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: 30 V.S.A. § 23)
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§ 23. Public Service Reserve Fund
There is created a fund to be known as the Public Service Reserve Fund for the purpose
of providing the financial means for the Public Utility Commission and the Department
of Public Service to employ legal counsel, official stenographers, and disinterested
competent persons to examine into and testify in any matter involved in a hearing
under sections 218, 225, 226, and 227 of this title other than the hearings referred to in sections 20 and 21 of this chapter. Payments
into the Public Service Reserve Fund shall be made as follows: All electric distribution
companies, cooperative, municipal, and privately owned, which have been allocated
a share of St. Lawrence power by the Department, shall pay into the State Treasury
for such reserve on or before September 15, 1961 and September 15, 1962, in addition
to the taxes now required by law to be paid, a tax to produce a total of $37,500.00
in the aggregate for each such payment to be paid by each such company in proportion
to its purchase of St. Lawrence power, during the calendar years 1959 and 1960. Thereafter,
on June 30 of each year, there shall be deducted from the balance in the special fund
for the maintenance of the Department’s engineering and accounting force and personnel
employed by the Commission the tax revenues payable under section 22 of this chapter
in that year, and the balance thus determined shall be transferred from the special
fund for the maintenance of the engineering and accounting force to the Public Service
Reserve Fund; provided, however, that, if at June 30 of any year the balance in the
public service reserve fund shall be in excess of $100,000.00, the amount of excess
shall immediately be transferred to the General Fund. (Added 1961, No. 258, § 2, eff. July 31, 1961; amended 1979, No. 204 (Adj. Sess.), § 9, eff. Feb. 1, 1981; 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 344, eff. July 1, 2024.)