Selectboard may lay out, establish, construct, or cause to be constructed and maintained
a drain, ditch, or watercourse leading from a highway in the town, across the lands
of any person to a watercourse, to carry away the surface water from the highway,
or other drainage necessary for public health, if it judges the public good or the
necessity or convenience of individuals requires this work. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
Hamilton v. Town of Holland, 2007 VT 133 (Vt. 2007). “The Town also refers to 19 V.S.A. § 950, which provides that the selectboard “may lay out, establish, construct, or cause to be constructed .”
Town of Richmond v. Cowan (Vt. Super. Ct. 2005). “This is because the right that Town seems to assert over this ditch comes from a statute which empowers selectmen of a town to lay out, establish, construct, or cause to be constructed and maintained a drainage ditch to lead water from a highway.”
Town of Richmond v. Cowan (Vt. Super. Ct. 2005). “This is because the right that Town seems to assert over this ditch comes from a statute which empowers selectmen of a town to lay out, establish, construct, or cause to be constructed and maintained a drainage ditch to lead water from a highway.”
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