The selectmen of a town in which a highway or bridge is ordered to be built may apply by petition to the court making the order, to extend the time for completing the highway or bridge. Notice shall be given to one or more of the original petitioners for the highway or bridge, and one or more of the selectboard of any other town, in which the highway or bridge is partly located, by serving the petition on them with a citation for that purpose, at least 12 days before the term of the Court to which the petition is returnable, and the Court may extend the time as the circumstances of the case require. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)