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24A V.S.A. § 3-408
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-408. Existing provisions to remain valid until new provisions adopted

§ 3-408. Existing provisions to remain valid until new provisions adopted|The existing retirement and pension provisions of the City charter of said City shall remain in force and effect until the powers granted by this article are exercised by the City Council by the due enactment of an ordinance for that purpose, and such existing retirement and pension provisions of said charter shall, upon the due enactment of such ordinance, be void and of no force and effect, except as to persons theretofore duly retired and pensioned under said provisions, and as to such persons, said existing charter provisions shall remain in force.
24A V.S.A. § 3-415
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-415. Authority to construct and maintain an electric plant

§ 3-415. Authority to construct and maintain an electric plant|(a) The City of Burlington is hereby authorized and empowered to construct and maintain an electric plant for the purpose of lighting the streets, walks, public grounds, and public buildings of the City, and may furnish electric lights and electric power to parties residing within or without the corporate limits of said City upon such terms and subject to such regulations as are provided by law or may be lawfully agreed upon between the contracting parties, subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission.(b) Said City is also authorized and empowered to purchase, hold, maintain, and operate from time to time for said purposes, either as an extension, addition, and improvement of the present electric and power plant now owned and operated by said City, and as an addition to the business of the present plant, or as a separate unit, any existing electric or power plant and the lands, buildings, equipment, distribution system, franchises, rights-of-way, business, and goodwill of any such plant now owned or operated by a public utility corporation or individual, or any portion of any such property and business, and may from time to time construct such additions and improvements to said present plant and distribution system of the City and acquire additional lands and buildings for that purpose, as, in the judgment of the City Council, may be required or justified by the growth and development of the business.
24A V.S.A. § 3-416
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-416. Authority to construct, maintain, and operate a gas-generating and distribution plant

§ 3-416. Authority to construct, maintain, and operate a gas-generating and distribution plant|(a) The City of Burlington is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain, and operate a plant for the generation and distribution of manufactured gas and may furnish such gas within and without the corporate limits of the City to corporations and individuals for domestic and other purposes upon such terms as are provided by law or may be lawfully agreed upon between the contracting parties, subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission.(b) For the purpose of acquiring, holding, maintaining, and operating such gas plant and distribution system for the distribution and sale of manufactured gas to corporations and individuals within and without the City limits, said City is also authorized and empowered to purchase, hold, maintain, and operate any existing gas plant, gas distribution system, rights-of-way, and franchises held and used in connection therewith, and the gas business of any corporation or individual owned and operated in connection with such plant, and the goodwill of such business, or any part of such plant, distribution system, franchises, rights-of-way, business, and goodwill.(c) Said City may from time to time enlarge and improve such plant and distribution system as the growth and development of the business, in the judgment of the City Council, may require, and for that purpose may from time to time either construct such enlargements and improvements or purchase the same when available.
24A V.S.A. § 3-417
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-417. Authority to acquire property for purposes of sections 415 and 416 of this charter

§ 3-417. Authority to acquire property for purposes of sections 415 and 416 of this charter|For any and all of the purposes set forth in sections 415 and 416 of this charter, said City may acquire and hold within and without the limits thereof by gift, grant, purchase, or by the right of eminent domain, such lands, water powers, and rights-of-way as may be needed for the construction, maintenance, and operation of such electric plant and any and all required enlargements and improvements thereof from time to time, including enlargements and improvements of the present electric plant of said City, and also such lands and rights-of-way as may be needed for the construction, maintenance, and operation, and for the required enlargement and improvement from time to time of such gas plant and gas distribution system and may use any public street which it may be necessary and desirable to pass through with the poles, wires, and conduits of such electric plant, or with the distribution mains and equipment of such gas plant, provided the use of such highway for purposes of public travel is not thereby unnecessarily impaired, and further provided that said City may not exercise the right of eminent domain to acquire any existing property or rights owned and used by any existing public utility company or by any individual for public utility purposes.
24A V.S.A. § 3-418
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-418. Authority to sell services, merchandise, and equipment incidental to use of electricity or gas

