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· 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 activity—a 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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