The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
008
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SEWER, WATER, AND LIGHT SYSTEMS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 251, § 810)
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§ 810. Rights-of-way of public service corporation
If in the construction, completion, maintenance, or future extension of said water
system it becomes necessary, in order to complete said system or to convey water to
the said Village or its inhabitants, to lay the water pipes or mains of said system
across premises or a right-of-way owned by a public service corporation and already
devoted to a public use and in case said Village and said corporation cannot agree
as to the place and manner in which said water pipes or mains shall be laid across
such premises or right-of-way or upon the amount to be paid therefor, or in case said
corporation refuses to permit said Village to lay its water pipes or mains across
said premises or right-of-way, the said Village or said corporation may petition the
Public Service Commission which after due notice and hearing to the parties interested
shall determine whether it is necessary that said water pipes or mains may be laid
across said premises or right-of-way and if so in what place and manner and if so,
what amount shall be paid therefor and to whom it shall be paid. The orders and findings
of said Commission shall be subject to appeal or exception to the extent and in the
manner now provided by the general law of Vermont in the case of the condemnation
of land for railroad purposes.