Vermont § 1912 - Communications plant; authority to acquire, construct, operate, improve, extend, and better

§ 1912. Communications plant; authority to acquire, construct, operate, improve, extend, and better

• (a) A municipality is authorized and empowered to own, maintain, operate, improve, and
  extend, or otherwise acquire, and to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, in accordance
  with and in any situation or manner not prohibited by law, its communications plant
  for the furnishing of communications services within or without the corporate limits
  of the municipality, for public, domestic, commercial, and industrial use, and for
  the provision of communications service. For the aforesaid purposes, the municipality
  may hire, lease, purchase, own, hold, and acquire by contract, agreement, or eminent
  domain proceedings any buildings, land, rights-of-way, and any other real property
  necessary or convenient to the operation of the communications plant, and may use
  any public highway over which it may be necessary or desirable to pass with the poles
  and wire of the same, provided that the use of such public highway for the purpose
  of public travel is not thereby unnecessarily impaired. These powers may be exercised
  through a taking by eminent domain in the manner prescribed by law. All of the foregoing
  powers are in addition to and not in substitution for or in limitation of any other
  powers conferred by law. (b) Before a municipality may sell any service using its communications plant subject
  to Public Utility Commission jurisdiction and for which a certificate of public good
  is required under 30 V.S.A. chapter 5 or 13, it shall obtain a certificate of public
  good for such service. Each such certificate of public good shall be nonexclusive
  and shall not contain terms or conditions more favorable than those imposed on existing
  certificate holders authorized to serve the municipality. (Added 2007, No. 79, § 4, eff. June 9, 2007.)