· 12/8/2000
In Re Appeal of Vermont Railway
Citations
- 769 A.2d 648
- 171 Vt. 496
- 2000 Vt. LEXIS 327
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that ICCTA did not preempt local laws that regulated activitya railroad's operation of a salt distributorship \ancillary to the operations of the rail line\ that did not have \an economic impact on [the railroad's] operations\
- holding ICCTA did not preempt city’s zoning ordinance for permit for salt shed on railroad property
- finding that local zoning regulations of railroad’s salt shed operation were not preempted to the extent that they concerned traffic issues and potential environmental contamination
- explaining that deference is afforded to agency’s interpretation of statutes in subject matter in which agency possesses particular expertise and does not extend to constitutional questions
- the ICCTA did not preempt a city’s zoning conditions for a railway’s salt-shed facility
- consider agency’s interpretation of its own statute if language is ambiguous
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Judges: Amestoy, Dooley, Morse, Johnson, Skoglund
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