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5 V.S.A. § 3455
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 62 - Powers and Duties of Board Relating to Railroads|§ 3455. Unlawful acts; petitions to Board; hearings

§ 3455. Unlawful acts; petitions to Board; hearings|In a matter over which the Board has jurisdiction, a person or corporation that claims to be injured by the unlawful action or neglect of a railroad in this State may commence proceedings thereon by petition to the Board, with a copy to the Agency, therein setting forth briefly the cause of complaint. The State's Attorney of the county in which a matter arises, the Attorney General, the legislative body of a municipality, or any ten freeholders of such county by such complaint may bring before the Board any such matter wherein and whereby they claim the public safety is endangered or the charter or statutory law regulating railroads is being violated. When it has information that any railroad in this State is operating in violation of its charter or of the statutory law, the Board shall call the same to the attention of the Attorney General or the State's Attorney of the county where the matter arises. The Attorney General or the State's Attorney shall inquire into the same and, if in his or her judgment the matter should be investigated, he or she shall bring the same before the Board by proper complaint. On receipt of such complaint, the Board shall summon the person or persons complained of to appear before it and to make answer thereto. When issue is taken to the facts set out in the complaint, the Board shall appoint a time and place for hearing the same in the county where the matter arises, and shall then and there hear and determine the matter complained of. Nothing in this section shall be construed to empower the Board to award monetary damages to any person or entity, except as expressly provided by law. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 42.)
5 V.S.A. § 3456
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 62 - Powers and Duties of Board Relating to Railroads|§ 3456. Jurisdiction

§ 3456. Jurisdiction|Without affecting special provisions of law relating to matters contained in this section, the Board shall have jurisdiction on due notice to hear, determine, render judgment, and make orders and decrees in all matters provided for in the charter of any railroad, or in the statutes of this State relating to railroads, and shall have like jurisdiction in all matters respecting:  (1) the crossing of one railroad by another; (2) highway grade crossings and signs, signals, gates, or flaggers at the same; (3) the construction and maintenance of proper fences, cattle guards, and farm crossings; (4) to the extent not preempted by federal law, and in order to accommodate the public and ensure safety and compliance with the law:  (A) the maintenance of the tracks, frogs, switches, gates, signals, culverts, bridges, and other structures over openings; and (B) rolling stock and equipment;  (5) the connections, time, and times of connection between connecting roads for the accommodation of the traveling public, and the transportation of merchandise; (6) the manner of operating railroads and conducting the business thereof so as to be reasonable and expedient and to promote the security, convenience, and accommodation of the public and to prevent violations of law and unjust discriminations, usurpations, or extortions; and (7) any impediment alongside or adjacent to the rights-of-way of railroads, including damaged structures, that imperils the safe passage of trains. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1981, No. 166 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 43; 2017, No. 132 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.)
5 V.S.A. § 3457
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 62 - Powers and Duties of Board Relating to Railroads|§ 3457. Commencement of proceedings; expedited proceedings

§ 3457. Commencement of proceedings; expedited proceedings|(a) Proceedings under section 3456 of this title may be commenced by motion of the Board by petition of the Agency, the Attorney General, the State's Attorney of the county, the legislative body of a municipality, 10 or more freeholders of the State, any railroad doing business in the State, or in such way as the law may otherwise specifically provide.(b) Proceedings involving damaged structures or other impediments alongside or adjacent to the rights-of-way of railroads which imminently imperil the safety of the passage of trains shall be commenced immediately upon notice of the peril to the Board or the Agency. Upon such notice, the Board or the Agency shall immediately investigate and, if it is determined that such danger does exist and cannot be timely removed through informal negotiation, order the owner of the structure or other impediment to immediately take all action necessary to abate the danger. If the owner fails to do so, or is unavailable, the Board or the Agency may, without incurring any civil liability, take all steps necessary to abate the danger, including removal of the damaged structure or other impediment, and all expenses incurred shall constitute a debt due the State upon the rendering of an account therefor to the owner and shall be recoverable from the owner in an action. Expenses incurred by the Board or the Agency may be drawn from the Transportation Fund and any amounts recovered shall be credited to the Transportation Fund. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1981, No. 166 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 44.)
5 V.S.A. § 3458
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 62 - Powers and Duties of Board Relating to Railroads|§ 3458. Planning