§ 3-418. Authority to sell services, merchandise, and equipment incidental to use of electricity or gas|(a) Said City, when engaged in the business of distributing and selling electricity or gas, is hereby authorized and empowered, as part of such business, to engage in the sale, installation, and servicing of such merchandise and equipment as is incidental or auxiliary to the use of electricity or gas or necessary to properly serve the interests of its customers and to promote the sale and use of electricity or gas.(b) And all acts heretofore done by said City and any of its officers and employees in connection with the sale, installation, or servicing of such merchandise and equipment are hereby confirmed and made valid to the same extent as though this article had then been in effect.
24A V.S.A. § 3-419
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-419. Operation of gas business

§ 3-419. Operation of gas business|Whenever said City does acquire any gas plant, gas distribution system, business, and goodwill (hereinafter referred to as the gas business) in accordance with the foregoing sections, such gas business shall be operated and maintained as a separate unit with separate accounting insofar as practicable, and shall be controlled, managed, operated, and maintained by the Light Department and the officers thereof as part of that Department, and all provisions of the City charter relating to the operation and maintenance of the Light Department and the duties of the officers thereof and not inconsistent with any section of this article shall apply to such gas business.
24A V.S.A. § 3-420
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-420. Procedure for exercising eminent domain right

§ 3-420. Procedure for exercising eminent domain right|In exercising the right of eminent domain to acquire any property or some easement or other limited right in property required by the City for the purposes authorized by this article, said City shall proceed by petition to the Public Service Commission and in the same manner and by the same process as provided in Chapter 242 of the Public Laws for the condemnation of property by public service corporations other than railroads and the Public Service Commission shall have all and the same powers and perform all and the same duties in hearing and determining the matter, rendering judgment, and making findings as in the case of such public utility corporations. Any party who feels himself or herself aggrieved by such judgment or findings shall have the same right of appeal with the same incidents thereof as provided by Section 5969 of the Public Laws in the case of condemnation proceedings by a public service corporation. In exercising its right to use public highways, said City shall have the same rights and be subject to the same restrictions as prescribed for towns in Chapter 259 of the Public Laws.
24A V.S.A. § 3-422
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-422. Rates sufficient to pay for services and bonds to be charged

§ 3-422. Rates sufficient to pay for services and bonds to be charged|(a) Whenever bonds are issued pursuant to this article, said City shall charge and collect adequate rates and charges for electric energy and for gas and all other services, facilities, and commodities sold, furnished, or supplied by the electric plant and system and gas plants and system sufficient to provide for the proper operation and maintenance of said systems and for the payment of the principal of and interest on all indebtedness payable from said revenues, and all other payments in connection therewith. All such revenues shall be paid into the City Treasury in a special fund to be called the "Light Department Fund," and shall be subject to the covenants contained in any ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under this article.(b) In no case shall funds collected from electric ratepayers be used to cross-subsidize or finance the repayment of any debt instrument used to fund the construction, operation, or utilization of any new cable television, fiber optic cable, or other telecommunications network or telecommunications business, and the expenses from such enterprises may not be included in the cost of electric service, except to the extent that the City has utilized such funds directly for its own utility plant or electric services. (Amended 1999, No. M-14 (Adj. Sess.), § 5a.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-423
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-423. Bond issuance to be approved by voters

§ 3-423. Bond issuance to be approved by voters|The City Council shall not issue any bonds under the provisions of this article for any of the purposes thereof unless previously authorized so to do by a majority of the legal voters of said City voting on the question at any annual or special City meeting duly warned for the purpose.
24A V.S.A. § 3-432
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-432. Electric plant; improvement of

§ 3-432. Electric plant; improvement of|The City is hereby authorized and empowered to improve its electric plant for the purpose of lighting the streets, walks, public grounds, and buildings of the City, for the furnishing of electric or gas services within or without the corporate limits of the City and for production of electric energy or acquisition, production, transmission, or distribution of gas for sale to electric or gas distribution companies, cooperative, municipal, and privately owned, within or without the State.
24A V.S.A. § 3-434
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-434. Same- payment of

