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 App. V.S.A. ch. 207, § 29)
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§ 29. Electric utility authorization
The Village is authorized and empowered by and with the consent of a majority of the
legal voters of the Village, at a meeting legally warned and held for that purpose,
to purchase or establish an electric light plant, and for that purpose may purchase,
have, hold, and convey personal and real estate inside or outside the limits of the
Village corporation for the purpose of lighting the highways and streets of the Village,
and furnishing electric lights, electric heat, and electric motive power to persons
and parties within the corporate limits of the Village, on terms and subject to rules
and regulations that may be agreed upon between the Village and the persons and parties,
and for the purposes described in this section, may run electric lines along, over,
or under highways, streets, or public grounds, inside or outside the corporate limits,
provided public travel shall not be unnecessarily affected or impeded, and subject
to all lawful ordinances and regulations as to the use of highways and streets; and
the Village corporation shall have authority to hire and appropriate money, raise
taxes, and issue its corporate bonds for the purchasing, establishing, constructing,
extending, enlarging, and maintaining of its electric light plant. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 287, eff. July 1, 2023.)