The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 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.
Title 32 : Taxation and Finance
Chapter 009 : Appropriations
(Cite as: 32 V.S.A. § 710)-
§ 710. Payment of State agency fees
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Agency of Transportation, any cooperating municipalities, and their contractors or agents shall be exempt from the payment of fee charges for reviews, inspections, or nonoperating permits issued by the Department of Public Safety, a District Environmental Commission, and the Agency of Natural Resources for any projects undertaken by or for the Agency and any cooperating municipalities for which all or a portion of the funds are authorized by a legislatively approved transportation construction, rehabilitation, or paving program within a general appropriation act introduced pursuant to section 701 of this title except for those fees established under 3 V.S.A. § 2822(j)(2)(A)(iii), (j)(10), (j)(11), and (j)(26).
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no fees shall be charged for reviews, inspections, or nonoperating permits issued by the Department of Public Safety, a District Environmental Commission, and the Agency of Natural Resources for:
(1) Any project undertaken by the Department of Buildings and General Services, the Agency of Natural Resources, or the Agency of Transportation that is authorized or funded in whole or in part by the capital construction act introduced pursuant to section 701a of this title except for those fees established under 3 V.S.A. § 2822(j)(2)(A)(iii), (j)(10), (j)(11), and (j)(26).
(2) Any project undertaken by a municipality, which is funded in whole or in part by a grant or loan from the Agency of Natural Resources or the Agency of Transportation financed by an appropriation of a capital construction act introduced pursuant to section 701a of this title except for those fees established under 3 V.S.A. § 2822(j)(2)(A)(iii), (j)(7)(A) and (B), (j)(10), (j)(11), and (j)(26). However, all such fees shall be paid for reviews, inspections, or permits required by municipal solid waste facilities developed by a solid waste district that serves, or is expected to serve, in whole or in part, parties located outside its own district boundaries pursuant to 10 V.S.A. chapter 159. (Added 1993, No. 59, § 20, eff. June 3, 1993; amended 1993, No. 233 (Adj. Sess.), § 57, eff. June 21, 1994; 1995, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 4(c)(1); 1999, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 86, eff. May 24, 2000; 2003, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 115, eff. Jan. 31, 2005; 2005, No. 103 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 5, 2006; 2015, No. 64, § 45.)
