24 V.S.A. App. ch. 261, § 50: Authority of Village to buy and sell electric current

The Village of Orleans is hereby authorized to buy and sell electric current for domestic use and for mechanical purposes. It may make such regulations or bylaws relating to the conduct of such business as it deems expedient. The provisions of this charter relating to the collection of water rates or rents so far as applicable thereto are hereby extended and made applicable to the collection of rates or rents for the use of electric current and such rates or rents for the use of electric current and such rates for electric current when unpaid shall be a lien in the nature of a tax on property supplied therewith and may be collected in the same manner as a tax assessed by such Village.