Vermont Statutes Annotated

Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 19, § 991 (2026)

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Subchapter 008 : TOWN LIABILITY FOR NEGLECTING REPAIRS

(Cite as: 19 V.S.A. § 991)

§ 991. Fine

When a town, liable to keep in repair a highway or bridge, fails to do so, it may be indicted for this neglect by a grand jury of the county, and may be fined at the discretion of the court, whether any special damage has been sustained or not. The fine so assessed shall be spent in repairing the highway or bridge, under the direction of a commissioner appointed by the court. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1998–1999 · leading case: Sagar v. Warren Selectboard, 744 A.2d 422 (Vt. 1999).

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Sagar v. Warren Selectboard, 744 A.2d 422 (Vt. 1999). · cites it 2× “fails to do so," 19 V.S.A. § 991; see also 1840 R.S. ch. 21, § 30, and (2) relief through county road commissioners and the superior court when a highway "is out of repair or unsafe for travel.”

Villeneuve v. Town of Essex, 713 A.2d 815 (Vt. 1998). · cites it 2× “Assuming that § 991 would provide alternative relief to citizens in plaintiff’s position, that statute cannot act as a substitute for a reasonable interpretation of § 971 in the context of its own subchap-ter.”

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