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: 10 V.S.A. § 952)
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§ 952. Federal flood control program; natural resources conservation districts as sponsoring
agencies
(a) The natural resources conservation districts may act as local sponsoring agencies
under the provisions of Public Law 83-566, for carrying out programs for flood control,
stream bank protection, and channel improvements, as well as land treatment and drainage,
subject to review and approval by the Department of Environmental Conservation of
all plans for projects that affect stream flow.
(b) A municipality, when authorized by a majority of the voters voting at a meeting warned
and held for that purpose, may purchase, or acquire by gift, title to land within
the State for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating improvements
for flood prevention or conserving, developing, using, and disposing of water under
Public Law 83-566, and may pay 100 percent or less of the nonfederal costs thereof. (Amended 1961, No. 100, § 2(b); 1963, No. 111; 1961, No. 79, § 1(b), eff. May 7, 1963; 1966, No. 27 (Sp. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 12, 1966; 1967, No. 303 (Adj. Sess.), § 15(b), eff. March 22, 1968; 1981, No. 222 (Adj. Sess.), § 14; 1987, No. 76, § 18.)