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30 V.S.A. § 3077
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 82 - Communications Union Districts|§ 3077. Pledge of revenues

§ 3077. Pledge of revenues|(a) When the board, at a regular or special meeting called for such purpose, determines by resolution passed by a vote of a majority of members present and voting that the public interest or necessity demands communications plant improvements, or a long-term contract, and that the cost of the same will be too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual income and revenue of the district, the board may pledge communications plant net revenues and enter into long-term contracts to provide for such improvements. A "long-term contract" means an agreement in which the district incurs direct or conditional obligations for which the costs are too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual income and revenues of the district, in the judgment of the board. It includes an agreement authorized under 24 V.S.A. § 1789, wherein performance by the district is conditioned upon periodic appropriations. The term "communications plant improvements" includes improvements that may be used for the benefit of the public, whether or not publicly owned or operated.(b) The pledge of communications plant net revenues, and other obligations allowed by law, may be authorized for any purpose permitted by this chapter, 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 2, and chapter 54, or any other applicable statutes. A communications plant is declared to be a project within the meaning of 24 V.S.A. § 1821(4). (Added 2015, No. 41, § 20, eff. June 1, 2015.)
30 V.S.A. § 3078
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 82 - Communications Union Districts|§ 3078. Sinking and reserve funds

§ 3078. Sinking and reserve funds|(a) The board may establish and provide for sinking and reserve funds, however denominated, for the retirement and security of pledges of communications plant net revenue, or for long-term contracts. When so established, such funds shall be kept intact and separate from other monies at the disposal of the district, and shall be accounted for as a pledged asset for the purpose of retiring or securing such obligations or contracts. The cost of payments to any sinking or reserve fund shall be included in the annual budget of the district.(b) The board shall establish and provide for a capital reserve fund to pay for communications plant improvements, replacement of worn out buildings and equipment, and planned and unplanned major repairs in furtherance of the purpose for which the district was created. Any such capital reserve fund shall be kept in a separate account and invested as are other public funds and shall be expended for such purposes for which established. The cost of payments to any capital reserve fund shall be included in the annual budget of the district. (Added 2015, No. 41, § 20, eff. June 1, 2015.)
30 V.S.A. § 3079
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 82 - Communications Union Districts|§ 3079. Service fees

§ 3079. Service fees|The board may from time to time establish and adjust service, subscription, access, and utility fees for the purpose of generating revenues from the operation of its communications plant. (Added 2015, No. 41, § 20, eff. June 1, 2015.)
30 V.S.A. § 3081
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 82 - Communications Union Districts|§ 3081. Withdrawal of a member municipality

§ 3081. Withdrawal of a member municipality|A district member may withdraw from the district upon the terms and conditions herein specified:  (1) Prior to the district pledging communications plant net revenues, or entering into a long-term contract, or contract subject to annual appropriation, a district member may vote to withdraw in the same manner as the vote for admission to the district. If a majority of the voters of a district member present and voting at a meeting duly warned for such purpose votes to withdraw from the district, the vote shall be certified by the clerk of that municipality and presented to the board. Thereafter, the board shall give notice to the remaining district members of the vote to withdraw and shall hold a meeting to determine if it is in the best interest of the district to continue to exist. Representatives of the district members shall be given an opportunity to be heard at such meeting together with any other interested persons. After such a meeting, the board may declare the district dissolved or it may declare that the district shall continue to exist despite the withdrawal of such member. The membership of the withdrawing municipality shall terminate after the vote to withdraw. (2) After the district has pledged communications plant net revenues, or entered into a long-term contract or contract subject to annual appropriations, a district member may vote to withdraw in the same manner as the vote for admission to the district. (Added 2015, No. 41, § 20, eff. June 1, 2015.)
30 V.S.A. § 3082
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 82 - Communications Union Districts|§ 3082. Admission of district members

§ 3082. Admission of district members|The board may authorize the inclusion of additional district members in the communications union district upon such terms and conditions as it in its sole discretion shall deem to be fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of the district. The legislative body of any nonmember municipality which desires to be admitted to the district shall make application for admission to the board. The board shall determine the financial, economic, governance, and operational effects that are likely to occur if such municipality is admitted and thereafter either grant or deny authority for admission of the petitioning municipality. If the board grants such authority, it shall also specify any terms and conditions, including financial obligations, upon which such admission is predicated. Upon resolution of the board, such applicant municipality shall become and thereafter be a district member. (Added 2015, No. 41, § 20, eff. June 1, 2015.)
30 V.S.A. § 3083
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 82 - Communications Union Districts|§ 3083. Dissolution

