§ 36 — Power of trustees in lighting streets

Vermont § 36

• Jurisdiction: Vermont
• Title 24: Title 24 Appendix: Municipal Charters
• Ch. 261: Chapter 261: Village of Orleans

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Said Village may through its Board of Trustees, contract for the lighting of the streets of said Village for a term of years not exceeding 10 at a time with such number of lights as said Village may require. And said Village is authorized to purchase an electric light plant and to contract for power to run the same, and sell electric current within the limits of said Village for lights, power, and heat, and also may sell such current for such purposes in the Towns of Barton, Irasburg, Coventry, and Brownington, outside the limits of said Village in surrounding territory, not now supplied by such electric current, but in no way to enter into competition with any individual or corporation now furnishing electric current in any of such towns. Such Village shall have the same right to set poles and string wires without said limits of Village of Orleans as any individual or other corporation now has with the same liabilities.

Legislative History

(Added 1892, No. 114, § 36; amended 1933, No. 193, § 1.)