Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 19 Sec. 755

  • 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
  • Lay out: means the legal procedure establishing the alignment or right-of-way of a highway. See

§ 755. Petitioners especially benefited

When the commissioners determine that the petitioners or some of them, will be especially benefited, they may make their decision to lay out the highway conditional upon the payment by the petitioners benefited of money, in the amount as the commissioners deem just, towards the expense of laying out and building the highway. They shall include a statement of the names of the parties benefited and the amount apportioned to each in their report to the Superior Court. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)