Vermont § 25 - Streets and sidewalks

§ 25. Streets and sidewalks

• The City Council shall have power to regulate, establish, and alter the grade of streets
  and width of sidewalks, and the construction thereof, and to prescribe the material
  to be used therein, and also to provide, order, and direct that the sidewalks upon
  such streets as the City Council shall designate, shall together with the curbing
  therefor, be constructed in part at the expense of the owner or owners of the lands
  or buildings adjacent thereto, and in proportion to the benefit conferred, not to
  exceed one-half, and to assess the lands or buildings of such owner or owners adjacent
  to or abutting on any such sidewalk so constructed in compliance with such order,
  such proportion of the cost or expense thereof, such assessment to be apportioned
  among the owners of such lands or buildings fronting as aforesaid according to their
  frontage on such sidewalk, and the benefit to be conferred to be made in the manner
  and in accordance with provisions respecting highways