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. § 3301)
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§ 3301. Water supply; construction; condemnation; exceptions
A municipal corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain,
and repair an artesian well, reservoir or reservoirs, pumps, engines, and apparatus;
take, purchase, and acquire any artesian wells, ponds, springs, streams, water courses,
real estate, water rights, flowage rights, and easements necessary for its purposes
within the limits provided by this section, together with such land surrounding and
adjacent to the same as may be reasonably necessary for protecting and preserving
the purity of the water in such artesian wells, ponds, springs, and streams; and may
enclose such artesian wells, ponds, springs, and streams by suitable fences for the
purpose of such protection; and such corporation, within the limits set forth in this
section, and subject to the provisions of 30 V.S.A. § 108, may take, acquire, or purchase any or all of the rights or properties owned or operated
by any person or corporation engaged in the business of a water company, as defined
by 30 V.S.A. § 203, within the limits of such municipal corporation. Such corporation may enter in and
upon any land or water for the purpose of making surveys, may take and construct dams
and reservoirs, lay pipes and aqueducts, may connect the same with the main aqueduct
as may be necessary to convey the water taken to the reservoirs of such municipal
corporation and distribute the same through such municipal corporation for the purpose
of supplying the inhabitants thereof with water for fire, domestic, and other purposes.
However, such municipal corporation shall not take otherwise than by purchase water
or a spring of water that the owner or lessee or other person having a vested right
or interest in such water or the use thereof may reasonably require for domestic use
or the watering of animals on the premises where such water may be in use. (Amended 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 256.)