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Title 30 : Public Service

Chapter 077 : Gas and Electric Companies

(Cite as: 30 V.S.A. § 2802)
  • § 2802. Sale and distribution; regulation

    A person, association, company, or corporation, its successors, grantees, lessees, trustees, or receivers by whatever court appointed, that generates electric energy within the State by means of water power, or transmits in this State electric energy generated from outside the State, and which, in the location, construction, or maintenance of its generating plant, including the acquiring of water rights, flowing or ponding rights, within the State or rights-of-way, or in the establishment or maintenance of its lines for transmission of electric energy, confiscates by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, either under the general law, or if a corporation, under the provisions of its charter or general law, or has by the provisions of its charter or general law power so to do, the property of any person or any right, title, interest, easement, or estate therein, or uses a public highway for carrying its transmission lines over or along the same or beneath the surface thereof, at all reasonable times when requested so to do, shall sell and furnish at a reasonable price so much or such an amount of such electric energy as the public convenience or necessity may require to any and all persons, companies, cooperatives, and corporations, municipal, public or private, in this State, desiring to use the same in the State for heating, lighting, or power purposes or for any other public use or purpose. Such sale and distribution shall be subject to such reasonable conditions and limitations in each case as the Public Utility Commission may prescribe upon petition brought and after due notice to all parties. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1961, No. 180, § 5; 1967, No. 66, § 2.)