§ 756. Filing of report
§ 756. Filing of report When the commissioners have completed their inquiries, they shall report their findings and decision with the survey and appraisal of damages, if any. The report shall be returned to and filed in the county clerk’s office within 30 days after the completion of the inquiry. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. […]
§ 757. Filing of survey and appraisal
§ 757. Filing of survey and appraisal The commissioners shall also file a copy of the survey and the appraisal of damages in the town clerk’s office at the time of filing their report in the Superior Court. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
§ 758. Opposing report
§ 758. Opposing report The town or any interested person may appear before the court to oppose the acceptance of the report by showing any relevant facts. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
§ 759. Orders on report; costs
§ 759. Orders on report; costs The court may reject or accept the report in whole or in part, and by its order or decree establish, alter, or discontinue the highway, in whole or in part, and render judgment for or against the town in favor of the persons interested in the lands and for […]
§ 760. Order to require payment to town
§ 760. Order to require payment to town When the report makes the laying out of the highway conditional upon the payment of part of the expense by the petitioners especially benefited, the order laying out the highway shall require payment to the town within a stated time. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § […]
§ 765. Time limits
§ 765. Time limits When the Supreme or Superior Court orders a highway to be laid out or altered, it shall fix the time within which owners of lands taken shall remove their buildings, fences, timber, wood, and trees, and open the land for working, and the time when it shall be opened to be […]
§ 766. Extension of time
§ 766. Extension of time The selectboard of a town in which a highway or bridge is ordered to be built may apply by petition to the court making the order to extend the time for completing the highway or bridge. Notice shall be given to one or more of the original petitioners for the […]
§ 771. Procedure
§ 771. Procedure (a) The legislative body of a municipality may discontinue a town highway after following the procedures of sections 708-711 of this title. The authority of the legislative body under this subsection shall extend to any town highway, regardless of whether the highway was originally laid out by the town, the former county […]
§ 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 […]
§ 775. Title to discontinued highway
§ 775. Title to discontinued highway The selectboard shall notify the Commissioner of Forests, Parks and Recreation when it has filed a petition to discontinue a highway under this subchapter. The selectboard may designate the proposed discontinued highway as a trail, in which case the right-of-way shall be continued at the same width. The Commissioner […]