Title 19, Title 19: Highways

§ 10c. Statement of policy; highways and bridges (a) For projects that are on the National Highway System, if site conditions, environmental factors, or engineering factors restrict the use of national standards for geometric design, the Agency may pursue exceptions to those stan…

§ 10d. Statement of policy; airports (a) The Agency shall continue to promote the preservation of existing public airports, reduction of hazards to air navigation, and, where the need is indicated, modest expansion of existing public facilities. (b) On the State airport system, t…

§ 10e. Statement of policy; railroads (a) The General Assembly recognizes that rail service, both passenger and freight, is an integral part of the State’s transportation network and that it must be fully integrated into the State’s transportation network as a whole. Accordingly,…

§ 10f. Statement of policy; public transportation (a) It shall be the State’s policy to make maximum use of available federal funds for the support of public transportation. State operating support funds shall be included in Agency operating budgets to the extent that funds are a…

§ 10g. Annual report; Transportation Program; advancements, cancellations, and delays (a) Proposed Transportation Program. The Agency of Transportation shall annually present to the General Assembly for adoption a multiyear Transportation Program covering the same number of years…

§ 10h. Cooperative interstate agreement (a) [Repealed.] (b) In connection with any authorized construction project in the State of Vermont that extends into or affects an adjoining state, the Agency, on behalf of the State of Vermont, may enter into a cooperative agreement with t…

§ 10i. Transportation planning process (a) Long-range systems plan. The Agency shall establish and implement a planning process through the adoption of a long-range multi-modal systems plan integrating all modes of transportation. The long-range multi-modal systems plan shall be …

§ 10j. Intermodal and multimodal transportation facilities; project planning criteria (a) Initial screening/threshold requirements. In considering a proposal for an intermodal or multimodal transportation facility, the Agency shall take into account the size of the community, the…

§ 10k. Statement of policy; asset management; sale of State property (a) The Agency shall develop an asset management plan that is a systematic goal- and performance-driven management and decision-making process of operating, maintaining, and upgrading transportation assets cost-…

§ 10l. Agency cooperation with regional planning commissions (a) Legislative intent. The General Assembly finds that regional planning commissions possess a unique expertise that enables the Agency to conduct rural transportation planning and local consultation activities that bu…

§ 10m. Statement of policy; sustainable building components; annual report (a) Policy. It shall be the State’s policy to use sustainable building components, including recycled materials and manufacturing byproducts, in all maintenance, construction, and improvement projects with…

§ 10n. Mobility and Transportation Innovations (MTI) Grant Program (a) The Mobility and Transportation Innovations (MTI) Grant Program is created within the Public Transit Section of the Agency. The MTI Grant Program shall support innovative transportation demand management progr…

§ 11. Transportation Fund The Transportation Fund shall comprise the following: (1) all taxes, penalties, and fees received by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles except those relating to motorboats imposed under 23 V.S.A. chapter 29, which shall be expended pursuant to 23 V.S.A. …

§ 11a. Transportation fund appropriations No transportation funds shall be appropriated for the support of government other than for the Agency, the Board, Transportation Pay Act Funds, construction of transportation capital facilities, transportation debt service, and the operat…

§ 11b. Town Highway Revolving Fund There is created a special account within the Transportation Fund known as the Town Highway Revolving Fund for the purpose of charging the expense for work performed for towns by the Agency. All receipts from towns for performance of these servi…

§ 11c. Deposit in escrow account of amounts retained from progress payments Upon satisfactory completion of the contract work and full settlement or payment of all damages, claims, or liabilities incurred in connection with the contract work, the retained percentage and any inter…

§ 11d. Funds for rehabilitation of historic bridges (a) Notwithstanding 32 V.S.A. § 706(1) and (2), the Agency of Transportation may transfer funds to the Division for Historic Preservation in the Agency of Commerce and Community Development to be used for the following purposes:…

§ 11e. Reimbursements Receipts for damage to State property under the control of the Agency of Transportation, other than recoveries under 32 V.S.A. § 134, sales of supplies, interdepartmental transfers for maintenance of roads under the jurisdiction of other departments of the S…

§ 11f. Transportation Infrastructure Bond Fund (a) There is created a special fund within the Transportation Fund known as the Transportation Infrastructure Bond Fund to consist of funds raised from the motor fuel transportation infrastructure assessments levied pursuant to 23 V.…

§ 12. Appropriations to Agency of Transportation Monies appropriated from the Transportation Fund to the Agency shall be appropriated to the Agency accounts for the following purposes: (1) construction and maintenance of State highways, railroads, and airports, including necessar…

§ 12a. Transportation Program provided to the Committees on Transportation The Transportation Program shall be provided by the Agency of Transportation to the members of the House and Senate Committees on Transportation following the presentation of the State budget to the Genera…

§ 12b. Joint Transportation Oversight Committee (a) There is created a Joint Transportation Oversight Committee composed of the Chairs of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, the House and Senate Committees on Transportation, the House Committee on Ways and Means, a…

