[Adopted 9-3-1957]
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Editor's Note: See Section 13a-48 of the Connecticut
General Statutes.
The Board of Selectmen and the Town Planning
and Zoning Commission shall have the joint responsibility for accepting
private roads as public highways and accepting private property for
highway use.
It shall be the duty of the Planning and Zoning
Commission to make its acceptance in the official records of the Commission
based upon compliance with the legally constituted requirements of
said Commission in each case, and it shall be the duty of the Board
of Selectmen to make its acceptance in the record of Town procedure
based upon compliance with the bylaws and regulations of the Town
of Wilton relating to construction; provided, however, that no private
roads shall be accepted as public highways and no private property
shall be accepted for highway use until after a public hearing shall
have been held by the Board of Selectmen with respect to said acceptance,
notice of which hearing shall have been given by publication in a
newspaper having a circulation in the Town of Wilton.
No road shall be accepted by the Town except
upon application, in writing, accompanied by a survey showing its
location and in accordance with the governing Road Construction Standards
and Specifications, effective March 2, 1961.[1]
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Editor's Note: The Road Construction Standards
and Specifications are included in Part II of the Appendix.
