The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 5 V.S.A. § 1824)
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§ 1824. Application for certificate of public good; hearing
A certificate shall be issued only after written application has been made. Upon receipt
of an application, the Board shall fix a time and place for hearing, which shall be
in a town within which the route or a part of the route is proposed, and shall give
notice of the pendency of the application and of the time and place of hearing to
the applicant, and to any common carrier operating over any portion of the proposed
route or over a route substantially parallel to the proposed route. The Board shall
make an order for the publication of the substance of the petition and of the time
and place of the hearing in a newspaper published in the county or counties where
the proposed route is located, the publication to be at least 12 days before the day
appointed for the hearing. A public hearing shall be held on the petition. To enable
the provision of service for which there is an immediate or urgent need to a point
or points within a territory having no carrier service capable of meeting those needs,
the Board may, without hearings or other proceedings, grant temporary authority for
the service by a common carrier. Temporary authority, unless suspended or revoked
for good cause, shall be valid for the time as the Board shall specify but not more
than an aggregate of 180 days and shall create no presumption that corresponding permit
authority shall be granted. (Added 1985, No. 224 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)