Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 19 Sec. 1709

  • Agency: means the Agency of Transportation. See
  • highway: includes rights-of-way, bridges, drainage structures, signs, guardrails, areas to accommodate utilities authorized by law to locate within highway limits, areas used to mitigate the environmental impacts of highway construction, vegetation, scenic enhancements, and structures. See
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

§ 1709. Local service highways

In the development of any limited access facility, the Agency may plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service highways or designate as local service highways any existing highway and may exercise jurisdiction over local service highways in the same manner as over limited access facilities if the local service highways are necessary or desirable. The local service highways shall be separated from the limited access facility. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1989, No. 246 (Adj. Sess.), § 17.)