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Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 23, § 1008 (2026)

Ordinances in municipalities

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Subchapter 001 : GENERAL PROVISIONS

(Cite as: 23 V.S.A. § 1008)

§ 1008. Ordinances in municipalities

(a) The legislative body of a municipality may adopt ordinances as to the operation, use, and parking of motor vehicles, including angle parking; as to the location, design, and structure of traffic lights; as to “stop” signs and “yield right of way” signs at intersections; as to “no-passing” zones; and as to streets designated for one-way traffic in the thickly settled portions of the municipality and may cause any street or highway of adequate width to be divided by appropriate markings into three or more lanes and may, by ordinance, regulate the direction of travel and the turning of vehicles proceeding in those lanes and the passing of vehicles in one lane by overtaking vehicles in another lane, may cause markers, buttons, or signs to be placed within or adjacent to intersections and thereby direct the course traveled by vehicles turning at an intersection, and when markers, buttons, or signs are so placed no driver may turn a vehicle at an intersection other than as directed by the markers, buttons, or signs. However, signs indicating the ordinances must be conspicuously posted in and near all areas affected. Ordinances may not be established on any State highway as defined by 19 V.S.A. § 1(20). Ordinances on all State highways may be made only by the Traffic Committee under section 1003 of this title, except that the Traffic Committee may authorize the legislative body of a municipality to regulate parking within a thickly settled area of a municipality, particularly described in the authorization, on State highways. The board of school directors of a union high school district may adopt ordinances as to the operation, use, and parking of motor vehicles within the boundaries of its school property.

(b) The legislative body of a municipality may adopt ordinances as to the use of lights at night on motor vehicles at rest or in motion on well lighted streets.

(c) Municipal motor vehicle ordinances shall not duplicate or contradict any provision of this title. (Added 1971, No. 258 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 1, 1973; amended 1971, No. 258 (Adj. Sess.), § 13, eff. March 1, 1973; 2017, No. 74, § 61; 2025, No. 18, § 42, eff. May 13, 2025.)

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases, 1962–2009 · leading case: Hebert v. Stanley, 201 A.2d 698 (Vt. 1964).

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Hebert v. Stanley, 201 A.2d 698 (Vt. 1964). · cites it 2× “23 V.S.A. §1008, as amended by Act No. 104 passed at the 1961 session of the Legislature, authorizes the selectmen of a town, the trustees of an incorporated village and the aldermen or city council to make regulations with respect to stop signs at intersections.”

State v. Pelletier, 185 A.2d 456 (Vt. 1962). “However, since the state’s attorney was basing his right to proceed upon 23 V.S.A. §1008 (under which the legislature has recognized *273 that the state has, at least, a co-existing interest with the municipality in the control of motor vehicles and matters relating thereto)…”

State v. Kearney, 2009 VT 56, 979 A.2d 465. · cites it 2× “23 V.S.A. § 1008. Whether a road in a town is a state highway, and whether the town ordinance is a valid enactment with respect to the roads in question, are elements of the traffic offense that the State has the burden of proving.”

Meacham v. Conway, 435 A.2d 961 (Vt. 1981). · cites it 2× “We can agree that ordinances adopted under 23 V.S.A. § 1008, establishing local authority to make special regulations for vehicles other than as to speed, would not be “provisions of this title.”

Bitensky v. Hicks, 184 A.2d 216 (Vt. 1962). “Immediately 23 V.S.A §1008 is for consideration. The above section is headed “Traffic regulations in municipalities —Generally.”

Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 23, § 1008(a): 1 case

State v. Kearney, 2009 VT 56, 979 A.2d 465. “23 V.S.A. § 1008. Whether a road in a town is a state highway, and whether the town ordinance is a valid enactment with respect to the roads in question, are elements of the traffic offense that the State has the burden of proving.”

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Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 23, § 1008 (2026)

Ordinances in municipalities

Subchapter 001 : GENERAL PROVISIONS