Vt. Stat. tit. 24A § 235-92
In any case where damage or compensation to owners of or other persons interested in the water powers so taken, or such land as may be used for laying, extending, constructing, and maintaining the electric light plant and reservoirs and appurtenances is not adjusted by agreement, or if the owner thereof be a minor, a person who lacks capacity to protect his or her interests due to a mental condition or psychiatric disability, or out of the State, or otherwise incapacitated to sell and convey, the same shall be fixed by the Board of Electric Light Commissioners after hearing the parties interested; the hearing to be had upon written notice of the time and place thereof, given at least six days before the hearing; and the Electric Light Commissioners shall within ten days after the hearing file its award in the town clerk's office in the town or towns where the property in question is situated and to cause the same to be recorded in the land records in the town or towns.
24 Appendix V.S.A. § 235-92