§ 3-434. Same- payment of|In order to secure the payment of any of the bonds, issued pursuant to this article, the interest thereon, or in connection with such bonds, the City shall have power as to such bonds, to the extent not inconsistent with the mandatory provisions of this article:  (1) To pledge all or any part of the revenues derived from electric or gas service. (2) To provide for the terms, forms, registration, exchange, execution, and authentication of such bonds. (3) To provide for the replacement of lost, destroyed, or mutilated bonds. (4) To covenant as to the use and disposition of the proceeds from the sale of such bonds and as to the use and disposition of revenues, including of the generality of the foregoing, the establishment of reserves for debt service or other capital or current expenses from bond proceeds or revenues or both. (5) To covenant as to the rates and charges of the electric plant, provided that the City shall always collect revenues adequate at all times to provide for the proper operation and maintenance of the electric plant and for the payment of the principal of and interest on all bonds payable from said revenues and all other required payments in connection therewith. (6) To redeem such bonds, and to covenant for their redemption, and to provide the terms and conditions thereof. (7) To covenant and prescribe as to what happenings or occurrences shall constitute "events of default" and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of such bonds shall become or may be declared due before maturity and as to the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived. (8) To covenant as to the rights, liabilities, powers, and duties arising upon the breach by it of any covenant, conditions, or obligations. (9) To vest in a trustee or trustees the right to receive all or any part of the income and revenue pledged and assigned to, or for the benefit of, the holder or holders of bonds issued hereunder, and to hold, apply, and dispose of the same and the right to enforce any covenant made to secure or pay or in relation to the bonds; to execute and deliver a trust agreement or trust agreements which may set forth the powers and duties and the remedies available to such trustee or trustees and limiting the liabilities thereof and describing what occurrences shall constitute "events of default" and prescribing the terms and conditions upon which such trustee or trustees or the holder or holders of bonds of any specified amount or percentage of such bonds may exercise such rights and enforce any and all such covenants and resort to such remedies as may be appropriate. (10) To make covenants other than, and in addition to, the covenants herein authorized, of like or different character, necessary or advisable to effectuate the purposes of this article. (11) To execute all instruments necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers herein granted or in the performance of its covenants or duties.
24A V.S.A. § 3-435
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-435. Same- pledge of revenues

§ 3-435. Same- pledge of revenues|(a) Any pledge hereunder shall be valid and binding and shall be deemed continuously perfected for the purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code from the time when the pledge is made; unless otherwise provided in the resolution making the pledge, the pledge of revenues shall include any contract or other rights to receive the same, whether then existing or thereafter coming into existence and whether then held or thereafter acquired by the City, and the proceeds thereof; the revenues, rights, and proceeds so pledged and then held or thereafter acquired by the City shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery or segregation thereof or further act; and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the City, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. The resolution by which a pledge is made need not be filed or recorded except in the records of the proceedings of the Board of Light Commissioners and no filing need be made under the Uniform Commercial Code.(b) A resolution pledging revenues hereunder may provide for priorities among payments to be made from such revenues, whether required by statute, the City charter, such resolution, or otherwise. The pledge may include revenues otherwise accruing to particular funds established by statute or the City charter. In the event bonds are issued junior and subordinate to other bonds, revenues remaining from time to time which are permitted by the terms of the senior bonds to be used to pay or secure the junior bonds may be pledged for that purpose by the resolution under which the junior bonds are issued. A pledge of revenues under this article shall constitute a sufficient appropriation thereof for the purposes of any provision for appropriation and such revenues may be applied as required by the pledge without further appropriation.
24A V.S.A. § 3-436
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-436. Same- refunding

§ 3-436. Same- refunding|The City may issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying any of its bonds issued hereunder at maturity or upon acceleration or redemption. The refunding bonds may be issued at such time prior to the maturity or redemption of the refunded bonds as the City deems to be in the public interest. The refunding bonds may be issued in sufficient amounts to pay or provide the principal of the bonds being refunded, together with any redemption premium thereon, any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of payment of such bonds, the expenses of issue of the refunding bonds, the expenses of redeeming the bonds being refunded, and such reserves for debt service or other capital or current expenses from the proceeds of such refunding bonds as may be required by a resolution under which bonds are issued. The issue of refunding bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the security therefor, the rights of the holders thereof, and the rights, duties, and obligations of the City with respect thereto shall be governed by the provisions of this article relating to the issue of bonds other than refunding bonds insofar as the same may be applicable.
24A V.S.A. § 3-437
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-437. Same- Anticipation notes

