State highway system

§ 15a. Border crossings; cooperation with federal government

§ 16. Duties of Secretary in unorganized towns and gores

§ 17. Contracts; labor preference

§ 18. Wages

§ 19. Small business enterprises

§ 20. Small claims for injury or damage

§ 21. Picnic areas and parking places

§ 23. Rights of action; notice

§ 24. Venue and service

§ 25. Settlement and payment

§ 26. Purchase and sale of property

§ 26a. Determination of rent to be charged for leasing or licensing State-owned property under the Agency’s jurisdiction

§ 27. Throughway designation

§ 28. Regulatory signs

§ 29. Intersecting highways

§ 30. Issue of notes for State highway construction

§ 31. Abandonment of project; reconveyance

§ 32. Assumed width of right-of-way

§ 33. Survey of existing highways; damages

§ 34. Appeal from survey

§ 35. Entrance upon lands for survey

§ 37. Impoundments of water created by beaver

§ 38. Transportation Alternatives Grant Program

§ 39. Agency of Transportation assistance with municipal salt sheds

§ 42. Reports preserved; consolidated transportation report

§ 43. State highway closures

§ 44. Statewide Property Parcel Mapping Program