When a person does not open a ditch or watercourse, or his or her proportion thereof, in accordance with the order of the selectboard, a person interested who was a party of record in the proceedings may open such ditch or watercourse and collect pay for the same of the party who was directed by the order of the selectboard to open such ditch or watercourse.
Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 10, § 860
Opening on noncompliance with order
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