§ 3458. Planning|(a) The Agency shall be the authorized Agency of the State for participation in and the receipt of grants and assistance through federal rail assistance legislation, and may receive such grants notwithstanding the provisions of 32 V.S.A. § 5.(b) The Agency shall establish a State plan for rail transportation and local rail services which shall provide for the equitable distribution of funds received, including federal grants or loans, among State, local, and regional transportation authorities.(c) The Agency shall administer any plan developed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, and shall have authority and administrative jurisdiction to develop, promote, supervise, and support adequate, safe, and efficient rail services. (Added 1973, No. 182 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 29, 1974; amended 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 45.)
5 V.S.A. § 3478
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 64 - Incorporation Under General Law|§ 3478. Organization of railroad corporations; continuation of existing corporations

§ 3478. Organization of railroad corporations; continuation of existing corporations|(a) Notwithstanding 11A V.S.A. § 3.01(b)(4), a corporation for the purpose of owning or operating a railroad may be organized under the general laws of this State in the same manner as other corporations.(b) Any domestic railroad corporation in existence before July 1, 1994 shall continue in existence and shall not be required to file new or amended articles of incorporation or to obtain a new or amended charter to continue its corporate existence.(c) Any foreign railroad corporation authorized to do business in this State before July 1, 1994 shall continue to be authorized to do business in this State, and shall not be required to obtain a new or amended certificate of authority.(d) A domestic railroad corporation formed by voluntary association and a domestic railroad corporation chartered by the General Assembly, where the power to amend or repeal the charter was reserved by the General Assembly, shall be subject to the provisions of Title 11A, as the same may be amended from time to time, except in the case of an unambiguous inconsistency with a specific statute pertaining expressly to railroads or railroad corporations.(e) A domestic railroad corporation chartered by the General Assembly, where the power to amend or repeal the charter was not reserved by the General Assembly, shall be subject to the provisions of Title 11A, as the same may be amended from time to time, except in the case of an unambiguous inconsistency with a specific statute pertaining expressly to railroads or railroad corporations or with a provision of the corporation's charter. (Added 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 46; amended 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 10.)
5 V.S.A. § 3498
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 66 - Consolidation and Merger|§ 3498. Liability to taxation

§ 3498. Liability to taxation|Any railroad property which shall be sold to, merged into, or consolidated with the railroad property of another railroad company shall remain subject to the appraisal then made and in force for purposes of taxation under the new ownership, until a new appraisal shall be made in the usual course of business by the Commissioner of Taxes, and the resulting or successor corporation shall be liable for all taxes thereon.
5 V.S.A. § 3518
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3518. Preliminary survey

§ 3518. Preliminary survey|A railroad corporation may cause such examinations and surveys for a proposed railroad to be made as are necessary for the selection of the most advantageous route and, for such purpose, by its officers, agents, and employees, may enter upon lands or waters of a person, subject to liability for actual damages. Entry for other purposes shall not be made without the consent of the owner, until the damages are agreed upon by the parties, or ascertained and paid to the owner, or deposited as hereinafter provided.
5 V.S.A. § 3519
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3519. Location of road to be recorded

§ 3519. Location of road to be recorded|Before a railroad corporation commences proceedings for the purpose of acquiring title to real estate or an interest therein, and, within two years from its incorporation, it shall cause a map or plan of the location of its road defining the courses, distances, and boundaries of the same in each town through which it passes, signed by a majority of the directors, to be recorded in the respective clerk's offices of such towns. If the road passes through an unorganized town or gore, the location shall be recorded in the offices in which conveyances of real estate situated therein are required by law to be recorded.
5 V.S.A. § 3520
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3520. Right to take land and water

§ 3520. Right to take land and water|A railroad corporation may lay out its road, not exceeding five rods wide, and may purchase or otherwise take lands or materials necessary for making or securing its railroad, and such water and in such quantity as is required for the uses of the road, with the right of entering upon the land and constructing and keeping in repair necessary aqueducts.
5 V.S.A. § 3521
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3521. Taking for depot accommodations