§ 13. Central Garage Fund (a) There is created the Central Garage Fund, which shall be used to: (1) furnish equipment on a rental basis to the districts and other sections of the Agency for construction, maintenance, and operation of highways or other transportation activities; a…

§ 14. State highways (a) The State highways shall be those highways so designated on a map entitled “Vermont State Highways,” filed in the Office of the Secretary of State on June 30, 1997, as subsequently modified by additions or deletions made pursuant to subsection (b) of this…

§ 15. Changes in the State highway system (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, highways may be added to or deleted from the State highway system by: (1) an act of the General Assembly; or (2) a proposal by the Agency that is accepted by the legislative body o…

§ 15a. Border crossings; cooperation with federal government (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title but pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, the Agency (in the case of State highways) and municipalities (in the case of town highways) are au…

§ 16. Duties of Secretary in unorganized towns and gores The Secretary shall have the same power in all matters pertaining to the highways in unorganized towns and gores that selectboards have in organized towns, and may spend any available funds, including State aid and local ta…

§ 17. Contracts; labor preference A person, firm, or corporation awarded any contract for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, and repair of a highway under the jurisdiction of the Agency shall give preference to Vermont labor and to trucks owned in Vermont and operated…

§ 18. Wages In making up specifications and advertising for bids on highway work, the Agency shall fix, subject to local conditions, the minimum wage per hour for various classes of labor and the minimum to be paid per hour or per cubic yard for trucks that the contractor shall b…

§ 19. Small business enterprises It is declared to be in the best interests of the State and the general welfare of Vermonters to encourage and develop the actual and potential capacity of small business enterprises, and to use this important segment of the State’s economy to the…

§ 2. Composition of Agency (a) The Agency shall be composed of the following: (1) the Department of Motor Vehicles; (2) such divisions as the Secretary finds necessary to carry out the provisions of Titles 5 and 19, as well as any other duties imposed by law on the Agency or the …

§ 20. Small claims for injury or damage The Board shall have exclusive jurisdiction over claims of $5,000.00 or less made for personal injuries or property damage, or both, sustained as the result of the negligence of any employee of the Agency. The Board may hear all parties in …

§ 21. Picnic areas and parking places (a) The Agency may purchase, or lease, or take in the manner provided in chapter 5 of this title, as part of the highway, land adjacent to any route that is needed for the preservation of its scenic character, or for the purpose of providing …

§ 23. Rights of action; notice All rights of action on account of the insufficiency or want of repair of any bridge or culvert on the highways taken over by the State shall exist against the State and not against the town, provided that the notice required in sections 987 and 988…

§ 24. Venue and service Any action against the State shall be brought against the State, returnable to the Superior Court in the county where the damages were sustained. Service of the writ shall be made on the Governor or Attorney General. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.…

§ 25. Settlement and payment After receiving the notice provided for in section 23 of this title, the Agency with the approval of the Attorney General may adjust and settle with the person claiming damages, and the Commissioner of Finance and Management shall issue his or her war…

§ 26. Purchase and sale of property (a)(1) Subject to subsection (b) of this section: (A) The Agency may purchase or lease any land, taking conveyance in the name of the State, when land is needed in connection with the layout, construction, repair, and maintenance of any State h…

§ 26a. Determination of rent to be charged for leasing or licensing State-owned property under the Agency’s jurisdiction (a) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (b) of this section, or as otherwise provided by law, leases or licenses negotiated by the Agency under 5 V.S.A.…

§ 27. Throughway designation The Agency may designate any State highway or part of a State highway as a throughway and, after notice, may revoke the designation. A town may designate any town highway or part of a town highway within the control of the town as a throughway and, af…

§ 28. Regulatory signs Except as provided in 23 V.S.A. § 1074, the designation of a throughway shall not become effective as to regulation of traffic at any point in intersection with any highway until the Agency or the selectboard in a town, as the case may be, shall erect suita…

§ 29. Intersecting highways A highway joining a throughway at an angle, whether or not it crosses the throughway, shall be deemed to intersect it. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)

§ 3. Transportation Board; creation; members The Transportation Board is formed to be attached to the Agency of Transportation. There shall be seven members of the Board, appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Governor shall so far as is possible…

§ 30. Issue of notes for State highway construction The State Treasurer, with the approval of the Governor, may borrow money upon notes of the State in anticipation of the proceeds of transportation bonds that have been or subsequently are authorized by the General Assembly or in…

§ 31. Abandonment of project; reconveyance If land has been acquired by the State in fee simple for highway purposes, or if the State has acquired a perpetual leasehold in land for highway purposes, and if the land has not been improved subsequent to its acquisition, the State sh…

§ 32. Assumed width of right-of-way A roadway width of one and one-half rods on each side of the center of the existing traveled way can be assumed and controlled for highway purposes whenever the original survey was not properly recorded, or the records preserved, or if the term…

§ 33. Survey of existing highways; damages (a) For the purposes of this and the following section of this title, the word “survey” means: (1) a survey of the existing highway where no previous survey has been properly recorded or the record of a previous survey has not been prese…