§ 3-437. Same- Anticipation notes|Unless otherwise provided in the authorizing proceedings, if bonds are authorized under this article, temporary notes may be issued in anticipation thereof. The Board of Light Commissioners may delegate the sale of temporary notes to an officer or officers thereof. The principal of and interest on notes may be renewed or paid from time to time by the issue of other notes. Except as otherwise provided, notes issued under this section shall be governed by the provisions of this article relating to bonds insofar as the same may be applicable.
24A V.S.A. § 3-438
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-438. Same- regulation

§ 3-438. Same- regulation|(a) The Public Utility Commission shall exercise its regulatory powers in such a manner as to permit the City to fulfill all of its obligations, including its obligations to the holders of the bonds issued hereunder.(b) The Public Utility Commission shall not be empowered to suspend the effective date of any change in the rates and charges of the City's electric plant pending final determination as to the justness or reasonableness of such change, but the Commission may require that the City undertake to refund rates and charges collected in excess of those that are finally determined just and reasonable. Any increase in the rates and charges of the City's electric plant shall be implemented by means of an identical percentage increase to each class or division of electric plant ratepayers under rate design tariffs previously approved by the Public Utility Commission until such time as the Public Utility Commission shall specifically approve an alteration in such rate design and corresponding tariffs.(c)(1) If the City exercises its authority under subdivision 431(4) or section 449 of this title, the Public Utility Commission, in considering any application for a certificate of public good, shall ensure that any and all losses from these businesses, and, in the event these businesses are abandoned or curtailed, any and all costs associated with investment in cable television, fiber optic, and telecommunications network and telecommunications business-related facilities, are borne by the investors in such business, and in no event are borne by the City's taxpayers, the State of Vermont, or are recovered in rates from electric ratepayers.  (2) Any certificate of public good issued shall contain terms or conditions that are consistent with both the statutory requirements of 30 V.S.A. chapter 13 and the establishment of competitive neutrality between incumbents and new entrants, after the evaluation of factors that include the payment of pole attachment rental fees, and the provision of public access channels, equipment, and facilities.
24A V.S.A. § 3-439
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-439. Same- rights of holders

§ 3-439. Same- rights of holders|Any holder or holders of bonds, including a trustee or trustees for holders of such bonds, shall have the right in addition to all other rights:  (1) By mandamus or other suit, action, or proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce his or her, or their rights against the City, the City Council, the Board of Light Commissioners, and any other proper officer, agent, or employee of any of them, including the right to require the City, the City Council, the said Board, and any proper officer, agent, or employee of any of them, to fix and collect rates and charges adequate to carry out any agreement as to, or pledge or revenues, and to require the City, the City Council, the said Board and any officer, agent, or employee of any of them to carry out any other covenants or agreements and to perform its and their duties under this article. (2) By action or suit in equity to enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful for a violation of the rights of such holder of bonds.
24A V.S.A. § 3-440
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-440. Same- right of City

§ 3-440. Same- right of City|(a) The City shall have power by resolution of its Board of Light Commissioners to confer upon any holder or holders of a specified amount or percentage of bonds, including a trustee or trustees for such holders, the right in the event of an "event of default" as defined in such resolution or as may be defined in any agreement with the holder or holders of such bonds or the trustee or trustees therefor:  (1) By suit, action, or proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction to obtain the appointment of a receiver of the electric plant or any part or parts thereof. If such receiver be appointed, he or she may enter and take possession of such electric plant or any part or parts thereof and operate and maintain the same, and collect and receive all revenues thereafter arising therefrom in the same manner as the City itself might do and shall deposit such moneys in a separate account or accounts and apply the same in accordance with the obligations of the City as the court shall direct. (2) By suit, action, or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction to require the City to account as if it were the trustee of an express trust.   (b) Any such resolution shall constitute a contract between the City and the holders of bonds of such issue.