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Municipal leaders urge clarification of legal‑trail maintenance rights amid Tunbridge court case
Summary
Municipal representatives told the Senate Transportation committee that statutory clarification is needed to ensure towns may continue to maintain legal trails that cross private property, following an encumbrance lawsuit in Tunbridge that has raised questions about maintenance authority.
Officials from the Vermont League of Cities and Towns and municipal representatives appeared before the Senate Transportation committee to support S.4 (legal trails language) and to ask for statutory clarification so municipalities can continue to maintain and manage designated legal trails that cross private parcels.
John Panker and Samantha Sheehan of the League summarized results of a voluntary survey of municipalities that maintain legal trails: of 45 respondents, 44 reported…
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