§ 14. Water supply; powers; eminent domain The Village of Enosburg Falls shall have and exercise the following powers and functions: to provide a supply of water for protection of the Village against fire, and for the use of the inhabitants of the Village, and for other purposes; to establish, increase, maintain, and repair reservoirs, […]
§ 15. Water supply; takings When the Village shall vote, in a meeting duly warned for that purpose, to provide itself with a water supply, the trustees of the Village shall proceed to acquire the same, and if the owner of any pond, spring, stream, water source, water right, land, or easement in or over […]
§ 16. Orders; recordation Orders and proceedings of the Selectboard, under the provisions of the preceding section, shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Town in which the property against which the orders are directed is located. (Added 1890, No. 87, § 3; amended 1923, No. 197, § 3.)
§ 17. Damage award; appeal If the owner of the pond, spring, stream, water source, water right, land, or easement in or over lands does not accept the damage awarded by the Selectboard, then the Village trustees may agree with the owner to refer the question of damages to one or more disinterested persons, whose […]
§ 18. Judicial review If a person having an interest in a pond, spring, stream, water source, water right, land, or easement in or over lands is dissatisfied with the action of the Selectboard, either as to the necessity for taking or with the damages awarded therefor by it, he or she may apply by […]
§ 19. Applicability of State law To the extent not otherwise inconsistent with this charter, the provisions of Title 24, chapters 95 through 105, inclusive, shall apply. (Added 1890, No. 87, § 1; amended 1923 No. 197, § 6; 2007, No. M-22 (Adj. Sess.), § 8, eff. May 19, 2008.)
§ 20. Bylaws; water The Village may, at any legally warned meeting, enact and adopt bylaws and regulations concerning the management and use of an aqueduct, reservoirs, and appurtenances, not inconsistent with law, as it may deem expedient, including the fixing and collecting of water rates, and the exaction of bonds from the Collector of […]
§ 21. Malicious disturbance or interference Any person who shall maliciously disturb or injure the aqueduct, reservoirs, springs, stream, pond, or fountains, or any of the connecting appurtenances, enclosures, or works thereof, or pollute the waters of the aqueduct, reservoirs, springs, stream, pond, or fountains shall be liable to be prosecuted therefor by the Grand […]
§ 22. Water rights; leasing and selling The Village may, at any legally warned meeting, authorize the water commissioners to lease, dispose of, or sell upon terms fixed by the meeting, to any person, partnership, or body corporate, or other company, any part or all of the rights and privileges granted by this chapter to […]
§ 23. Sewers and drains; construction and maintenance Whenever the public health or convenience shall require the construction of a common sewer or main drain in the Village of Enosburg Falls, the trustees of the Village, upon the application in writing of five percent or more freeholders and lawful voters of the Village, are hereby […]
§ 24. Sewers and drains; condemnation The Village may take the land of individuals and corporations on making compensation for the lands so taken; and the trustees shall proceed in the same manner as is prescribed by law for selectboard members in taking land for public highways and in awarding damages therefor; and the trustees […]
§ 25. Sewer and drains; condemnation; appeal (a) When any person shall be dissatisfied with the decision of the trustees in the award for damages for land taken for a sewer or main drain, or in any assessment for contribution for the same, the person may appeal by petition to the next stated term of […]
§ 26. Sewers and drains; assessment (a) Every person whose particular drain shall enter into any sewer or main drain, or who, in the opinion of the trustees shall receive benefit thereby for draining the person’s premises, including all owners of buildings, lands, or premises adjacent to or abutting on any street or streets along […]
§ 27. Sewer and drains; abutting landowners Whenever in the judgment of the trustees, the public health, convenience, or sanitary condition of the Village renders it necessary, the Village may require any abutting or adjacent property holder to construct a suitable sewer or drain from the abutting or adjacent premises and suitably connect the same […]
