Vermont § 502 - Petition for appeal of damage award or fee assessment
Full text of Vermont Vermont Statutes Online § 502 — Petition for appeal of damage award or fee assessment, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 502. Petition for appeal of damage award or fee assessment
- (a) When any person or corporation shall be dissatisfied with the decision of said Trustees
in the award of damages for land taken for such sewer or drain, or in any assessment
for contribution for the same, such person or corporation may petition the Orleans
County Court for a re-assessment of such damages or contribution, and any number of
persons agreed may join in the petition but such petition shall not delay the laying
or repairing of such sewer or drain. (b) Said petition shall be served on the clerk of said Village within 60 days after the
awarding of such damages or said assessment for contribution and be filed in the office
of said Village Clerk. Such proceedings shall be had in said Court on such petition
as are provided by law for the reassessment for lands taken for highways, except as
herein provided, and the Commissioners therein provided by said Court shall notify
one of the Trustees of said Village of the time and place when they will hear said
matter.
Source: official Vermont text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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