Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-06-26


TON OF ELECTRIC ENERGY.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont.
SECTION /. Every person, associa-
ton, company or corporation now or
hereafter engaged in the business of
generating in this State electric energy
and distributing the same for general
sale, for heating, lighting or power
purposes or for any other public use,
shall if and when requested so to do at
all reasonable times sell and distribute
the same to any and all persons, COM
panies, associations and corporations,
municipal, public or private, who de-
sire to use the same within this State
for either or any of such purposes; sub
ject, however, to such reasonable limi-
tations as to the amount of energy to be
furnished purchaser, and which shall
in no case be beyond what is reasonably
necessary, and also as to the distance,
if any, from the generating plant or
from its lines of transmission that said
energy shall be delivered, as the public
service commission may determine after
hearing had upon due notice thereof
given to the parties interested. The
charges made by any person, company
or corporation Tor electric energy so
sold ard distributed shall be reasonable ;
and in case the parties do not agree as
to the amount of such charges, the pub
lie service commission shall upon hear
ing had after proper notice to both fix
and determine the same, and may upon
like notice and hearing from time to
time change them; and in fixing and
determining said charges, the amount
sold and the distance from the general
ing plant or lines of transmission to the
place of delivery and such other con-
ditions as affect the cost of production,
transmission and value shall be con-
sidered.
SEC. 2. Any person, association,
company or corporation, their sue
cessors, grantees, lessees, trustees OF
receivers by whatever court appointed
that now or hereafter generates electric
energy within the State by means OF
water power, and which, in the location,
construction or maintenance of its gen.
Grating plant, including the acquiring
of water rights, flowing or ponding
rights, within the State or rights OF
way, or in the establishment or main.
tenance of its lines for transmission OF
electric energy, confiscates by the exer
else of the right of eminent domain
either under the general law, or if &
corporation under the provisions of it:
charter, or has by the provisions of it.
charter power so to do, the property Of
any person or any right, title, interest
easement or estate therein, or uses {
public highway or streets of munic
pality for carrying his or its transmits
sion lines over or along the same OF
beneath the surface thereof, shall at al
reasonable times when requested so t
do, sell and furnish at a REASONABLE,
price so much or such an amount of sale
electric energy as the public con
venience or necessity may require t
any and all persons, companies and cor
poratons, municipal or private, in THU
State, desiring to use the same in tn,
State for heating, lighting or power
purposes or for any other public use o.
purpose; subject to such REASONABLE,
conditions and limitations in each cas-,
as the public service commission upol
petition brought and after due motto,
to both parties may prescribe.
SEC. 3. The procedure, when tn
parties cannot agree, for carrying GU
the provisions of this act, shall be b,
petition brought by the person or party
seeking to purchase and receive sue
electric energy against the part
generating the same to the publ
service commission, setting forth tn
purpose for which the energy is needle
and the amount, and such other facts a
under the provisions of this act, or tn
section relied upon, as the case may be
will entitle the petitioner to purchas
and receive such electric energy iron
the petitionee, and praying that tn
petitionee may be called upon t
answer said petition and for relief; an
he shall give sufficient security to tn
petionee by way of recognizance as re
quired in a writ of summons, that h
will prosecute his petition to effect
and pay all costs that may be awarde
the petionee apainst him