§ 3601. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Board” means the board of sewage system commissioners.
(2) “Domestic sewage” or “house sewage” means sanitary sewage derived principally from
dwellings, business buildings, and institutions.
(3) “Industrial wastes” or “trade wastes” means liquid wastes from industrial processes,
including suspended solids.
(4) “Necessity” means a reasonable need that considers the greatest public good and the
least inconvenience and expense to the condemning party and to the property owner.
Necessity shall not be measured merely by expense or convenience to the condemning
party. Due consideration shall be given to the adequacy of other property and locations;
to the quantity, kind, and extent of property that may be taken or rendered unfit
for use by the proposed taking; to the probable term of unfitness for use of the property;
to the effect of construction upon scenic and recreational values, upon home and homestead
rights and the convenience of the owner of the land; to the effect upon town grand
list and revenues.
(5) “Sanitary sewage” means used water supply commonly containing human excrement.
(6) “Sanitary treatment” means an approved method of treatment of solids and bacteria
in sewage before final discharge.
(7) “Sewage” means the used water supply of a community, including such used water supply
or stormwater as may or may not be mixed with these liquid wastes from the community.
(8) “Sewage system” means any equipment, stormwater control system, pipeline system, and
facilities as are needed for and appurtenant to the treatment or disposal of sewage
and waters, including a sewage treatment or disposal plant and separate pipelines
and structural or nonstructural facilities as are needed for and appurtenant to the
treatment or disposal of storm, surface, and subsurface waters.
(9) The phrase “sewage treatment or disposal plant” includes, for the purposes of this
chapter, any plant, equipment, system, and facilities, whether structural or nonstructural,
as are necessary for and appurtenant to the treatment or disposal by approved sanitary
methods of domestic sewage, garbage, industrial wastes, stormwater, or surface water.
(10) “Stormwater” has the same meaning as “stormwater runoff” under 10 V.S.A. § 1264.
(11) “Stormwater management system” means any structure, or improvement, whether structural
or nonstructural, necessary for collecting, containing, controlling, treating, or
conveying stormwater, including sewers, curbs, drains, conduits, natural and man-made
channels, settling ponds, pipes, and culverts. (1963, No. 214, § 1; amended 2001, No. 109 (Adj. Sess.), § 8, eff. May 16, 2002; 2023, No. 143 (Adj. Sess.), § 13, eff. July 1, 2024.)