24 V.S.A. § 1686 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 51 / Section 1686
§ 1686. Penalty
Status: in_force

(a) At any time in their discretion, town auditors may, and if requested by the selectboard, shall, examine and adjust the accounts of any town officer authorized by law to receive or disburse money belonging to the town.

(b) If the town has voted to eliminate the office of auditor, the public accountant employed by the selectboard shall perform the duties of the town auditors under subsection (a) of this section upon request of the selectboard.

(c)(1) If, after at least five business days following his or her receipt by certified mail of a written request by the auditors or public accountant that is approved and signed by the legislative body, a town officer willfully refuses or neglects to submit his or her books, accounts, vouchers, or tax bills to the auditors or the public accountant, or to furnish all necessary information in relation thereto, that town officer shall be ineligible to reelection for the year ensuing and be subject to the penalties otherwise prescribed by law.

(2) A town officer who violates subdivision (1) of this subsection (c) shall be personally liable to the town for a civil penalty in the amount of $100.00 per day until he or she submits or furnishes the requested materials or information. A town may bring an action in the Civil Division of the Superior Court to enforce this subdivision.

(d) As used in this section, the term “town officer” shall not include an officer subject to the provisions of 16 V.S.A. § 323.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 506 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 127 / Section 506
App. § 127-506. Compensation
Status: in_force

(a) The auditors shall fix the compensation of the members of the Selectboard, unless the Town has voted to eliminate the Office of Auditor pursuant to 17 V.S.A. § 2651b, in which case the Town may fix the compensation of the members of the Selectboard at an annual meeting. If the Town has voted to eliminate the Office of Auditor and the voters fail to fix the Selectboard's compensation, the members of the Selectboard shall be compensated at the rate at which they were compensated during the immediately preceding year.

(b) Except as provided in subsections 506(a) and 704(l) of this charter, the Selectboard shall fix the compensation of all elected officers and all officers appointed by them. An elected official may notify the Selectboard in writing, at least 50 days before the annual meeting, that he or she wishes his or her compensation fixed by the Town, and the Selectboard shall insert an article in the warning to that effect. If so warned, the Town may fix the compensation of that elected official for the balance of his or her term of office or for such shorter period as the Town may vote.
24 V.S.A. § 3802 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 109 / Section 3802
§ 3802. Maintenance
Status: in_force

Owners or occupants of adjoining lands, where the lands of both parties are occupied, shall make and maintain equal portions of the division fence between their respective lands. The owner of unimproved and unoccupied land adjoining occupied land of another person shall make his or her proportion of a fence between such lands unless the selectboard of the town where the improved land lies, on request of either party, and on reasonable notice by the selectboard to parties interested, decides that such owner ought not to be compelled to make any part of such fence. The decision of the selectboard in such case shall be recorded in the town clerk's office and shall be final between the parties. The selectmembers shall receive for their services the fees of fence viewers.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 133 / Section 1101
App. § 133-1101. Postponement and combining of Town meeting
Status: in_force

(a) The Selectboard may postpone the vote on any question to be voted at a special Town meeting to the annual meeting if such special meeting would fall within 120 days of the annual meeting.

(b) If a special Town meeting will fall within 120 days of another special Town meeting called by petition, the Selectboard may warn the questions to be voted at such Town meeting for the later Town meeting and may by resolution rescind the call of the earlier meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2004 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 13 / Section 2004
App. § 13-2004. Board of Water Commissioners
Status: in_force

The City Council shall constitute the Board of Water Commissioners, with authority to exercise all powers granted to water commissions under the general laws of the State.
24 V.S.A. § 3611 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 101 / Section 3611
§ 3611. Compensation; condemnation
Status: in_force

(a) When an owner of land or rights in land and the board are unable to agree on the amount of compensation or in case the owner is an infant, a person who lacks capacity to protect the person's interests due to a mental condition or psychiatric disability, absent from the State, unknown, or the owner of a contingent or uncertain interest, a Superior judge may, on the application of either party, cause the notice to be given of the application as the judge may prescribe, and after proof of the application, the judge may appoint three disinterested persons to examine the property to be taken or damaged by the municipal corporation.

(b) After being duly sworn, the commissioners shall, upon due notice to all parties in interest, view the premises, hear the parties in respect to the property, and shall assess and award to the owners and persons so interested just damages for any injury sustained and make report in writing to the judge.

(c) In determining damages resulting from the taking or use of property under the provisions of this chapter, the added value, if any, to the remaining property or right in property that inures directly to the owner as a result of the taking or use as distinguished from the general public benefit shall be considered.

(d) The judge may accept the report, unless just cause is shown to the contrary, and order the municipal corporation to pay the same in the time and manner as the judge may prescribe, in full compensation for the property taken, or the injury done by the municipal corporation, or the judge may reject or recommit the report if the ends of justice so require. On compliance with the order, the municipal corporation may proceed with the construction of its work without liability for further claim for damages. In the judge's discretion, the judge may award costs in the proceeding. Appeals from the order may be taken to the Supreme Court under 12 V.S.A. chapter 102.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 37 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 417 / Section 37
App. § 417-37. Apportionment of assessments
Status: in_force

Assessments may be apportioned among the member municipalities on the basis of population, trash generation (relative to the tonnage or volume of solid waste generated by or within each of the member municipalities), or other basis voted by the Board of Supervisors. If, after the first year of operation of any District facility, Board of Supervisors determines that prior assessments were substantially inequitable, it may retroactively adjust prior year assessments such that municipalities overcharged are given a proportionate credit against future assessments and municipalities undercharged are assessed a proportionate surcharge payable over such period as the Board of Supervisors determines will be reasonable. Thereafter, the Board of Supervisors may by a vote of members present and representing two-thirds of all the votes entitled to be cast at a regular meeting, or a special meeting called for that purpose, change the basis of the assessment. The Board may adjust the assessments accordingly, but no retroactive adjustments shall be made. Similar estimates and adjustments shall be made for new member municipalities and for the first time use of a new or different disposal facility. In the event of a proposed change in the method of assessment, the Board of Supervisors shall hold a public hearing on or before December 7th of each year to receive comments from the legislative bodies of member municipalities and hear all other interested persons regarding the proposed method of assessment. Notice of such hearing shall be the same as that specified under section 46 of this chapter, public hearings. The Board of Supervisors shall give consideration to all comments received and make such changes to the proposed method of assessment as it deems advisable.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 45 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 261 / Section 45
App. § 261-45. Duties of trustees respecting monies received and disbursed
Status: in_force

No money shall be expended by any person for or in behalf of said Village, except the trustees, and no money shall be paid out of the Village treasury except upon orders signed by the trustees or a majority of them. The trustees shall keep a full and true record and account of all orders drawn and expenditures made by them, and the trustees shall also keep a correct account of all Village monies received and disbursed by them, and all of said officers shall make report thereof at each annual meeting of said Village, or such other time or times as said Village shall direct. And said Village may make all needful bylaws, rules, and regulations in reference thereto, and for the government of said officers.
24 V.S.A. § 4504 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 118 / Section 4504
§ 4504. Rules
Status: in_force

(a) At its organizational meeting a conservation commission shall adopt by majority vote of those present and voting such rules as it deems necessary and appropriate for the performance of its functions. It shall annually elect a chair, a treasurer, and a clerk.

(b) Times and places of meetings of a conservation commission shall be publicly posted in the municipality, and its meetings shall be open to the public.

(c) A conservation commission shall keep a record of its transactions, which shall be filed with the town clerk as a public record of the municipality.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 52 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 417 / Section 52
App. § 417-52. Conduct of meetings
Status: in_force

At all special meetings of the District, the provisions of 17 V.S.A. chapter 51 regarding election officials (subchapter 1), voting machines (subchapter 3), polling places (subchapter 4), absent voters (subchapter 6), process of voting (subchapter 7) count and return of votes (subchapter 8), recounts and contest of elections (subchapter 9), and jurisdiction of courts (subchapter 10) shall apply except where clearly inapplicable. The District Clerk shall perform the functions assigned to the Secretary of State under that chapter. The Windham Superior Court shall have jurisdiction over petitions for recounts. Election expenses shall be borne by the District.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 204 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 204
App. § 414-204. Organizational meeting
Status: in_force

Annually, on the second Monday in April, the Board of Supervisors shall hold its organizational meeting. At the meeting, the Board shall elect from among its membership a Chair and Vice Chair, each of whom shall hold office for one year and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified. A Chair or Vice Chair may be reelected to successive terms without limit.
24 V.S.A. § 5701 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 138 / Section 5701
§ 5701. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of this chapter is to enable formation of special municipal districts to finance, own, and maintain infrastructure that provides economic development opportunities in rural and underresourced areas of the State, including areas within one or more municipalities. Specifically, this chapter provides mechanisms for public and private partnerships, including opportunities for tax-incentivized financing and voluntary citizen engagement, to help overcome density and economic hardship.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1101
App. § 5-1101. Powers
Status: in_force

The City may issue bonds or notes for any improvement authorized by general or special law, including this charter. The word “improvement,” as used in this subchapter, shall have the meaning ascribed to it by the general laws of the State and shall include the acquisition and construction of facilities for the production and delivery of heat and of devices, facilities, and other measures to conserve energy or promote efficient energy use, and the acquisition or construction of any other work or improvement for which municipalities of the State may now or hereafter be authorized to incur debt.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 507 / Section 3
App. § 507-3. Powers
Status: in_force

The powers of Cold Brook Fire District No. 1 shall be as follows:

(1) to adopt the town manager system in compliance with 24 V.S.A. chapter 37;

(2) to vote a tax upon the taxable estate within the District for the acquisition, construction, and maintenance of sewers and sewage treatment works, waterworks, water companies, and equipment and real estate used in connection with the District, including reservoirs and dams.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 171 / Section 7
App. § 171-7. Ethics
Status: in_force

(a) Policy statement. Accepting a position as a public official carries with it the acceptance of trust that the official will work to further the public interest. Maintaining that public trust is critical to the continued operation of good government. In addition, public decision-making should be open and accessible to the public at large. To preserve this public trust, there are five principles to which public officials should adhere:

(1) A public official should represent and work toward the public interest and not toward private or personal interests.

