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24 V.S.A. § 3219
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 85 - Urban Renewal|§ 3219. Exercise of powers in carrying out urban renewal project

§ 3219. Exercise of powers in carrying out urban renewal project|(a) A municipality may itself exercise its urban renewal project powers, as herein defined, or may, if the local governing body by resolution determines such action to be in the public interest, elect to have such powers exercised by the urban renewal agency created by section 3220 of this title or by the housing authority, if one exists or is subsequently established in the community. In the event the local governing body makes such determination, the urban renewal agency or the housing authority, as the case may be, shall be vested with all of the urban renewal project powers in the same manner as though all such powers were conferred on such agency or authority instead of the municipality. If the local governing body does not elect to make such determination, the municipality in its discretion may exercise its urban renewal project powers through a board or commissioner or through such officers of the municipality as the local governing body may by resolution determine.(b) As used in this section, the term "urban renewal project powers" shall include the rights, powers, functions, and duties of a municipality under this chapter, except the following: the power to determine an area to be a slum or blighted area or combination thereof and to designate such area as appropriate for an urban renewal project and to hold any public hearing required with respect thereto; the power to approve urban renewal plans and modifications thereof; the power to approve general neighborhood renewal plans and community-wide plans or programs for urban renewal; the power to acquire, demolish, remove, or dispose of property as provided in subdivision 3209(4)(A); the power to establish as general plan for the locality as a whole; the power to formulate a workable program under section 3205 of this title; the power to make the determinations and findings provided for in sections 3204, 3206, and 3207(d) of this title; the power to issue general obligation bonds under subsection 3217(d); the power to assume the responsibility to bear loss as provided in subdivision 3209(4); and the power to appropriate funds, to levy taxes and assessments, and to exercise other powers provided for in subdivision 3209(9) of this title. (Amended 1966, No. 69 (Sp. Sess.), § 10, eff. March 14, 1966.)
24 V.S.A. § 3221
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 85 - Urban Renewal|§ 3221. Interested public officials, commissioners, or employees

§ 3221. Interested public officials, commissioners, or employees|No public official or employee of a municipality, or board or commission thereof, and no commissioner or employee of a housing authority or urban renewal agency which has been vested by a municipality with urban renewal project powers under section 3219 of this title shall voluntarily acquire any personal interest, direct or indirect, in any urban renewal project, or in any property included or planned to be included in any urban renewal project of such municipality or in any contract or proposed contract in connection with such urban renewal project. Where such acquisition is not voluntary, the interest acquired shall be immediately disclosed in writing to the local governing body and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the governing body. If any such official, commissioner, or employee presently owns or controls, or owned or controlled within the preceding two years, any interest, direct or indirect, in any property which he or she knows is included or planned to be included in an urban renewal project, he or she shall immediately disclose this fact in writing to the local governing body, and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the governing body, and any such official, commissioner, or employee shall not participate in any action by the municipality, or board or commission thereof, housing authority, or urban renewal agency affecting such property. Any disclosure required to be made by this section to the local governing body shall concurrently be made to a housing authority or urban renewal agency which has been vested with urban renewal project powers by the municipality pursuant to the provisions of section 3219 of this title. No commissioner or other officer of any housing authority, urban renewal agency, board, or commission exercising powers pursuant to this chapter shall hold any other public office under the municipality other than his or her commissionership or office with respect to such housing authority, urban renewal agency, board, or commission. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute misconduct in office.
24 V.S.A. § 3251
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3251. Definitions

§ 3251. Definitions|As used in this chapter:  (1) "Legislative body" means "legislative body" as defined in section 2001 of this title. (2) "Property" means real estate. (3) "Sewage system" means "sewage system" as defined in subdivision 3501(6) of this title. (4) "Special assessment" means a tax assessed against one or more properties receiving the benefit of a particular public improvement, as distinguished from a tax on the entire grand list of a municipality. (5) "Water system" means "water system" as defined in subdivision 3341(b)(2) of this title without reference to any determination by the water commission. (Added 1969, No. 170 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. March 2, 1970.)
24 V.S.A. § 3252
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3252. Purpose of assessments

§ 3252. Purpose of assessments|Special assessments may be made for the purchase, construction, repair, reconstruction, or extension of a water system or sewage system, or any other public improvement that is of benefit to a limited area of a municipality to be served by the improvement, including those projects authorized under subchapter 2 of this chapter. (Added 1969, No. 170 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. March 2, 1970; amended 2009, No. 45, § 15i, eff. May 27, 2009.)
24 V.S.A. § 3253
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3253. Method of apportionment

