When, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, a person owning or having an interest in lands taken for a burial ground, or gravel or earth for the same, is dissatisfied with such taking or with the damages awarded to him or her by the selectboard in such proceedings, he or she may petition the Superior Court of the county in which such lands lie in the same manner as in case of an appeal as to the laying out of a highway by the selectboard, and thereupon the same proceedings shall be had on such petition. (Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974.)