§ 3521. Taking for depot accommodations|A railroad corporation may enter upon and take lands necessary for depot accommodations as provided by law and its act of incorporation.
5 V.S.A. § 3522
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3522. Land without road limits

§ 3522. Land without road limits|Land without the limits of its road shall not be taken by a railroad corporation for the requisite and convenient accommodation of its road, without the permission of the owner, unless the commissioners appointed as prescribed in section 3523 of this title, on application of the corporation, and after 12 days' notice to the owner, first prescribe the limits within which such lands shall be taken.
5 V.S.A. § 3523
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3523. Appraisal of damages; appointment of commissioners

§ 3523. Appraisal of damages; appointment of commissioners|When a railroad corporation has not acquired, by gift or purchase, land, real estate, or property, taken or required for the construction, maintenance, and convenient accommodation of its road, and if the parties do not agree as to the price of such land and other property, any two Justices of the Supreme Court, upon application for that purpose by the corporation, shall appoint three disinterested commissioners, one of whom shall be an inhabitant of the town and all shall be inhabitants of the county in which the land or other property to be appraised is situated, to determine the damages which the owners of such land or property have sustained by the occupation of the same for the purposes aforesaid.
5 V.S.A. § 3524
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3524. Notice of time and place of appraisal

§ 3524. Notice of time and place of appraisal|The commissioners shall give 12 days' notice to the occupants or owners of the land of the time and place when and where they will attend to such appraisal, but notice shall not be required to be given of the appraisal of unoccupied lands unless the owner resides in the State or has some known agent or attorney residing herein. If the owner does not reside in the State, and has a known agent or attorney residing herein, the same notice shall be given to the agent or attorney as is directed to be given to the owner or occupant.
5 V.S.A. § 3525
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3525. Description of land and property

§ 3525. Description of land and property|At least ten days before an appraisal is made by the commissioners, the corporation shall deliver to the owner, or deposit in the clerk's office in the town in which the same lies, a plan or description in writing of the land or property so taken.
5 V.S.A. § 3526
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3526. Estate for life or years; reversionary interest

§ 3526. Estate for life or years; reversionary interest|When a railroad corporation takes land subject to an estate for life or years, the commissioners shall appraise the damages to such estate, and also the damages to the reversionary interest.
5 V.S.A. § 3527
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3527. Notice and statement of appraisal; record

§ 3527. Notice and statement of appraisal; record|When an appraisal is made, the commissioners, within 20 days, shall notify the owner, if known, of the amount thereof, and deliver to the corporation a written statement of the same, with a description of the land or other property so appraised. Within 30 days thereafter, the corporation shall cause the same to be recorded in the clerk's office of the town where the land or other estate lies.
5 V.S.A. § 3528
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3528. Payment or deposit of damages conveys property

§ 3528. Payment or deposit of damages conveys property|Upon the payment of the damages by the corporation, as determined upon by the commissioners, with the costs and charges thereupon accruing, or upon the deposit of the same by the corporation in such bank or with such clerk of the Supreme Court as the commissioners direct, to the credit of the person to whom the damages have been awarded, such bank or clerk giving notice personally or by mail to such persons that such deposit has been made, the corporation shall be deemed to be seized and possessed of the land or other property appraised by the commissioners.
5 V.S.A. § 3529
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3529. When owner is an infant or has an intellectual or psychiatric disability

§ 3529. When owner is an infant or has an intellectual or psychiatric disability|When the owner of the land or estate is an infant, or lacks capacity to protect his or her interests due to an intellectual or psychiatric disability, or does not reside in this State, or is not known, the corporation shall cause the damages sustained by the owner to be determined in the manner described in this subchapter, and shall pay the same to the lawful owner when demanded, with interest thereon. Such damages and interest shall be a specific lien upon the real estate of such corporation, and be preferred before any other demand against such corporation. (Amended 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 14; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 11.)
5 V.S.A. § 3530
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3530. Appeal to Superior Court

