The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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MUNICIPAL AIRPORTS
(Cite as: 5 V.S.A. § 607)
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§ 607. Acquisition by federal government
The cities and towns of this State owning or operating a municipal airport, in order
more readily to cooperate with the federal government to further national defense,
are hereby empowered by their legislative bodies to lease or sell and convey to the
United States or any proper department of the United States an airport for use as
a government air base for the purposes of national defense and by the lease are hereby
empowered to enter into any agreements with the United States or any department of
the United States as the United States or the department may require for the purposes
of national defense and the legislative body of the municipality may deem just and
to grant to the United States the right, title, interest, control, and management
for such purposes as the United States might acquire by the right of eminent domain
and condemnation proceedings. Provision shall be made in such lease for adequate
compensation for any damages that may be caused to private rights or interests in
the airport that may arise by reason of the provisions of the lease, and provision
shall also be made in the lease for the preservation of the use of the airport for
civilian air commerce as the requirements of the government will permit, the purpose
of the provisions of this section being to obviate the necessity of the government
resorting to condemnation proceedings. In the event that any airport is sold to the
United States under the provisions of this section and section 608 of this title for the purposes of national defense, the municipality shall be relieved from any
obligations to hold the airport or any part of the airport for public use on reasonable
terms and without discrimination. In the event the airport is leased to the federal
government for the purpose of national defense, the municipality shall be relieved
for the duration of the lease from any obligations to hold the airport or any part
of the airport for public use on reasonable terms and without discrimination. (Added 1985, No. 222 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)