§ 82.

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§ 82. Board of Electric Commissioners; authority

(a)The Lyndon Electric Commissioners shall serve as electric commissioners under 30 V.S.A. §§ 2915 and 2916.

(b)The Board of Electric Commissioners shall have authority to construct, operate, maintain, and remove an electric light plant for the purpose of lighting the streets, walks, and other public grounds; lighting any buildings in those public grounds; and supplying and furnishing electricity for domestic and other purposes to persons and corporations in the service territory of the Village of Lyndonville Electric Department and as the service territory may be amended by the Public Utilities Commission from time to time.

(c)For the purposes described in this section, the Board may take, purchase or acquire, and hold any water, power, land, and rights of way in the service territory needed for the construction, maintenance, and operation of the electric light 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 the use of the public highway for the purpose of public travel is not thereby unnecessarily impaired.

(d)The Board of Electric Commissioners shall have the power:

(1)to purchase, hire, construct, or otherwise acquire an interest in; maintain; operate; sell; lease; or otherwise dispose of any:

(A)plant located within or outside the State, including a gas plant or system; or

(B)system located within or outside the State, including existing rights of way, poles, lines, towers, and fixtures and transmission lines serving the existing system owned by others; and

(2)for the production, distribution, purchase, or sale of electricity:

(A)to extend, enlarge, or improve a plant or system; and

(B)for that purpose, to purchase, hire, construct, or otherwise acquire any real or personal property.

(e)The powers described in subsection

(d)of this section may be exercised through a taking by eminent domain in the manner prescribed by law.

(f)The Board of Electric Commissioners shall also have the power to:

(1)purchase, sell, and otherwise acquire and dispose of electricity and electricity-related products, including sales to and purchases from electric distribution companies and cooperatives, municipal and privately owned, within or outside the State;

(2)make all agreements, conveyances, and regulations necessary or convenient in connection with the purchase, sale, acquisition, or disposal of electricity and electricity-related products; and

(3)consistent with 30 V.S.A. chapter 5, determine the rates and charges for electric service.

(g)All of the powers enumerated in this section are in addition to, and not in substitution for or in limitation of, any other powers conferred by law and are subject to regulatory review for municipal utilities as provided in Title 30 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated. (Added 2023, No. M-14, § 2, eff. July 1, 2023.)