(2) A public official should accept and maintain the public trust (i.e., he or she must preserve and enhance the public's confidence in its public officials).

(3) A public official should exercise leadership, particularly in the form of consistently demonstrating behavior that reflects the public trust.

(4) A public official should recognize the proper role of all government bodies and the relationships between the various government bodies.

(5) A public official should always demonstrate respect for others and for other positions.

(b) Policy or ordinance authorized. In order to promote these principles, the Selectboard may adopt, by resolution or ordinance, a formal, binding policy or ordinance on ethics.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 704 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 19 / Section 704
App. § 19-704. Budget
Status: in_force

(a) Budget. Notwithstanding any prior acts of the voters, the General Fund budget for the ensuing fiscal year submitted by the Manager shall clearly define all anticipated operational expenditures for all City departments, offices, or agencies and a sum sufficient to pay the interest and principal for all obligations of the City. The budget shall also include the estimated revenues from taxation, fines, and all other lawful sources necessary to meet the anticipated expenditures. The General Fund budget shall not include enterprise or special revenue funds.

(b) Estimated tax. The budget shall include an estimate of the tax to be levied and assessed upon the grand list of the City for the ensuing fiscal year.

(c) Budget summary. The budget shall include a three-year summary comparison by departments, offices, or agencies that clearly defines the previous fiscal year's budget and actual expenditures, the current fiscal year's budget and anticipated expenditures, and the ensuing fiscal year's budget.

(d) Surplus/deficit. Fund balances shall be carried forward in the next fiscal year. Fund deficits shall be liquidated in the manner provided by general law.

(e) Reports. The budget shall be prepared and managed by the Manager, who shall issue an annual report on all City budgets, in accordance with section 504 of this charter. The budget shall be monitored by the City Treasurer who shall make timely periodic reports thereof to the Council.

(f) Enterprise and special revenue budgets. The Manager shall submit enterprise and special revenue budgets to the Council. The Council may amend and shall approve the enterprise and special revenue budgets prior to the start of each fiscal year.
24 V.S.A. § 1825 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 53 / Section 1825
§ 1825. Construction
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be so construed as authorizing the establishment or operation of a public utility. The provisions of this subchapter shall apply only to a public utility authorized by a special act or under the general law. Bonds may be issued hereunder for public utility projects of the municipal corporation notwithstanding that any other law may provide for the issuance of bonds for like purposes. This subchapter is remedial in nature and the powers hereby granted shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes hereof, and to this end the municipal corporation shall have powers necessary and prudent to carry out the purposes hereof in addition to the powers expressly conferred in this subchapter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 901 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 901
App. § 4-901. Fiscal year
Status: in_force

The fiscal year of the City shall begin on the first day of July and end on the last day of June of each calendar year. The fiscal year shall constitute the budget and accounting year as used in this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 202 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 202
App. § 3-202. Political activity restricted
Status: in_force

No person while an officer or other member of the Fire Department of the City shall publicly endorse any candidate for political office, serve as a campaign assistant on behalf of any candidate for political office, or perform any public campaign activity on behalf of any candidate for public office for which Burlington voters are casting ballots. The foregoing shall not prohibit a fire officer from voting in any election; or from expressing his or her views concerning any referendum question being considered; and shall not prevent a collective bargaining unit that represents fire officers from endorsing candidates in elections, provided that no bargaining unit representative announcing such endorsement may do so while wearing a fire uniform. No person shall be appointed to or retained in the Department as a reward for political service rendered, nor in any manner be discriminated against because of his or her failure to render such service.
24 V.S.A. § 1310 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 39 / Section 1310
§ 1310. Bylaws
Status: in_force

An incorporated village may enact such bylaws and regulations as are expedient, not inconsistent with law, particularly such as relate to streets, sidewalks, lanes, commons, shade and ornamental trees and lights thereon, slaughterhouses and nuisances, police protection, restraint of animals, erection and regulation of buildings and hay scales, the preservation of buildings, with the right of directing alterations in stoves, fireplaces, and causes from which danger from fire may be apprehended, fire engines and other apparatus necessary for the extinguishment of fire, establishment and regulation of fire companies, and to the manufacture and safekeeping of ashes, explosives, and combustibles.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 304 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 304
App. § 3-304. Approval of section 102 of this charter by vote required
Status: in_force

The maximum school tax rate of 120 cents upon the dollar of the property grand list of the City, as provided for in section 102 of this charter, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 102 of this charter, be 100 cents upon the dollar of said list, unless a majority of the legal voters of said City, present and voting thereon at the annual City meeting to be held on the first Tuesday in March 1950, shall vote favorably upon the following question to be voted upon by ballot: “Shall the provisions of section 102 of the City charter providing for a maximum school tax of 120 cents upon the dollar of the property grand list of the City be approved?”
24 V.S.A. § 302 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 302
§ 302. Power to search; return
Status: in_force

In the daytime, a sheriff may enter and search houses, buildings, or other places for a person for whose apprehension he or she has a warrant, issued in a criminal prosecution, a prosecution for bastardy, or on a bailpiece. He or she may so enter with a warrant or extent for the collection of taxes, or the collection of a fine, or with a warrant to search for goods or chattels stolen or purloined, when such property is supposed to be secreted therein. He or she shall not make return in any case that he or she cannot execute any such precept.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 501 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 501
App. § 143-501. Selectboard; powers and duties; terms
Status: in_force

(a) The members of the Selectboard shall constitute the legislative body of the Town of Richmond for all purposes required by law, and except as otherwise specifically provided in this charter, and shall have all powers and authority given to and perform all duties required of town legislative bodies or selectboards under the Constitution and general laws of the State of Vermont.

(b) The Selectboard shall consist of five persons, three of whom shall serve for three-year terms and two of whom shall serve for two-year terms. At each annual meeting, one Selectboard member shall be elected for a three-year term and one for a two-year term.

(c) In addition to all the eminent domain powers available under State statutes, the Town, by the Selectboard, shall have the power to take property, or interests therein, for the purpose of disposal or dispersement of stormwater from Town highways, Town highway culverts and ditches, and municipal parking lots. In any such taking, the procedures shall be the procedure provided by law for the taking of property, or interests therein, for highways; provided, however, that alternatively the Selectboard may follow any other procedure available by law. Any taking shall be of the minimum property or interest therein necessary for such disposal or dispersement.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 106 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 235 / Section 106
App. § 235-106. Judicial review of damage award
Status: in_force

The County Court shall, when petitioned under the provisions of the preceding section, appoint commissioners as in case of an application for laying out a highway. Such commissioners shall notify the petitioners and one of the trustees of said Village of the time and place of hearing and shall examine the premises and the circumstances of the case and make a new appraisal; and the court, on their report, may set aside the former assessment of damages and render judgment for such sum as appears just; and, if the sum is greater than the sum before allowed, the court may tax cost for the petitioner; otherwise the Village shall recover its cost. But if no proceedings for reassessment are instituted, as approved by the last preceding section, within the time therein limited, then the award of damages or assessment for benefit shall be established as valid, and shall be collectible.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 304 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 304
App. § 413-304. 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. § 102 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 102
App. § 117-102. General law, application
Status: in_force

Except as modified by the provisions of this charter, or by any lawful regulation or ordinance of the Town of Essex, all provisions of the statutes of this State applicable to towns shall apply to the Town of Essex.
24 V.S.A. § 313 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 313
§ 313. Conflict of interest; appearance of conflict of interest
Status: in_force

(a) Sheriffs and deputy sheriffs are considered public servants for the purposes of 3 V.S.A. § 1202(1). A conflict of interest may also exist when a member of a sheriff's or deputy sheriff's immediate family or household, or the sheriff's or deputy sheriff's business associate, or an organization with which the sheriff or deputy sheriff is affiliated, interferes with the proper discharge of a lawful duty. A conflict of interest does not include any interest that is not greater than that of other individuals generally affected by the outcome of the matter.

