24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 322 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 322
App. § 1-322. Tax stabilization contract
Status: in_force

(a) The City Council shall have the authority to enter into a contract with owners, lessees, bailees, or operators of agricultural, industrial, residential, or commercial real property for the purpose of:

(1) fixing and maintaining the valuation of such property on the grand list;

(2) fixing and maintaining the rate or rates of tax applicable to such property;

(3) fixing the amount in money that shall be paid as an annual tax upon such property; or

(4) fixing the tax applicable to such property at a percentage of the annual tax.

(b) The authority to enter into such contract shall be by vote of two-thirds of those present and voting at an annual or special meeting warned for that purpose for a contract relating to agricultural, commercial, residential, or industrial real property.

(c) The voters may provide general authority to the City Council to enter into such contracts as application is made or provide limited authority to the City Council to negotiate contracts that shall be effective upon ratification by a majority of those present and voting at an annual or special meeting warned for that purpose.

(d) Any contract entered into pursuant to this section:

(1) shall be for a period not in excess of 10 years;

(2) shall be filed with the City Clerk and shall be available for public inspection;

(3) may be with existing or new owners, lessees, bailees, or operators of such property or with persons who intend to become owners, lessees, bailees, or operators of such property; and

(4) may be applicable to existing agricultural property; renovations of or additions to existing agricultural, commercial, residential, or industrial real property; or to new agricultural, commercial, residential, or industrial real property.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 509 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 509
App. § 414-509. Reconsideration or rescission of vote
Status: in_force

(a) A question considered or voted on at any special meeting of the District shall not be submitted to the voters for reconsideration or rescission except at a subsequent special meeting duly warned for the purpose and called by the Board of Supervisors on its own motion or pursuant to a petition requesting reconsideration or rescission signed and submitted in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.

(b) Where a petition signed by not less than five percent of the qualified voters of the District requesting reconsideration or rescission of a question considered or voted on at a previous special meeting is submitted to the Board of Supervisors of the District within 30 days following the date of that meeting, the Board of Supervisors shall provide for a vote by the District in accordance with the petition within 60 days of the submission at a special meeting duly warned for that purpose.

(c) A vote taken at a special meeting shall remain in effect unless rescinded at a special meeting called and warned in accordance with this section.

(d) A question voted on or considered shall not be presented for reconsideration or rescission at more than one subsequent meeting except with the approval of the Board of Supervisors.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 29 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 601 / Section 29
App. § 601-29. Executive Board
Status: in_force

The Board of Supervisors shall have the authority to establish an Executive Board and grant it powers as the Board of Supervisors may deem necessary.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1001 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 1001
App. § 129-1001. Fiscal year
Status: in_force

The fiscal year shall commence on the first day of July and end on the last day of June of the following calendar year, unless the Town or School District at their annual meeting shall determine otherwise.
24 V.S.A. § 3673 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 105 / Section 3673
§ 3673. Organization and operation-Establishment of consolidated sewer district
Status: in_force

(a) When a majority of the voters of each town of a proposed consolidated sewer district present and voting in each case by Australian ballot at a town meeting duly warned for that purpose for the same day and during the same hours that shall be at least eight consecutive hours shall vote to join with one or more neighboring towns as specified in the warning for the purpose of forming a consolidated sewer district as provided under this chapter, vote shall thereupon be certified by the clerk of each town to the Secretary of State; and when all towns proposed as members of the consolidated sewer district as specified in such vote shall have so affirmatively voted and the results thereon shall have been certified to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State shall thereupon file the same in his or her office and shall send a written notice to the clerk of each town to be included in the consolidated sewer district that the requirements of this section have been met by each town in the said district. Upon the filing of such records in the Office of the Secretary of State, such consolidated sewer district shall become a body politic and corporate with the powers incident to a public corporation and such records shall be notice to all parties of the establishment of such consolidated sewer district with all the powers incident to such a district as herein provided; and such filing shall be prima facie evidence that the requirements for the creation of a consolidated sewer district as herein set forth have been fully complied with. A consolidated sewer district may sue and be sued and may hold and convey real estate and personal estate for the use of the district and shall have and may exercise the powers and be subject to the duties and obligations of a municipal corporation provided for in 10 V.S.A. chapter 55 and chapters 97 and 101 of this title so far as the same may be applicable and except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

(b) A consolidated sewer district may enter into agreements with the State or federal government or any agency of either or any corporation, commission or board authorized by the State or federal government to grant or loan money to or otherwise assist in the financing of projects that a consolidated sewer district is authorized to carry out, and to accept grants and borrow money from any such agency, corporation, commission, or board, as may be necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 22, 1968; amended 1971, No. 97, § 1, eff. April 22, 1971.)
24 V.S.A. § 1910d — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 53 / Section 1910d
§ 1910d. Information reporting
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality with an active housing infrastructure project shall:

(1) develop a system, segregated for the housing infrastructure project, to identify, collect, and maintain all data and information necessary to fulfill the reporting requirements of this section;

(2) provide timely notification to the Department of Taxes and the Vermont Economic Progress Council of any housing infrastructure project debt, public vote, or vote by the municipal legislative body immediately following the debt incurrence or public vote on a form prescribed by the Council, including copies of public notices, agendas, minutes, vote tally, and a copy of the information provided to the public pursuant to subsection 1910a(e) of this subchapter; and

(3) annually on or before February 15, submit on a form prescribed by the Vermont Economic Progress Council an annual report to the Council and the Department of Taxes, including the information required by subdivision (2) of this subsection if not previously submitted, the information required for annual audit under section 1910e of this subchapter, and any information required by the Council or the Department of Taxes for the report required pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.

(b) Annually on or before April 1, the Vermont Economic Progress Council and the Department of Taxes shall submit a report to the Senate Committees on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs and on Finance and the House Committees on Commerce and Economic Development, on General and Housing, and on Ways and Means that provides the aggregate lifetime education property tax increment retention approved that year, describes common reasons applicants to the Community and Housing Infrastructure Program fail to secure approval for tax increment financing, and includes for each housing infrastructure project approved pursuant to this subchapter the following:

(1) the date of approval;

(2) a description of the housing infrastructure project;

(3) the original taxable value of the housing development site;

(4) the scope and value of projected and actual improvements and developments in the housing development site, including the number of housing units created;

(5) the sale prices for initial offerings of any housing units;

(6) the number and types of housing units for which a permit is being pursued under 10 V.S.A. chapter 151 (State land use and development plans) and, for each applicable housing development, the current stage of the permitting process;

(7) projected and actual incremental revenue amounts;

(8) the allocation of incremental revenue, including the amount allocated to related costs;

(9) projected and actual financing; and

(10) an evaluation of the amount of public funds flowing to private ownership or usage.

(c) On or before January 15, 2035, the Vermont Economic Progress Council shall submit a report to the Senate Committees on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs and on Finance and the House Committees on Commerce and Economic Development, on General and Housing, and on Ways and Means evaluating the success of the Community and Housing Infrastructure Program in achieving its purpose, as stated in section 1907 of this chapter, including by identifying the amount and kinds of housing produced through the Program and by determining whether housing development pursued through the Program meets the project criteria of section 1910 of this chapter.
24 V.S.A. § 1354 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 41 / Section 1354
§ 1354. Accounts; annual report
Status: in_force

The supervisor or supervisors shall maintain an account showing in detail the revenue raised and the expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of the supervisor's duties. The supervisor or supervisors shall prepare an annual fiscal report on or before July 1 which shall conform to procedural and substantive requirements to be established by the Board of Governors and which, upon approval by the Board of Governors, shall be distributed to the residents of the gores.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123A / Section 101
App. § 123A-101. Incorporated
Status: in_force

The inhabitants of the Town of Hartford, including the historical, unincorporated Villages of Hartford, West Hartford, Quechee, Wilder, and White River Junction, are a corporate and political body under the name of “Town of Hartford” (herein called “the Town”). As such, inhabitants enjoy all rights, immunities, powers, and privileges and are subject to all the duties and liabilities now appertaining to or incumbent upon them as a municipal corporation. The Hartford School District (herein called “the School District”) is the Town school district for the Town of Hartford and shall enjoy all rights, immunities, powers, and privileges and is subject to all the duties and liabilities now appertaining to or incumbent upon it as a State school district.
24 V.S.A. § 4443 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4443
§ 4443. Adoption, amendment, or repeal of capital budget and program
Status: repealed

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a capital budget and program may be adopted, amended, or repealed by the legislative body of a municipality following one or more public hearings, upon public notice, if a utility and facilities plan as described in subdivision 4382(a)(4) of this title has been adopted by the legislative body in accordance with sections 4384 and 4385 of this title. A copy of the proposed capital budget and program shall be filed at least 15 days prior to the final public hearing with the clerk of the municipality and the secretary of the planning commission. The planning commission may submit a report on the proposal to the legislative body prior to the public hearing.

(b) The capital budget and program, or its amendment or repeal, shall be adopted or rejected by an act of the legislative body of a municipality promptly after the final public hearing held under subsection (a) of this section.
24 V.S.A. § 4470 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4470
§ 4470. Successive appeals; requests for reconsideration to an appropriate municipal panel
Status: in_force

(a) An appropriate municipal panel may reject an appeal or request for reconsideration without hearing and render a decision, which shall include findings of fact, within 10 days of the date of filing of the notice of appeal, if the appropriate municipal panel considers the issues raised by the appellant in the appeal have been decided in an earlier appeal or involve substantially or materially the same facts by or on behalf of that appellant. The decision shall be rendered, on notice given, as in the case of a decision under subdivision 4464(b)(3) of this title, and shall constitute a decision of the appropriate municipal panel for the purpose of section 4471 of this title.

(b) A municipality shall enforce all decisions of its appropriate municipal panels, and further, the Superior Court's Civil or Environmental Division shall enforce such decisions upon petition, complaint, or appeal or other means in accordance with the laws of this State by such municipality or any interested person by means of mandamus, injunction, process of contempt, or otherwise.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 173 / Section 4
App. § 173-4. Australian ballots
Status: in_force

At any annual or special Town meeting, the Selectboard may cause any question to be decided by Australian ballot, provided that the warning for the meeting specifies the questions to be decided in that manner. A meeting at which any question is to be decided by Australian ballot shall be preceded by a public hearing for discussion. The warning for the meeting shall include a notice of the time and place of the public hearing.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 203 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 407 / Section 203
App. § 407-203. Appointment
Status: in_force

On or before the last Monday in March commencing upon the formation of the District, the selectboard of each member municipality shall appoint its representative and an alternate representative to the Board of Supervisors for a term of two years. Appointments shall be in writing, signed by the chair of the selectboard, and presented to the Clerk of the District. The selectboard, by majority vote, may remove their appointed representative or alternate during the two-year term for cause. The alternate representative shall represent the municipality at all meetings of the Board of Supervisors that the regular representative is unable to attend and shall have all the rights and privileges of a regular representative. At the first organizational meeting after the formation of the District to be held under section 204 of this subchapter, one-half of the District's members shall be designated as those whose initial representatives appointed under this subchapter shall have an initial term of one year.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 305 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 305
App. § 131-305. Ordinances; filing
Status: in_force

The Town Clerk shall prepare and keep in the Town office a book of ordinances, which shall contain each ordinance passed finally by the Selectboard together with a complete index of the ordinances according to subject matter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 205 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 407 / Section 205
App. § 407-205. Regular meetings
Status: in_force

A schedule of regular meetings of the Board of Supervisors shall be established at the organizational meeting.
24 V.S.A. § 3213 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 85 / Section 3213
§ 3213. Disposal of property in urban renewal area
Status: in_force

(a)(1) A municipality may sell, lease, or otherwise transfer real property or any interest therein acquired by it, and may enter into contracts with respect thereto, in an urban renewal area for residential, recreational, commercial, industrial, or other uses or for public use, or may retain such property or interest for public use, in accordance with the urban renewal plan, subject to such covenants, conditions, and restrictions, including covenants running with the land, as it may deem to be necessary or desirable to assist in preventing the development or spread of future slums or blighted areas or to otherwise carry out the purposes of this chapter; provided, that such sale, lease, other transfer, or retention, and any agreement relating thereto, may be made only after the approval of the urban renewal plan by vote of the municipality as provided in subsection 3207(f) of this title.

(2) The purchasers or lessees and their successors and assigns shall be obligated to devote such real property only to the uses specified in the urban renewal plan, and may be obligated to comply with such other requirements as the municipality may determine to be in the public interest, including the obligation to begin within a reasonable time any improvements on such real property required by the urban renewal plan.

(3) Such real property or interest shall be sold, leased, otherwise transferred, or retained at not less than its fair value for uses in accordance with the urban renewal plan. In determining the fair value of real property for uses in accordance with the urban renewal plan, a municipality shall take into account and give consideration to the uses provided in such plan; the restrictions upon, and the covenants, conditions, and obligations assumed by the purchaser or lessee or by the municipality retaining the property; and the objectives of such plan for the prevention of the recurrence of slum or blighted areas.

(4) The municipality in any instrument of conveyance to a private purchaser or lessee may provide that such purchaser or lessee shall be without power to sell, lease, or otherwise transfer the real property without the prior written consent of the municipality until he or she has completed the construction of any or all improvements which he or she has obligated himself or herself to construct thereon.

(5) Real property acquired by a municipality which, in accordance with the provisions of the urban renewal plan, is to be transferred, shall be transferred as rapidly as feasible in the public interest consistent with the carrying out of the provisions of the urban renewal plan.

(6) Any contract for such transfer and the urban renewal plan, or such part or parts of such contract or plan as the municipality may determine, may be recorded in the land records of the municipality in such manner as to afford actual or constructive notice thereof.

(b) A municipality may dispose of real property in an urban renewal area to private persons only under such reasonable competitive bidding procedures as it shall prescribe or as hereinafter provided in this subsection. A municipality may, by public notice by publication in a newspaper having a general circulation in the community, 30 days prior to the execution of any contract to sell, lease, or otherwise transfer real property and prior to the delivery of any instrument of conveyance with respect thereto under the provisions of this section, invite proposals from and make available all pertinent information to private redevelopers or any persons interested in undertaking to redevelop or rehabilitate an urban renewal area, or any part thereof. Such notice shall identify the area, or portion thereof, and shall state that proposals shall be made by those interested within 30 days after the date of publication of said notice, and that such further information as is available may be obtained at such office as shall be designated in said notice. The municipality shall consider all such redevelopment or rehabilitation proposals and the financial and legal ability of the persons making such proposals to carry them out, and may negotiate with any persons for proposals for the purchase, lease, or other transfer of any real property acquired by the municipality in the urban renewal area. The municipality may accept such proposal as it deems to be in the public interest and in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter; provided, that notification of intention to accept such proposal shall be filed with the governing body not less than 30 days prior to any such acceptance. Thereafter, the municipality may execute such contract in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section and deliver deeds, leases, and other instruments and take all steps necessary to effectuate such contract.

(c) A municipality may temporarily operate and maintain real property acquired in an urban renewal area pending the disposition of the property as authorized in this chapter, without regard to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, for such uses and purposes as may be deemed desirable even though not in conformity with the urban renewal plan.

(d) Any real property acquired under subdivision 3209(4) of this title may be disposed of without regard to other provisions of this section if the local governing body consents to the disposal.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, where the municipality is situated in an area designated as a redevelopment area or economic development center under the federal Area Redevelopment Act or other federal law enacted to assist in the economic development of areas suffering substantial and persistent unemployment or underemployment, land in an urban renewal project area designated under the urban renewal plan for industrial or commercial use may be disposed of to any public body or nonprofit corporation for later disposition as promptly as practicable by the public body or corporation, for redevelopment in accordance with the urban renewal plan, and only the purchaser from or lessee of the public body or corporation and their assignees shall be required to assume the obligation of beginning the building of improvements within a reasonable time. Any disposition of land to a public body or corporation under this subsection shall be made at its fair value for uses in accordance with the urban renewal plan.

(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this chapter, a municipality may sell, lease, or otherwise transfer real property or any interest therein acquired by it for urban renewal purposes:

(1) To any person designated by the municipality and approved by the local governing body as a qualified eligible sponsor, if:

(A) The municipality publishes, in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the municipality at least ten days before the sale, lease, or other disposition, a notice which includes a statement of the identity of the proposed sponsor and his or her proposed use or re-use of the urban renewal area or of the applicable portion thereof. That notice shall be in such form and manner as may be prescribed by the municipality.

(B) The proposed sponsor agrees to pay not less than the minimum price or rental fixed by the municipality for the real property.

(C) The proposed sponsor matches any bid higher than that minimum price or rental.

(D) And the sale, lease, or other disposition requires effectuation of the purpose thereof within a definite and reasonable time.

(E) If that sponsor does not agree to pay the minimum price or rental fixed by the municipality or fails to match any higher bid than that minimum price or rental, municipality may, in its sole discretion and only if consistent with the urban renewal plan, sell or lease any such real property or any interest therein to any other person bidding under provisions of subsection (b) of this section.

(2) To any person designated by the municipality and approved by the local governing body as a qualified sponsor, without bids or other requirements of subsection (b) of this section, if:

(A) the price or rental to be paid by the sponsor for the property and all other essential terms and conditions of the sale, lease, or other disposition are included in the notice published by the municipality under paragraph (A) of subdivision (1) of this section;

(B) the sale, lease, or other disposition is approved by the local governing body after a public hearing held not less than ten days after publication of the notice.

