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Conference committee clarifies municipal authority on legal trails, sets April 1, 2026, effective date
Summary
A Senate conference committee on S.123 agreed to clarify municipal authority to maintain 'legal trails' and to make related changes effective April 1, 2026, citing ongoing litigation and a desire to avoid creating new legal ambiguity.
The Senate committee of conference on S.123 on May 29 agreed to place language clarifying municipal authority to maintain legal trails in the bill’s municipal-authority sections and to make those changes effective April 1, 2026.
Committee members said the change is intended to give towns clearer statutory authority to maintain—or decline to maintain—trails while avoiding language in the bill’s definition that could create new grounds for litigation.
The committee’s staff counsel said a municipal-maintenance provision in the definition could “muddy the waters” and potentially open “a new avenue of litigation” if the court rules differently in an ongoing case. Cale…
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