(b) A sheriff or deputy sheriff shall avoid any conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest. When confronted with a conflict of interest or an appearance of a conflict of interest, a sheriff or deputy sheriff shall disclose the conflict of interest to the Sheriff's Executive Committee, recuse themselves from the matter, and not take further action on the matter.

(c) The Department of State's Attorneys and Sheriffs shall establish procedures for forwarding ethics complaints from any source to the State Ethics Commission based on the procedures set forth in 3 V.S.A. § 1223.

(d) Nothing in this section shall require a sheriff or deputy sheriff to disclose confidential information or information that is otherwise privileged under law. “Confidential information,” as used in this subsection, means information that is exempt from public inspection and copying under 1 V.S.A. § 315 et seq. or is otherwise designated by law as confidential.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 119 / Section 4
App. § 119-4. Severability
Status: in_force

If any provision of this charter is held invalid, the other provisions of this charter shall not be affected thereby.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 309 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 309
App. § 1-309. Source of appropriations, expenditures
Status: in_force

The money raised from taxation, assessments, fines, and other lawful sources shall constitute the sum from which appropriations, expenditures, and payments are to be made by the authority of the City Council.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 409 / Section 101
App. § 409-101. Creation and name
Status: in_force

A union municipal district to be known as the Lamoille Regional Solid Waste Management District is created.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 53 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 417 / Section 53
App. § 417-53. Reconsideration or rescission of vote
Status: in_force

(a) A question 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 that purpose, and called by the Board of Supervisors on its own motion or pursuant to a petition requesting such 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 (except with respect to action taken under section 40 of this chapter, for which a petition shall be signed by 10 percent of the qualified voters) 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 shall not be presented for reconsideration or rescission at more than one subsequent meeting within the succeeding 12 months except with the approval of the Board of Supervisors.
24 V.S.A. § 137 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 137
§ 137. Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

Superior Courts, within their respective jurisdictions, may take cognizance of actions in favor of or against the county.
24 V.S.A. § 3308 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 89 / Section 3308
§ 3308. Taxes; bonds
Status: in_force

For the purpose of successfully organizing, establishing, and operating its waterworks, and making such improvements as may be necessary, such municipal corporation is authorized and empowered to purchase, take, and hold real and personal estate; levy and collect such taxes upon the ratable estate of the municipal corporation as is necessary for the payment of municipal corporation water department expenses and indebtedness; issue its negotiable bonds in such sums and payable at such times and places as may be deemed advisable, for the purpose aforesaid only; and borrow such money from time to time as may be necessary to enable the water department to carry on the work of adequately supplying the municipal corporation with water.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 1
App. § 403-1. Creation
Status: in_force

There is created a union municipal district that shall be known as the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District (the District) and that shall be a body politic and corporate.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 36 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 126 / Section 36
App. § 126-36. Budget
Status: in_force

The Selectboard shall submit a proposed budget to the voters to be voted on at the annual Town meeting as provided in subchapter 7 of this charter. The vote of the Town shall constitute the approval of the total amount of the budget. The Selectboard may reallocate the sums so approved within the budget to pay for expenditures in different amounts to the extent necessary to deal with unexpected or changed circumstances. If the approved budget proves to be insufficient to pay all of the Town's expenses, the Selectboard may call a special Town meeting to vote on an increase to the budget.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 53 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 405 / Section 53
App. § 405-53. 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 Commissioners of the District by a vote of two-thirds of all the votes entitled to be cast at a regular meeting or a special meeting called for that purpose, stating 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 upon condition, however, that the original action thereby corrected by the Board of Commissioners was in compliance with the legal exercise of its corporate powers.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 53 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 225 / Section 53
App. § 225-53. Auditors
Status: in_force

Auditors shall be elected for terms of three years, with one elected each year. They shall be responsible for the proper financial accountability of the Village, and, for this purpose, all Village officers shall, within 20 days after the close of the fiscal year, submit to the auditors such reports, records, and materials as the auditors require for the discharge of their duties. The auditors shall then proceed to examine and adjust the accounts of all Village officers and report their findings in writing, not later than 50 days after the close of the fiscal year. They shall cause their findings to be printed and made available to the voters. The auditors may employ the services of a certified public accountant at Village expense, for such purposes as they shall deem proper, should they believe there has been gross misuse of Village funds.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 503 / Section 7
App. § 503-7. Prudential Committee
Status: in_force

(a) The Prudential Committee shall be the administrative body of the Fire District and shall be responsible for the control and management of the affairs, property, and interests of the Fire District. The Prudential Committee may exercise all powers of the Fire District unless otherwise provided in 20 V.S.A. chapter 171 or this chapter. These powers shall include the execution of contracts, the commencement of actions in the name of the Fire District, defending actions brought against the Fire District, and the settlement of claims on behalf of the Fire District. The Prudential Committee may appoint an Assistant Clerk and an Assistant Treasurer as it deems necessary.

(b) The Prudential Committee shall meet on the first Wednesday of each month. The Prudential Committee may alter the date of regular meetings upon a majority vote of the members present and voting. Meetings of the Prudential Committee shall be warned by the District Clerk, and the warning shall contain the purpose of the meeting and the time and place of the meeting. The notice shall be posted in at least two public places in the District at least 24 hours prior to the meeting.

(c) At the first regular meeting of the Prudential Committee following an annual meeting, the members of the Prudential Committee shall elect a Chair and Vice Chair from their membership. At all meetings of the Prudential Committee and Fire District, the Chair of the Prudential Committee shall preside. In the absence of the Chair, the Vice Chair shall preside.

(d) A majority of the members of the Prudential Committee present at a regular or special meeting of the Prudential Committee shall constitute a quorum. Each member of the Prudential Committee shall have one vote, and the act of a majority of the Prudential Committee present and voting shall be an act of the Prudential Committee.

(e) Any member of the Prudential Committee may resign at any time by giving written notice to the Chair of the Prudential Committee. Unless otherwise stated in the resignation, the resignation is effective upon receipt and acceptance by the Chair is not necessary to make the resignation effective.

(f) A member of the Prudential Committee may be removed, with or without cause, at a special meeting of the Fire District called for that purpose, upon a majority vote of the members of the District present and voting. A member of the Prudential Committee may be removed for cause upon a majority vote of the members of the Prudential Committee present and voting.

(g) Any vacancy on the Prudential Committee may be filled by the Selectboard of the Town of St. George. The appointee shall be a registered voter of the Town of St. George and reside within the boundaries of the Fire District. The appointee shall serve until the next annual meeting of the Fire District, at which time an election shall be held to fill the unexpired portion of the term.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 239 / Section 4
App. § 239-4. Village powers; specific authority
Status: in_force

The generality of the preceding section and the grant of powers therein made, but as a more specific designation of some of the powers conferred upon the Village, the Village of Manchester has authority:

(1) To levy, assess, and collect taxes, in order to carry out its powers; to appropriate and to borrow money, within the limits prescribed by law; and to levy and collect special assessments for benefits conferred.

(2) To purchase, hold, and convey real and personal property and to purchase, erect, and keep in repair buildings and other structures for Village purposes; to furnish all local public services; to purchase, hire, construct, own, maintain, and operate, or lease local public utilities, including aqueducts, reservoirs, a water supply system, and an electric light and power system; to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, within or without the corporate limits, property necessary for any public utility and other Village purposes, subject to restrictions imposed by law.

(3) To make local public improvements and to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, property within its corporate limits necessary for the improvements; and also to acquire an excess over that needed for the improvements, and to sell or lease the excess property with restrictions, in order to protect and preserve the improvements.

(4) To issue and sell bonds as permitted by the laws of this State without specific security therefor.

(5) To purchase or lease lands within or without the corporate limits of the Village; to lay out, alter, and discontinue streets, highways, lanes, commons, alleys, and walks; to provide places of healthful recreation in summer or in winter such as a skating rink, a swimming pool, a playing field, and a public park; to provide for and maintain tourist camp sites, airports, aviation landing fields, a municipal forest reserve, and all other municipal undertakings and services authorized by law.

(6) To adopt and enforce within its limits building, police, sanitary, zoning, Village planning, and other similar regulations and ordinances not in conflict with law.

(7) Subject always to the Constitution and laws of this State and of the United States, and to the limitations of section 3 of this charter, to enact, adopt, repeal, alter, or amend ordinances, bylaws, and other regulations respecting the following matters within the Village limits:

(A) The construction, establishment, use, operation, and licensing of markets dealing in food stuffs, slaughterhouses, restaurants, and other eating establishments; manufacturing establishments; advertising billboards, signs; lunch carts, bowling alleys, moving picture houses, public garages, hog pens, poultry houses, dog kennels, stables, gasoline filling stations, private drains, sewers, and public dumps.

(B) The suppression of disorderly and public gambling houses, loafing, obscenity, disturbances, noises, vagrancy, and smoke nuisances.

(C) The protection of buildings against fire by precautionary measures and inspection, the maintenance, replacement, and repair of stovepipes, furnaces, chimneys, electric wiring, and all other instrumentalities capable of causing damage by fire, and the erection and repair of buildings within fire limits as designated and prescribed by Village ordinances.

