Vermont § 21 - Communications plant; authority to acquire, construct, operate, improve, extend, and better

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

• (a) The Village 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 or
  plants for the furnishing of communications services within or without the corporate
  limits of the Village, for public, domestic, commercial, and industrial use, and for
  the provision of communications service. For the aforesaid purposes, the Village
  may hire, lease, purchase, own, hold, and acquire by contract, agreement, or eminent
  domain proceedings any buildings, land, rights-of-way, and any other property, real
  or personal, necessary or convenient to the operation of said 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,
  except that the Village shall have no power under 30 V.S.A. chapter 79 to take by
  eminent domain telecommunications or cable television property. 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 the Village may sell any communications service over which the Public Utility
  Commission has jurisdiction and for which a certificate of public good is required,
  it shall obtain a certificate of public good for such service.