§ 3253. Method of apportionment|A special assessment may be apportioned among the properties to be benefited thereby according to the listed value of such properties in the grand list, the frontage thereof, the added value accruing to each property by reason of the public improvement for which such assessment is made, or by any method other than the foregoing that results in a fair apportionment of the cost of the improvement in accordance with the benefits received. (Added 1969, No. 170 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. March 2, 1970.)
24 V.S.A. § 3254
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3254. Approval of voters

§ 3254. Approval of voters|A special assessment under this chapter shall be levied only by vote of a majority of the qualified voters of the municipality voting at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose. However, the question need not be submitted to the voters if all of the owners of record of property to be assessed, or of any interest therein, other than mortgagees or lien holders, consent in writing to the assessment. Either the vote or the consent shall include approval of the method of apportionment of the assessment. (Added 1969, No. 170 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. March 2, 1970.)
24 V.S.A. § 3255
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3255. Collection of assessments; liens

§ 3255. Collection of assessments; liens|(a) Special assessments under this chapter shall constitute a lien on the property against which the assessment is made in the same manner and to the same extent as taxes assessed on the grand list of a municipality, and all procedures and remedies for the collection of taxes shall apply to special assessments.(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a lien for an assessment under subchapter 2 of this chapter shall be subordinate to all liens on the property in existence at the time the lien for the assessment is filed on the land records, shall be subordinate to a first mortgage on the property recorded after such filing, and shall be superior to any other lien on the property recorded after such filing. In no way shall this subsection affect the status or priority of any municipal lien other than a lien for an assessment under subchapter 2 of this chapter. (Added 1969, No. 170 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. March 2, 1970; amended 2011, No. 47, § 18a, eff. July 1, 2012.)
24 V.S.A. § 3256
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3256. Construction with other laws

§ 3256. Construction with other laws|Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit the financing of any of the improvements referred to in this chapter by a tax on the grand list of a municipality, or by other means. (Added 1969, No. 170 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. March 2, 1970.)
24 V.S.A. § 3261
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3261. Property-assessed clean energy districts; approval of voters

§ 3261. Property-assessed clean energy districts; approval of voters|(a)(1) In this subchapter, "district" means a property-assessed clean energy district.  (2) The legislative body of a town, city, or incorporated village may submit to the voters of the municipality the question of whether to designate the municipality as a property-assessed clean energy district. In a district, only those property owners who have entered into written agreements with the municipality under section 3262 of this title would be subject to a special assessment, as set forth in section 3255 of this title.   (b) Upon a vote of approval by a majority of the qualified voters of the municipality voting at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose, the municipality may incur indebtedness for or otherwise finance projects relating to renewable energy, as defined in 30 V.S.A. § 8002(17), or to eligible projects relating to energy efficiency as defined by section 3267 of this title, undertaken by owners of dwellings, as defined in Section 103(v) of the federal Truth in Lending Act, within the boundaries of the town, city, or incorporated village. (Added 2009, No. 45, § 15j, eff. May 27, 2009; amended 2011, No. 47, § 18c, eff. May 25, 2011.)
24 V.S.A. § 3263
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3263. Costs of operation of district

§ 3263. Costs of operation of district|The owners of real property who have entered into written agreements with the municipality under section 3262 of this title shall be obligated to cover the costs of operating the district. A municipality may use other available funds to operate the district. (Added 2009, No. 45, § 15j, eff. May 27, 2009.)
24 V.S.A. § 3264
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3264. Rights of property owners

§ 3264. Rights of property owners|A property owner who has entered into a written agreement with the municipality under section 3262 of this title may enter into a private agreement for the installation or construction of a project relating to renewable energy, as defined in 30 V.S.A. § 8002(17), or relating to energy efficiency as defined in section 3267 of this title. (Added 2009, No. 45, § 15j, eff. May 27, 2009.)
24 V.S.A. § 3265
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3265. Liability of municipality

§ 3265. Liability of municipality|(a) A municipality that incurs indebtedness for or otherwise finances projects under this subchapter shall not be liable for the failure of performance of a project.(b) A municipality that incurs indebtedness for bonding under this subchapter shall pledge the full faith and credit of the municipality. (Added 2009, No. 45, § 15j, eff. May 27, 2009.)
24 V.S.A. § 3266
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3266. Intermunicipal agreements