(D) Vagrants, mendicants, peddlers, itinerant vendors, and transient business establishments.

(E) The water supply for the protection of the Village against fire and for other purposes, and to regulate the use of the same.

(F) The erection of poles and the placing of wires, cables, pipes, and electrical conduits, and the use of the same; the suspension, putting up, or removal of any sign or awning in or over any street, alley, highway, walk, park, common, or other public place, the clearing, repairing, and improvement of streets, alleys, highways, parks, commons, and other public places, and the use of the same; the planting, preservation, maintenance, and removal of shade and other trees; and the prohibiting and punishing of damage or injury to the same; the use of rockets, squibs, firecrackers, and all other fireworks in public places; preventing the practice of any amusement in any public place tending to injure or annoy any person therein or to endanger the security of property, coasting or skiing on all public places; the removal of snow, ice, garbage, refuse, and dirt from sidewalks and gutters by the owners or occupants of the premises upon which those sidewalks and gutters abut; and the cutting and removal of grass, thistles, or weeds, growing or being on those sidewalks and gutters by those owners and occupants. The regulation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, parking, the erection and maintenance of guide posts, street signs, street safety devices; and the regulation of taxicabs, other vehicles, and animals used in the transportation or conveyance of persons or goods for hire.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 14 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 175 / Section 14
App. § 175-14. General prohibition
Status: in_force

No elected or appointed Town officer or employee of the Town shall be beneficially interested in any matter requiring the discharge of his or her public office. The purpose of this section is to prohibit the use of public office for financial or other advantage, whether direct or indirect, by any means or methods whatsoever.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 279 / Section 2
App. § 279-2. Applicability of the general law
Status: in_force

(a) All provisions of the Constitution and the general laws of the State of Vermont relating to villages and their officers shall apply to the Village of Swanton except as modified in this chapter.

(b) The Village of Swanton and its officers shall have the powers and authority conferred upon villages by the Constitution and general laws of the State of Vermont, together with the governmental and proprietary functions devolving generally upon municipalities and municipal officers, and shall also have all implied powers necessary to implement and exercise those powers, authority, and functions.

(c) The powers, authority, and functions conferred upon the Village of Swanton by this chapter shall be in addition to the powers, authority, and functions conferred upon the Village by general and special laws now in force or hereafter enacted. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as a limitation upon those powers, authority, and functions.

(d) All annual and special meetings of the Village shall be held upon notice in the form of a warning being posted in at least three public places within the Village and published in a newspaper of general circulation within the Village, the posting and publication shall occur at least 10 days in advance of the meeting; provided, however, that any Village meeting at which the incurring of indebtedness is to be considered shall be called, noticed, warned, and conducted in the manner provided by general law. The eligibility of voters at all Village meetings, and the conduct of meetings, and the conduct shall be controlled by general law. Until the voters choose otherwise, the Australian ballot system of voting shall be used for the election of officers and for consideration of all budget matters and all public questions.

(e) The boundaries of the Village of Swanton may be altered at the discretion of the Board of Trustees and with the concurrence of the General Assembly.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 503 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 503
App. § 103-503. Fair market value of real estate
Status: in_force

(a) In the event that the fair market value of real estate is materially changed because of total or partial destruction of or damage to the property, or because of alterations, additions, or other capital improvements, the taxpayer may appeal as provide by law.

(b) When the fair market value of real estate is finally determined by appeal to the Board of Listers or to the Board of Civil Authority, then the value so fixed shall be the fair market value of such real estate for the year in which the appeal is taken.

(c) When the fair market value of real estate is finally determined by the Director of Property Valuation and Review (PVR) or by a court having jurisdiction, then the value so fixed shall be the fair market value of such real estate for the year for which such appeal is taken and for the ensuing two years, unless the taxpayer's property is altered materially, is damaged, or if the Town in which it is located has undergone a complete revaluation of all taxable real estate, in the event of which, such fair market value may be changed.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 110 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 113 / Section 110
App. § 113-110. Annual Town report
Status: in_force

The annual Town report shall be made available for general distribution not later than 10 days prior to the annual meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 701
App. § 131-701. Appointments
Status: in_force

The Selectboard may appoint commissions or committees as needed, and delegate incidental powers necessary for the proper functioning thereof, as established by law.
24 V.S.A. § 4754 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 120 / Section 4754
§ 4754. Loan application
Status: in_force

A municipality may apply for a loan, the proceeds of which shall be used to acquire, design, plan, construct, enlarge, repair, or improve a clean water project, public water supply systems as defined in subdivision 4752(9) of this title, or a solid waste handling and disposal facility, or certain privately-owned clean water projects as described in section 4763 of this title, or to implement a related management program. In addition, the loan proceeds shall be used to pay the outstanding balance of any engineering planning advances made to the municipal applicant under this chapter and determined by the Secretary to be due and payable following construction of the improvements to be financed by the proceeds of the loan. The Bond Bank may prescribe any form of application or procedure required of a municipality for a loan hereunder. The application shall include such information as the Bond Bank shall deem necessary for the purpose of implementing this chapter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 301
App. § 413-301. 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.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 201 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 201
App. § 117-201. Officers generally
Status: in_force

The elected officers of the Town of Essex shall be Selectboard members and Moderator. These officers shall have all the powers and duties necessary to carry out the provisions of this charter as well as those provided by law. The terms of the officers shall commence on the first day of the month following the month of election.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 704 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 704
App. § 117-704. Appropriation
Status: in_force

From the effective date of the budget, the several amounts stated therein, as approved by the annual town meeting, become appropriated to the several agencies and purposes therein named.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 105 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 105
App. § 143-105. Authority of police officers
Status: in_force

The police officers of the Town shall have the same powers throughout the State with respect to criminal matters, and the enforcement of the laws relating thereto, as they have within the Town.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 48 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 417 / Section 48
App. § 417-48. Signing of warning
Status: in_force

The original warning of any special meeting of the District shall be signed by the Chair of the Board of Supervisors and shall be filed with the District Clerk before being posted.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1002 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 247 / Section 1002
App. § 247-1002. Imposition of fines
Status: in_force

The fine for the breach of Village bylaws and the procedure for the convenience of same shall be in accordance with 24 V.S.A. § 1311 or any amendments thereto.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2.01 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 107 / Section 2.01
App. § 107-2.1. Definitions
Status: reserved

(a) “General Town Meeting” shall mean a meeting of the voters of the Town of Brattleboro, the Town School District, or both, to act on matters of election of all officers, referenda, and matters to be acted upon by Australian ballot.

(b) “Representative Town Meeting” shall mean the meeting of Town meeting members as defined in section 2.4 of this charter and who are elected pursuant to section 2.3 of this charter to act on all articles, including municipal bonding articles, except those that relate to the election of officers, referenda, and other matters to be voted upon by Australian ballot and any other articles or subjects reserved to a General Town Meeting.

(c) “Youth voter” means any person who is 16 to 18 years of age and is otherwise qualified to vote in Town elections pursuant to 17 V.S.A. chapter 43, subchapter 1.
24 V.S.A. § 1525 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 51 / Section 1525
§ 1525. Tax levies; credit for gains
Status: in_force

The treasurer shall thereafter credit to the general fund all gains over the total sum of such rate bill by reason of fractional discounts under the provisions of 32 V.S.A. § 4774 or of interest charges upon delinquent tax payments under the provisions of 32 V.S.A. § 5136 or any other gain.
24 V.S.A. § 3805 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 109 / Section 3805
§ 3805. When fence cannot be made on line
Status: in_force

When the dividing line between lands is so situated that a fence cannot be made thereon by reason of water or otherwise, and the owners cannot agree on a place to make the same, either party may apply to the fence viewers. After giving reasonable notice to the opposite party, such fence viewers shall determine where the fence shall be made, how much and what part each shall make and maintain, and such decision shall be final.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 503 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 503
App. § 414-503. Warnings
Status: in_force

The original warning for any district meeting shall be signed by a number of the Board of Supervisors equal to a majority of the total votes entitled to be cast and shall be filed with the District Clerk before being posted.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 20.03 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 20.03
App. § 9-20.3. Records
Status: in_force

The Board of Finance shall cause full and accurate records of all meetings thereof and all business transacted by the Board to be kept by the Clerk of the Board. The records and books of the Board shall be public records. The Board shall monthly submit to the Board of Aldermen a report of all business transacted by the Board of Finance in the preceding month.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 28 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 28
App. § 101-28. Budget preparation
Status: in_force

(a) At such time as may be prescribed by the Selectboard, the Town Manager shall propose a budget and submit a line itemized estimate of the income and expenditures required for the operation of the Town government for the next ensuing fiscal year.