(g) Sponsors under subsection (f) of this section shall be designated by following the procedure set forth in subsection (b) of this section, except that the public notice therein required need not be made 30 days before the execution of any contract to sell, lease, or otherwise transfer real property, as set forth in subsection (b) of this section.

(h) For the effectuation of any of the purposes of an urban renewal project and in accordance with the urban renewal plan, a municipality may grant, sell, convey, or lease, without public hearing or public letting and without following the requirements of subsection (b) of this section, to a public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Service, for such length of time as it may deem advisable, franchises, easements, or rights-of-way, in, over, below, along, or across any lands acquired by the municipality under this chapter, upon such terms and conditions, for such consideration, and subject to such restrictions as in the judgment of its local governing body seem proper if the local governing body first determines that the use and enjoyment for those purposes of those lands is not inconsistent with the purposes and provisions of the urban renewal plan.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 303 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 303
App. § 413-303. Chair
Status: in_force

The Chair of the Board of Supervisors shall be the chief executive officer of the District. The Chair shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Supervisors and shall make and sign all contracts on behalf of the District upon approval by the Board of Supervisors. The Chair shall perform all of the duties incident to the position and office.
24 V.S.A. § 3406 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 95 / Section 3406
§ 3406. Appeal; not to delay construction
Status: in_force

When a person is dissatisfied with the decision of the selectboard upon the question of the extent of or necessity for the taking of land for such sewer, drain, or outlet, or in the award of damages therefor or in any assessment for contribution, such person may petition to the Superior Court for a rehearing in the premises. Any number of persons aggrieved may join therein, but such petition shall not delay the laying or repairing of such sewer, drain, or outlet, where the same is for the reassessment of damages or contribution. (1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1973.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 289 / Section 4
App. § 289-4. Officers
Status: in_force

The officers of the corporation shall be a Board of five trustees, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, and an Auditor, all of which officers shall be chosen at each annual meeting of the legal voters of the corporation or at a special meeting as hereinafter provided. The term of office of the trustees shall be five years and until their successors are elected. The term of office of the other officers shall be one year and until their successors are elected. Any vacancy in any Village office may be filled by the Board of Trustees by appointment in writing recorded by the Clerk.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 11 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 149 / Section 11
App. § 149-11. Procedures for charter revision and amendment
Status: in_force

(a) The procedures and process for charter amendment in subsection (b) of this section may be initiated either by a vote of four members of the Selectboard or by a citizen initiative (petition) of at least five percent of the voters registered at the time that the petition is submitted.

(b) The procedure for charter amendment shall be as follows:

(1) The Selectboard shall appoint a Charter Review Committee of not less than 11 members, which shall include two representatives from the Selectboardand two representatives from the administration, one of which must be the Town Clerk, with the majority from the community at large. All voting members must be registered voters of the Town.

(2) Within one year after appointment, the Charter Review Committee shall report out any amendments, revisions, or changes.

(3) The Selectboard shall determine if the proposed amendments are a comprehensive revision and shall determine the format of the article. All provisions of 17 V.S.A. § 2645 that are not in conflict with this charter shall be adhered to.

(4) Any changes in the charter must be effected by a Town meeting vote.

(c) In addition to the procedure set forth above in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the charter may be revised or amended by the submission of a citizen initiative (petition) specifying the amendments or revisions desired and signed by 10 percent of the registered voters. The petition and subsequent action shall conform to the requirements of State statutes relating to charter amendment procedures and shall be approved by an annual Town meeting vote with at least 15 percent of voters participating. If a proposed amendment or revision under this subsection is voted down at the annual Town meeting, it or a substantially similar amendment may not be petitioned again for a period of one year.

(d) Any changes in the Town charter shall become effective immediately upon passage by the registered voters and approval by the General Assembly as prescribed by statute.

(e) A comprehensive revision of this charter, as determined by the Selectboard, may be voted only once in three years.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 127 / Section 1101
App. § 127-1101. Applicability of State law to zoning and planning
Status: in_force

The Zoning Administrator under any Middlebury zoning ordinance or bylaw shall be appointed annually by the Selectboard after the annual meeting and shall serve for one year or until his or oher successor is appointed and qualified. All other matters pertaining to zoning, land subdivision, municipal and regional plans shall be exclusively controlled by the statutes of the State of Vermont, except as specifically provided in this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 46 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 126 / Section 46
App. § 126-46. Voting on questions by Australian ballot
Status: in_force

The Selectboard may cause any question to be voted by Australian ballot at any annual meeting, or special town meeting called on the Selectboard's motion or by petition, provided that the warning for the vote states that the vote will be by Australian ballot and includes notice of the time and place of the vote.
24 V.S.A. § 178 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 178
§ 178. Record of sheriff's commission; copies; evidence
Status: in_force

The county clerk shall record, in a book kept for that purpose, sheriffs' commissions with the oath of office indorsed thereon. In case of loss or destruction of an original commission or recognizance, a certified copy of the record may be used in court as evidence of the facts therein contained.
24 V.S.A. § 222 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 222
§ 222. Neglect to settle; penalty
Status: in_force

A treasurer who refuses or neglects to settle with the auditor, after being notified, shall be fined $20.00, and a like sum for each month's refusal or neglect thereafter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 413 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 413
App. § 1-413. Repealed. 2025, No. M-1, § 3, eff. May 1, 2025.
Status: repealed

(Repealed by 2025, No. M-1, § 3, eff. May 1, 2025.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 35 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 261 / Section 35
App. § 261-35. Further duties of the trustees relating to water
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the trustees under the direction of the corporation, to have the care and management of the Water Department; they shall make all necessary rules and regulations for the government and operation of the waterworks belonging to said corporation; they shall appoint a Superintendent and may remove the Superintendent at pleasure; and shall assess all water rates or taxes, and under the direction of the corporation, provide for the collection of the same, and shall examine all bills and claims connected with the Water Department, and if they find them to be just, shall certify on such bills their approval of the same.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 15.01 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 15.01
App. § 9-15.1. Boards and commissions
Status: in_force

There shall be maintained in the City an Assessor, a Board of Health, a Board of Planning Commissioners, a Board of Cemetery Commissioners, a Board of Finance, a Board of Highway Commissioners, a Board of Sewage Disposal Commissioners, a Board of Zoning Adjustment, a Pension Board, a Board of School Commissioners, a Police Commission, a Redevelopment Authority and otherwise as provided for herein.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 503 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 247 / Section 503
App. § 247-503. Compensation of the Board
Status: in_force

Compensation paid to trustees, if any, shall be set by the voters of the Village at an annual meeting. Trustee compensation must be set forth as a separate item in the annual budget prepared by the trustees.
24 V.S.A. § 5009 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 123 / Section 5009
§ 5009. Construction
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be construed most favorably to municipalities, its intention being to give them the fullest and most complete powers possible concerning the subject matter hereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 501 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 151 / Section 501
App. § 151-501. Taxes
Status: in_force

Taxes shall be assessed by the Town based on the fair market value of real property, in accordance with State law.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1010 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 1010
App. § 129-1010. Investments
Status: in_force

The Town and School District may invest its money in savings accounts, money market funds, certificates of deposits, U.S. Treasury notes, repurchase agreements, and any other investment to the extent at the time not prohibited by applicable laws.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1005 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1005
App. § 5-1005. Vacancy in the Office of City Manager
Status: in_force

(a) During times of vacation and planned absences, the City Manager shall designate an acting City Manager to perform the duties of the Office. In the event of a vacancy in the Office of City Manager, or during the temporary absence or disability of the City Manager, the City Council, by resolution of the majority of its members, may appoint an acting City Manager to perform the duties of the Office. The Council shall set the compensation of the person so appointed.

(b) The acting City Manager shall have all the powers and duties of the City Manager, except any appointment or removal of officials or employees by the acting City Manager shall be confirmed by the City Council.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 238 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 238
App. § 3-238. Rights of property owners when street discontinued
Status: in_force

In case the City Council shall decide to discontinue any street or highway in said City, any person owning or interested in the lands abutting said street who is dissatisfied with such decision may, within 60 days thereafter, institute proceedings that shall have the same effect, be conducted in the same manner, and subject to the same conditions and provisions as if such person were dissatisfied with the laying out, altering, or resurveying of any street or highway in said City.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 21 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 703 / Section 21
App. § 703-21. Ratification and validation
Status: in_force

The ratification of 1971 Acts and Resolves No. 135 by the District and all proceedings taken thereunder are validated and confirmed in all respects. Any action heretofore authorized by the District under 1971 Acts and Resolves No. 135 or under prior law, including the bond vote of May 21, 1970, shall hereafter be implemented in accordance with the charter of the District as amended by this act.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1502 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 133 / Section 1502
App. § 133-1502. Preparation and submission of budget and town report
Status: in_force

(a) The Town Manager, at least 60 days before the date of the regular annual Town meeting, shall submit to the Selectboard a budget that shall contain:

(1) a statement of the financial condition of the Town as of the end of the fiscal year and as of the date of submission of the budget;

(2) an itemized statement of appropriations recommended for current expenses and for capital improvements during the next fiscal year with comparative statements in parallel columns of appropriations and estimated expenditures for the current fiscal year and actual appropriations and expenditures for the preceding fiscal year;

(3) an itemized statement of estimated revenues from all sources, other than taxation, for the next fiscal year; a statement of estimated taxes required for the next fiscal year; and comparative figures of tax and other sources of revenue for the current and the preceding fiscal year;

(4) a statement of the short and long-term indebtedness of the Town;

(5) a listing of delinquent taxpayers;

(6) such other information as may be required by the Selectboard or law.

(b) The Selectboard's budget in its final form and the warning of the meeting shall be made available to the legal voters of the Town in an annual Town report at least 14 days prior to the annual Town meeting.
24 V.S.A. § 312 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 312
§ 312. Jurisdiction of sheriffs
Status: in_force

The powers of sheriffs with respect to criminal matters and the enforcement of the law may be exercised statewide.
24 V.S.A. § 1910b — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 53 / Section 1910b
§ 1910b. Original taxable value; tax increment
Status: in_force

(a) As of the date the housing development site is created, the lister or assessor for the municipality shall certify the original taxable value and shall certify to the legislative body in each year thereafter during the life of the housing development site the amount by which the total valuation as determined in accordance with 32 V.S.A. chapter 129 of all taxable real property within the housing development site has increased or decreased relative to the original taxable value.

(b) Annually throughout the life of the housing development site, the lister or assessor shall include not more than the original taxable value of the real property in the assessed valuation upon which the treasurer computes the rates of all taxes levied by the municipality and every other taxing district in which the housing development site is situated, but the treasurer shall extend all rates so determined against the entire assessed valuation of real property for that year.

(c) Annually throughout the life of the housing development site, a municipality shall remit not less than the aggregate education property tax due on the original taxable value to the Education Fund.

(d) Annually throughout the life of the housing development site, the municipality shall hold apart, rather than remit to the taxing districts, that proportion of all taxes paid that year on the real property within the housing development site that the excess valuation bears to the total assessed valuation. The amount held apart each year is the “tax increment” for that year. The tax increment shall only be used for financing and related costs.

(e) Not more than the percentages established pursuant to section 1910c of this subchapter of the municipal and State education tax increments received with respect to the housing development site and committed for the payment for financing for improvements and related costs shall be segregated by the municipality in a special tax increment financing account and in its official books and records until all capital indebtedness incurred for the housing infrastructure project has been fully paid. The final payment shall be reported to the treasurer, who shall thereafter include the entire assessed valuation of the housing development site in the assessed valuations upon which the municipal and other tax rates are computed and extended, and thereafter no taxes from the housing development site shall be deposited in the special tax increment financing account.

(f) Notwithstanding any charter provision or other provision, all property taxes assessed within a housing development site shall be subject to the provisions of this section. Special assessments levied under chapter 76A or 87 of this title or under a municipal charter shall not be considered property taxes for the purpose of this section if the proceeds are used exclusively for operating expenses related to properties within the housing development site and not for improvements within the housing development site.
24 V.S.A. § 4555 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4555
§ 4555. Duties of State Treasurer
Status: in_force

(a) The State Treasurer may receive from the United States of America or any department or agency thereof any amounts of money as and when appropriated, allocated, granted, turned over, or in any way provided for the purposes of the Bank or this chapter, and the amounts shall be credited to and deposited in the Reserve Fund or Revenue Bond Reserve Funds, as appropriate, and be available to the Bank.

(b) Any monies in the custody of the State Treasurer whether made available by reason of any grant, allocation, or appropriation by the United States of America or the State or agencies thereof to assist any governmental unit in payment of its municipal bonds or revenue bonds acquired or held by the Bank, or required by the terms of any other law to be paid to holders or owners of municipal bonds or revenue bonds of a governmental unit upon failure or default of a governmental unit to pay the principal of or interest on its municipal bonds or revenue bonds when due and payable, shall, to the extent that those funds or monies are applicable to municipal bonds or revenue bonds of a particular governmental unit and that are then acquired or held by the Bank and as to which that governmental unit has defaulted on payment of principal or interest when due, be paid and deposited by the State Treasurer in the applicable reserve fund or funds and made available to the Bank.

(c) Upon receipt by the State Treasurer of written notice from the Bank, or the corporate trustee exercising rights on behalf of the holders of bonds issued by the Bank, that a governmental unit is in default on the payment of principal or interest on a municipal bond or revenue bond acquired or held by the Bank, the State Treasurer shall immediately withhold all further payment to the governmental unit of any or all funds appropriated and payable by the State to the governmental unit, until the default is cured. During the default period, the State Treasurer shall make direct payment of all, or as much as is necessary, of the withheld amounts to the Bank, or at the Bank's direction, to the trustee or paying agent for the bonds, so as to cure, or cure insofar as possible, the default as to the bond or the interest on the bond.

(d) Any payments described in subsection (c) of this section made by the State Treasurer to the Bank, or the Bank's trustee or paying agent for the bond, shall be credited as if made directly by the governmental unit. The payment shall be offset against any appropriation otherwise payable to the governmental unit by the State during each fiscal year. Upon receipt of the payment, the Bank, or the Bank's trustee or paying agent, shall provide written notice of the payment to the governmental unit.

(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed:

(1) to limit, impair, or impede the rights or remedies granted to the holders of bonds issued by the Bank and the governmental units;

(2) to require the State to continue the payment of State aid or assistance to any governmental unit;

(3) to limit or prohibit the State from repealing or amending any law relating to State aid or assistance, including the manner and time of payment or apportionment, or the amount of aid or assistance;

(4) to create any obligation on the part of the State Treasurer or the State to make any payment on behalf of a defaulting governmental unit other than from funds appropriated and payable to a defaulting governmental unit by the State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 702 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 215 / Section 702
App. § 215-702. Assessment of tax
Status: in_force

The Village may, at its annual meeting or at any special meeting warned for that purpose, assess a tax on the list of real and personal estate taxable in the Village for any of the purposes mentioned in this charter and shall have all the powers, and may collect such tax in such manner as is provided by law for the collection of town taxes in towns, and the Trustees of the Village are to have the power and perform the duties required in this section, of the selectboard in towns.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 504 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 504
App. § 413-504. Warnings required
Status: in_force

The Board of Supervisors of the District shall warn a special meeting of the District by filing a notice with the clerk of each member municipality and by posting a notice in at least five public places in each municipality in the District not less than 30 nor more than 40 days before the meeting. In addition, the warning shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the District once a week on the same day of the week for three consecutive weeks before the meeting, the last publication to be not less than five nor more than 10 days before the meeting.
24 V.S.A. § 213 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 213
§ 213. Accounts; disbursements
Status: in_force

The treasurer shall keep proper entries of monies received and paid out, under appropriate accounts, so that the revenue of the county and the disbursements shall appear in detail. No money shall be paid out of the county treasury except upon the order of the county clerk.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 247 / Section 701
App. § 247-701. Annual Village meetings
Status: in_force

The annual meeting of said corporation for the election of officers and transaction of any other business specified in the warning of said meeting shall be held within the corporate limits on the fourth Tuesday of May of each year and shall be called by the Clerk, or in case of the Clerk's neglect, by the trustees by publishing and posting a warning therefor in at least four public places within the corporate limits not less than 10 days or more than 20 days before the time set for such annual meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 27 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 11 / Section 27
App. § 11-27. Taxes; sidewalk, water, and wastewater assessment arrearages
Status: in_force

The inhabitants, estates, and the owners of those estates within the City of St. Albans shall be held to pay the arrears of taxes, sidewalk, water, and wastewater assessments, and the inhabitants, estates, and the owners of those estates without the City of St. Albans shall be held to pay the arrears of sewer assessments that have been heretofore legally levied or assessed upon them or that may be hereafter so legally levied or assessed upon them by the City of St. Albans.
24 V.S.A. § 180 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 180
§ 180. Claim; clerk to draw orders
Status: in_force

Claims against a county shall be examined and allowed by the assistant judges, unless other provision is made by law. A statement of each claim with the amount allowed shall be certified by them to the county clerk, who shall draw an order therefor upon the county treasurer.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 304 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 407 / Section 304
App. § 407-304. Vice Chair
Status: in_force

During the absence of or inability of the Chair to render or perform his or her duties or exercise his or her powers, the same shall be performed and exercised by the Vice Chair and when so acting the Vice Chair shall have all the powers and be subject to all the responsibilities hereby given to or imposed upon the Chair.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 203 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 203
App. § 129-203. Terms of elected offices
Status: in_force

(a) Selectboard.