§ 3083. Dissolution|(a) If the board by resolution approved by two-thirds of all the votes entitled to be cast determines that it is in the best interests of the public, the district members, and the district that such district be dissolved, and if the district then has no outstanding obligations under pledges of communications plant net revenue, long-term contracts, or contracts subject to annual appropriation, or will have no such debt or obligation upon completion of the plan of dissolution, it shall prepare a plan of dissolution and thereafter adopt a resolution directing that the question of such dissolution and the plan of dissolution be submitted to the voters of the district at a special meeting thereof duly warned for such purpose. If a majority of the voters of the district present and voting at such special meeting shall vote to dissolve the district and approve the plan of dissolution, the district shall cease to conduct its affairs except insofar as may be necessary for the winding up thereof. The board shall immediately cause a notice of the proposed dissolution to be mailed to each known creditor of the district and to the Secretary of State and shall proceed to collect the assets of the district and apply and distribute them in accordance with the plan of dissolution.(b) The plan of dissolution shall:  (1) identify and value all unencumbered assets; (2) identify and value all encumbered assets; (3) identify all creditors and the nature or amount of all liabilities and obligations; (4) identify all obligations under long-term contracts and contracts subject to annual appropriation; (5) specify the means by which assets of the district shall be liquidated and all liabilities and obligations paid and discharged, or adequate provision made for the satisfaction thereof; (6) specify the means by which any assets remaining after discharge of all liabilities shall be liquidated if necessary; and (7) specify that any assets remaining after payment of all liabilities shall be apportioned and distributed among the district members according to a formula based upon population.   (c) When the plan of dissolution has been implemented, the board shall adopt a resolution certifying that fact to the district members whereupon the district shall be terminated, and notice thereof shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives in anticipation of confirmation of dissolution by the General Assembly. (Added 2015, No. 41, § 20, eff. June 1, 2015.)
30 V.S.A. § 3084
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 82 - Communications Union Districts|§ 3084. Confidentiality; legislative intent

§ 3084. Confidentiality; legislative intent|The purpose of this section is to clarify that any records or information produced or acquired by a district that are trade secrets or confidential business information shall be exempt from public inspection and copying pursuant to 1 V.S.A. § 317(c)(9). (Added 2021, No. 71, § 11, eff. June 8, 2021.)
30 V.S.A. § 4001
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 83 - Consolidation of Municipal and Cooperative Districts|§ 4001. Definitions

§ 4001. Definitions|In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings:  (1) "Cooperative" means a corporation organized under, or otherwise subject to, chapter 81 of this title. (2) "Electric facilities" means any facilities necessary or incidental to the generation of electric power and energy or the transmission thereof, including electric generating units, electric generating plants, electric transmission lines, plant sites, rights-of-way, and real and personal property and equipment, and rights of every kind useful in connection therewith. (3) "Municipal electric utility" means any city, town, village, or department thereof, within this State, authorized to and engaged in the manufacture, distribution, purchase, and sale of electricity in this State. (4) "Utility," except as otherwise required by the context in which used herein, is intended to refer to cooperatives, municipal utilities, as herein defined, and private electric utilities. (Added 1977, No. 97.)
30 V.S.A. § 4002
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 83 - Consolidation of Municipal and Cooperative Districts|§ 4002. Agreements by cooperatives and municipal electric utilities

§ 4002. Agreements by cooperatives and municipal electric utilities|Any cooperative or municipal electric utility shall have:  (1) authority to participate with other utilities in entering into agreements for the planning, financing, acquisition, construction, ownership, operation, and maintenance of jointly owned or operated electric facilities and in connection therewith to construct, acquire, own, operate, and maintain electric facilities, for the purpose of providing a supply of power and energy to the cooperatives and municipal electric utilities entering into any such agreements, including the right to sell or exchange any surplus produced from such facilities to others; (2) authority to act in participation with other such utilities in arranging for the purchase of supplies of capacity and energy from other utilities, either within or outside the State of Vermont, including purchases from private electric utilities, municipal electric utilities, cooperatives, associations of utilities, or public authorities; (3) authority, in participation with other utilities, to enter into contracts for the transmission of such supplies of capacity or energy generated either by them or purchased from others; (4) authority, in participation with other utilities, to participate in facilities, projects, and programs for the purposes of modifying demand for electric capacity or energy through conservation or load management; (5) authority, in participation with other utilities, to employ attorneys, engineers, technicians, and any other personnel as said utilities may deem necessary or proper to carry out any of the foregoing powers; (6) authority to allow the Vermont Public Power Supply Authority to provide all requirements service for a stated period of time pursuant to subdivision 5012(15) of this title; (7) authority to otherwise do all lawful acts and things necessary or incidental to the exercise of the authority granted in this chapter. (Added 1977, No. 97; amended 1989, No. 112, § 3, eff. June 22, 1989; 1991, No. 170 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 15, 1992.)
30 V.S.A. § 4003
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 83 - Consolidation of Municipal and Cooperative Districts|§ 4003. Implementing powers