(b) The Selectboard, with the Committee of Five, shall review and finalize the proposed Town budget publicly and prepare it for submission to the voters at the annual Town election. Sufficient copies shall be available to the voters not less than 10 days prior to the election at the five public places required by section 3 of this charter, and the warning shall state the availability of said proposed budget.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 208 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 208
App. § 4-208. Special City meetings
Status: in_force

Special City meetings shall be called in the manner provided by the laws of the State, and the voting on all questions shall be by the Australian ballot system.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 36 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 36
App. § 403-36. Collection
Status: in_force

Annually, on or before January 1, the Treasurer of the District shall issue and present a warrant to the legislative branch of each member municipality requiring the amount of such assessment be paid to the District in accordance with the schedule of payments adopted by the Board of Supervisors. The legislative branch of each member municipality shall draw an order on the municipal treasury for the amount of such assessment, and the municipal treasurer shall pay to the District Treasurer the amount of such order in accordance with the schedule for payments adopted by the Board of Supervisors. If any member municipality shall fail to pay when due any assessment against it by the District, it shall incur the maximum penalty allowed by law, plus interest at the maximum rate allowed by law. Such penalty and interest, together with the amount due, court costs, and reasonable attorney's fees of the District may be recovered by the District in a civil action under this section, notwithstanding the availability of any other remedy available to the District.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 306 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 306
App. § 129-306. Appointed officers
Status: in_force

(a) The Selectboard shall appoint:

(1) Planning Commission;

(2) Developmental Review Board (DRB);

(3) Cemetery Commission;

(4) Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) member;

(5) Chittenden Solid Waste District (CSWD) member; and

(6) Civil Defense Director.

(b) The Selectboard may appoint such additional officers, commissions, or committees as they deem to be in the best interests of the Town, including:

(1) Fire Warden;

(2) Collector of Taxes;

(3) Tree Warden;

(4) Constable.

(c) All appointed officers shall be chosen at large from the legally qualified voters of the Town and shall hold office until their successors are appointed.

(d) When the term of any office set forth in subsection (a) or (b) of this section expires or the office becomes vacant, the Selectboard shall cause to be posted in four or more physical public places in the Town, as well as electronically, a notice of the expiration of the term and vacancy.

(1) Any qualified voter of the Town may within 10 business days of the posting of said notice submit their name to the Selectboard as an applicant for the expired term or vacancy. At the expiration of the 10 business days from the date of the posting, the names of all applicants shall be entered into the Selectboard's minutes.

(2) The Selectboard may readvertise any term or vacancy.

(e) The Selectboard shall appoint the following officers using the same procedure specified in the Town's administrative code for employees or vendors engaged by the Town on a contract basis:

(1) Zoning Administrator.

(2) Health Officer.

(3) Town Attorney.

(4) Pound Keeper.

(5) Planning Director.

(6) Town Moderator.

(A) The Town Moderator shall perform all duties as required by the Vermont State statutes and this charter.

(B) Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised shall be used to conduct all annual or special meetings.

(C) In the absence of the Town Moderator, the Town Clerk shall call the meeting to order with the first order of business to elect a Moderator Pro Tem to fill the vacancy while it exists.

(7) Town Assessor.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1207 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1207
App. § 5-1207. Application of payment on delinquent taxes
Status: in_force

Payments made on the account of a delinquent taxpayer shall be applied: first, to all outstanding personal property taxes for which said delinquent taxpayer is responsible; second, to real estate taxes for which said delinquent taxpayer is responsible. However, the holder of a mortgage or other lien upon real or personal property of a taxpayer may make payment on said taxpayer's account and may specify that such payments be applied on the tax assessed against the property covered by such mortgage or lien. Any taxes paid shall be applied to penalty, interest, and oldest outstanding delinquency in that order first.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 206 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 206
App. § 4-206. Conflict of interest; prohibitions
Status: in_force

(a) Holding other office. No Council member shall hold any City employment during the term for which they were elected to the Council, unless allowed by State statute. A Council member may be appointed to represent the City on other boards except as pursuant to 17 V.S.A. § 2647.

(b) Appointments and removals. Neither the legislative body nor any of its members shall in any manner dictate the appointment or removal of any municipal administrative officers or employees whom the manager or any of the manager's subordinates are empowered to appoint. The legislative body may discuss with the Manager the appointment, performance, and removal of such officers and employees in executive session.

(c) Interference with administration. Except for the purpose of inquiries and investigations under subdivision 201(b)(4) of this charter, the legislative body or its members shall deal with the municipal officers and employees who are subject to the direction and supervision of the Manager solely through the Manager, and neither the legislative body nor its members shall give orders to any such officer or employee, either publicly or privately.
24 V.S.A. § 4403 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4403
§ 4403. Nonregulatory implementation tools
Status: in_force

A municipality may utilize the following tools, and other tools not specifically listed, in conformance with the municipal plan and for the purposes established in section 4302 of this title, alone or in conjunction with regulatory tools described in section 4402 of this title.

(1) Capital budget and program. A municipality may adopt a capital budget and five-year program, pursuant to section 4430 of this title.

(2) Tax increment financing. Pursuant to chapter 53 of this title, a municipality may create within its jurisdiction one or more tax increment financing districts.

(3) Tax stabilization contracts. Pursuant to 32 V.S.A. §§ 4969 and 4985, a municipality may enter into tax stabilization contracts.

(4) Purchase or acceptance of development rights. A municipality may purchase or accept development rights as a method to implement its plan, pursuant to 10 V.S.A. chapter 155.

(5) Plans supporting the municipal plan. A municipality may develop supporting plans and may incorporate these plans into the municipal plan pursuant to the process described in section 4385 of this title.

(6) Advisory commissions. For the purposes of this chapter, the term “advisory commissions” includes advisory committees. A municipality may form commissions that are composed of persons with particular expertise or interest to assist with implementation of the plan in areas such as design review, historic preservation, housing, and conservation.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 402 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 251 / Section 402
App. § 251-402. Meetings
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees shall hold their first regular meeting within three days after the annual Village meeting; and shall hold such other regular meetings as the bylaws may provide.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 56 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 56
App. § 403-56. Dissolution of District
Status: repealed

(a) Procedure. If the Board of Supervisors by resolution approved by two-thirds of all the votes entitled to be cast determines that it is in the best interests of the public, the member municipalities, and the District that the District be dissolved, and if the District then has no outstanding debt or obligations under long-term contracts, or will have no such debt or obligation upon completion of the plan of dissolution, it shall prepare a plan of dissolution and thereafter adopt a resolution directing the question of such dissolution and the plan of dissolution be submitted to the voters of the District at a special meeting of the District duly warned for such purpose. If two-thirds of the voters of the District present and voting at such special meeting of the District duly warned for such purpose shall vote to dissolve the District and approve the plan of dissolution, the District shall cease to conduct its affairs except insofar as may be necessary for the winding up thereof. The Board of Supervisors shall immediately cause a notice of the proposed dissolution to be mailed to each known creditor of the District and to the Secretary of State, and shall proceed to collect the assets of the District and apply and distribute them in accordance with the plan of dissolution.

(b) Plan of dissolution. The plan of dissolution shall:

(1) identify and value all unencumbered assets of the District;

(2) identify and value all encumbered assets of the District;

(3) identify all creditors of the District and the nature or amount of all liabilities and obligations of the District;

(4) identify all obligations under long-term contracts;

(5) specify the means by which assets of the District shall be liquidated and all liabilities and obligations of the District shall be paid and discharged, or adequate provision shall be made for the satisfaction thereof;

(6) specify the amount of monies due from each member municipality, if necessary, to extinguish the liabilities of the District;

(7) specify the nature and amount of any liabilities or obligations to be assumed and paid by the member municipalities;

(8) specify the means by which any assets remaining after discharge of all liabilities shall be liquidated if necessary;

(9) specify that any assets remaining after payment of all liabilities shall be apportioned and distributed among the member municipalities according to the same basic formula used in apportioning the annual assessments of the District.

(c) Termination. When the plan of dissolution has been implemented, the Board of Supervisors shall adopt a resolution certifying that fact to the member municipalities whereupon this chapter shall be repealed and the District created shall be terminated.
24 V.S.A. § 5127 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 127 / Section 5127
§ 5127. Exemption; regulation; taxes
Status: in_force

(a) The public transportation systems and facilities operated by a regional transit district are exempt from any of the regulatory provisions of Title 30 except that the transportation board may impose any regulatory provisions of Title 30 that it may determine from time to time to be necessary.

(b) A regional transit district and its systems and facilities shall be exempt from the sales, purchase, and use taxes and from motor vehicle registration fees except those registration fees applicable to municipalities.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 308 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 308
App. § 269-308. Oath of office
Status: in_force

All elected and appointed officials and all police officers of the Village shall, before assuming office, take, subscribe, and file with the Village Clerk the following oath:

“I ____ solemnly swear (or affirm) that I shall faithfully execute the Office of ________ of the Village of Poultney to the best of my judgment and abilities, according to law, so help me God (or I so affirm).”
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 8a — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 8a
App. § 3-8a. Requirements for legal resident voters who are not citizens
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding sections 7 and 8 of this charter and 17 V.S.A. chapter 43, a legal resident who is not a citizen of the United States shall be a legal voter at a local City of Burlington or Burlington School District election if the individual meets the following qualifications:

(1) is a legal resident of the United States;

(2) is not less than 18 years of age;

(3) has taken the Voter's Oath;

(4) resides in the City of Burlington as residency is defined in 17 V.S.A. § 2122; and

(5) has registered to vote with the Board of Registration of Voters not later than the deadline established by Vermont law for that election or meeting.