(1) Shall consist of five members. Three members of the Selectboard shall be elected each year; one for a three-year term and two members for one-year terms. The two incumbent officers shall complete their elected terms.

(2) Shall constitute the legislative body of the Town of Milton for all purposes required of town legislative bodies or selectboards under the Constitution and the laws of the State of Vermont.

(b) The Town Clerk shall be elected for a three-year term.

(c) The Town Treasurer shall be elected for a three-year term to be concurrent with the Town Clerk's term.

(d) The Library Board shall consist of five trustees. Two trustees shall be elected for a two-year term and three trustees shall be elected for a three-year term.

(e) School Board of Trustees.

(1) Shall consist of five members of whom three shall be elected for three-year terms, one shall be elected for a two-year term, and one shall be elected for a one-year term.

(2) Shall constitute the legislative body of the Town School District for all purposes required of school trustees under the Constitution and laws of the State of Vermont and this charter.

(f) Champlain Water District Representative (CWD) shall be elected for a three-year term or as prescribed by the Champlain Water District charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 104 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123A / Section 104
App. § 123A-104. Local option tax
Status: in_force

The Town of Hartford is authorized to levy a tax of one percent on rooms, meals, and alcoholic beverages, the net proceeds of which are to be deposited in a capital reserve fund until directed otherwise by vote of the Town.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 30 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 175 / Section 30
App. § 175-30. Application of general law
Status: in_force

Provisions of the laws of the State of Vermont relating to voter qualification, warning, method of voting, the duties of town officers at town meetings and elections, and all other particulars relating to preparation for conducting and managing town meetings and elections shall, so far as they may be applicable, govern all municipal elections and all annual and special town meetings, except as otherwise provided in this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1211 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1211
App. § 5-1211. Heat meters
Status: in_force

The City Council may provide for use of meters or other devices as a basis of charging users of heat supplied by the City system and may in its discretion provide for use of such devices by all users of specified classes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 503 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 503
App. § 5-503. Special City meetings; special meetings to authorize improvements and incur debt
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The City Clerk, when directed by the City Council or when requested in writing by 10 percent of the voters to do so, shall call a special meeting of the voters of the City in the same manner provided for calling the annual meeting.

(2) In case of the failure of the City Clerk to call such special meeting as provided in subdivision (1) of this subsection, that duty shall be performed by the Mayor.

(b) Special meetings to authorize public improvements and the incurring of debt to pay for the same shall be warned as provided by general laws of the State.

(c)(1) The City Council shall call the special meeting within 60 days of the application being received by the City Clerk.

(2) The City Council may rescind the call of a special meeting that it initiated itself, but not a special meeting called upon the petition of 10 percent of the voters.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 702 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 702
App. § 4-702. Board of Abatement of Taxes
Status: in_force

The Board of Civil Authority shall constitute a Board of Abatement as provided by law. The Board of Abatement shall meet and discharge its duties as required by the applicable statutory provisions.
24 V.S.A. § 1175 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 35 / Section 1175
§ 1175. Permanent service records
Status: in_force

Town clerks shall record the honorable discharges or certificates of service of all members of the Armed Forces of the United States, by photographic copy or on forms approved by the Adjutant General of a size and with a margin to permit binding. Upon making such record, the town clerk shall forthwith forward a certified copy thereof to the office of the Adjutant General. Such records shall be arranged or indexed alphabetically, bound, and made a permanent record. Town clerks shall receive a fee of 50 cents for so recording each honorable discharge or certificate of service, as hereinbefore provided, to be paid by the town.
24 V.S.A. § 2401 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 65 / Section 2401
§ 2401. Public lands; duties of selectboard
Status: in_force

The selectboard shall have the care of lands in the town granted under the authority of the British Government as glebes for the use of the Church of England and now by law granted to such town for the use of schools, and lands granted to the use of the ministry or the social worship of God, and lands granted to the first settled minister, and not appropriated according to law.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 706 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 151 / Section 706
App. § 151-706. Department of Assessment
Status: in_force

(a) Creation. There is hereby created a Department of Assessment headed by a person experienced in the appraisal of real estate, who shall be appointed by the Town Manager with the approval of the Selectboard.

(b) Appraisal of property. The Department of Assessment shall appraise all real and personal property for the purpose of drawing up the grand list. Appraisals shall be reviewed periodically and updated. Technically qualified individuals or firms may be employed as needed.

(c) Powers. The Department of Assessment shall have the same powers, discharge the same duties, proceed in the same manner, and be subject to the same liabilities as those prescribed for listers or a board of listers under applicable provisions of Vermont law with respect to drawing up the grand list and grievances.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1506 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 1506
App. § 123-1506. Budget limitations-borrowing
Status: in_force

(a) The incurring of bonded indebtedness, the issuing of bonds, the making of temporary loans in anticipation of bond sales, and all other matters pertaining to bonded indebtedness shall be controlled by such statutes as are applicable.

(b) The Town, through its Selectboard, may borrow money in anticipation of taxes.

(c) The Town, by vote at the annual or a special meeting, may borrow money under terms and conditions and for lawful municipal purposes as the Town shall vote.

(d) In cases of emergency, the Selectboard may appropriate funds or borrow money in the name of the Town.

(e) The Selectboard, in the name of the Town, may borrow funds in anticipation of federal and State funds that have been approved and committed, until those funds are available, but in no event for a term of longer than one year.

(f) Any appropriation beyond the amount in the Town budget, except as specified in subsection (d) of this section, and all borrowing, except as specified in subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) of this section, shall be by vote of the Town and upon such terms and conditions as the Town shall vote.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 11 / Section 10
App. § 11-10. The City Council
Status: in_force

(a) There shall be elected six members of the City Council, one from each ward, who shall be a legal voter in, and elected by the voters of the ward he or she represents. At each annual meeting, two members of City Council shall be elected for three years to succeed those whose term shall expire in the year in which the election is held. All of the members of the City Council shall hold office until their successors are duly elected.

(b) The Mayor and members of City Council sitting in their joint capacity shall be called the City Council.

(c) The administration of all fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of the City, except as otherwise delegated herein, and the government thereof, shall be vested in the City Council. The City Council shall be composed of a Council member for each ward as aforesaid and the Mayor. The City Council shall elect one of their number President of the City Council. The City Council shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties respectively.

(d) The City Council shall have all the powers of selectboard members. The City Council shall hold a meeting on the second Monday of each month, and more often at the call of the Mayor or at the call of the majority of the City Council; the presence of a majority of the City Council shall be necessary to transact business at any meeting, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time and may compel the attendance of absent members in a manner as may be prescribed by ordinance.

(e) The City Council shall establish rates to be paid for the use of water and wastewater services supplied by the City Water and Wastewater Departments, which shall be called service rates, and shall be collected by the City Treasurer; the city water and wastewater services may, at the option of the City Council, be furnished outside the limits of the City of St. Albans.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 41 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 213 / Section 41
App. § 213-41. Grand list
Status: in_force

The grand list of the Town of Cambridge comprised within the limits of the Village of Cambridge shall be the grand list of the corporation.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 11 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 207 / Section 11
App. § 207-11. Auditors' duties
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the auditors of accounts to audit the accounts of the Collector and Treasurer of said corporation; they shall carefully examine the vouchers of the Treasurer and all other records of public funds prior to each annual meeting, and shall have access to the books and records of all corporation officers, and shall make a written report of their doings, with criticisms and recommendations as they deem best, to said corporation at its annual meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 401 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 108 / Section 401
App. § 108-401. Ordinances, etc
Status: in_force

(a) The Town of Bristol may adopt, amend, repeal, and enforce any rule, regulation, bylaw, or ordinance to carry into execution all the powers granted to the Town of Bristol.

(b) Any rule, regulation, bylaw, or ordinance of the Town of Bristol may apply to one or more limited areas and not to the whole Town. This may include the providing of a particular service, such as collection of garbage, to one or more limited areas of the Town and the charging of fees to be paid by the users thereof for the costs of such a service.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 902 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 902
App. § 4-902. Annual municipal budget
Status: in_force

With support from the finance department, the Manager shall submit to the Council a budget for review before the annual City Meeting or at such previous time as may be directed by the Council. The budget shall contain:

(1) an estimate of the financial condition of the City as of the end of the fiscal year;

(2) an itemized statement of appropriations recommended for current expenses, and for capital improvements, during the next fiscal year, with comparative statements of appropriations and estimated expenditures for the current fiscal year and actual appropriations and expenditures for the immediate preceding fiscal year;

(3) an itemized statement of estimated revenues from all sources, other than taxation, for the next fiscal year and comparative figures of tax and other sources of revenue for the current and immediate preceding fiscal years;

(4) a capital budget for not fewer than the next five fiscal years, showing anticipated capital expenditures, financing, and tax requirements; and

(5) such other information as may be required by the Council.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 15 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 151 / Section 15
App. § 151-15. Redesignated. 2023, No. M-27 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. May 30, 2024.
Status: in_force

(Renumbered to 24A V.S.A. § 151-703 by 2023, No. M-27 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. May 30, 2024.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 46 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 401 / Section 46
App. § 401-46. Qualifications and registration of voters
Status: in_force

All legal voters of the member municipalities shall be legal voters of the District. The member municipalities shall post and revise checklists in the same manner as for municipal meetings prior to any District meeting at which there will be voting.
24 V.S.A. § 1170 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 35 / Section 1170
§ 1170. Appointment of assistant clerk
Status: in_force

After his or her election, a town clerk shall forthwith appoint one or more assistant clerks, for whose official acts he or she shall be responsible, who shall hold office during his or her term of office, or until such appointment is revoked by him or her. Such appointments and revocation shall be recorded in the office of the town clerk.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1114 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 1114
App. § 131-1114. Effective date
Status: in_force

[Transitional provisions related to the effective date of the charter.]
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 279 / Section 7
App. § 279-7. Village Treasurer
Status: in_force

(a) The Village Treasurer shall be a Village resident or nonresident appointed by the Board of Trustees at the first meeting of the Board of Trustees following each annual meeting of the Village. These appointments shall be recorded in the office of the Village Clerk. After appointment, the Village Treasurer shall appoint one or more assistant Village treasurers with the approval of the Board of Trustees, for whose official acts the Village Treasurer shall be responsible.

(b) The Village Treasurer shall have all the authority, duties, and responsibilities that are conferred upon the office of town treasurer by the general law of the State of Vermont.

(c) With the approval of the Board of Trustees, and consistent with duly adopted investment policies, the Village Treasurer shall invest Village funds or place them in interest-bearing accounts that are suitable and proper for municipal funds to be safeguarded and kept. These funds may be drawn upon by the Village Treasurer or assistant Village treasurer, upon orders approved by the Board of Trustees.

(d) The Village and the Board of Trustees may establish special funds from time to time that may be pooled for investment purposes by the Village Treasurer who shall keep separate accounting for each fund. Interest and other gains and losses accruing to the account shall be credited to each component special fund based on the reconciled average balance of the individual components, proportionalized as necessary.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 11 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 261 / Section 11
App. § 261-11. Special meetings; how called
Status: in_force

On request of five legal voters of the Village, the Clerk, and upon the Clerk's neglect or refusal, the trustees, may call a special meeting of said Village, giving notice of the same as in case of the annual meeting, and specifying in the notice the objects of the meeting.
24 V.S.A. § 4418 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4418
§ 4418. Subdivision bylaws
Status: in_force

In order to guide community settlement patterns and to ensure the efficient extension of services, utilities, and facilities as land is developed, a municipality may regulate the division of a lot or parcel of land into two or more lots or other division of land for sale, development, or lease. Subdivision bylaws shall establish standards and procedures for approval, modification, or disapproval of plats of land and approval or modification of plats previously filed in the office of the municipal clerk or land records.

(1) Subdivision bylaws shall be administered in accordance with the requirements of subchapter 10 of this chapter and shall contain:

(A) Procedures and requirements for the design, submission, and processing of plats, any drawing and plans, and any other documentation required for review of subdivisions.

(B) Standards for the design and layout of streets, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, streetlights, fire hydrants, landscaping, water, sewage and stormwater management facilities, public and private utilities, and other necessary improvements as may be specified in a municipal plan. Standards in accordance with subdivision 4412(3) of this title shall be required for lots without frontage on or access to public roads or public waters.

(C) Standards for the design and configuration of parcel boundaries and location of associated improvements necessary to implement the municipal plan and achieve the desired settlement pattern for the neighborhood, area, or district in which the subdivision is located.

(D) Standards for the protection of natural resources and cultural features and the preservation of open space, as appropriate in the municipality.

(2) Subdivision bylaws may include:

(A) provisions allowing the appropriate municipal panel to waive or modify, subject to appropriate conditions, the provision of any or all improvements and requirements as in its judgment of the special circumstances of a particular plat or plats are not requisite in the interest of the public health, safety, and general welfare, or are inappropriate because of inadequacy or lack of connecting facilities adjacent or in proximity to the subdivision;

(B) procedures for conceptual, preliminary, partial, and other reviews preceding submission of a subdivision plat, including any administrative reviews;

(C) specific development standards to promote the conservation of energy or to permit the utilization of renewable energy resources, or both;

(D) State standards and criteria under 10 V.S.A. § 6086(a); and

(E) provisions to allow the administrative officer to approve minor subdivisions.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 9 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 15 / Section 9
App. § 15-9. Appointments by City Council
Status: in_force

(a) The City Council, at its first meeting of each fiscal year, shall appoint a City Manager who shall have all the duties and responsibilities of a town manager as set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapter 37, as amended from time to time; a Treasurer, who shall discharge the duties incident to that office; a City Clerk; one or more constables; and may appoint a City Attorney.

(b) None of such officers shall be a member of the City Council. The compensation of all officers shall be fixed by the City Council, and all of said officers shall be under the direction of City Council and shall hold office until their respective successors shall be appointed and qualified, subject, however, to removal by the City Council for just cause. No claim for personal services shall be allowed to the officers elected at the annual meeting, except as fixed by law or by City Council, unless said claim is fixed by vote of the City at the annual meeting.

(c) All appointments by the City Manager shall be subject to approval by the City Council.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 213 / Section 2
App. § 213-2. Powers of corporation
Status: in_force

The Village by that name may have perpetual succession and may sue and may be sued, may have a common seal and the same alter at pleasure, and shall be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying real and personal estate for the use of the Village corporation, and at any annual or special meeting of the legal voters of the corporation legally warned and holden for that purpose may lay a tax upon the grand list of the Village of Cambridge for any of the purposes mentioned in this charter.
24 V.S.A. § 1131 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 33 / Section 1131
§ 1131. Energy coordinator; duties
Status: in_force

(a) The legislative body of a municipality may appoint, and determine the length of term for, an energy coordinator.

(b) An energy coordinator shall coordinate existing energy resources in the town and cooperate with the municipal planning commission and with those federal, State, and regional agencies of government which are responsible for energy matters.

(c) An energy coordinator may study and evaluate sources of energy which are alternatives to those presently available with a view toward the more efficient and economical utilization of existing and potential energy resources.

(d) An energy coordinator shall make periodic reports of his or her activities to the legislative body as it may require and may perform such other duties, studies, or examinations as may be required by the legislative body.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 501 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 108 / Section 501
App. § 108-501. Water Department
Status: in_force

(a) Upon the effective date of this merger, the geographic area formerly covered by the then abolished Village of Bristol shall constitute a Water Department service area for the purpose of providing water services therein. However, said Water Department shall be responsible for continuing the present specific water services already in existence and being provided beyond said geographic area prior to the effective date of this merger.

(b) The water system taken over from the Village of Bristol and any additions thereto or modifications thereof shall be maintained separate from all other departments of the Town and no part of the rents and revenues therefrom may be used for any other purpose.

(c) Unless otherwise voted by the Town at a Town meeting, all costs of the Water Department shall be paid by the users thereof and the annual water rents or charges shall be at a rate sufficient to cover annual expenditures, temporary indebtedness, the amortizing of bonded indebtedness, and interest and any dedicated (sinking) funds. Prior to the setting of the annual budget and annual water rents or charges, the water commissioners shall each year hold a public hearing for the purpose of receiving input concerning a proposed annual budget and annual water rents or charges for the Water Department. The public notice for each such public hearing shall be given not less than 15 days prior to the date of the public hearing by the publication of the date, place, and purpose of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of Bristol and by the posting of the same information in one or more public places within the Water Department service area.

(d) The Selectboard of the Town of Bristol shall be the water commissioners who, in connection with those powers enumerated in the general laws of the State with respect to waterworks and supply, shall have the power to adopt and enforce rules, regulations, or ordinances concerning the control and operation of such water system.

