The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
002
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PUBLIC UTILITIES
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 245, § 21)
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§ 21. Communications plant; authority to acquire, construct, operate, improve, extend, and
better
(a) The Village is authorized and empowered to own, maintain, operate, improve, and extend,
or otherwise acquire, and to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, in accordance with
and in any situation or manner not prohibited by law, its communications plant or
plants for the furnishing of communications services within or without the corporate
limits of the Village, for public, domestic, commercial, and industrial use, and for
the provision of communications service. For the aforesaid purposes, the Village
may hire, lease, purchase, own, hold, and acquire by contract, agreement, or eminent
domain proceedings any buildings, land, rights-of-way, and any other property, real
or personal, necessary or convenient to the operation of said communications plant,
and may use any public highway over which it may be necessary or desirable to pass
with the poles and wire of the same, provided that the use of such public highway
for the purpose of public travel is not thereby unnecessarily impaired. These powers
may be exercised through a taking by eminent domain in the manner prescribed by law,
except that the Village shall have no power under 30 V.S.A. chapter 79 to take by
eminent domain telecommunications or cable television property. All of the foregoing
powers are in addition to and not in substitution for or in limitation of any other
powers conferred by law.
(b) Before the Village may sell any communications service over which the Public Utility
Commission has jurisdiction and for which a certificate of public good is required,
it shall obtain a certificate of public good for such service.