(b) As used in this section, “legal resident of the United States” means any noncitizen who resides on a permanent or indefinite basis in compliance with federal immigration laws.

(c) This section does not change a noncitizen's ability to vote in any State or federal election.

(d) A legal resident voter who is not a citizen may cast a ballot only for local officers and local public questions specific to a ward or City district of which the individual is a resident at the time of voting.

(e) The Chief Administrative Officer shall develop all necessary forms and procedures for implementation of this section, including identifying on the voter checklist those legal resident voters who are not citizens.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 305 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 305
App. § 5-305. Vacancy in the office of the President, Vice President, or Parliamentarian
Status: in_force

In the event of the death, resignation, or disqualification of the President, Vice President, or Parliamentarian, the remaining City Council members shall elect a successor to serve until the next annual meeting.
24 V.S.A. § 2403 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 65 / Section 2403
§ 2403. Lease
Status: in_force

The selectboard may lease such lands as they deem beneficial, reserving rents for the same, which shall be annually paid into the treasury of the town.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 55 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 401 / Section 55
App. § 401-55. Severability
Status: in_force

Should any court of competent jurisdiction judge any term, phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this chapter to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, such judgment shall not affect the validity, legality, or enforceability of the chapter as a whole or any other part of this chapter.
24 V.S.A. § 902 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 33 / Section 902
§ 902. Penalty
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise provided, a town officer who fails or neglects to perform a duty imposed upon him or her by law shall be fined not more than $100.00.
24 V.S.A. § 4763 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 120 / Section 4763
§ 4763. Loans to municipalities for privately owned clean water projects
Status: in_force

(a) Where the Secretary has determined that a privately owned clean water project is the preferred alternative to abate or control a pollution problem or to provide water quality benefits, a loan may be made to a municipality from the Vermont Environmental Protection Agency Pollution Control Revolving Fund established in section 4753 of this title. In such cases, the following conditions shall apply:

(1) Guaranteed repayment of the loan will be based on a municipal bond, but actual repayment may be made with funds from the owner, as set forth in an agreement between the owner and the municipality.

(2) In all cases, there shall be a binding agreement between the owner and the municipality that provides for the proper operation and maintenance of the privately owned clean water project for at least the term of the loan.

(3) All conditions and limitations of section 4755 of this title apply to loans made under this section.

(4) No construction loan shall be made to a municipality under this subsection, nor shall any part of any revolving loan made under this subsection be expended until all of the following take place:

(A) The Secretary certifies to the Bond Bank that all land use, subdivision, public building, and water supply and wastewater permits necessary to construct and operate any improvements to be financed by the loan have been issued to the owner of the privately owned clean water project.

(B) The applicant municipality certifies to the Bond Bank that the owner has secured all State and federal permits, licenses, and approvals necessary to construct and operate the clean water project to be financed by the loan.

(C) The Secretary certifies to the Bond Bank that the loan eligibility priority established under section 4758 of this title entitles the applicant municipality to immediate financing or assistance under this chapter.

(D) The applicant municipality, in the case of applications by towns, cities, and incorporated villages, and with respect to all loans awarded after July 1, 1992, certifies to the Bond Bank that the project conforms to a duly adopted capital budget and program, consistent with chapter 117 of this title, for meeting the pollution control needs of the municipality.

(E) The applicant municipality, in the case of an application by a district, certifies to the Bond Bank that the project conforms to a capital budget and program duly adopted by the district in accordance with the provisions of its charter.

(b) The Bond Bank may make loans to a municipality for the preparation of final engineering plans and specifications for the construction of a privately owned clean water project or element of such a project in the same manner as set forth in subsection 4756(b) of this title.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 901 / Section 10
App. § 901-10. Regular meetings
Status: in_force

A schedule of regular meetings of the Board shall be established at its annual organizational meeting. The schedule shall be sent to the clerk of each member for posting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 255 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 255
App. § 3-255. Manner of serving
Status: in_force

Such citation may be served by any sheriff or constable in this State upon any person therein named residing or being in this State in the same manner as an ordinary writ of summons.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 15 / Section 2
App. § 15-2. Voters in City meetings
Status: in_force

(a) A male or female citizen, 21 years of age, who has taken the freeman's oath and whose list is taken in a Town at the annual assessment preceding a Town meeting, and whose flood tax due such Town, was paid prior to the 15th day of February preceding such Town meeting, or who has attained the age of 21 years subsequent to the last annual assessment, or who is exempt from taxation for any cause, shall, while residing in such Town, be a voter in a Town meeting.

(b) A person qualified to vote in Town meeting under the provisions of this charter shall be qualified to vote in all other municipal meetings.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 208 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 208
App. § 411-208. Quorum
Status: in_force

(a) For the purpose of transacting business, 51 percent of the municipalities served by the District must be represented by at least one member of the Board of Supervisors to constitute a quorum. The members of the Board of Supervisors present may adjourn a meeting at which a quorum is not present to another date. Whenever the number of supervisors attending a meeting shall not be sufficient to constitute a quorum, the Clerk of the District shall so notify the legislative bodies of each municipality in the District, naming those supervisors who shall not have been in attendance.

(b) If a time sensitive action must be taken and a quorum is not present, a quorum may be satisfied by attendance through the use of an auditory electronic device, provided that all supervisors hear each other.
24 V.S.A. § 5603 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 137 / Section 5603
§ 5603. Historic Barns Preservation Grant Program
Status: in_force

There is established an Historic Barns Preservation Grant Program which shall be administered by the Division for Historic Preservation in the Agency of Commerce and Community Development. Grants shall be made available to barn owners for restoring historic barns.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 55 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 15 / Section 55
App. § 15-55. Signed statements
Status: in_force

Said Court shall treat such signed statements, if accepted and accompanied by the penalty herein prescribed, as a plea of guilty and shall make such entry on its records. No costs, fees, or further charges shall be assessed against any person so admitting a violation of any parking or traffic rule, regulation, or ordinance, or shall be allowed or paid to any officer or person because of such violation, but such penalty shall be accepted by said Court in full discharge of the criminal liability of such person caused by such violation. Said Court shall retain all such signed statements for a period of two years from the date thereof and shall keep a separate record, available to the public at any reasonable time, of all money collected and all other official acts done in connection therewith.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 279 / Section 4
App. § 279-4. Board of Trustees
Status: in_force

(a) The legislative body of the Village of Swanton shall be the Board of Trustees, consisting of three trustees and the Village President, each of whom shall be elected by Australian ballot at the annual meeting of the Village. Trustees shall be elected for staggered terms of three years each. The Village President shall be elected for a term of one year.

(b) The Board of Trustees shall have the general supervision of the affairs of the Village of Swanton, including the maintenance, operation, administration, and management of public highways, waterworks, sewerage collection and disposal systems, parks and recreation, and municipal electric plant. They shall cause to be performed all duties required of villages not committed by law to any particular officer.

(c) The number of the Board of Trustees may be changed by the voters at an annual meeting of the Village duly warned. The Board of Trustees shall consist of not fewer than three members and not more than five members.

(d) The Board of Trustees shall be ex officio the Village Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners and the Village Board of Electric Department Commissioners.

(e) The sewer commissioners shall be responsible for developing, implementing, and administering policies and procedures for allocating sewer capacity.

(f) The Board of Trustees, in addition to all other responsibilities and authority legally vested in it, shall be responsible for establishing and enforcing policies respecting the use, occupancy, and maintenance of all Village property.
24 V.S.A. § 8 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 1 / Section 8
§ 8. Grand Isle
Status: in_force

The County of Grand Isle is formed of the towns of Alburgh, Grand Isle, Isle La Motte, North Hero, and South Hero and is bounded as follows: beginning at the northwest corner of this State; thence running easterly on the north line of the State to the middle of the waters of Missisquoi Bay; thence through the middle of the waters of such bay, to a point equidistant from the north point of North Hero and the south point of Hog Island; thence southerly, as near as may be, through the center of the waters of Maquam Bay, but so far east as to include Butler's Island, Knight's Island, and Savage's Island; thence southerly, through the waters of Lake Champlain, to a point equidistant from the south point of South Hero in the County of Grand Isle and Colchester Point in the County of Chittenden; thence westerly to the west line of this State; thence northerly on such line to the place of beginning. North Hero is the shire town.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3.01 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 107 / Section 3.01
App. § 107-3.1. Powers
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to the powers granted under this charter, the Town shall have all powers conferred upon towns by the Constitution and laws of the State. Enumeration of particular powers in this charter shall not be construed as limiting the general powers of the Town.

(b) All powers of the Town not specifically delegated in this charter to the voters or to the Selectboard, school directors, or other boards, commissions, committees, or officers shall be vested in the Representative Town Meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 202 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 202
App. § 4-202. Governing body; composition and terms of office
Status: in_force

(a) There shall be a City Council consisting of five members.

(b) All members shall reside within the boundaries of the City of Essex Junction to be elected by the qualified voters.