(e) The Water Department service area may be enlarged or modified by the water commissioners after holding a public hearing on any such proposed enlargement or modification. The public notice for each such public hearing shall be given not less than 15 days prior to the date of the public hearing by the publication of the date, place, and purpose of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of Bristol and by the posting of the same information in one or more public places within the Water Department service area.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 27.01 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 27.01
App. § 9-27.1. Duties
Status: in_force

There shall be three cemetery commissioners, who shall have the management and control of the public cemeteries of the City, and have the same powers as are provided by the general laws of the State respecting cemetery commissioners, subject to the orders and ordinances of the Board of Aldermen. The cemetery commissioners shall be appointed by the Mayor in the month of March, subject to the confirmation or rejection by the Board of Aldermen, as in the case of other appointive officers, and shall hold office for three years from the first day of April following their appointment.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 504 / Section 7
App. § 504-7. Rates
Status: in_force

The Prudential Committee shall establish rates and fees for water and wastewater services, including capital improvements, provided by the Fire District, and all rates and fees shall be paid to the District Treasurer.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 810 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 251 / Section 810
App. § 251-810. Rights-of-way of public service corporation
Status: in_force

If in the construction, completion, maintenance, or future extension of said water system it becomes necessary, in order to complete said system or to convey water to the said Village or its inhabitants, to lay the water pipes or mains of said system across premises or a right-of-way owned by a public service corporation and already devoted to a public use and in case said Village and said corporation cannot agree as to the place and manner in which said water pipes or mains shall be laid across such premises or right-of-way or upon the amount to be paid therefor, or in case said corporation refuses to permit said Village to lay its water pipes or mains across said premises or right-of-way, the said Village or said corporation may petition the Public Service Commission which after due notice and hearing to the parties interested shall determine whether it is necessary that said water pipes or mains may be laid across said premises or right-of-way and if so in what place and manner and if so, what amount shall be paid therefor and to whom it shall be paid. The orders and findings of said Commission shall be subject to appeal or exception to the extent and in the manner now provided by the general law of Vermont in the case of the condemnation of land for railroad purposes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 20 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 20
App. § 3-20. Ward clerk to keep records; certificates of election to be furnished successful candidates; election results to be published
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the clerk of each ward subject to supervision by the Chief Administrative Officer as presiding officer for City and ward and City district elections to make a record of all elections held therein, and to furnish to each officer who shall have been elected for such ward or City district, including City Councilors and School Commissioners, a certificate of his or her election, and also immediately after any election in such ward to return and certify to the Chief Administrative Officer a statement of the votes for all officers in his or her ward, which statement shall be recorded in the City records, and a certificate by the Chief Administrative Officer of the result of such election in the whole City shall be forthwith published in the various newspapers of said City.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 114 / Section 101
App. § 114-101. Annual and special meetings
Status: in_force

All annual and special meetings of the Town of Danville shall be called and warned in the manner provided by the laws of the State. All voting on the Town budget and the highway budget at all annual and special meetings shall be by Australian ballot.
24 V.S.A. § 1771 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 53 / Section 1771
§ 1771. Refunding bonds; authorization
Status: in_force

A municipal corporation that has outstanding and unpaid orders, notes, bonds, or coupons, lawfully issued, may issue other negotiable notes or bonds to pay or retire the same. Such bonds shall be signed, sold, made payable, and mature in the same manner as an original issue of bonds of a municipal corporation is signed, sold, made payable, and mature, as provided in this subchapter.
24 V.S.A. § 3404 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 95 / Section 3404
§ 3404. Assessment of parties; notice
Status: in_force

When an agreement is made as to the amount that shall be paid by those outside the municipality, as provided in section 3403 of this title, the selectboard shall forthwith give notice to all real estate owners benefited by such sewer, drain, or outlet, when and where they will hear and determine the amount of expense to be borne by each party so benefited. Such notice may be delivered in writing to the party or served like a writ of summons.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 301
App. § 411-301. Officers
Status: in_force

The officers of the District shall be the Chair and the Vice Chair of the Board of Supervisors, the Clerk of the District, and the Treasurer of the District, and other officers designated by the Board from time to time.
24 V.S.A. § 1995 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 60 / Section 1995
§ 1995. Ethics training
Status: in_force

(a) Initial ethics training. Within 120 days after the election or appointment of a member of a legislative body or a quasi-judicial body, or a chief administrative officer, mayor, town or city manager, that individual shall complete ethics training, as approved by the State Ethics Commission. A municipality shall make a reasonable effort to provide training to all other municipal officers. The officer, the officer's employer, or another individual designated by the municipality shall document the officer's completed ethics training.

(b) Continuing ethics training. Upon completing initial ethics training, a municipal officer shall complete additional ethics training, as determined by the State Ethics Commission, every three years.

(c) Approval of training. Ethics trainings shall at minimum reflect the contents of the Municipal Ethics Code and be approved by the State Ethics Commission. Approval of ethics trainings shall not be unreasonably withheld. Ethics trainings shall be conducted by the State Ethics Commission, the municipality, or a third party approved in advance by the State Ethics Commission. The State Ethics Commission may approve trainings that are in person, online, and synchronous or asynchronous. The State Ethics Commission shall require ethics training to be designed in a manner as to achieve improved competency in the subject matter rather than rely on fixed hours of training as a measure of completed training.

(d) Training provided by the Commission.

(1) The State Ethics Commission shall develop and make available to municipalities ethics training required of municipal officers by subsections (a) and (b) of this section.

(2) The Commission shall develop and make available to municipalities trainings regarding how to investigate and resolve complaints that allege violations of the Municipal Code of Ethics.

(e) State Ethics Commission liaisons. Each municipality, acting through its legislative body, shall designate an employee as its liaison to the State Ethics Commission. If a municipality does not have any employees, the legislative body shall designate one of its members as its liaison to the State Ethics Commission. The municipality shall notify the Commission in writing of any newly designated liaison within 30 days after such change. The Commission shall disseminate information to the designated liaisons and conduct educational seminars for designated liaisons on a regular basis on a schedule to be determined by the Commission, in consultation with the municipality. The Commission shall report any ethics training conducted by the Commission and completed by an officer to the liaison of that officer's municipality.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 506 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 19 / Section 506
App. § 19-506. City officers; appointment of
Status: repealed

(a) General. The officers of the City of Winooski shall be those provided by law for towns, except as otherwise provided or limited by this charter. Such officers shall have all the powers and duties necessary to carry out the provisions of this charter as well as those provided by law.

(b) Appointment. All officers of the City shall be appointed by the City Manager, unless otherwise herein provided. The City Manager shall fill any vacancy in such offices.

(c) Officers. In accordance with the provisions of this section, the City Manager shall appoint the following, who shall hold office at the will of the City Manager:

(1) a City Clerk;

(2) a City Grand Juror;

(3) a Constable;

(4) a Collector of Taxes;

(5) a Police Chief;

(6) a Fire Chief;

(7) a Fire Marshal;

(8) a City Assessor;

(9) a Zoning Administrator;

(10) an Emergency Management Coordinator;

(11) a Human Resources Director; and

(12) other officers required by law.

(d) The powers of the Collector of Taxes may be delegated to another appointed officer or department head. In the event the Collector of Taxes is a City employee, that person is not entitled to charge and collect from the taxpayers a commission on the amount of tax collected.

(e) [Repealed.]

(f) A nonresident of the City shall be eligible for appointment to any office enumerated in this section.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 501 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 501
App. § 103-501. Taxes
Status: in_force

Taxes shall be assessed by the Town based on the fair market value of real property, in accordance with State law.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 107 / Section 10.02
App. § 107-10.2. Districts; report of Selectboard; meetings; voting
Status: in_force

(a) The Selectboard shall divide the territory of the Town into four districts and shall define their respective boundaries. The districts shall be so established as to consist of compact and contiguous territory and shall be bounded so far as possible by the center line of streets or by geographical limits. The district boundaries shall be reviewed and, if need be, wholly or partially revised, or the number of districts changed, by the Selectboard, every five years thereafter, and in any year when so directed by vote of the annual Representative Town Meeting held that year.

(b) On or before the 15th day of November of any year in which said districts are established, revised, or changed as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the Selectboard shall file a report of their proceedings with the Town Clerk, with maps and descriptions of all of the districts, and shall cause a copy of such maps and descriptions to be posted at the municipal building and in at least one public place in each district. The division of the Town into districts, and any revision of such districts, shall take effect upon the date of the filing of the report thereof by the Selectboard with the Town Clerk.

(c) Elections of the Town Meeting members for the several districts shall be held on the first Tuesday in March, at the same hour, and at such places within the Town as the Selectboard shall direct in the warning for such elections.
24 V.S.A. § 131 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 131
§ 131. Powers and duties
Status: in_force

The assistant judges shall have the care and superintendence of county property, may provide for the acceptance and processing of U.S. passport applications by county clerks pursuant to memorandums of understanding entered into under 4 V.S.A. § 691, may take deeds and leases of real estate to the county, rent or sell and convey unused lands belonging to the county, keep the courthouse, jail, and other county buildings insured, and make needed repairs and improvements in and around the same.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 94 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 94
App. § 3-94. Completion of grand list; collection
Status: in_force

As soon as practicable after the 25th day of May, the assessors shall carry out the proper amounts in the columns provided in the books for said property grand list, the figures in the columns marked “Valuation,” where the same are not changed, to be the basis for computing the property grand list for such items without repeating said figures in the columns marked “Corrected Valuation,” and the figures in the columns marked “Corrected Valuations” to be the basis for computing the property grand list for such items, and complete the lists of all taxpayers who have not appeared before said Board to be heard upon any grievance as hereinbefore provided; and shall also, as soon as practicable after the 19th day of June, so carry out and complete in said books all lists of persons who have been heard on any grievance by said assessors, Board of Tax Appeals, or the Board of Civil Authority. They shall make oath to said lists so completed in book form, as provided in the general laws of this State for grand lists and file the same in the Chief Administrative Officer's office on or before the 15th day of July; and said lists so completed in book form, together with all legal additions afterwards made thereto, shall be the property grand list of said City, shall constitute the entire grand list of said City upon which shall be assessed and raised, except as herein otherwise provided, all taxes in said City prior to the 30th day of June in the year next ensuing. Said assessors shall have the same power as listers in towns to add to said property grand list on proper certificate on or before the first day of the following December real estate or personal estate that has been omitted from the property grand list by mistake, and may supply such omissions, correct such grand list in such respects, and make a certificate thereon of the fact. The assessors shall furnish to the Chief Administrative Officer a certificate of such omissions from said property grand list of real and personal estate and of their additions of the same to such grand list on or before said first day of December, and the Chief Administrative Officer shall record such certificate in the property grand list book. Upon the filing of any certificate of additions, all taxes theretofore assessed upon the property grand list shall become effective as legal assessments upon such additions, and the Chief Administrative Officer shall furnish forthwith to the Chief Administrative Officer, a tax levy and tax bill for all of such additions, and the Chief Administrative Officer on receipt of such tax levy and bills for said additions shall forthwith notify by mail each person whose name appears in such levy and bills, of the amount of such tax and how the same must be paid to him or her at his or her office as hereinafter provided. All parts of such tax bills not paid to the Chief Administrative Officer as hereinafter provided shall be turned over by him or her to the City Constable for collection, with the addition of five percent, and 10 cents for the insertion of the name in the warrant, and said Constable shall have power to collect the same under his or her original warrant. Said assessors shall have the same power and authority in all cases, not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter, as is given by the general laws of the State to listers in towns to legalize defective or invalid abstracts and grand lists. Whenever an act under this subchapter is required to be done on or before a date that falls on Sunday, such act shall be valid, if done on the following Monday.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1002 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 153 / Section 1002
App. § 153-1002. Personnel rules and regulations
Status: in_force

(a) The Town Manager or his or her designee shall be the personnel director. He or she may prepare personnel rules and regulations protecting the interests of the Town and of the employees. These rules and regulations must be approved by the Selectboard and shall include the procedure for amending them and for placing them into practice.

(b) The rules and regulations may deal with the following subjects or with other similar matters of personnel administration: job classification, jobs to be filled, tenure, retirement, pensions, leaves of absence, vacations, holidays, hours and days of work, group insurance, salary plans, rules governing hiring, temporary appointment, lay-off, reinstatement, promotion, transfer, demotion, settlement of disputes, dismissal, probationary periods, permanent or continuing status, in-service training, injury, employee records, and further regulations concerning the hearing of appeals.
24 V.S.A. § 1486 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 49 / Section 1486
§ 1486. Notice to Secretary of State
Status: in_force

The clerk or equivalent officer of the municipality into which other municipalities have merged shall so notify the Secretary of State within ten days following the last of the meetings referred to in section 1485 of this title.
24 V.S.A. § 367 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 367
§ 367. Department of State's Attorneys and Sheriffs
Status: in_force

(a) There is established a Department of State's Attorneys and Sheriffs, which shall consist of the 14 State's Attorneys and 14 sheriffs. The State's Attorneys shall elect an Executive Committee of five State's Attorneys from among their members. The members of the Executive Committee shall serve for terms of two years.

(b) The Executive Committee and the Executive Committee of the Vermont Sheriff's Association shall appoint an Executive Director who shall serve at the pleasure of the Committees. The Executive Director shall be an exempt employee.

(c)(1) The Executive Director shall prepare and submit all budgetary and financial materials and forms that are required of the head of a department of State government with respect to all State funds appropriated for all of the Vermont State's Attorneys and sheriffs. At the beginning of each fiscal year, the Executive Director, with the approval of the Executive Committee, shall establish allocations for each of the State's Attorneys' offices from the State's Attorneys' appropriation. Thereafter, the Executive Director shall exercise budgetary control over these allocations and the general appropriation for State's Attorneys. The Executive Director shall monitor the sheriff's transport budget and report to the sheriffs on a monthly basis the status of the budget. He or she shall provide centralized support services for the State's Attorneys and sheriffs with respect to budgetary planning, training, and office management, and perform such other duties as the Executive Committee directs. The Executive Director may employ clerical staff as needed to carry out the functions of the Department.

(2) The Executive Director shall prepare and submit a funding request to the Governor and the General Assembly for the purpose of securing General Fund appropriations for any increased costs related to a collective bargaining agreement and to the Department's contract bargaining and administration.

(d)(1) If an individual State's Attorney is aggrieved by a decision of the Executive Director pertaining to an expenditure or proposed expenditure by the State's Attorney, the question shall be decided by the Executive Committee. The decision of the Committee shall be final.

(2) If an individual sheriff is aggrieved by a decision of the Executive Director pertaining to an expenditure or proposed expenditure by the sheriff, the question shall be decided by the Executive Committee of the Vermont Sheriff's Association. The decision of the Executive Committee of the Vermont Sheriff's Association shall be final.

(e)(1) The Executive Director of the Department of State's Attorneys and Sheriffs shall appoint a Director of Sheriffs' Operations who shall serve at the pleasure of the Executive Director.

(2) The Director of Sheriffs' Operations shall provide centralized support services for the sheriffs with respect to budgetary planning, policy development and compliance, training, and office management, and perform such other duties as directed by the Executive Director.

(3) The Director of Sheriffs' Operations shall develop, maintain, and provide to each sheriff's department model policies on operational topics, including service of civil process, relief from abuse orders, transportation of prisoners, ethics, and sheriffs' responsibilities.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 401 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 19 / Section 401
App. § 19-401. Action requiring an ordinance
Status: in_force

In addition to other acts required by law or by specific provisions of this charter to be done by ordinance, those acts of the City Council shall be by ordinance that:

(1) provide for a fine or other penalty or establish a rule or regulation for violation of which a fine or other penalty is imposed;

(2) levy taxes, including any voter-authorized local option tax, and special benefit assessments, except as otherwise provided in Article 6 of this charter with respect to the property tax levied by adoption of the budget;

(3) grant, renew, or extend a franchise;

(4) regulate the rate charged for municipal water, sewer (acting as the commission), and utility services, and for the operation of such enterprises;

(5) adopt with or without amendment ordinances proposed under the initiative power;

(6) amend or repeal any ordinance previously adopted, except as otherwise provided in this Article with respect to repeal of ordinances reconsidered under the referendum power. Acts other than those referred to in the preceding sentence may be done either by ordinance or by resolution; and

(7) establish, amend, or repeal a fee.
24 V.S.A. § 2781 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 76 / Section 2781
§ 2781. Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter:

(1) “Regional development corporation” means a nonprofit corporation organized in this State whose principal purpose is to promote, organize, or accomplish economic development, including providing planning and resource development services to local communities, supporting existing industry, assisting the growth and development of new and existing small businesses, and attracting industry or commerce to a particular economic region of the State;

(2) “Regional planning commission” means a regional planning commission operating under subchapters 3 and 4 of chapter 117 of this title;

(3) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Agency of Commerce and Community Development.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 208 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 208
App. § 117-208. Appointments by Selectboard
Status: repealed

(Renumbered to 24A V.S.A. § 117-203 by 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 29, 2024.)

(a) The Selectboard shall appoint the members of the following permanent Commissions and positions:

(1) [Repealed.]

(2) Planning Commission;

(3) Town Attorney;

(4) Town Manager; and

(5) Development Review Board.

(b) The Selectboard may appoint such additional commissions as they feel to be in the best interest of the Town and all other appointive or elective officers authorized by statute.

