§ 708. Petition (a) Persons who are either voters or landowners, and whose number is at least five percent of the voters, in a town, desiring to have a highway laid out, altered, reclassified, or discontinued, may apply by petition in writing to the selectboard for that purpose. A person who is a landowner in […]
§ 709. Notice and hearing The selectboard shall promptly appoint a time and date both for examining the premises and hearing the persons interested, and give 30 days’ notice to the petitioners, and to persons owning or interested in lands through which the highway may pass or abut, of the time when they will inspect […]
§ 710. Survey or order of discontinuance After examining the premises and hearing any interested parties, and if the selectboard judges that the public good, necessity, and convenience of the inhabitants of the municipality require the highway to be laid out, altered, or reclassified as claimed in the petition, it shall cause the highway to […]
§ 711. Selectboard’s return; recording (a) Within 60 days after the examination and hearing, the selectboard shall return the original petition with a report of its findings and of the manner of notifying the parties together with the survey or discontinuance, to the town clerk’s office. The selectboard’s order laying out, altering, reclassifying, or discontinuing […]
§ 712. Damages paid or tendered When the selectboard determines that a person through whose land the highway passes or abuts is entitled to damages, the town shall pay or tender to him or her damages as the selectboard determines reasonable before the highway is opened. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
§ 713. Time for vacating land When the selectboard lays out or alters a highway, it shall fix in its order the time within which the owner of the lands taken shall remove the owner’s buildings, fences, timber, wood, or trees. Without the consent of the owner, the time shall not be less than two […]
§ 714. Possession after time expires When a highway is laid out or altered, the selectboard may take possession of the land within the surveyed limits, at any time after the expiration of the time fixed by the selectboard unless appealed to the Superior Court for landowners to remove their buildings, fences, trees, timber, or […]
§ 717. Evidence of highway completion or discontinuance (a) The lack of a certificate of completion of a highway shall not alone constitute conclusive evidence that a highway is not public. (b) A town or county highway that has not been kept passable for use by the general public for motorized travel at the expense […]