§ 4003. Implementing powers|Without limiting the general scope and application of section 4002 of this chapter, each participating utility shall have the right and power:  (1) To use its means and assets for the purposes of exercising the authority granted by section 4002 of this chapter, including, as to municipal electric utilities, the right and power to pledge the credit of the municipality. (2) To issue bonds and other securities to raise funds for those purposes in the same way and to the same extent and subject to all of the conditions which would apply if the utility's interest in such agreements, actions, and contracts were whole and entire. (3) To acquire, for the use and benefit of all participating utilities, by purchase or through the exercise of the power of eminent domain, lands, easements, and properties for the purpose of jointly owned electric facilities, and transfer or convey such lands, easements, and properties or interests therein, or otherwise to cause such lands, easements, and properties, or interests therein, to be vested in other participating utilities to the extent and in the manner agreed between the participating utilities. In all cases in which a participating utility exercises the right and power of eminent domain conferred by statute, it shall be controlled by the law governing condemnation by corporate public utilities in this State, and the right and power of eminent domain hereby conferred shall include the right and power to take fee title in land so condemned, except that no participating utility has the right or power to take by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any electric facilities, or interests therein, belonging to any other municipal electric utility, electric cooperative, or private utility, except as provided by chapter 79 of this title. (4) To form a public service corporation with one or more other utilities and to hold stock and operate the same as a public utility as a means of carrying out the purposes of this chapter. However, the formation of any such public service corporation and its operation shall be subject to the requirements of this title governing the formation and operation of public service corporations. (Added 1977, No. 97.)
30 V.S.A. § 4004
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 83 - Consolidation of Municipal and Cooperative Districts|§ 4004. Taxes

§ 4004. Taxes|Electric facilities constructed or otherwise acquired under the terms of this chapter shall be subject to taxation by the municipality within which the same are located in the same manner as like facilities privately owned. (Added 1977, No. 97.)
30 V.S.A. § 4005
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 83 - Consolidation of Municipal and Cooperative Districts|§ 4005. Insurance

§ 4005. Insurance|Each participating utility shall have the right and power to enter into contracts or specialized insurance appertaining to property and risks in connection with an incident to the ownership, operation, and maintenance of electric facilities, in addition to the usual forms of available insurance. Each participating utility shall be authorized to enter into contracts or insurance for the use and benefit of each of the other participating utilities as though the insurance was for its sole benefit and to cause the rights of the other participating utilities to be protected by contracts according to their respective undivided interests or entitlements under applicable agreements between the participating utilities. (Added 1977, No. 97.)
30 V.S.A. § 4006
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 83 - Consolidation of Municipal and Cooperative Districts|§ 4006. Construction of chapter

§ 4006. Construction of chapter|Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, nothing herein shall have the effect of, or be construed as, altering, amending, or repealing the statutory purposes provided for by any statute enacted by the Legislature of Vermont pertaining to the creation, establishment, or operation of municipal electric utilities or electric cooperatives. (Added 1977, No. 97.)
30 V.S.A. § 4007
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 83 - Consolidation of Municipal and Cooperative Districts|§ 4007. Severability

§ 4007. Severability|If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be held to be invalid, the remainder of the chapter, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable. (Added 1977, No. 97.)
30 V.S.A. § 5001
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 84 - Vermont Public Power Supply Authority|§ 5001. Definitions

