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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SEWERS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 235, § 86)
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§ 86. Home owners to construct connecting sewers
After said sewers have been so constructed as above provided each and every owner
of a house in the Village of Ludlow situated upon a street, alley, or lane through
which a main sewer shall be constructed shall cause to be constructed under the direction
of the trustees a sewer or drain from his or her house to such main sewer, which said
sewer or drain shall be so constructed and connected with said main sewer as to take
all of the slop and other filth around said house and all of the filth from any water-closet
or privy and empty the same into said main sewer; and in case any person or corporation
owning a house in said Village shall fail or neglect to construct or build his or
her sewer or drain from his or her house to said main sewer it shall be the duty of
the trustees to give such person or corporation notice to build and construct said
sewer or drain from his or her premises to the main sewer, and in case such person
or corporation does not construct said sewer within 30 days from the time of receiving
said notice then it shall be the duty of said trustees to declare said premises a
nuisance, and said trustees are hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon said
premises and to build and construct a sewer or drain from said premises to the main
sewer in such way as to remove said filth, and the person or corporation upon whose
premises said sewer or drain has been constructed as aforesaid shall pay to the Treasurer
of said Village all of the expense that said Village has been to in constructing said
sewer, and in case such person or corporation fail or neglect to pay the same upon
demand, then the said trustees shall bring an action to recover such expense in the
name of the Village, and said premises shall be holden for the payment of such expense
in building said sewer or drain, and no homestead shall be exempt from attachment
and execution in a suit brought to recover for such expense. The said main sewer shall
discharge into Black River at any point designated by the trustees below the plant
of the Black River Woolen Company.