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.
Subchapter
004
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TAXATION
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 3, § 114)
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§ 114. Council to establish and prescribe nature of connections
The City Council shall establish rates to be paid for the use of water supplied by
the City water works that shall be called “service rates.” Such service rates and
the rates for electricity supplied at retail by the electric light plant shall be
and hereby are made a lien in the nature of a tax upon the real estate so supplied
with water and electricity and shall be collected and enforced under such regulations
and ordinances as the City Council shall prescribe. The City Council may by ordinance
prescribe the nature and character of connections between the water mains and lands
and buildings to be supplied with water and what lands and buildings shall be so connected
and when, under what circumstances, and in what manner, and that the connections and
all repairs to the same shall be made by the City at the expense of the owner of the
property, and that the cost of all materials and labor for the same may be charged
against the owner of the property served, and shall be a lien in the nature of a tax
upon the real estate so supplied with water, and may likewise prescribe the means
of collecting and enforcing such lien and payment of all such charges.