§ 3530. Appeal to Superior Court|When the corporation or the owner of land or property is dissatisfied with the decision of the commissioners, within 90 days after the date of the award either party may appeal to the Superior Court. Such court shall thereupon appoint three commissioners, one of whom shall be an inhabitant of the county in which such land or property is situated. The decision of the court shall be final upon the report of the commissioners, and costs, in the discretion of the court, may be allowed to either party. An appeal shall not be taken by the corporation after deposit of the amount of the award, nor shall an appeal be taken by the landholder or owner after acceptance thereof. (Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974.)
5 V.S.A. § 3531
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3531. Proceedings in Superior Court respecting damages

§ 3531. Proceedings in Superior Court respecting damages|When a railroad corporation requires for roadway or building materials land, the owner of which is unknown, or where there are conflicting claims to the title, or where such land is encumbered by mortgages, attachments, or the levy of execution, or otherwise, after having the damages appraised by the commissioners, such corporation may apply by petition to a Superior judge, who, in his or her discretion, may order the damages awarded by the commissioners to be deposited with the Clerk of the Court, or in a bank in the county where the land lies, subject to the order of such person as the Superior judge decides is entitled to the same, or subject to the future order of the Superior judge.
5 V.S.A. § 3532
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3532. Notice required before final decree

§ 3532. Notice required before final decree|A final decree shall not be made in such case until reasonable notice of the filing of the petition has been given to persons interested, when they are known and reside in the State. When the owners are unknown or reside outside the State, such notice shall be given as the Superior judge may order.
5 V.S.A. § 3533
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3533. Deposit of damages; sum invested

§ 3533. Deposit of damages; sum invested|On the deposit of the damages under the order of a Superior judge, the title to the land shall vest in the corporation, subject to the right of appeal as in other cases. If the sum so deposited remains for six months undemanded, a Superior judge may order the same invested for the benefit of those interested.
5 V.S.A. § 3534
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3534. Obstruction to private way

§ 3534. Obstruction to private way|If a railroad corporation obstructs the travel or means of access to a manufactory, mill, place of business, or dwelling house in laying out, building, grading, or making its road, it shall be liable to pay to the person thereby injured such reasonable compensation as the commissioners for determining railroad damages deem proper. The person so claiming to be damaged may apply in writing to the commissioners, setting forth such damage. Such application, with a notice from the commissioners to the corporation of the time and place of hearing, shall be served on the corporation according to law.
5 V.S.A. § 3535
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3535. Right of action on nonpayment of damages

§ 3535. Right of action on nonpayment of damages|When a railroad corporation has entered upon and used land and real estate for the construction and accommodation of its railroad and has, by its engineers, agents, or servants, entered upon land contiguous to the railroad or the works connected therewith and taken materials to use in the construction of its road, and has not paid the owner therefor nor, within two years from such entry, had the damages appraised by commissioners and an award made and delivered, a person claiming damages, within six years after such entry, may bring an action therefor before a Superior Court. An answer justifying the entry under the act incorporating the company shall not bar the action, but the plaintiff shall recover only his or her actual damages. (Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, operative Feb. 1, 1967; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 57.)
5 V.S.A. § 3536
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3536. Security from contractors; liability for wages

§ 3536. Security from contractors; liability for wages|A railroad corporation shall require sufficient security from the contractors for the payment of labor performed in constructing the road by persons in their employ. Such corporation shall be liable to the day laborers employed by the contractors for labor actually performed on its road, if the person having such claim, within 40 days after the performance of the labor, shall notify in writing the engineer in charge of the section on which the labor was performed that he or she has not been paid by the contractors.
5 V.S.A. § 3537
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3537. Changes in location

§ 3537. Changes in location|After taking land for a portion of its road, a railroad corporation may vary the direction of the road in the place where such land lies, provided it does not thereby locate its road, or a part thereof, outside the limits prescribed by its act of incorporation. Before the time required by law for completing the road, such corporation shall file the location of the different parts of the road, when such variations are made, with the clerks of the respective towns where such parts are situated, who shall record the same.