(c) The terms of all appointments shall commence on the day after the day of appointment unless the appointment is to fill a vacancy in an office, in which case the term shall commence at the time of appointment. (Renumbered from 24A V.S.A. § 117-206 by 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. March 29, 2024; amended 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 7, eff. January 1, 2025.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 407 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 407
App. § 411-407. Long-term indebtedness; long-term contracts
Status: in_force

Upon resolution adopted by a majority vote of the Board of Supervisors at a regular or special meeting, which resolution shall set forth that the Board of Supervisors determines that the interests of the District require either the undertaking of capital improvements that cannot be financed through the current budget of the District, or the entering into a long-term contract, or upon petition signed by at least five percent of the legal voters of the District, the Board of Supervisors shall take such steps as are required by the provisions of this agreement and by the laws of the State of Vermont to submit the proposal to the legal voters of the District at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 16 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 16
App. § 403-16. Term
Status: in_force

All representatives to the Board of Supervisors shall hold office for one year and until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. Any representative may be reappointed to successive terms without limit.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 902 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 251 / Section 902
App. § 251-902. Maximum bonded indebtedness
Status: in_force

(a) The total amount of the bonded or other outstanding indebtedness of said Village at any one time, however, shall not exceed 10 percent of the assessed valuation of the property therein; and said Village may refund its outstanding legal indebtedness by issuing its notes or bonds therefor subject to the provision of this section.

(b) This section shall not be construed to prevent the Village issuing its orders to borrow money to provide for current necessary expenses in any year; said orders, however, to be retired from the avails of taxes appropriated for the purpose by the Village that year.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 370 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 370
App. § 3-370. Creation of Department of Permitting and Inspections
Status: in_force

There is hereby created in the City of Burlington the Department of Permitting and Inspections that shall combine the permitting and inspection functions of the previously existing Planning and Zoning Department, Inspection Services Division of the Department of Public Works, and Code Enforcement Office.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 109 / Section 7
App. § 109-7. Existing ordinances; municipal maps; regulations
Status: repealed

(a) The Town Plan, zoning regulations, subdivision regulations, and official maps of the Town of Cavendish and the Village of Proctorsville, as they exist or may exist, all as contemplated by the Vermont Planning and Development Act, shall become and be the Town Plan, zoning regulations, subdivision regulations, and official maps of the Town of Cavendish, as merged.

(b) All rules, ordinances, regulations, and bylaws for the Village of Proctorsville, if any, in effect on the day before the merger shall become and continue in full force and effect as rules, ordinances, regulations, and bylaws of the Town of Cavendish, for the respective area presently involved, unless in conflict with rules, ordinances, regulations, and bylaws of the Town of Cavendish already existing, until lawfully amended or repealed.

(c) Whenever a power is granted by any such rule, ordinance, regulation, or bylaw to an officer of the Village of Proctorsville, such power is conferred hereby upon the appropriate officer of the Town of Cavendish.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 603 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 251 / Section 603
App. § 251-603. Board of Trustees; authority with respect to roads, streets, and sidewalks
Status: in_force

The trustees of said Village shall have the same power, whenever in their judgment the public good requires, to take gravel, earth, stone, and other materials to repair or build a road, street, or sidewalk in said Village, as is now vested in the selectboard of towns for the taking of such materials to build or repair highways therein, and in such taking by said trustees the same proceedings shall be had as provided by law for the taking thereof by selectboards.
24 V.S.A. § 4455 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4455
§ 4455. Revocation
Status: in_force

On petition by the municipality and after notice and opportunity for hearing, the Environmental Division may revoke a municipal land use permit issued under this chapter, including a permit for a telecommunications facility, on a determination that the permittee violated the terms of the permit or obtained the permit based on misrepresentation of material fact.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2.03 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 2.03
App. § 9-2.3. General and primary elections
Status: in_force

General and primary elections shall be conducted in the wards of the City pursuant to the provisions of Vermont Statutes Annotated. Ward officials shall perform all and the same duties in regard to certifying the results of elections in their respective wards as now devolve by law upon the presiding officers of elections and town clerks; in addition thereto they shall certify the same to the City Clerk, who shall keep a record thereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 133 / Section 301
App. § 133-301. General provisions
Status: in_force

The officers of the Town of Poultney shall be those provided by law for towns, except as otherwise provided by this charter. Such officers shall have all the powers and duties necessary to carry out the provisions of this charter as well as those provided by law. All officers shall be elected by Australian ballot.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 245 / Section 3
App. § 245-3. General corporate powers
Status: in_force

(a) The Village of Morrisville in and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute, and defend in any court. The Village may purchase, take, and hold, sell, and convey real estate and personal property necessary for its corporate purposes. The Village shall have the power to own and operate any public utility, and to construct and install all facilities that are reasonably needed or useful for public service. The Village may also furnish service to adjacent and nearby territories that may conveniently be served by a municipally-owned and operated utility.

(b) The Village is empowered to alter the bounds upon compliance with the provisions of Chapter 151 of the Public Laws (Chapter 164 of the Vermont Statutes, 1947, as proposed) and enactments in amendment thereof.

(c) The Village shall have all the powers granted to villages and other municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of this State. It may enact ordinances, bylaws, and regulations and impose penalties for the violation thereof. The fine for breach of a Village bylaw and the procedure for recovering the same shall be in accordance with 24 V.S.A. § 1131 and any amendments thereto.

(d) For the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, welfare, and convenience, the Village shall have all those powers enumerated under 24 V.S.A. § 2291 and any amendments thereto.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 27 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 285 / Section 27
App. § 285-27. Village water supply
Status: in_force

All water rents and charges due the Village for the use of the Village water supply or the Village aqueduct system in case of nonpayment thereof shall be and remain a lien in the nature of a tax upon the real estate so supplied with water, whether such rents or charges be charged in the first instance against the owner or occupant thereof. Such lien shall be enforceable in the same manner and to the same effect as the lien for taxes under the laws of this State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 104 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 235 / Section 104
App. § 235-104. Notice to enter land; trustees' determination of assessments and damages
Status: in_force

When said trustees enter upon lands under the authority and for any of the purposes in sections 102 and 103 of this charter named, they shall give 12 days' notice to all persons owning or interested in such lands when they will hear and consider the question of payment of damages or of assessments for benefits, or both. And in all cases when either assessments are made or damages allowed, the said trustees shall forthwith make a report of their doings, which report they shall cause to be filed in the office of the Village Clerk, who shall record the same in the records of said Village.
24 V.S.A. § 4448 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4448
§ 4448. Appointment and powers of administrative officer
Status: in_force

(a) An administrative officer, who may hold any other office in the municipality other than membership in the board of adjustment or development review board, shall be nominated by the planning commission and appointed by the legislative body for a term of three years promptly after the adoption of the first bylaws or when a vacancy exists. The compensation of the administrative officer shall be fixed under sections 932 and 933 of this title, and the officer shall be subject to the personnel rules of the municipality adopted under sections 1121 and 1122 of this title. The administrative officer shall administer the bylaws literally and shall not have the power to permit any land development that is not in conformance with those bylaws. An administrative officer may be removed for cause at any time by the legislative body after consultation with the planning commission.

(b) The planning commission may nominate and the legislative body may appoint an acting administrative officer who shall have the same duties and responsibilities as the administrative officer in the administrative officer's absence. If an acting administrative officer position is established, or, for municipalities that establish the position of assistant administrative officer, there shall be clear policies regarding the authority of the administrative officer in relation to the acting or assistant officer.

(c) The administrative officer should provide an applicant with forms required to obtain any municipal permit or other municipal authorization required under this chapter, or under other laws or ordinances that relate to the regulation by municipalities of land development. If other municipal permits or authorizations are required, the administrative officer should coordinate a unified effort on behalf of the municipality in administering its development review programs. The administrative officer should inform any person applying for municipal permits or authorizations that the person should contact the regional permit specialist employed by the Agency of Natural Resources in order to assure timely action on any related State permits; nevertheless, the applicant retains the obligation to identify, apply for, and obtain relevant State permits.

(d) If the administrative officer fails to act with regard to a complete application for a permit within 30 days, whether by issuing a decision or by making a referral to the appropriate municipal panel, a permit shall be deemed issued on the 31st day.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 203 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 203
App. § 117-203. Compensation of Selectboard; appointees
Status: in_force

(Renumbered to 24A V.S.A. § 117-204 by 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 29, 2024.)

(a) Compensation paid to the Selectboard members shall be set by the voters at the annual meeting, with a minimum of $500.00 a year each. Selectboard members' salaries must be set forth as a separate item in the annual budget presented to the meeting.

(b) The Selectboard shall fix the compensation of all officers and employees, except as otherwise provided in this charter. (Renumbered from 24A V.S.A. § 117-208 by 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 29, 2024.)
24 V.S.A. § 3209 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 85 / Section 3209
§ 3209. Powers
Status: in_force

Every municipality shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including the following powers in addition to others herein granted:

(1) to undertake and carry out urban renewal projects within its area of operation; and to make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers under this chapter; and to disseminate slum clearance and urban renewal information;

(2) to provide or to arrange or contract for the furnishing or repair by any person or agency, public or private, of services, privileges, works, streets, roads, public utilities, or other facilities for or in connection with an urban renewal project; to install, construct, and reconstruct streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other public improvements; and to agree to any conditions that it may deem reasonable and appropriate attached to federal financial assistance and imposed pursuant to federal law relating to the determination of prevailing salaries or wages or compliance with labor standards, in the undertaking or carrying out of an urban renewal project, and to include in any contract let in connection with such a project, provisions to fulfill such of said conditions as it may deem reasonable and appropriate;

(3) within its area of operation, to enter into any building or property in any urban renewal area in order to make inspections, surveys, appraisals, soundings, or test borings, and to obtain an order for this purpose from a court of competent jurisdiction in the event entry is denied or resisted; to acquire by purchase, lease, option, gift, grant, bequest, devise, eminent domain, or otherwise, any real property, or personal property for its administrative purposes, together with any improvements thereon; to hold, improve, clear, or prepare for redevelopment any such property; to mortgage, pledge, hypothecate, or otherwise encumber or dispose of any real property; to insure or provide for the insurance of any real or personal property or operations of the municipality against any risks or hazards, including the power to pay premiums on any such insurance; and to enter into any contracts necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter; provided, however, that no statutory provision with respect to the acquisition, clearance, or disposition of property by public bodies shall restrict a municipality or other public body exercising powers hereunder, in the exercise of such functions with respect to an urban renewal project, unless the Legislature shall specifically so state;

(4) with the approval of the local governing body, (A) before approval of an urban renewal plan, or approval of any modifications of the plan, to acquire real property in an urban renewal area, demolish and remove any structures on the property, and pay all costs related to the acquisition, demolition, or removal, including any administrative or relocation expenses; and (B) to assume the responsibility to bear any loss that may arise as the result of the exercise of authority under this subsection if the real property is not made part of the urban renewal project;

(5) to invest any urban renewal project funds held in reserve or sinking funds or any such funds not required for immediate disbursement, in property or securities in which savings banks may legally invest funds subject to their control; to redeem such bonds as have been issued pursuant to section 3214 of this title at the redemption price established therein or to purchase such bonds at less than redemption price, all such bonds so redeemed or purchased to be cancelled;

(6) to borrow money and to apply for and accept advances, loans, grants, contributions, and any other form of financial assistance from the federal government, the State, county, or other public body, or from any sources, public or private, for the purposes of this chapter, and to give such security as may be required and to enter into and carry out contracts in connection therewith. A municipality may include in any contract for financial assistance with the federal government for an urban renewal project such conditions imposed pursuant to federal laws as the municipality may deem reasonable and appropriate and which are not inconsistent with the purposes of this chapter;

(7) within its area of operation, to make or have made all surveys and plans necessary to the carrying out of the purposes of this chapter and to contract with any person, public or private, in making and carrying out such plans and to adopt or approve, modify, and amend such plans. Such plans may include: (A) a general plan for the locality as a whole, (B) urban renewal plans, (C) preliminary plans outlining urban renewal activities for neighborhoods to embrace two or more urban renewal areas, (D) plans for carrying out a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings and improvements, (E) plans for the enforcement of State and local laws, codes, and regulations relating to the use of land and the use and occupancy of buildings and improvements and to the compulsory repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or removal of buildings and improvements, (F) appraisals, title searches, surveys, studies, and other plans and work necessary to prepare for the undertaking of urban renewal projects and to develop, test, and report methods and techniques, and carry out demonstrations and other activities, for the prevention and the elimination of slums and urban blight and developing and demonstrating new or improved means of providing housing for families and persons of low income and to apply for, accept, and utilize grants of funds from the federal government for such purposes;

(8) to prepare plans for and assist in the relocation of persons, including individuals, families, business concerns, nonprofit organizations, and others, displaced from an urban renewal area, and to make relocation payments to or with respect to such persons for moving expenses and losses of property, including the making of such payments financed by the federal government;

(9) to appropriate such funds and make such expenditures as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, and to levy taxes and assessments for such purposes; to zone or rezone any part of the municipality or make exceptions from building regulations; and to enter into agreements with a housing authority or an urban renewal agency vested with urban renewal project powers under section 3219 of this title, which agreements may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary, respecting action to be taken by such municipality pursuant to any of the powers granted by this chapter;

(10) to close, vacate, plan, or replan streets, roads, sidewalks, ways, or other places; and to plan or replan any part of the municipality;

(11) within its area of operation, to organize, coordinate, and direct the administration of the provisions of this chapter as they apply to such municipality in order that the objective of remedying slum and blighted areas and preventing the causes thereof within such municipality may be most effectively promoted and achieved, and to establish such new office or offices of the municipality or to reorganize existing offices in order to carry out such purpose most effectively; and

(12) to exercise all or any part or combination of powers herein granted.
24 V.S.A. § 2501a — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 67 / Section 2501a
§ 2501a. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Public place” means municipal property, including a municipal park, a recreation area, or a municipal building. “Public place” shall not include any municipal forestland or property that is subject to any ownership interest held by the Agency of Transportation.

(2) “Public way” means a right-of-way held by a municipality, including a town highway.

(3) “Shade tree” means a shade or ornamental tree located in whole or in part within the limits of a public way or public place, provided that the tree:

(A) was planted by the municipality; or

(B) is designated as a shade tree pursuant to a municipal shade tree preservation plan pursuant to section 2502 of this title.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 2
App. § 3-2. Election boundaries
Status: in_force

(a) City districts described. For the annual meeting of 2024 and all City elections thereafter, the City of Burlington is divided into four electoral districts, constituted as follows:

(1) East District. The East District shall include all that part of said City lying easterly and northerly of the following described boundaries: Beginning at the common boundary between the Cities of Burlington and Winooski in the Winooski River beneath the Central Vermont Railway bridge downstream of the Lower Winooski Falls and Salmon Hole; thence westerly in the centerline of said railroad tracks for 406.6 feet to a point where the centerline of Intervale Road extended northerly intersects said railroad track centerline (approximately -73.2028 longitude, 44.4911 latitude); thence southerly along the extension of the centerline of Intervale Road, crossing Riverside Avenue until the centerline intersects with that of the Archibald Street centerline extended easterly; thence westerly along the Archibald Street centerline until the intersection of the Archibald Street centerline and the North Willard Street centerline; thence southerly along the North Willard Street Centerline until the intersection of the North Willard Street centerline and the Pearl Street Centerline; thence westerly along the Pearl Street centerline until intersecting with the South Winooski Avenue centerline; thence southerly along the South Winooski Avenue centerline until intersecting the Maple Street centerline; thence easterly along the Maple Street centerline for 1573.5 feet to a point where the eastern property boundary of 315 Maple Street extended northerly intersects Maple Street (approximately -73.2064 longitude, 44.4739 latitude); thence southerly along the eastern property boundary of 315 Maple Street for 276.5 feet (approximately -73.2064 longitude, 44.4734 latitude); thence 281.4 feet westerly to a point where the southern property boundary of 315 Maple Street extended westerly intersect with the western boundary of 251 South Willard Street extended northerly (approximately -73.2071 longitude, 44.4733 latitude), thence 723.7 feet 177° southerly to a point where it intersects the southern property boundary of 285 South Willard Street extended westerly (approximately -73.2071 longitude, 44.4719 latitude); thence easterly along the southern boundary of 285 South Willard Street for 696.5 feet until intersecting with the South Willard Street centerline (approximately -73.2051 longitude, 44.472 latitude); thence northerly along the South Willard Street centerline for 220.9 feet (approximately -73.2052 longitude, 44.4724 latitude); thence easterly along the southern property boundary of 262 South Willard Street for 557.6 feet (approximately -73.2037 longitude. 44.4725 latitude); thence northerly along the eastern property boundary of 262 South Willard Street for 89.6 feet to a point where the Juniper Terrace centerline extended westerly intersects the eastern property boundary of 262 South Willard Street (approximately 73.2037 longitude, 44.4726 latitude); thence following the Juniper Terrace centerline easterly until intersecting with the Summit Street centerline (approximately -73.2021 longitude, 44.4727 latitude); thence northerly along the Summit Street centerline until reaching the centerline of Main Street thence following the Main Street centerline easterly 2339.6 feet (approximately -73.1964 longitude, 44.4753 latitude); thence southwesterly 214° for 136.1 feet (approximately -73.1966 longitude, 44.4751 latitude); thence southeasterly 98.2 feet (approximately -73.1964 longitude, 44.4749 latitude); thence southwesterly by 213° for 770 feet (approximately -73.1975 longitude, 44.4737 latitude); thence southeasterly by 123° for 477.4 feet until intersecting with the University Heights centerline (approximately -73.1964 longitude, 44.4732 latitude); thence southerly along the centerline of University Heights Road 1221.65 feet until intersecting with the PFG Road centerline, thence westerly by 79° until intersecting with the common boundary between the Cities of Burlington and South Burlington.

