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.
Subchapter
002
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PLEADINGS GENERALLY
(Cite as: 12 V.S.A. § 1040)
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§ 1040. Eminent domain; restrictions on use; conferring of private benefit; economic development
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no governmental or private entity may
take private property through the use of eminent domain if the taking is primarily
for purposes of economic development, unless the property is taken pursuant to 24
V.S.A. chapter 85 (urban renewal).
(b) This section shall not affect the authority of an entity authorized by law to use
eminent domain for the following purposes:
(1) transportation projects, including highways, airports, and railroads;
(2) public utilities, including entities engaged in the generation, transmission, or distribution
of electric, gas, sewer and sewage treatment, or communication services;
(3) public property, buildings, hospitals, and parks; or
(4) water, wastewater, stormwater, flood control, drainage, or waste disposal projects. (Added 2005, No. 111 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)