§ 3266. Intermunicipal agreements|Two or more municipalities, by resolution of their respective legislative bodies or boards, may establish and enter into agreements for incurring indebtedness or otherwise financing projects under this subchapter. (Added 2009, No. 45, § 15j, eff. May 27, 2009.)
24 V.S.A. § 3267
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3267. Eligible energy efficiency projects; assistance to municipalities

§ 3267. Eligible energy efficiency projects; assistance to municipalities|Those entities appointed as energy efficiency utilities under 30 V.S.A. § 209(d):  (1) shall develop a list of eligible energy efficiency projects and shall make the list available to the public on or before July 1 of each year; and (2) shall provide information concerning implementation of this subchapter to each municipality, within the area in which the entity delivers efficiency services, that requests such information, and shall contact each such municipality that votes to establish a district to offer this information. (Added 2009, No. 45, § 15j, eff. May 27, 2009; amended 2011, No. 47, § 18e, eff. Jan. 1, 2012.)
24 V.S.A. § 3268
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3268. Release of lien

§ 3268. Release of lien|(a) A municipality shall release a participating property owner of the lien on the property against which the assessment under this subchapter is made upon full payment of the value of the assessment.(b) Notice of a release of a lien for an assessment under this subchapter shall be filed with the clerk of the applicable municipality for recording in the land records of that municipality. (Added 2009, No. 45, § 15j, eff. May 27, 2009; amended 2011, No. 47, § 18f, eff. Jan. 1, 2012.)
24 V.S.A. § 3271
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 87 - Special Assessments|§ 3271. Monitoring; compliance; underwriting criteria

§ 3271. Monitoring; compliance; underwriting criteria|The Department of Public Service created under 30 V.S.A. § 1 shall monitor and evaluate, for compliance with the underwriting criteria, standards, and procedures established under subsections 3262(a) (underwriting criteria for assessments) and 3269(c) and (d) (underwriting standards and procedures; loss reserve fund) of this title, all activities to which those criteria, standards, and procedures apply that are undertaken by an entity appointed under 30 V.S.A. § 209(d)(2) to deliver energy efficiency programs. The Department shall consult with the Department of Financial Regulation in performing these tasks. The Department of Public Service may combine its tasks under this section with monitoring and evaluation of an energy efficiency entity conducted pursuant to 30 V.S.A. § 209(d) or (e). (Added 2011, No. 47, § 18i, eff. Jan. 1, 2012; amended 2011, No. 78 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 2, 2012.)
24 V.S.A. § 3301
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 89 - Waterworks|§ 3301. Water supply; construction; condemnation; exceptions

§ 3301. Water supply; construction; condemnation; exceptions|A municipal corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain, and repair an artesian well, reservoir or reservoirs, pumps, engines, and apparatus; take, purchase, and acquire any artesian wells, ponds, springs, streams, water courses, real estate, water rights, flowage rights, and easements necessary for its purposes within the limits provided by this section, together with such land surrounding and adjacent to the same as may be reasonably necessary for protecting and preserving the purity of the water in such artesian wells, ponds, springs, and streams; and may enclose such artesian wells, ponds, springs, and streams by suitable fences for the purpose of such protection; and such corporation, within the limits set forth in this section, and subject to the provisions of 30 V.S.A. § 108, may take, acquire, or purchase any or all of the rights or properties owned or operated by any person or corporation engaged in the business of a water company, as defined by 30 V.S.A. § 203, within the limits of such municipal corporation. Such corporation may enter in and upon any land or water for the purpose of making surveys, may take and construct dams and reservoirs, lay pipes and aqueducts, may connect the same with the main aqueduct as may be necessary to convey the water taken to the reservoirs of such municipal corporation and distribute the same through such municipal corporation for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants thereof with water for fire, domestic, and other purposes. However, such municipal corporation shall not take otherwise than by purchase water or a spring of water that the owner or lessee or other person having a vested right or interest in such water or the use thereof may reasonably require for domestic use or the watering of animals on the premises where such water may be in use. (Amended 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 256.)
24 V.S.A. § 3302
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 89 - Waterworks|§ 3302. Entry on lands

