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. § 2922)
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§ 2922. Other municipalities
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, after any part of this chapter
takes effect, no municipality operating an electric plant or distribution system,
whether under authorization of this chapter or any other general law or special act,
shall extend its service lines into any area outside its borders where electric service
is otherwise then available, except with the consent of the municipality in which
such outside area is located. Such consent shall be given only after application to
the legislative body of the town or city in which it is sought to extend the lines.
Such body shall fix a time and place for hearing on such application and post a notice
thereof in the office of the clerk of the town or city, as the case may be, at least
30 days before the time fixed for hearing. At such hearing or some adjourned session
of the legislative body shall determine whether consent is in the public interest,
and shall issue or withhold its certificate accordingly. However, the legislative
body shall not act with reference to the issuance of the certificate contrary to the
action, if any, of the legal voters of the municipality, taken at any annual or special
meeting duly warned. (Amended 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 411, eff. July 1, 2024.)