The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
005
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DEPARTMENTS AND BOARDS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 1, § 507)
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§ 507. Creation
The City of Barre is authorized and empowered to provide a suitable supply of water
for the City, and the inhabitants that may live along or near its line of pipes in
other municipalities, against fire and for sanitary, domestic, and general industrial
uses, beneficial to the public; to establish water rates and the compensation for
the use of water, and regulate the use of the same; to acquire by gift or purchase
and to take, as the convenience and necessity of the inhabitants require, the lands,
water, water privileges, rights, and property of any person, company, or corporation
within the limits of the City and any other municipality in the State, except such
waters as are in actual use by other municipalities and fire districts for fire, domestic,
sanitary, or other purposes at the time of the passage of this act, also excepting
the Brush Brook watershed in the Town of Williamstown; and to establish and maintain
reservoirs, aqueducts, water pipes, hydrants, or any other apparatus or buildings
necessary for such purposes upon, in, and through the lands of any person, company,
or corporation, on making compensation therefor, and to lay and establish its pipes,
mains, aqueducts in and on the public highways in the City and municipalities, and
also to purchase or take lands or other property that may be necessary and convenient
to protect said water supply against contamination. The general care and supervision
of the City water system, its extension and maintenance shall be vested in the City
Manager and shall be subject to the ordinances and resolutions of the City Council.