Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 24 Sec. 4446

  • Bylaws: means municipal regulations applicable to land development adopted under the authority of this chapter. 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.
  • Land development: means the division of a parcel into two or more parcels, the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation, or enlargement of any building or other structure, or of any mining, excavation, or landfill, and any change in the use of any building or other structure, or land, or extension of use of land. See
  • Municipality: means a town, a city, or an incorporated village or an unorganized town or gore. See

§ 4446. Bylaws; effect of adoption

Within the jurisdiction of any municipality that has adopted any of the bylaws authorized by this chapter, no land development may be undertaken or effected except in conformance with those bylaws. Bylaws authorized by this chapter may specify for exclusion from review any land development determined to impose no impact or merely a de minimus impact on the surrounding area and the overall pattern of land development. (Added 2003, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 100.)