§ 3672. Definitions
(a) As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings
unless the context indicates another or different meaning or intent:
(1) “Town” means any municipality within the meaning of 1 V.S.A. § 126.
(2) “Sewage system” includes such equipment, pipeline systems, and facilities as are needed
for and appurtenant to the treatment or disposal of sewage and waters, including sewage
treatment plants 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, and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises relating
thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the sewer commission for the operation
thereof.
(3) “Sewage” means the used water supply of a community, including such groundwater, surface,
and stormwater as may or may not be mixed with liquid wastes from the community.
(4) “Stormwater” means the excess water from rainfall.
(5) “Surface water” means water other than stormwater flowing or standing on or over the
surface of the ground.
(6) “Groundwater” means water existing beneath the surface of the ground.
(7) “Improvements” means such repairs, replacements, additions, extensions, and betterments
of and to a sewage system as are deemed necessary by the sewer commissioners to place
or maintain such system in proper condition for its safe, efficient, and economic
operation or to meet requirements for service in such areas which may be served by
the district and for which no existing service is being rendered.
(8) “Costs” as applied to a sewage system include the purchase price of any such system,
the cost of construction, the cost of all labor, materials, machinery, and equipment,
the cost of improvements, the cost of all lands, property, rights, easements, and
franchises acquired, financing charges, interest prior to and during construction
and, if deemed advisable by the sewer commissioners for one year after completion
of construction, cost of plans and specifications, surveys, and estimates of cost
and of revenues, cost of engineering and legal services, and all other expenses necessary
or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of such construction.
(b) A consolidated sewer district shall be deemed to be a municipality within the meaning
of 1 V.S.A. § 126. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 1b, eff. March 22, 1968; amended 2001, No. 109 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. May 16, 2002.)