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: 24 V.S.A. § 1912)
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§ 1912. Communications plant; authority to acquire, construct, operate, improve, extend, and
better
(a) A municipality is authorized and empowered to own, maintain, operate, improve, and
extend, or otherwise acquire, and to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, in accordance
with and in any situation or manner not prohibited by law, its communications plant
for the furnishing of communications services within or without the corporate limits
of the municipality, for public, domestic, commercial, and industrial use, and for
the provision of communications service. For the aforesaid purposes, the municipality
may hire, lease, purchase, own, hold, and acquire by contract, agreement, or eminent
domain proceedings any buildings, land, rights-of-way, and any other real property
necessary or convenient to the operation of the communications plant, and may use
any public highway over which it may be necessary or desirable to pass with the poles
and wire of the same, provided that the use of such public highway for the purpose
of public travel is not thereby unnecessarily impaired. These powers may be exercised
through a taking by eminent domain in the manner prescribed by law. All of the foregoing
powers are in addition to and not in substitution for or in limitation of any other
powers conferred by law.
(b) Before a municipality may sell any service using its communications plant subject
to Public Utility Commission jurisdiction and for which a certificate of public good
is required under 30 V.S.A. chapter 5 or 13, it shall obtain a certificate of public
good for such service. Each such certificate of public good shall be nonexclusive
and shall not contain terms or conditions more favorable than those imposed on existing
certificate holders authorized to serve the municipality. (Added 2007, No. 79, § 4, eff. June 9, 2007.)