§ 5001. Definitions|In this chapter, the following words and terms, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning, shall have the following meaning:  (1) "Authority" means the Vermont Public Power Supply Authority created by this chapter. (2) "Cooperative" means a corporation organized under, or otherwise subject to, chapter 81 of this title. (3) "Legislative body" means the mayor and board of aldermen of a city, the selectboard of a town, and the trustees or light commissioners of a village. (4) "Municipality" means any city, town, or village within the State of Vermont, which is authorized to and engaged in the manufacture, distribution, purchase, or sale of electricity in the State of Vermont. (5) "Person" shall be as defined in section 3001 of this title. (6) "Project" means any plant, works, system, facilities, and real and personal property of any nature or any interest in any of them, together with all parts of them and appurtenances to them, used or useful in the generation, production, transmission, purchase, sale, exchange, or interchange of electric energy, and together with any capacity or output from them. (7) "Utility" means any public utility as defined in chapter 83 of this title. (Added 1979, No. 78, § 3.)
30 V.S.A. § 5014
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 84 - Vermont Public Power Supply Authority|§ 5014. Acquisition of property

§ 5014. Acquisition of property|The Authority may acquire real property, or any interest in it, by eminent domain in accordance with the provisions of sections 110 through 124 of this title; provided, however, that:  (1) No property already appropriated to public use shall be so taken except to the extent and for the purposes permitted by sections 110 through 124 of this title. (2) No facility for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric power and energy owned by any person shall be so taken except for the purpose of acquiring property or rights in it in order to permit the crossing of existing transmission or distribution facilities. Any taking under sections 110 through 124 of this title shall be governed by the provisions of these sections which are applicable to public utilities. (3) No site for a project for which any utility had filed an application for a preliminary permit or a license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on or before November 1, 1977 shall be so taken until such time, if ever, that the application is denied, and no further renewals or appeals are available to the utility, or the utility abandons its application, permit, or license. (Added 1979, No. 78, § 3.)
30 V.S.A. § 5015
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 84 - Vermont Public Power Supply Authority|§ 5015. Tax exemption

§ 5015. Tax exemption|(a) All bonds or notes issued under this chapter are issued by a body corporate and politic of this State and for an essential public and governmental purpose. Those bonds and notes, and the interest on them and the income from them, including any profit on their sale, and all activities of the Authority and fees, charges, funds, revenues, incomes, and other monies of the Authority whether or not pledged or available to pay or secure the payment of those bonds or notes, or interest on them, are exempt from all taxation, franchise fees, or special assessments of whatever kind except for transfer, inheritance, and estate taxes.(b) The Authority is not required to make or file any reports, statements, or informational returns required of any utility or other bodies corporate except as provided in this chapter.(c) Real and personal property, situated within the State and owned by the Authority shall be exempt from property taxation. The Authority shall, in lieu of property taxes, pay to any governmental body authorized to levy local property taxes the amount which would be assessable as local property taxes on the real and tangible personal property if that property were the property of a utility. These payments shall be due, and bear interest if unpaid, as in the case of taxes on the property of a utility. For purposes of these payments in lieu of taxes, the assessors of the taxing authority shall make a valuation and assessment of the property and determine the tax that would be assessable if the property were owned by a utility. Payments in lieu of taxes made under this chapter shall be treated in the same manner as taxes for the purposes of all procedural and substantive provisions of law, including appeals, now and hereinafter in effect applicable to assessment and taxation of real and personal property, collection, and abatement of these taxes and the raising of public revenues. (Added 1979, No. 78, § 3.)
30 V.S.A. § 5016
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 30 - Public Service|Chapter 84 - Vermont Public Power Supply Authority|§ 5016. Rules and rates

§ 5016. Rules and rates|(a) The Authority may make and enforce rules and regulations which it deems necessary or desirable. It may establish, levy, and collect or may authorize by contract, franchise, lease, or otherwise, the establishment, levying, and collection of rents, rates, and other charges:  (1) for the services afforded by the Authority or afforded by or in connection with any project or properties which it may construct, erect, acquire, own, operate, or control, or with respect to which it may have any interest or any right to capacity thereof; and (2) for the sale of electric energy or of generation or transmission capacity or service as it may deem necessary, proper, desirable, and reasonable.   (b) Rents, rates, and other charges shall be at least sufficient to meet the expenses of the Authority, including operating and maintenance expenses, reasonable reserves, interest, and principal payments, including payments into one or more sinking funds for the retirement of principal, and other requirements of any trust agreement or resolution securing bonds or notes. The Authority may pledge its rates, rents, and other revenues, or any part of them, as security for the repayment, with interest and redemption premiums, if any, of any monies borrowed by it or advanced to it for any of its authorized purposes and as security for the payment of amounts due and owing by it under any contract. (Added 1979, No. 78, § 3.)