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Title 19 — Highways · Chapter 7
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§ 701. Definitions As used in this chapter: (1) “Acceptance” means receipt of the right-of-way neede…
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§ 702. Width of highways and trails The right-of-way for each highway and trail shall be three rods …
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§ 703. Widening of highways If the width of a highway as laid out is less than the law or the public…
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§ 704. Survey and boundaries When the selectboard accepts, lays out, or alters a highway, as provide…
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§ 705. Papers to be recorded A copy of any order of a court establishing, altering, or discontinuing…
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§ 706. Duties of commissioners appointed by the Supreme or Superior Court Any commissioners appointe…
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§ 707. Powers of Supreme and Superior Courts Upon petition for that purpose as in case of laying out…
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§ 708. Petition (a) Persons who are either voters or landowners, and whose number is at least five p…
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§ 709. Notice and hearing The selectboard shall promptly appoint a time and date both for examining …
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§ 710. Survey or order of discontinuance After examining the premises and hearing any interested par…
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§ 711. Selectboard’s return; recording (a) Within 60 days after the examination and hearing, the sel…
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§ 712. Damages paid or tendered When the selectboard determines that a person through whose land the…
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§ 713. Time for vacating land When the selectboard lays out or alters a highway, it shall fix in its…
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§ 714. Possession after time expires When a highway is laid out or altered, the selectboard may take…
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§§ 715, 716.
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§ 717. Evidence of highway completion or discontinuance (a) The lack of a certificate of completion …
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§ 725. Arbitration If the damages offered by the selectboard are unacceptable to the property owner,…
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§ 726. Petition to Superior Court A person not satisfied with the damages offered by the selectboard…
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§ 727. Application The application shall be made within 60 days after the highway is opened for trav…
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§ 728. Service On receipt of the petition, the court shall issue a citation stating the time and pla…
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§ 729. Commissioners; selection When the parties do not agree with any other method of appointing co…
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§ 730. Commission The court shall direct the commission to impartially appraise the damages sustaine…
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§ 731. Impartial appraisals The commissioners shall be sworn to make impartial appraisals. They shal…
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§ 732. Report The court may accept or reject the report in whole or in part or recommit it to the sa…
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§ 733. Costs When the appraisal by the commissioners is more than was offered by the selectboard, th…
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§ 740. Petition (a) When a person owning or interested in lands through which a highway is laid out,…
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§ 741. Appointment of commissioners The court shall appoint three disinterested landowners as commis…
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§ 742. Commissioners’ report; judgment on report The commissioners shall give notice to one or more …
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§ 743. Opening of highway stayed; damages When the appeal to the Superior Court is based on objectio…
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§ 750. Petition When the selectboard does not lay out, alter, or discontinue a highway, or when a hi…
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§ 751. Service of citation; commissioners The petition with a citation, shall be served on one or mo…
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§ 752. Court may refuse to appoint commissioners When, within five years from the date of the petiti…
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§ 753. Hearing by commissioners The commissioners shall appoint a time and place for examination and…
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§ 754. Survey; determining damages When the commissioners decide to lay out or alter a highway, they…
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§ 755. Petitioners especially benefited When the commissioners determine that the petitioners or som…
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§ 756. Filing of report When the commissioners have completed their inquiries, they shall report the…
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§ 757. Filing of survey and appraisal The commissioners shall also file a copy of the survey and the…
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§ 758. Opposing report The town or any interested person may appear before the court to oppose the a…
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§ 759. Orders on report; costs The court may reject or accept the report in whole or in part, and by…
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§ 760. Order to require payment to town When the report makes the laying out of the highway conditio…
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§ 765. Time limits When the Supreme or Superior Court orders a highway to be laid out or altered, it…
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§ 766. Extension of time The selectboard of a town in which a highway or bridge is ordered to be bui…
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§ 771. Procedure (a) The legislative body of a municipality may discontinue a town highway after fol…
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§ 772. Service of petition; costs When a petition is made to the Superior or Supreme Court to discon…
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§§ 773, 774.
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§ 775. Title to discontinued highway The selectboard shall notify the Commissioner of Forests, Parks…
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§ 776. Damages for highways discontinued before completion When a public highway is laid out and dam…
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§ 781. Assessment When a town does not perform the order of the Supreme or Superior Court as to buil…
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§ 782. Application; service of citation The application may be made by one or more of the original p…
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§ 783. Trial by jury; costs The town may have a trial by jury regarding its neglect to perform the o…
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§ 784. Suspension of assessment upon discontinuance of highway or bridge When a highway or bridge es…
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§ 790. Laying out highway or bridge on or near line between two towns The selectboards of two adjoin…
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§ 791. Apportioning expenses When a highway is or has been previously laid out on the line between t…
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§ 792. Petition to selectboard When the public good or convenience of the inhabitants requires a hig…
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§ 793. Proceedings by selectboards The selectboards shall proceed in the same manner as the selectbo…
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§ 794. Highway near but not on line between towns (a) When the public good or the convenience of the…
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§ 795. Town not assessed for highway in another town A town shall not be assessed for the expense of…
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§ 796. Petition by selectboard When a bridge is required between two towns and the selectboards of t…
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§ 808. Payment of damages When a court orders damages to be paid to a person for injury done to his …
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§ 809. Value of discontinued highway When a discontinued highway belongs to the owner of land throug…
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§ 810. Allowance lands When a lot of land remains entire, as originally divided among the proprietor…
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§ 811. Benefits to landowner considered In estimating the damages sustained by a person owning or in…
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§ 816. Access roads; State aid; application When after hearing on a petition or on their own motion,…
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§ 817. Application; contents In its application under section 816 of this title, the selectboard sha…
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§ 818. Transportation Board; action When the Board receives an application for additional State mone…
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§ 819. Other investigation The applicant town should also consult with such other agencies or depart…