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. § 3307)
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§ 3307. Interference with supply
If any person diverts the water or part of any of the artesian wells, ponds, springs,
streams, aqueducts, water courses, or reservoirs, that shall be taken, used, or constructed
by such municipal corporation, or shall corrupt the same, or make it impure, or commit
any nuisance therein, or shall bathe therein, or within the limits, that may be taken
or prescribed by such municipal corporation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter,
or injure or destroy any artesian well, dam, embankment, aqueduct, pipe, reservoir,
conduit, hydrant, structure, pump, machinery, or other property held, owned, or used
by such municipal corporation under the provisions of this chapter, such person shall
be liable to such municipal corporation in treble damages, to be recovered in a civil
action on this statute, and any such person on conviction of a violation under this
section shall be fined not exceeding $100.00 or committed to the Commissioner of Corrections
not more than six months, or both. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 17; 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), § 23; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 259.)