(c) The term of office of a City Councilor shall be three years, and terms shall be staggered.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 704 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 704
App. § 5-704. Record of ordinances
Status: in_force

The City Clerk shall prepare and keep in the City Clerk's office the ordinances passed by the Council, with a complete index of the ordinances according to subject matter. City ordinances shall be available on the City website.
24 V.S.A. § 1160 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 35 / Section 1160
§ 1160. Acknowledgements; oath
Status: in_force

(a) A town clerk, commissioned as a notary public pursuant to 26 V.S.A. chapter 103, may take acknowledgements of deeds and other instruments throughout his or her county.

(b) In his or her county, he or she may administer oaths in all cases where an oath is required, without being commissioned as a notary public pursuant to 26 V.S.A. chapter 103.

(c)(1) Each town clerk may designate from among the members of his or her staff at least one notary public to be available to perform notarial acts for the public in the town clerk's office during normal business hours free of charge.

(2) Each individual designated by the town clerk under this subsection shall be commissioned as a notary public pursuant to 26 V.S.A. chapter 103 and shall be exempt from the notary public application fee under that chapter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 25.09 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 25.09
App. § 9-25.9. Defective notice; remedy
Status: in_force

(a) If at any stage of the proceedings before the Board of Highway Commissioners or in any proceedings subsequent thereto, it shall appear that any person owning or interested in such land shall not have been duly notified, the Board of Highway Commissioners or other tribunal in or before which such proceedings shall be pending, shall cause a citation to be served upon the persons not notified as herein provided, and shall cause the proceedings to be postponed to such time as will permit such citation so issued to be served in the manner provided herein for the service of original citations in such matters. Commissioners appointed by the county court or by a justice of the peace or agreed upon between the parties shall have the same power to issue citations that the Board of Highway Commissioners has, which citation shall be served in the same manner as if issued by the Board of Highway Commissioners.

(b) The Board of Highway Commissioners before which such proceedings are pending may cause such further notice to be given by citation, publication, or in any other manner prescribed by it in an order for that purpose. A copy of such order, citation, notice of publication, or other notice, which shall have been delivered to such landowner in person and verified by the affidavit of the person delivering the same, shall be prima facie evidence of such further notice.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 607 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 407 / Section 607
App. § 407-607. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Solid waste” shall mean any discarded garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply plant, or pollution control facility, and other discarded material possessing no value to its present user, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include animal manure and absorbent bedding used for soil enrichment or solid or dissolved materials in industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under the Waste Pollution Control Act, 10 V.S.A. chapter 47.

(2)(A) “Hazardous waste” shall mean any waste or combination of wastes of a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semi-solid form, including those that are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, reactive, strong sensitizers, or that generate pressure through decomposition, or other means, that in the judgment of the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, or his or her duly authorized representative:

(i) may cause, or contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness, taking into account the toxicity of such waste, its persistence and degradability in nature, and its potential for assimilation, or concentration in tissue, and other factors that may otherwise cause or contribute to adverse acute or chronic effects on the health of persons or other living organisms; or

(ii) may have an unusually destructive effect on water quality if discharged to ground or surface waters of the State.

(B) All special nuclear, source, or byproduct material, as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1964 and amendments thereto, codified in 42 U.S.C. § 2014, is specifically excluded from this definition. Hazardous waste also includes any material or product so designated under 10 V.S.A. § 6602(4).

(3) “Household hazardous waste” shall mean any component of solid waste generated by households in the District that exhibit the characteristics of a hazardous waste, but that are excluded from State or federal hazardous waste regulation.

(4) “Small quantity generator hazardous waste” shall mean wastes generated by industrial, commercial, and institutional activities in the District that would be a listed or characteristic hazardous waste but that are generated in small enough quantities so as to be excluded from State or federal regulation as a hazardous waste.

(5) “Sludge” shall mean solids and semi-solids generated by a wastewater treatment plant. Notwithstanding any provision of this agreement, the District shall have the power to impose and collect a surcharge or special assessment for the collection, storage, and disposal of sludge.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 239 / Section 3
App. § 239-3. Powers of Village; general authority
Status: in_force

The Village shall have and is hereby granted the authority to exercise all powers relating to municipal affairs and no enumeration of powers in this chapter shall be deemed to limit or restrict the general grant of authority hereby conferred; but this grant of authority shall not be deemed to limit the authority of the Legislature to alter, amend, or repeal this charter; or to limit the right to hereafter pass general laws applicable alike to this and all other municipal corporations of the State; nor shall this grant of authority be deemed to limit the patronage or control of the State with respect to the Village.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1214 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1214
App. § 5-1214. Local option taxes
Status: in_force

Local option taxes are authorized under this section for the purpose of affording the City an alternative method of raising municipal revenues. Accordingly:

(1) The City Council may assess rooms, meals, and alcohol taxes of one percent.

(2) Any tax imposed under the authority of this section shall be collected and administered by the Department of Taxes, in accordance with State law governing such State tax.

(3) The City's local option tax revenue may be expended by the City for municipal services only and not for educational expenditures. The remaining amount of the taxes reported shall be remitted monthly to the State Treasurer for deposit in the PILOT Special Fund set forth in 32 V.S.A. § 3709. Taxes due to the City under this section shall be paid by the State on a quarterly basis.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 239 / Section 1
App. § 239-1. Village boundaries and establishment of body politic
Status: in_force

All estate in the Town of Manchester, included in the following boundaries, is hereby incorporated and shall hereafter be known as the Village of Manchester:

(1) Being all that part of the Town of Manchester in the County of Bennington, contained within the bounds of Fire District Number Two as originally laid out and established by the Selectboard of the Town of Manchester in 1878, and recorded in volume 19, pages 505 and 506 of the land records of the Town; and also lands added and included within the limits of the Village in addition to limits specified in a former charter of the Village, being No. 182 of the Acts of 1900, and described in the minutes of meetings of the Village as follows: One hundred eleven acres of land of Robert T. Lincoln included in the Village limits by a vote at a Village meeting on January 2, 1905 as described in a plot on file in the Village records.

(2) Farms of Fred E. Fish and E.A. Wilcox lying west of the Battenkill River, included in the Village limits by vote of a Village meeting held on August 25, 1902.

(3) Lands of R.D. Brown, C.F. Orvis, W.G. Beebe, A.L. Mosley, R.E. Way, Nathan Cook, and C.L. Towsley included in the Village limits by vote of a Village meeting held on June 25, 1906.

(4) The inhabitants within the bounds are constituted a body politic and corporate with all of the usual powers incident to public corporations, to be known by the name of the Village of Manchester.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 502 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 502
App. § 143-502. Town Manager
Status: in_force

(a) Appointment. The Selectboard shall appoint a Town Manager.

(b) Qualifications. The Town Manager shall be selected with special reference to his or her education, training, and experience to perform the duties of the office, and without reference to his or her political beliefs.

(c) Authority of Selectboard. In all matters, the Town Manager shall be subject to the direction and supervision of the Selectboard. He or she shall at all times be an at-will employee and shall serve at the pleasure of the Selectboard unless otherwise provided in an employment agreement between the Town and the Town Manager.

(d) Residency. The Town Manager need not be a resident of the Town.

(e) Method of appointment; conditions of employment; compensation.

(1) The conditions of employment and compensation of the Town Manager shall be determined by the Selectboard at the time of appointment and annually thereafter on the anniversary date of the appointment.

(2) The Selectboard may consider the appointment, conditions of employment, compensation, discipline, and removal of the Town Manager and any acting Town Manager in executive session, provided that no formal or binding action shall be taken in executive session. Persons in attendance shall be limited to the Selectboard and, in the discretion of the Selectboard, its staff, clerical assistants, legal counsel, the Town Manager or acting Town Manager, as the case may be, and other persons whose information is needed.

(f) Oath; bond. Before entering into the duties of office, the Town Manager shall be sworn to the impartial and faithful performance of his or her duties. The Selectboard, in its discretion, may require that the Town Manager give a bond in favor of the Town for the faithful performance of his or her duties in a sum and with such sureties as the Selectboard may require. The Town shall pay the premiums for the sureties.

(g) Acting Town Manager.

(1) In the event that the Town Manager shall be, or notifies the Selectboard that he or she intends to be, absent from the Town for a period of time exceeding two consecutive weeks, he or she shall designate an acting Town Manager and shall fix his or her compensation, subject to review and modification by the Selectboard.

(2) In the event that illness, injury, or other incapacity renders the Town Manager unable to discharge his or her duties, or in the event that the Town Manager is suspended or placed on administrative leave, is terminated, or resigns, the Selectboard shall appoint an acting Town Manager to serve until such time as the Town Manager is able to assume regular duties or a new Town Manager is appointed.

(3) An acting Town Manager shall have all the authority and perform all duties of the Town Manager and shall be compensated at a rate of pay not inconsistent with the responsibilities of the position, determined as provided in subdivision (1) of this subsection or as otherwise determined by the Selectboard. An acting Town Manager shall not serve for more than 90 days, but this time period may be extended for successive periods each not exceeding 90 days, should the Selectboard find it necessary. Subsections (b), (c), (d), and (f) and subdivision (e)(2) of this section shall apply to the acting Town Manager.

