Source hierarchy
Licensing and legal claims use Vermont statutes, agencies, and official datasets. Utility and incentive claims use the responsible utility or program administrator. Housing and demographic context uses official or recognized public research. Commercial claims require direct evidence.
Safety boundaries
Content must not instruct a reader to open panels, expose conductors, touch energized equipment, defeat protective devices, backfeed a generator, or continue troubleshooting through smoke, heat, arcing, fire, or water exposure.
Authorship and expertise boundaries
Burlington VT Electrician is the publisher. A page does not claim review by a licensed electrician, attorney, utility representative, code official, or incentive administrator unless that person or organization is specifically named with a verifiable role. General planning content cannot diagnose an installed electrical system.
Dates and updates
A source-check date means the linked material was reviewed on that date; it is not a promise that the authority will leave the rule or program unchanged. Pages are checked before publishing and materially updated when a cited requirement, fee, program, or safety source changes. Dates are not advanced simply to create an appearance of freshness.
Originality and publisher responsibility
The publisher is responsible for what appears on the site. Every article and town page must answer a real property-owner question and add information specific to the service, place, equipment, or decision it addresses.
What every page must add
Useful pages answer a real property-owner question, explain the limits of the answer, identify the facts that change the scope, and lead to an official source or a safer next step when one exists. We do not publish fabricated jobs, interviews, reviews, tests, local offices, response times, prices, credentials, or first-hand experience.
Commercial separation
Provider compensation does not buy a positive editorial claim. Service pages explain the connection model, and no article guarantees a participating provider's quality, availability, result, or price.