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House Transportation Committee adopts Senate 'legal trails' language for DMV bill
Summary
The Vermont House Transportation Committee voted May 16 to add Senate language clarifying municipal authority to maintain "legal trails" to a miscellaneous DMV bill and to include an intent section describing the legislature’s rationale.
The Vermont House Transportation Committee voted Friday, May 16, to include language from the Senate clarifying municipal authority over "legal trails" in a miscellaneous Department of Motor Vehicles bill and to add an intent section explaining the legislature’s rationale.
The change updates definitions in 19 V.S.A. chapter 3, aligns municipal terminology ("legislative body"/"select board") with current municipal law, and revises the definition of "trail" to emphasize that a trail is a public right of way that is not a highway. The committee also approved language stating a municipality "shall have the authority to maintain trails,…
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