(2) Central District. The Central District shall include all that part of the City bounded as follows: On the east, beginning at the common boundary between the City of Burlington and Town of Colchester in the Winooski River at a point intersecting with the centerline of Institute Road extended northeasterly (approximately -73.2147 longitude, 44.5089 latitude); thence southerly along the common boundary between the City of Burlington and Town of Colchester in the Winooski River to a point beneath the Central Vermont Railway bridge downstream of the Lower Winooski Falls and Salmon Hole; thence westerly along the East District northern boundary for 406.6 feet to its intersection with the westerly boundary of the East District; thence southerly along the westerly boundary of the East District to its intersection with the centerline of Archibald Street, then southerly along the East District western boundary to the intersection with the centerline of Pearl Street; thence westerly along the northern boundary of the East District to the intersection with the centerline of South Winooski Avenue; thence southerly along the western boundary of the East District to the centerline of Maple Street; thence westerly along the centerline of Maple Street until its intersection with the centerline of South Champlain street; thence northerly along the South Champlain Street centerline until its intersection with the centerline of King Street; on the south along the centerline of King Street extended westerly to Lake Champlain; on the west by Lake Champlain; on the north, beginning at the intersection of the common property boundary between 87 North Avenue and 9 Lakeview Terrace extended westerly to Lake Champlain (approximately -73.2252 longitude, 44.4832 latitude); thence northeasterly along the extended property boundary between 87 North Avenue and 9 Lakeview Terrace to its intersection with the centerline of the Central Vermont Railway railroad track (approximately -73.2239 longitude, 44.4837 latitude); thence northerly and easterly along the centerline of the Central Vermont Railway railroad track, crossing North Avenue and the Burlington Beltline, to its intersection with the centerline of Spring Street extended northwesterly (approximately -73.2183 longitude, 44.4912 latitude); thence northwesterly along the extension of the centerline of Spring Street to its intersection with the centerline of Institute Road extended northeasterly (approximately -73.2281 longitude, 44.4995 latitude); thence northeasterly along the extension of the centerline of Institute Road extended to its intersection with the common boundary between the City of Burlington and Town of Colchester in the Winooski River (approximately -73.2139 longitude, 44.5077 latitude).

(3) South District. The South District shall include all that part of the City south of the southern boundaries of the East and Central Districts.

(4) North District. The North District shall include all that part of the City north of the northern boundary of the Central District.

(b) Wards described. Each of the City of Burlington's four electoral districts set forth in subsection (a) of this section hereby comprises two wards, each of which is constituted as follows:

(1) East District—Ward 1 and Ward 8.

(A) The East District is divided into two wards by the following boundary: Beginning at the center of the intersection of Brooks Avenue and South Willard Street; thence easterly along the Brooks Avenue centerline until intersecting with the centerline of North Prospect Street; thence southerly along the centerline of North prospect Street to the intersection of the centerline of Colchester Avenue to the intersection of the centerline of Mary Fletcher Drive; thence southerly along the centerline of Mary Fletcher Drive for 331.58 feet (approximately -73.196 longitude, 44.4802 latitude); thence southerly along the western side and easterly along the southern side of the UVM Medical Center building for 1854.5 feet until a point at the center of the intersection of Beaumont Avenue and Mary Fletcher Drive (approximately -73.1932 longitude, 44.4788 latitude); thence south along the Beaumont Avenue centerline to the intersection of Carrigan Drive; thence following Carrigan Drive westerly for 199.1 feet (approximately -73.1932 longitude, 55.5756 latitude); thence travelling southwesterly for 821.3 feet along the UVM service road on the eastern border of the southeastern wing of the UVM Jeffords Hall until a point at the intersection of the service road and the centerline of University Heights extended northeasterly (approximately -73.1947 longitude, 44.4751 latitude); thence southwesterly along the centerline of University Heights 977.3 feet (approximately -73.1962 longitude, 44.4735 latitude); thence continuing southeasterly along the centerline of the driveway bounding the western side of the UVM Living/Learning Commons for 404.3 feet (approximately -73.1952 longitude, 44.4731 latitude); thence continuing south along the eastern side of UVM's University Heights dorms until intersecting with PFG Road; thence continuing easterly along the western extension of the PFG Road centerline for 601.2 feet until intersecting with the common boundary between the Cities of Burlington and South Burlington.

(B) Ward 1 lies to the north and east of the boundary described in subdivision (A) of this subdivision (1), and Ward 8 lies to the south and west.

(2) Central District—Ward 2 and Ward 3.

(A) The Central District is divided into two wards by the following boundary: Beginning at the intersection of the common property boundary between 85 North Avenue and 9 Lakeview Terrace extended westerly to Lake Champlain (approximately -73.2252 longitude, -44.4832 latitude); thence northeasterly along the extended property boundary between 87 North Avenue and 9 Lakeview Terrace to its intersection with the centerline of the Central Vermont Railway railroad track (approximately -73.224 longitude, 44.4837 latitude); thence southeasterly along the centerline of the Central Vermont Railway railroad track to a point intersecting with the northwestern property boundary of 300 Lake Street extended southwesterly (approximately -73.2234 longitude, 44.4832 latitude); thence northeasterly to a point at the intersection of the northwestern property boundary of 300 Lake Street extended northeasterly with the centerline of Depot Street (approximately -73.2223 longitude, 44.4837 latitude); thence northerly along the centerline of Depot Street to the intersection with the centerline of Lakeview Terrace; thence easterly along the centerline of Lakeview Terrace extended westerly until intersecting with the centerline of North Avenue; thence northerly along the centerline of North Avenue to its intersection with the centerline of North Street; thence easterly along the centerline of North Street until intersecting with the North Union Street centerline; thence southerly following the North Union Street centerline until intersecting with the Loomis Street centerline; thence easterly along the Loomis Street centerline to the intersection of the centerlines of Loomis Street and South Willard Avenue.

(B) Ward 2 lies to the north of the boundary described in subdivision (A) of this subdivision (2), and Ward 3 lies to the south.

(3) South District—Ward 5 and Ward 6.

(A) The South District is divided into two wards by the following boundary: Beginning at the intersection of the centerlines of Maple Street and Church Street; thence southerly along the centerline of Church Street to the intersection with the centerline of Adams Street; thence westerly along the centerline of Adams Street to the intersection with the centerline of Saint Paul Street; thence southerly along the Saint Paul Street centerline to its intersection with the centerline of Shelburne Street; thence southerly along the centerline of Shelburne Street to its intersection with the centerline of Flynn Avenue; thence easterly along the centerline of Flynn Avenue extended easterly to the common boundary between the Cities of Burlington and South Burlington.

(B) Ward 5 lies to the west of the boundary described in subdivision (A) of this subdivision (3), and Ward 6 lies to the east.

(4) North District—Ward 4 and Ward 7.

(A) The North District is divided into two wards by the following boundary: Beginning at the centerline of Institute Road extended southwesterly to Lake Champlain; thence northeasterly to the intersection of Institute Road with the centerline of North Avenue; thence northerly along the centerline of North Avenue to its intersection with the centerline of Fairfield Drive; thence westerly along the centerline of Fairfield Drive to its intersection with the western property boundary of 39 Westward Drive extended southerly (approximately -73.2685 longitude, 44.5257 latitude); thence northerly along the western property boundary of 39 Westward Drive, until intersecting with the centerline of Westward Drive; thence southwesterly along the centerline of Westward Drive to the intersection with the Northshore Drive centerline; thence northerly along the Northshore Drive centerline until intersecting with the Clair Pointe Road centerline (point); thence westerly along the southern property boundary of the Claire Pointe condominium development (approximately -73.2686 longitude, 44.5286 latitude), and then extended to Lake Champlain.

(B) Ward 4 lies to the west of the boundary described in subdivision (A) of this subdivision (4), and Ward 7 lies to the east.

(5) Ward map reference. Reference is also made to a map entitled “Ward Redistricting, 8 Wards — 4 Districts, 12 Councilors, Approved Map (December 2 V1.3), Map Date: December 8, 2022 ” located in the Burlington Chief Administrative Officer's office in further aid of the description of the wards set forth in this subsection.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 401 / Section 7
App. § 401-7. Authority
Status: in_force

The voters of the District shall have the power to vote on bonded indebtedness, amendments to this chapter, and dissolution of the District. All other power and authority of the District and the administration and the general supervision of all fiscal, prudential, and governmental affairs thereof shall be exclusively vested in a governing body known as the Board of Supervisors.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 408 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 408
App. § 1-408. Streets
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the City Manager to see that all streets and highways laid out and established in the City are properly constructed and maintained.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 15.06 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 15.06
App. § 9-15.6. Discipline of employees and appointed officers
Status: in_force

All discipline of employees and appointed officers shall be pursuant to law.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 49 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 401 / Section 49
App. § 401-49. Validation of District meetings
Status: in_force

When any of the requirements as to notice or warning of a special District meeting have been omitted or not complied with, the omission or noncompliance, if the meeting and the business transacted at it is otherwise legal and within the scope of the District powers, may be corrected and legalized by vote at a special meeting of the District called and duly warned for that purpose. The question to be voted upon shall substantially be: “Shall the action taken at the meeting of this District held on (state date), in spite of the fact that (state the error or omission), and any act or action of the District officers or agents pursuant thereto be readopted, ratified, or confirmed?” Errors or omissions in the conduct of an original meeting that are not the result of an unlawful notice or warning or noncompliance within the scope of the warning, may be cured by a resolution of the Board of Supervisors of the District by a vote stating that the defect was the result of an oversight, inadvertence, or mistake. When an error or omission of this nature has been thus corrected by resolution, all business within the terms of the action of the qualified voters shall be as valid as if the requirements had been initially complied with; however, upon condition that the original action thereby corrected by the Board of Supervisors was in compliance with the legal exercise of its corporate powers.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 13 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 279 / Section 13
App. § 279-13. Sewer Department authorization
Status: in_force

The Village is authorized to own, operate, control, and manage a public sewage system within and without its corporate limits and shall exercise all powers, prerogatives, and authority conferred generally upon municipalities with respect to sewage systems.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 511 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 511
App. § 5-511. Canvassing of ballots
Status: in_force

(a) At the close of the balloting at any City election or annual or special City meeting, the City Clerk and the Board of Civil Authority, and such other election officers as may be designated by the Board of Civil Authority, shall canvass the ballots cast for all officers and for any proposals on the ballot.

(b) The City Clerk shall report the results in accordance with State statute.

(c) The candidate who has received a plurality of the votes cast for each respective City office shall be declared elected to that office.

(d) Any election for State or county officers or representatives to the General Assembly shall, in all cases, be conducted according to the general law of the State.
24 V.S.A. § 3118 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 83 / Section 3118
§ 3118. Notice to nonresident owner
Status: in_force

When the owner, agent, or person interested lives out of the State, notice may be served upon him or her by a proper officer, whose return of service shall be sufficient evidence thereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 1
App. § 101-1. Authority of citizens
Status: in_force

All governmental authority of the Town of Barre rests with the citizens of the Town, who exercise their powers in Town meeting, and/or Town elections, and to whom the elected and appointed officers of the Town are ultimately responsible.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 405 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 407 / Section 405
App. § 407-405. Indebtedness
Status: in_force

The Board of Supervisors may borrow money through the issuance of notes of the District for the purpose of paying current expenses of the District. Such notes must mature within one year. The Board of Supervisors may also borrow money in anticipation of grants-in-aid from any source and any revenues other than assessment through the issuance of notes of the District. Such notes must mature within one year, but may be renewed as provided by general law. The Board of Supervisors may also borrow money in anticipation of assessments to each member municipality in an amount not to exceed 90 percent of the amount assessed for each year, and may issue notes of the District that must mature within one year. The Board of Supervisors may also borrow money in anticipation of bond proceeds that have been authorized as provided herein. Said notes shall be issued as provided in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 81 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 81
App. § 3-81. Tax classification; repeal of inventory tax
Status: in_force

(a) Except for the property of utilities subject to the provisions of 30 V.S.A. chapter 3, all personal and real property set out in the grand list that is not used as residential property, farmland, and vacant land zoned “recreation, conservation and open space (RCO)”, shall be classified as nonresidential property and shall be assessed at 120 percent of fair market value; and further provided that inventories and personal property belonging to an owner whose total personal property does not exceed the fair market value of $45,000.00 shall no longer be set out in the grand list of the City as taxable personal estate. Additionally, every owner whose total personal property does exceed the fair market value of $45,000.00 shall be taxed only on the amount of that property that exceeds $45,000.00. The amount of the exemption may be increased by the City Council prior to approval of the next fiscal year's budget. Properties upon which in-lieu-of-tax payments are made shall be likewise classified and assessed for the purposes of such payments. The tax on nonresidential personal property shall be eliminated effective July 1, 2026, or sooner by resolution of the City Council.

(b) For the purposes of this section, “residential property” is hereby defined to include all property used for dwelling purposes including accessory property that is subordinate to or customarily incidental to the main residential use such as garages and outbuildings. Where a property is used for both residential and nonresidential purposes, then it shall be apportioned according to such uses and then classified and assessed as herein provided. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the sole purpose of calculating the educational grand list and for the assessment of property taxes for education purposes under Act 60, so-called, as the same may be amended from time to time, all nonresidential properties as above defined shall be assessed at 100 percent of fair market value.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 401 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 401
App. § 414-401. Fiscal year
Status: in_force

The fiscal year of the District shall commence on January 1 of each year.
24 V.S.A. § 4677 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4677
§ 4677. Operating expenses
Status: in_force

No amount may be paid out of the General Fund or from any account therein, which account the Bank may establish therein for the purpose of payment of its operating expenses, for operating expenses of the Bank in any year in excess of the amount provided for the operating expenses of the Bank by the annual budget then in effect with respect to that year or any amendment thereof in effect at the time of the payment.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1309 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 127 / Section 1309
App. § 127-1309. Investments
Status: in_force

(a) With respect to money raised in a current year for that current year's operating expenses, the Town may only invest such funds in instruments in which the principal is not at risk.

(b) For all other monies, investments of Town funds shall be made in:

(1) obligations of the United States, its agencies, and instrumentalities, and any repurchase agreements whose underlying collateral consists of such obligations;

(2) certificates of deposit and other evidences of deposit at banks, savings institutions, and trust companies approved by the Treasurer;

(3) such municipal bonds or other bonds as are a lawful investment for a bank, savings institution, and trust companies in this State;

(4) shares of an investment company, or an investment trust, which is negotiated under the Federal Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, if such mutual investment fund has been in operation for at least 10 years and has net assets of at least $10,000,000; or may deposit the same in banks, trust companies, or national banks in this State; and

(5) such investment instruments as may be offered by insurance companies that are licensed by the State of Vermont.

(c) The Selectboard shall have full power to hold, purchase, sell, assign, transfer, and dispose of any of the securities and investments in which any of the funds shall have been invested, as well as the proceeds of such investments.
24 V.S.A. § 5147 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 129 / Section 5147
§ 5147. Jurisdiction for appeals and exceptions
Status: in_force

The selectboard shall promptly and fairly hear any or all appeals by the ratepayer after notice to all interested parties. During appeal, disconnection will be postponed. Upon just cause shown, the selectboard may grant exceptions to any ratepayer. The selectboard may appoint one or more members of the selectboard to act as hearing officers for the purposes of the appeal. Alternatively, the selectboard may appoint a responsible citizen to act as a hearing officer for the appeal.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 31 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 235 / Section 31
App. § 235-31. Fire protection
Status: in_force

The engines, hose, hooks and ladders, and buildings for storing and preserving the same, together with the water cisterns, fire pumps, hydrants, engine and hook and ladder companies, shall be under the particular charge, superintendence, and control of the Engineer, who shall at each annual meeting make report in writing of the condition of his or her said department. Provided, however, that the trustees of said Village shall have the special charge and direction of all repairs necessary to be made, and recommended by the Engineer, to any of the buildings, engines, hose, hooks and ladders, fire pumps, hydrants, and water cisterns, and no monies shall be appropriated or paid by said corporation for any of the purposes aforesaid unless said repairs shall have been made by and with the consent and direction of said trustees, or a majority of them. And in no case shall the engine and fire apparatus be taken from the Village limits for the purpose of attending fireman's parade.
24 V.S.A. § 1936 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 55 / Section 1936
§ 1936. Special police officers; qualifications
Status: in_force

(a) If the legislative body of a municipality does not establish a police department or appoint a chief of police, temporary police officers appointed pursuant to subsection 1931(a) of this title shall serve under the direction of the legislative body.

(b) Persons appointed as law enforcement officers under the provisions of this chapter, before exercising any law enforcement authority, shall complete a course of training under 20 V.S.A. chapter 151.
24 V.S.A. § 1579 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 51 / Section 1579
§ 1579. Collector's receipt
Status: in_force

The town and town school district treasurer shall endorse upon the receipt given by the collector of taxes and lodged with such treasurer all payments thereon made by such collector and such abatements thereof as may be made by the board for the abatement of taxes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 703 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 703
App. § 4-703. Planning Commission
Status: in_force

There shall be a Planning Commission, and its powers, obligations, and operation shall be under and in accordance with Vermont Statutes Annotated, as amended, and members will be appointed by the City Council from among the qualified voters of the City. Members of the Commission shall hold no other City office. The City Council shall have the authority pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 4323(a) to set the terms of the Planning Commission members.
24 V.S.A. § 1689 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 51 / Section 1689
§ 1689. Penalty for failure to send notice
Status: in_force

A bank, trust company, or individual who violates a provision of section 1687 or 1688 of this subchapter shall be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $25.00.
24 V.S.A. § 4595 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4595
§ 4595. Annual budget
Status: in_force

(a) On or before December 1 in each year, the Bank shall adopt an annual budget for the succeeding year. The budget shall set forth the general categories of expected expenditures and the amount on account of each and shall include a provision or reserve for contingencies or over expenditures as well as any additional material as the Bank may determine. Copies of the annual budget certified by the Chair of the Bank shall be promptly filed with the State Treasurer and the Director of Budget and Management and the annual budget shall not be effective until it is so filed.

