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Maine Revised Statutes, Title 23, § 2054: Proceedings; return; durable monuments erected

County commissioners must meet, view the way, hear interested parties, make a signed return with a plan and damage details if they decide the way should be established or changed, and erect durable monuments when the way…

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Proceedings; return; durable monuments erected

County commissioners must meet, view the way, hear interested parties, make a signed return with a plan and damage details if they decide the way should be established or changed, and erect durable monuments when the way is finally established and open to…

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§ 2054Proceedings; return; durable monuments erectedProvision

County commissioners must meet, view the way, hear interested parties, make a signed return with a plan and damage details if they decide the way should be established or changed, and erect durable monuments when the way is finally established and open to travel.

The county commissioners shall meet at the time and place appointed and view the way, and there, or at a place in the vicinity, hear the parties interested. If they judge the way to be of common convenience and necessity or that any existing way shall be altered, graded or discontinued, they shall proceed to perform the duties required; make a correct return of their doings, signed by them, accompanied by an accurate plan of the way, and state in their return when it is to be done the names of the persons to whom damages are allowed, the amount allowed to each and when to be paid. When the way has been finally established and open to travel, they shall cause durable monuments to be erected at the angles thereof.
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