§ 3302. Entry on lands|For the purposes enumerated in section 3301 of this title, such municipal corporation may enter upon and use any land and enclosures over or through which it may be necessary for an aqueduct or pipes to pass, and may thereon dig, place, lay, and construct such pipes, aqueducts, reservoirs, appurtenances, and connections as may be necessary for the complete construction and repairing of the same. From time to time, such corporation may open the ground in any streets, lanes, avenues, highways, and public grounds for the purpose of laying down and repairing such pipes, aqueducts, reservoirs, and appurtenances, as may be necessary for conducting the water and the purposes aforesaid. However, such streets, lanes, avenues, highways, and public grounds shall not be injured, but shall be left in as good condition as before the laying of such pipes, aqueducts, reservoirs, and appurtenances.
24 V.S.A. § 3303
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 89 - Waterworks|§ 3303. Compensation; condemnation

§ 3303. Compensation; condemnation|The municipal corporation may agree with the owner or owners of any property, franchise, easement, or right that may be required by the municipal corporation for the purposes of this chapter, as to the compensation to be paid. In case of failure to agree as to the compensation, or in case the owner is an infant, a person who lacks capacity to protect his or her interests due to a mental condition or psychiatric disability, absent from the State, unknown, or the owner of a contingent interest, the Superior Court within and for the county where the subject property is situated on the petition of either party, may cause the notice to be given of the petition as the presiding judge of the court may prescribe. After proof thereof, the presiding judge may appoint three disinterested persons as commissioners to examine the property to be taken or damaged by the municipal corporation. The commissioners after being duly sworn, upon due notice to all parties in interest, shall view the premises, hear the parties in respect to the property, and shall assess and award to the owners and persons so interested just damages for any injury sustained and make report in writing to the presiding judge. The presiding judge may accept the report, unless just cause is shown to the contrary. The presiding judge may order the municipal corporation to pay the same in the time and manner as he or she may prescribe, in full compensation for the property taken, or the injury done by the municipal corporation, or the presiding judge may reject or recommit the report if the ends of justice so require. On compliance with the order, the municipal corporation may proceed with the construction of its work without liability for further claim for damages. The presiding judge may award costs in the proceeding in his or her discretion. The cause may be transferred to the Supreme Court as provided in 12 V.S.A. § 4601. (Amended 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 154; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 257.)
24 V.S.A. § 3304
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 89 - Waterworks|§ 3304. Record

§ 3304. Record|Such municipal corporation, within 60 days after the taking of any property, franchise, easement, or right under the provisions of this chapter, shall file in the office of the clerk of the municipal corporation where the same is situated, a description thereof.
24 V.S.A. § 3305
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 89 - Waterworks|§ 3305. Contract for water

§ 3305. Contract for water|(a) Such municipal corporation may contract with any town, city, or village, or any corporation and individuals to supply water to such municipal corporation for the protection of property and for domestic and other purposes.(b) A municipal corporation is authorized to enter into, with any contracting party or parties, contracts, leases, or lease-purchase agreements with respect to the construction, operation, and maintenance of water systems. These contracts may be entered into for terms not to exceed 40 years or the useful life of the system, whichever is less. (Amended 1983, No. 191 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)
24 V.S.A. § 3306
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 89 - Waterworks|§ 3306. Charges; lien

§ 3306. Charges; lien|The owner or occupant of any tenement, house, or building who takes the water of a municipal corporation shall be liable for the rent or price of the same, and the officers and agents of the municipal corporation entrusted with the care and superintendence of the water may at all reasonable times enter all premises so supplied to examine the pipes and fixtures and prevent any unnecessary waste. If any person, without the consent of the municipal corporation, shall use any water, a civil action on this statute may be maintained against the person by the municipal corporation for the recovery of damages. The charges, rates, or rents for water shall be a lien upon the real estate furnished with the municipal corporation water in the same manner and to the same effect as taxes are a lien on real estate under 32 V.S.A. § 5061. (Amended 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 258.)
24 V.S.A. § 3307
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 89 - Waterworks|§ 3307. Interference with supply

§ 3307. Interference with supply|If any person diverts the water or part of any of the artesian wells, ponds, springs, streams, aqueducts, water courses, or reservoirs, that shall be taken, used, or constructed by such municipal corporation, or shall corrupt the same, or make it impure, or commit any nuisance therein, or shall bathe therein, or within the limits, that may be taken or prescribed by such municipal corporation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or injure or destroy any artesian well, dam, embankment, aqueduct, pipe, reservoir, conduit, hydrant, structure, pump, machinery, or other property held, owned, or used by such municipal corporation under the provisions of this chapter, such person shall be liable to such municipal corporation in treble damages, to be recovered in a civil action on this statute, and any such person on conviction of a violation under this section shall be fined not exceeding $100.00 or committed to the Commissioner of Corrections not more than six months, or both. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 17; 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), § 23; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 259.)