(b) If for any reason the Bank does not adopt the annual budget on or before December 1, the budget for the preceding year shall be in effect for that year until the annual budget for the year is adopted.

(c) The Bank may at any time adopt an amended annual budget for the current calendar year, but the amended annual budget may not supersede any prior budget until it is approved by the State Treasurer as reasonable and necessary, and filed as required in the case of the annual budget.
24 V.S.A. § 2274 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 61 / Section 2274
§ 2274. Construction with other statutes
Status: in_force

In the event the provisions of this subchapter conflict with any other law relating to abandoned or unclaimed property, this subchapter controls, and its provisions shall not be construed to repeal or abrogate any other provisions of law relating to junkyards but to be in aid thereof or as an alternative.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 12 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 245 / Section 12
App. § 245-12. Moderator
Status: in_force

The Moderator shall preside at all annual and special meetings of the Village, shall decide questions of order, and make public declarations of votes passed. The Moderator shall have and exercise the same powers and duties with respect to the Village that Moderators have and exercise with respect to towns.
24 V.S.A. § 4322 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4322
§ 4322. Planning commission; membership
Status: in_force

(a) A planning commission shall have not less than three nor more than nine voting members. All members may be compensated and reimbursed by the municipality for necessary and reasonable expenses. At least a majority of the members of a planning commission shall be residents of the municipality.

(b) The legislative body of a rural town, or not more than two elected or appointed officials of an urban municipality who are chosen by the legislative body of the urban municipality, shall be nonvoting ex officio members of a planning commission. If a municipality has an energy coordinator under chapter 33, subchapter 12 of this title, the energy coordinator may be a nonvoting ex officio member of the planning commission.

(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section:

(1) for an appointed planning commission, the legislative body may change the number of members that may be appointed to the commission; and

(2) for an elected planning commission, a municipality may vote at an annual or special meeting to change the number of members that may be elected to the commission.

(d) Notwithstanding subsection 4323(c) of this subchapter, if the number of members on an appointed or elected planning commission is reduced, the members with the nearest expiration of their term of office shall serve until the expiration of that term and then the office shall terminate.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 17.06 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 17.06
App. § 9-17.6. Professional services
Status: in_force

(a) For contracts requiring professional services or specialization, or expertise in a particular field, the Board of School Commissioners shall authorize the Superintendent to invite proposals for such services. The Superintendent, acting as Purchasing Agent for the School Department, shall submit his or her selection or selections to the Board of School Commissioners for confirmation.

(b) For contracts requiring professional services or specialization, or expertise in a particular field, the Board of Aldermen shall authorize the Mayor to invite proposals for such services. The Mayor, after consultation with the City Purchasing Agent and the department head involved, shall submit his or her selection or selections to the Board of Aldermen for confirmation.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1503 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 1503
App. § 269-1503. Appropriations
Status: in_force

The Village at the annual meeting, or a special meeting called for that purpose, shall adopt a budget that shall include the proposed expenditures of each department for the coming fiscal year, and adoption of a budget at such meeting shall be deemed an appropriation to each department of the sum allotted in the budget for such department. The amounts stated in the budget, and as approved by the Village, shall become appropriated to the several agencies, departments, and purposes therein named.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 150 / Section 2
App. § 150-2. General law; application
Status: in_force

The Town of St. Albans shall have all the powers granted to towns and municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of this State and this charter, together with all the implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers therein granted.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 162 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 162
App. § 3-162. Board authorized to rent portions of public buildings
Status: in_force

The Board of Finance may rent such portion of the public buildings to such public officers or private persons as to them shall seem for the best interests of the City; provided, however, that rentals for a period of more than one week shall require the approval of the City Council.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 305 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 249 / Section 305
App. § 249-305. Collector of Taxes to be Chief of Police
Status: in_force

The Collector of Taxes shall by virtue of holding said office be the Chief of Police of said the Village of Newfane, and as such shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of those duties and shall cause this officer's oath of office to be recorded by the Clerk. The Chief of Police shall be informing officer and conservator of the peace within the said the Village of Newfane, and may serve any criminal process returnable within said the Village of Newfane, and any mittimus issued by any justice of the peace therein, and shall be proper officer of the court in all causes before justices within said corporation and for all such services shall receive the fees provided by law for constables.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 33 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 601 / Section 33
App. § 601-33. Budget, appropriation, and assessment
Status: in_force

(a)(1) Proposed budget. Annually, on or before the first day of December, the Board of Supervisors shall prepare and distribute to the legislative body of each member municipality for review and comment an annual report of its activities during the previous 12 months, including a proposed budget of the District for the next fiscal year. This proposed budget shall include reasonably detailed estimates of:

(A) deficits and surpluses from prior fiscal years;

(B) anticipated expenditures for the administration of the District;

(C) anticipated expenditures for the operation and maintenance of any District facilities;

(D) costs of debt service;

(E) payments due on long-term contracts;

(F) payments due to any sinking funds for the retirement of debts;

(G) payments due to any capital reserve funds;

(H) anticipated revenues from sources other than assessments to member municipalities;

(I) the necessary appropriations to operate and carry out the District's functions for the next fiscal year;

(J) the proposed assessment to each member municipality;

(K) other estimates as the Board of Supervisors shall deem necessary to propose; and

(L) any threatened or reasonably anticipated lawsuits or other contingent expenses.

(2) The Board of Supervisors shall hold a public hearing on or before January 1 of each year to receive comments from the legislative bodies of member municipalities and hear all other interested persons regarding the proposed budget. Notice of the hearing shall be given at least seven days prior to the hearing by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the District, by posting in at least three public places in each member municipality, and by filing with the town or city clerk of each member municipality. The Board of Supervisors shall give consideration to all comments received and make such changes to the proposed budget as it deems advisable.

(b) Budget adoption, appropriations, and assessment. Annually, on or before January 15, the Board of Supervisors shall adopt the budget, appropriate the sums that it deems necessary to operate and carry out the District's functions for the fiscal year, assess a tax upon each member municipality for its proportionate share of the sums so appropriated, and adopt a schedule designating when taxes are due and payable by the member municipalities.

(c) Apportionment of taxes. For the purposes of assessing taxes to the member municipalities for payment of bonded indebtedness or long-term indebtedness approved by the voters, the respective population of each municipality within the District shall be combined to form a total population for the District. Each municipality shall be assessed a pro rata share of the costs of bonded indebtedness or long-term indebtedness as determined by obtaining the percentage of the population that that municipality represents in the District. Assessments for all other expenses of the District shall be as determined by the Board of Supervisors.

(d) Initial budget and appropriation. Within 30 days after the initial organizational meeting, the Board of Supervisors shall prepare and adopt an operating budget for the remainder of the then fiscal year and shall appropriate monies and assess a tax upon each member municipality to obtain the monies thus appropriated. The initial appropriation shall not exceed $50,000.00 and shall be apportioned among the member municipalities in proportion to their pro rata share by obtaining the percentage of the population that that municipality represents in the District and as further adjusted by the good faith estimate by the Board of Supervisors of other factors as the Board deems relevant. Within 15 days after the initial budget and appropriations are adopted by the Board of Supervisors, the District Treasurer shall issue and present a warrant to the legislative body of each member municipality requiring that the amount of the tax be paid to him or her within 30 days. The legislative body of each member municipality shall draw an order on the municipal treasury for the amount of the tax, and the municipal treasurer shall pay to the District Treasurer the amount of the order within the time specified.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 108 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 13 / Section 108
App. § 13-108. Effective date
Status: in_force

Every ordinance shall become effective upon passage unless otherwise specified or, if the ordinance be conditioned upon approval of the voters of the City, then upon a favorable vote of a majority of those voting thereon.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1901 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 13 / Section 1901
App. § 13-1901. Department of Assessment
Status: in_force

There shall be a Department of Assessment, which shall consist of the position of Chief Assessor and such assistants as are deemed to be necessary by the City Manager and approved by the City Council. The Chief Assessor and assistants will be appointed, and may be removed, by the City Manager in accordance with subchapter 17 of this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 30 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 30
App. § 101-30. Budget control
Status: in_force

At the beginning of each quarterly period during the fiscal year, and more often if required by the Board, the Manager shall submit to the Board data showing the relation between the estimated and actual income and expenses to date, together with outstanding indebtedness and estimated future expenses and income. The Manager may provide for monthly or quarterly allotments of appropriations to departments, funds, or agencies under such rules as he or she shall have prescribed.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 318 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 318
App. § 5-318. Claims for personal services
Status: in_force

No claim for personal services shall be allowed to the officers elected at the annual meeting, except when compensation for such services is provided for under the provisions of this charter or by the general law. The compensation of all officers and employees of the City shall be fixed by the City Council, except as herein otherwise provided.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 606 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 606
App. § 129-606. Compensation
Status: in_force

The compensation of the Superintendent shall be set by vote of the School Board of Trustees. As used in this section, the term “compensation” includes salary, additional benefits, time for sick leave, and vacation and expense allowances.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 24.01 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 24.01
App. § 9-24.1. Appointment of Commissioner
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of Public Works shall be appointed by the Mayor for a term of two years. He or she shall be experienced in areas of administration and management. The Commissioner shall be entitled to salary as fixed by the Board of Aldermen.
24 V.S.A. § 1163 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 35 / Section 1163
§ 1163. Index of attachments
Status: in_force

A town clerk shall keep a book in which shall be alphabetically indexed all attachments of personal property lodged in his or her office. Such index shall show the names of the parties to the action in which the attachment is made, the court and date of the court to which the attachment is returnable, and the amount of debt or damages claimed in the writ.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 41 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 105 / Section 41
App. § 105-41. Generally
Status: in_force

The officers of the Town of Berlin shall be those provided by law for towns, except as otherwise provided by this charter. Such officers shall have all the powers and duties necessary to carry out the provisions of this charter as well as those provided by law and the Administrative Code.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1105 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 133 / Section 1105
App. § 133-1105. Highway budget
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of general law or this charter to the contrary, annually the Selectboard shall prepare a highway budget with respect to the operation, maintenance, repair, and construction of Town highways, which budget shall be voted upon as a separate article at each annual Town meeting or a special Town meeting called for that purpose. Voting on the proposed highway budget shall be restricted to only those eligible voters residing in that part of the Town not within the incorporated limits of the Village of Poultney. The Town highway budget so approved shall be funded by a highway tax to be levied on the grand list of the Town representing ratable property situated in that part of the Town not within the incorporated limits of the Village of Poultney.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 19 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 285 / Section 19
App. § 285-19. Village Building Inspector
Status: in_force

Within the Village limits, the Building Inspector shall have authority to oversee the location and construction of all buildings and all repairs on buildings already constructed and shall oversee the construction and repairs of elevators, oil storage tanks, fire places, stoves, flues, and chimneys and all electrical wiring and may order the occupants or owners of any building or premises to repair any elevator, oil storage tank, fireplace, stove, flue, chimney, electric wiring, or other apparatus that, in the opinion of the Inspector, is unsafe or dangerous, and may inspect the manner of manufacture and keeping of all explosives and combustibles. No building shall be located or constructed until the plans of the building have first been submitted to and approved by the Building Inspector, if the trustees by proper ordinance shall so order and require.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 208 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 208
App. § 131-208. Town School District; establishment
Status: in_force

The Town of Plainfield, as established in section 101 of this charter, shall constitute the Town of Plainfield Town School District.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 35a — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 35a
App. § 101-35a. Bonding; Aldrich Public Library
Status: in_force

By a majority vote of those present and voting at an annual or special meeting warned for the purpose, the Town may issue municipal bonds for the cost of capital improvements to the Aldrich Public Library, which is located in the City of Barre and used by the residents of both the City and Town, and such improvements shall be considered “improvements” for the purposes of 24 V.S.A. chapter 53.
24 V.S.A. § 3811 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 109 / Section 3811
§ 3811. Notice; certificate; effect of record
Status: in_force

When called upon to act, the fence viewers shall give notice to parties interested, or to their tenants or agents, of the time when they will examine the fence or line between adjoining lands, before they make a division relating to the same. When fence viewers make a division of fence, or appraise the value of a fence made or repaired, or examine as to the sufficiency of a fence, they shall certify the same. When they make a division of fence and so certify, a record of the same in the office of the clerk of the town in which the line is situated shall be valid against the parties, their heirs, and assigns.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 41 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 901 / Section 41
App. § 901-41. Warning contents
Status: in_force

The posted notification shall include the date, time, place, and nature of the meeting. It shall, by separate articles, specifically indicate the questions to be voted upon.
24 V.S.A. § 3612 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 101 / Section 3612
§ 3612. Record
Status: in_force

Within 60 days after the taking of any property, franchise, easement, or right under the provisions of this chapter, the municipal corporation shall file a description of the property in the office of the clerk where the land records are required by law to be kept.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 701
App. § 117-701. Fiscal year
Status: in_force

The fiscal year of the Town shall begin on the first day of July of each calendar year. The fiscal year shall constitute the budget and accounting year as used in this charter.
24 V.S.A. § 3682 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 105 / Section 3682
§ 3682. Debts and liabilities of member towns
Status: in_force

No debt or liabilities of a town that is a member of the district shall accrue against the district. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 11, eff. March 22, 1968.)
24 V.S.A. § 5084 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 126 / Section 5084
§ 5084. Public Transit Advisory Council
Status: repealed

(a) The Public Transit Advisory Council shall be created by the Secretary of Transportation under 19 V.S.A. § 7(f)(5), to consist of the following members:

(1) the Secretary of Transportation or designee;

(2) three representatives of the Vermont Public Transportation Association;

(3) a representative of the Green Mountain Transit Authority;

(4) the Secretary of Human Services or designee;

(5) the Commissioner of Labor or designee;

(6) the Secretary of Commerce and Community Development or designee;

(7) a representative of the Vermont Center for Independent Living;

(8) a representative of the Community of Vermont Elders;

(9) a representative of private bus operators and taxi services;

(10) a representative of Vermont intercity bus operators;

(11) a representative of the Vermont Association of Planning and Development Agencies;

(12) a representative of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns;

(13) a citizen appointed by the Governor;

(14) a member of the Senate, appointed by the Committee on Committees; and

(15) a member of the House of Representatives, appointed by the Speaker.

(b) The Advisory Council shall be chaired by the Secretary of Transportation or designee.

(c) The Advisory Council shall meet not fewer than four times during each State fiscal year, excluding subcommittee meetings. The legislative members of the Council shall be entitled to compensation and expenses as provided in 2 V.S.A. § 23. Members who are not State employees shall receive reimbursement of expenses and a per diem as provided in 32 V.S.A. § 1010.

(d) The Advisory Council shall serve as an advisory group to the Agency of Transportation on all matters relating to public transit service as defined in section 5088 of this title.

(e) [Repealed.]
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 29 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 261 / Section 29
App. § 261-29. Damages; how fixed
Status: in_force

In any case where damage or compensation to owners of, and other person interested in, the water so taken, or such land as may be used for laying, extending, constructing, and maintaining the aqueduct, and for the 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 Trustees after hearing of all parties interested, the hearing being had upon written notice of the time and place thereof, given at least ten days before the hearing, and the Trustees shall, within ten days after the hearing file their award in the town clerk's office in the town or towns where the property is situated, and cause the same to be recorded in the land records of the town or towns.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10.09 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 107 / Section 10.09
App. § 107-10.9. Interpretation of Town acts
Status: in_force

The Town, after the acceptance of this subchapter, shall continue to have the capacity to act through and to be bound by its Town Meeting members, who shall, when convened from time to time, constitute Representative Town Meetings; and the Representative Town Meeting shall exercise exclusively all powers vested in the voters of the Town. Action in conformity with all provisions of law now or hereafter applicable to the transaction of Town affairs in Town Meeting shall, when taken by any Representative Town Meeting in accordance with the provision of this subchapter, have the same force and effect as if such action had been taken in a Town Meeting open to all the voters of the Town as conducted before the establishment of representative Town Meeting government.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 141 / Section 1
App. § 141-1. Merged municipality
Status: in_force

Upon approval by the voters of the said municipalities, and ratification hereof by the Vermont General Assembly as provided in 17 V.S.A. § 2630 et seq., the Town of Readsboro and the Village of Readsboro shall be deemed merged and consolidated, the said Village of Readsboro shall cease to exist, and the merged municipality shall hereafter be known as the Town of Readsboro.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 103 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 142 / Section 103
App. § 142-103. Finances
Status: in_force

On the effective merger date:

(1) the funds and other assets of the Village of Richford for its General Fund, along with its corresponding liabilities, shall become those of the Town of Richford for its General Fund;

(2) the funds and other assets of the Village of Richford for its Highway Account, along with its corresponding liabilities, shall become those of the Town of Richford for its Highway Account;

(3) the funds and other assets of the Village of Richford for its Water Department, along with its corresponding liabilities, shall become those of the Town of Richford for its Water Department;

(4) the funds and other assets of the Village of Richford for its Sewer Department, along with its corresponding liabilities, shall become those of the Town of Richford for its Sewer Department; and

(5) all of the other funds, assets, and liabilities of the Village of Richford, except as herein specifically provided shall become those of the Town of Richford as part of its General Fund and of its general assets and liabilities.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 8 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 109 / Section 8
App. § 109-8. Election of Selectboard
Status: in_force

Town Selectboard members in office at the date of adoption of the merger shall continue in office until the end of their respective terms. Village trustees in office at the date of adoption of the merger shall cease to serve as trustees. No further trustees shall be elected.
24 V.S.A. § 1303 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 39 / Section 1303
§ 1303. Voters
Status: in_force

Persons residing within the limits of an incorporated village who are qualified voters in town meeting shall be voters in village meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 20 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 239 / Section 20
App. § 239-20. Imposition of fines and forfeitures
Status: in_force

(a) Fines, penalties, and forfeitures up to and including $200.00 for each breach of an ordinance or bylaw may be established by the trustees or by a properly warned Village meeting.

