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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ESTABLISHMENT AND ORGANIZATION
(Cite as: 30 V.S.A. § 5017)
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§ 5017. Powers of municipalities
A municipality may by resolution of its legislative body enter into contracts with
the Authority for the purchase, sale, exchange, or transmission of electric energy
and other services, on such terms and for such period of time as the resolution may
provide. A municipality may by resolution of its legislative body enter into a contract
with the Authority related to the issuance of bonds and notes as authorized by section 5031 of this title only after an affirmative vote of the qualified voters at any duly warned annual
or special meeting held for that purpose. The required vote may either approve a specific
contract with the Authority or it may approve generally the right for the municipality
to enter into all such contracts with the Authority by resolution of its legislative
body. A municipality may appropriate electricity-derived revenues received in any
year to make payments due during that year under any contract made by the municipality
with the Authority. Nothing in this section shall be construed to repeal any charter
provision or law requiring an election or other condition precedent to the establishment
of a municipal electric plant. (Added 1979, No. 78, § 3; amended 2009, No. 78 (Adj. Sess.), § 41, eff. April 15, 2010.)