(b) The fines, penalties, and forfeitures may be recovered in an action of tort brought in the name of the Village, and in the action a general complaint relying on the ordinance or the bylaw shall be sufficient.

(c) The process may issue either against the body or the property of the defendant, and if the defendant is found guilty, and if it is found by the court that the cause of action arose from the defendant's willful or malicious act or neglect, it shall so adjudge, and shall further adjudge that the defendant be confined in close jail, and may issue execution against the defendant's body with the certificate of the findings endorsed thereon; and the execution with the certificate thereon shall have the same effect as an execution issued on a judgment founded upon tort having a like certificate endorsed thereon.

(d) A person who refuses to comply with a Village ordinance or bylaw relating to the person's business may be enjoined by a proper action in chancery brought in the name of the Village, from continuing the business in violation of the ordinance or bylaw, and in the action a bill relying on the ordinance or bylaws shall be sufficient.

(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Village from having and exercising other powers as may be proper to enforce obedience to its ordinances and bylaws and to punish violations thereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 22.07 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 22.07
App. § 9-22.7. Regular police officers; appointment
Status: in_force

(a) All applicants for positions on the police force, except for the position of Chief of Police, shall file with the Chief their applications in writing, together with proof of graduation from an accredited high school or graduate equivalency diploma, on forms approved by the Chief, and shall be examined in such manner as the Chief of Police may prescribe with the approval of the Police Commission. A public record of all applicants for positions on the police force shall be maintained in the City Clerk's office.

(b) The Chief of Police, shall from time to time as the needs of the City may require, appoint from said applicants a sufficient number of police officers to ensure public safety and welfare. All appointments to the regular police force must be approved by the Police Commission. The number of regular police officers appointed shall not exceed the maximum number set forth in the City ordinances, except by specific approval of the Board of Aldermen.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 17 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 285 / Section 17
App. § 285-17. Police officers
Status: in_force

The police officers shall have the same power and authority as conservators of the peace within the Village as that of town constables. They may serve any criminal process for any offense against the laws of the State committed within the Village and may serve subpoenas for witnesses in such cases, and for all such services they shall be entitled to receive the same fees as constables are entitled to receive.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1402 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1402
App. § 5-1402. Savings clause
Status: repealed

The amendment of this charter shall not affect any ordinance, resolution, or bylaw lawfully enacted, ordained, and established under the provisions of this charter prior to the amendment, but the same shall be and remain in full force and effect until repealed, altered, or amended.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 705 / Section 2
App. § 705-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

The District is established for the purpose of providing water and sewer services as provided by 24 V.S.A. chapters 89 (waterworks), 97 (sewage system), and 101 (sewage disposal system) and holding, maintaining, and administering any property, assets, and liabilities that it shall acquire from the Village of Waterbury.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 104 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 104
App. § 1-104. General corporate powers
Status: in_force

(a) The City shall have all the powers granted to towns and municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of this State together with all the implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers granted; it may enact ordinances not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Vermont or with this charter and impose penalties for violation of those ordinances as allowed in 24 V.S.A. § 1974a in addition to the costs of prosecution.

(b) The City may purchase real property, or interest in real property, within or without its corporate limits, for the public benefit. The City may acquire real property by gift, devise, lease, easement, or condemnation and may sell, lease, mortgage, hold, convey by easement, manage, and control such property as its interest may require. Any acquisition or conveyance of property through the means listed in this section shall require approval of the council and shall also be subject to notice as required by 24 V.S.A. § 1061 or any successor provision.

(c) In this charter, no mention of a particular power shall be construed to be exclusive or to restrict the scope of the powers that the City would have if the particular powers were not mentioned.

(d) The City of Barre shall fly only the City, State, United States, and POW/MIA flags.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 6 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 417 / Section 6
App. § 417-6. Transportation and collection site
Status: in_force

Each member municipality, either directly or through independent parties, shall be responsible for providing one or more collection sites for the solid waste and recyclables generated within such member municipality, and for the transportation of such solid waste to the District facility, together with all costs incident thereto. In the event that any member municipality does not wish to institute its own collection system for delivery of the solid waste and recyclables to the facility designated by the District, the Board of Supervisors may provide for collection and transportation as provided in subdivision 5(1) of this chapter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 133 / Section 101
App. § 133-101. Corporate existence retained
Status: in_force

The inhabitants of the Town of Poultney are hereby incorporated and continue to be incorporated and declared to be a body corporate and politic under the name of the Town of Poultney, and under that name shall have, exercise, and enjoy all such rights, immunities, powers, and privileges as are conferred upon or are incident to towns in this State; and shall be subject to like duties, liabilities, and obligations, except as otherwise provided in this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 17.01 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 17.01
App. § 9-17.1. City Purchasing Agent
Status: in_force

(a) The City Purchasing Agent shall be a City employee under the direction of the Board of Finance.

(b) The City Purchasing Agent shall contract for and purchase all supplies, materials, equipment and contractual services required by any department, office, board, commission, or agency of the City; except purchases made in behalf of the School Department, and except as otherwise provided herein.

(c) The City Purchasing Agent shall work in a cooperative and coordinative purchasing effort with the designated representative of the Rutland City School Department when such effort will result in a benefit to the City of Rutland.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1504 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 127 / Section 1504
App. § 127-1504. Municipal laws
Status: in_force

All Town ordinances, resolutions, orders, and regulations that are in force when this charter becomes fully effective shall remain in full force and effect excepting only those ordinances, resolutions, orders, and regulations that are inconsistent with this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 604 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 604
App. § 117-604. Time of holding
Status: in_force

(a) The annual meeting of legal voters shall be held at 7:30 o'clock in the afternoon of the day specified in 17 V.S.A. § 2640(b) as the same may from time to time be amended and may transact at that time any business not involving voting by Australian ballot or voting required by law to be by ballot. A meeting so started shall be adjourned until the following day.

(b) The election of officers and the voting on all questions to be decided by Australian ballot or voting required by law to be by ballot shall take place on the day specified in 17 V.S.A. § 2640(a), which may from time to time be amended. The ballot boxes or voting machines shall be open for a minimum of nine consecutive hours between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. as shall be determined and warned by the Selectboard. (Renumbered from 24A V.S.A. § 117-302 by 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 29, 2024.)
24 V.S.A. § 4572 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4572
§ 4572. Membership; vacancies
Status: in_force

The Bank established by section 4571 of this title shall consist of the following five directors: the State Treasurer, or his or her designee, who shall be a director ex officio, and four directors appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate for terms of two years. The four directors appointed by the Governor must be residents of the State and must be qualified voters therein for at least one year next preceding the time of appointment. The Governor shall first appoint two directors to serve until February 1, 1971 and two directors to serve until February 1, 1972. Each director shall hold office for the term of his or her appointment and until his or her successor shall have been appointed and qualified. A director shall be eligible for reappointment. Any vacancy in a directorship occurring other than by expiration of term shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment, except that the advice and consent of the Senate shall not be required if it is not in session, but for the unexpired term only.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 51 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 126 / Section 51
App. § 126-51. Zoning officer; appointment
Status: in_force

The Town Zoning Officer, the “administrative officer” as described in 24 V.S.A. § 4448, shall be appointed by the Selectboard and shall serve in that office for three years and until a successor is appointed and qualified. The Zoning Officer may serve two or more successive three-year terms.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 602 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 249 / Section 602
App. § 249-602. Elections at special meeting
Status: in_force

If the annual meeting of said Village fails to be held, for want of notice hereinbefore provided for, or for any other cause, the corporation shall not thereby be prejudiced and said several officers may at any time thereafter be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose, as hereinbefore provided for calling annual meetings; but the term of office of any officers so elected at any special meeting shall expire at the same time as if they had been regularly chosen at the annual meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 901 / Section 7
App. § 901-7. Composition
Status: in_force

Each member of the Authority shall have two directors on the Board, and three other directors shall be elected at-large by the electorate of the member municipalities. Each director shall be a resident of his or her municipality and registered to vote in municipal elections at the time of the director's appointment or election.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 128 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 128
App. § 3-128. Manner of filling
Status: in_force

(a) In case of a vacancy in the Office of Mayor, occasioned by death, resignation, removal from said City, permanent inability to serve, failure to elect, or disqualification of the person chosen, the President of the City Council shall act as Mayor until such successor is elected and has qualified.

(b)(1) In case of any vacancy in the City Council from any of the causes described in subsection (a) of this section, the same shall be filled by a new election in the proper ward or City district.

(2) If any City Councilor shall remove out of the ward or City district for which he or she may have been elected or no longer reside in such ward or City district as a result of reapportionment, his or her office shall thereupon become vacant and the same shall be filled by a new election in the proper ward or City district.

(c)(1) In case there shall arise an occasion for any such new election, as a result of a vacancy in the Office of Mayor or City Councilor for any of the causes described in this section, the same shall be held within 90 days of the date of such vacancy, provided such vacancy shall occur before the first day in October in any year, unless a citywide election has been prescheduled to occur between the 90th and the 120th day of the date of such vacancy, in which case the same shall be held on such prescheduled election date; otherwise it shall be filled at the next annual City election.

(2) In every case, the person so elected shall serve for the remainder of the official term.

(3) In the case of reapportionment, such election shall be held at the next ensuing annual City meeting and the term of the City councilor who no longer resides in the ward or City district as a result of reapportionment shall continue until the newly elected City councilor assumes office on the first Monday in April.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 46 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 46
App. § 101-46. Separability
Status: in_force

The sections of this charter and the parts thereof are separable. If any portion of this charter or its application to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder thereof or the application of such invalid portions to other persons or circumstances shall not thereby be affected.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 94 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 126 / Section 94
App. § 126-94. Continuation of municipal laws
Status: in_force

All ordinances, resolutions, orders, and regulations of the Town of Lyndon and the former Village of Lyndonville that are in force when this charter becomes fully effective shall remain in full force and effect, excepting only those ordinances, resolutions, orders, and regulations that are inconsistent with this charter. Former Village ordinances shall apply only to those geographical portions of Town that were encompassed by the former Village until the Selectboard amends or repeals those ordinances following the procedures authorized in subchapter 2 of this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 175 / Section 1
App. § 175-1. Statement of purpose
Status: in_force

Under the authority granted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, this charter establishes certain guidelines with respect to organization and functioning of local town government in the Town of Woodford, Vermont. The voters of the Town of Woodford adopt a charter for the following purposes:

(1) to clarify the structure and organization of Town government;

(2) to define the duties and responsibilities of Town officers, officials, and employees;

(3) to establish procedural requirements for the proper transaction of Town business; and

(4) to provide for citizens of the Town of Woodford a unified and convenient reference with respect to the basic laws affecting government.
24 V.S.A. § 1974 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 59 / Section 1974
§ 1974. Enforcement of criminal ordinances
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The violation of a criminal ordinance or rule adopted by a municipality under this chapter shall be a misdemeanor.

(2) The criminal ordinance or rule may provide for a fine or imprisonment, but no fine shall exceed $800.00, nor may any term of imprisonment exceed one year.

(3) Each day the violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.

(b) The presiding judge of the Superior Court, on application of the legislative body of a municipality, shall have jurisdiction to enjoin the violation of an ordinance or rule but the election of a municipality to proceed under this subsection shall not prevent prosecutions under subsection (a) of this section.

(c) Prosecutions of criminal ordinances shall be brought before the Superior Court pursuant to 4 V.S.A. § 32.

(d) Prosecutions of criminal ordinances may be brought on behalf of the municipality by the municipal attorney or other person designated by the legislative body of the municipality.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 520 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 520
App. § 1-520. Reappraisal
Status: in_force

At least every five years, the Department shall review, or cause to be reviewed, its appraisals of all real property in the City that is subject to taxation and conduct a reappraisal of all such properties when necessary to conform its appraisals to the standards for appraising established by the laws of this State.
24 V.S.A. § 5054 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 125 / Section 5054
§ 5054. Creditable service
Status: in_force

(a) An employee who becomes a member on July 1, 1975 shall receive credit for all prior service as an employee since the employee's most recent date of hire with his or her present employer, up to a maximum of 20 years. Any other person who becomes a member shall receive credited service for the three year period prior to joining.

(b) All service of a member since he or she last became a member on account of which contributions are made shall be credited service.

(c) The Retirement Board shall fix and determine by rule how much service in any year is equivalent to one year of service, but in no case shall it allow credit for a period of absence without pay of more than a month's duration, nor shall more than one year of service be creditable for all service in one fiscal year. Service rendered as an employee for the full normal working time in any year shall be equivalent to one year's service, but in no case shall less than the minimum number of hours established under subdivision 5051(10) of this title be regarded as full normal working time.

(d) Any employee whose continuous service is broken and is later rehired, shall be considered as a new employee without any credit for service previously rendered.

(e) The Retirement Board may enter into a prior service purchase agreement with any municipality which has participated in another funded retirement system to enter the Vermont Municipal Employees' Retirement System and transfer assets from its predecessor system into the Vermont Municipal Employees' System representing the liabilities for continuous service accrued prior to the participation effective date. Assets received by the municipality from the predecessor system shall be transferred to the Vermont Municipal Employees' Retirement System in a lump sum. Liabilities not covered by the lump sum deposit shall be contributed by the municipal employer as an additional employer contribution rate determined in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 5064(c)(6) of this title.

(f) The Board may enter into a prior service purchase agreement with any member who has participated in a public retirement system other than this System. A member who desires to purchase creditable service for service with a public retirement system outside this System must make application to the Board to purchase such creditable service. Upon approval by the Board, a member who desires to purchase additional creditable service must deposit in the Fund, a lump sum equal to the accrued liability (based on the assumptions and methodology adopted by the Board) for such additional creditable service. In lieu of a single payment, a member may, subject to the approval of the Board, contribute in installments of equal monthly payments (over a period not to exceed 60 months) the actuarial equivalent value (based on assumptions adopted by the Board) of the lump sum payment described in this section. Any member who terminates prior to completing all required installment payments as approved by the Board shall receive pro rata credit for service purchased before the member's date of termination, but if so elected at the time of termination, the member may pay as much in a single sum as is necessary to provide full credit at this time. The payments made by the member pursuant to this subsection shall be treated for all purposes as member contributions. No application may be accepted for purchase of credit for prior service in a public retirement system if at the time of application the member has a vested right to retirement benefits in such public retirement system.

(g) The Board may enter into a prior service purchase agreement with any Group B member who has participated in Group A, a Group C member who has participated in Group A or B for service in that group, a Group D member who has participated in Group A, B, or C for service in one of those groups, or an employer on behalf of a member as described in this subsection. The purchase made by a member shall follow the procedure set forth in subsection (f) of this section. The purchase made by an employer on behalf of a member shall be paid in equal annual installments over a specified period as determined by the Board.

(h) Credit shall be granted for any period of approved absence from service due to any class of military service approved by the Retirement Board, provided the employee returns to service in the municipality within 90 days after having become discharged or separated from such military service, as if such service had been service as an employee of the municipality. The earnable compensation of the employee at the time of entering such military service shall be deemed to be the earnable compensation for the period of such service.

(i) Credit shall also be granted for any period of absence from service in connection with an approved workers' compensation claim as a result of a work-related injury, provided the employee provides evidence of the period covered by the approved workers' compensation claim upon return to active service. The earnable compensation of the employee at the time of entering the period of the absence from service resulting from an approved workers' compensation claim or the wages plus all other wage replacement compensation received while on the approved period of absence, whichever provides for the highest total compensation, shall be deemed to be the earnable compensation for the period of such service. The total compensation under this subsection shall not exceed what the earnable compensation would have been had the member not been injured.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 229 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 229
App. § 3-229. Authority to create; powers and duties
Status: in_force

The City Council may by ordinance provide for the creation and maintenance of a Harbor Commission or a single Harbor Commissioner, and for the appointment of a Superintendent of Harbors, and define and prescribe their powers and duties in regard to the supervision, control, and regulation, within the jurisdiction of the City, of harbors, public and private wharfs, docks, and piers, and the waterfront within the City on Lake Champlain, under any and all lawful regulations and ordinances that may be made and enacted, and may fix the time of the appointment of such officers and their terms of office, and such officers shall receive such compensation as may be voted them by the City Council.