(h) Town Manager disqualification to hold certain offices. In no case shall a Selectboard member, Town Clerk, lister, Town Treasurer, or Tax Collector act as a Town Manager or as an acting Town Manager.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 103 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 103
App. § 117-103. Powers of the Town
Status: in_force

(a) The Town shall have all of the powers granted to towns and municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of this State; it may enact ordinances, bylaws, and regulations not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Vermont or with this charter, and impose penalties for the violation thereof.

(b) The Town may acquire property within or without its corporate limits for any town purpose, in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise, or lease, and may sell, lease, mortgage, hold, manage, and control such property as its interests may acquire. The Town may further acquire property within its corporate limits by condemnation where granted to towns by the statutes of the State of Vermont.

(c) The Town may establish and maintain departments or divisions, as deemed appropriate by the Selectboard for the efficient maintenance and operation of Town affairs, to include, by way of illustration and not by way of limitation, police, fire, water, and public works departments.

(d) The Town may establish and maintain an electric power system and regulate power line installations; provided, however, that the Town shall have no authority under this charter that conflicts with that authority granted to the Public Service Department or any other State regulatory agency.
24 V.S.A. § 4552 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4552
§ 4552. Law governing
Status: in_force

It is the intent of the General Assembly that in the event of any conflict or inconsistency in the provisions of this chapter and any other laws pertaining to matters established in this chapter or provided for or in any rules adopted under this chapter or other laws, to the extent of such conflict or inconsistency, the provisions of this chapter shall be enforced and the provisions of the other laws and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be of no effect.
24 V.S.A. § 2254 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 61 / Section 2254
§ 2254. Aesthetic, environmental, and community welfare considerations
Status: in_force

At the hearing regarding location of the salvage yard, the legislative body may also take into account the clean, wholesome, and attractive environment which has been declared to be of vital importance to the continued stability and development of the tourist and recreational industry of the State and the general welfare of its citizens by considering whether or not the proposed location can be reasonably protected from having an unfavorable effect thereon. In this regard the legislative body may consider collectively the type of road servicing the salvage yard or from which the salvage yard may be seen, the natural or artificial barriers protecting the salvage yard from view, the proximity of the proposed salvage yard to established tourist and recreational areas or main access routes, thereto, proximity to neighboring residences, groundwater resources, surface waters, wetlands, drinking water supplies, consistency with an adopted town plan, as well as the reasonable availability of other suitable sites for the salvage yard.
24 V.S.A. § 901 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 33 / Section 901
§ 901. Actions by or against town officers
Status: in_force

(a) Where an action is given to any appointed or elected municipal officer or town school district officer, the action shall be brought in the name of the town in which the officer serves and in the case of a town school district officer in the name of the town school district. If the action is given against such officers, it shall be brought against such town or town school district, as the case may be.

(b) The municipality shall assume all reasonable legal fees incurred by an officer when the officer was acting in the performance of his or her duties and did not act with any malicious intent.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 12 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 401 / Section 12
App. § 401-12. Special meetings
Status: in_force

Special meetings of the Board of Supervisors may be called at any time by the Chair or shall be called by the Clerk upon written request of a majority of the members of the Board of Supervisors. Except in case of emergency, each member of the Board of Supervisors shall be given at least 24 hours' notice of any special meeting of the Board of Supervisors by notice in person, by telephone, or by written notice delivered personally, mailed, or left at such member's usual place of residence.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 11 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 703 / Section 11
App. § 703-11. Water rates and revenues
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of 24 V.S.A. § 3311, the Board of Water Commissioners of the District shall establish rates for the water and services by meter service, and all firms and corporations, whether private, public or municipal, shall pay to the Treasurer of the District the rates and stand-by charges established by the Board of Water Commissioners. An additional charge may be made by the District in addition to the uniform base rate where water is supplied to a member town through the system of another member town. The determination of any rate except as it may be otherwise provided in this chapter shall be in the discretion of the commissioners. The Board of Water Commissioners may also enter into a contract with member and nonmember municipalities for the supply of water over a period of years. All rates shall be so established as to provide revenue for the following purposes:

(1) to pay current expenses for operating and maintaining the water systems;

(2) to provide for the payment of interest and principal on the indebtedness created by the District;

(3) if any surplus remains at the end of the year, it may be turned into a sinking fund or used to pay the cost of improvements to the water system.

(b) The money set aside for the sinking fund and any increment thereon shall be devoted to the retirement of obligations of the District or invested in such securities as savings banks or fiduciaries or trustees are now or hereafter allowed to hold. The balance of the revenue, if any, required to meet said expenses shall be apportioned among and collected from member towns as herein provided.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 48 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 601 / Section 48
App. § 601-48. 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. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 203 / Section 101
App. § 203-101. Boundaries and corporate existence
Status: in_force

All that portion of the Town of Alburgh in the County of Grand Isle that is embraced within the following limits: beginning at a point that marks the intersection of the southern boundary of the Lamoille Valley extension of the Central Vermont Railway right of way by the western boundary of the Rutland-Canadian Railroad in the main line of the said Rutland-Canadian Railroad; said point being the northeastern corner of the O. Bell homestead lot and mentioned in the O. Bell deed as recorded in town records as “Post A” and about 290 feet east of the main north and south highway on the west side of said Town of Alburgh; running in a southerly direction in the western boundary of said Rutland-Canadian Railroad right of way and yard at a point, which said western boundary line meets the northern boundary line of the property of A. H. Soule and Miss Martha Brown, said point being about 975 feet east of said main north and south highway; thence southerly in a line parallel with said highway and about 975 feet therefrom to the north line of the main highway that leads east and west across the Town; thence westerly in the north line of said highway to the east shore of Lake Champlain at the western corner of the John Young homestead; thence northerly and westerly in the east shore line of Lake Champlain past the pumping station of the Rutland Railroad and the ice house of the Produce Despatch Company to the point at which the southern boundary line of the Ogdensburg division of the Rutland Railroad meets the east shore of Lake Champlain; thence easterly and southerly in the southern boundary line of the said Ogdensburg division of the Rutland Railroad to the point at which the eastern boundary line of the Rutland Railroad on the line from Alburgh, Vermont, to Noyan Junction, Quebec, if extended would intersect said line; thence northerly across the Rutland Railroad and Central Vermont Rail-way rights of way in the eastern boundary line of the Rutland Railroad right of way from Alburgh, Vermont, to Noyan Junction, Quebec, continuing about 3,000 feet to the point at which the north line of the Wyman Vantine farm meets the said east line of the Rutland Railroad; thence easterly in the north boundary line of the Wyman Vantine farm to the main north and south highway and across the same to its east side; then southerly in the east line of said highway to the point at which the north line of the J. J. Bedard farm meets the said highway; thence in the north boundary line of the J. J. Bedard farm to a point about 315 feet from said highway; thence southerly in a line parallel to said highway through the farm of J. J. Bedard, A. W. Darby, Horace Sheldon and G. W. Sabre to the northeast corner of the property of N. K. Martin, continuing southerly in the east boundary lines of the property of N. K. Martin, W. J. Jameson, I. P. Grant, and I. N. Gurdy; thence southerly across the rights of way of the Central Vermont Railway and Rutland Railroad in a straight line to the point of beginning; is hereby incorporated and made a body corporate and shall hereafter be known by the name of the Village of Alburgh and by that name may have perpetual succession and be capable of suing and being sued and may have a common seal and the same alter at pleasure.
24 V.S.A. § 81 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 3 / Section 81
§ 81. Preliminary cost estimates
Status: in_force

(a) The assistant judges of a county may authorize the preparation of preliminary plans and cost estimates for capital construction. For this purpose, the assistant judges may employ or retain architects, engineers, and such other personnel as in their discretion are required.

(b) Upon completion of the preliminary plans and cost estimates authorized by subsection (a) of this section, the assistant judges shall determine the amount to be assessed against the equalized grand list of the county.
24 V.S.A. § 2297 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 61 / Section 2297
§ 2297. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this subchapter,

(1) “Solid waste ordinance” means an ordinance adopted pursuant to subdivision 2291(12) of this title.

(2) “Legislative body” means the legislative body of a town, city, or incorporated village.

(3) “Respondent” means a person alleged to have violated a solid waste ordinance.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 601 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 601
App. § 414-601. Withdrawal of member municipality
Status: in_force

(a) A member municipality may vote to withdraw from the District if one year has elapsed since the District became a body politic and corporate and if the District has not voted to bond for construction and improvements or to authorize a long-term contract pursuant to this charter. If a majority of the voters of a member municipality present and voting at a meeting of the municipality duly warned for the purpose of withdrawal shall vote to withdraw from the District, the vote shall be certified by the clerk of that municipality to the Board of Supervisors of the District.

(b) After a vote held pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, the Board of Supervisors shall give notice to the remaining member municipalities of the vote to withdraw and shall hold a meeting to determine if it in the best interests of the District to continue to exist. Representatives of the member municipalities shall be given an opportunity to be heard at the meeting together with any other interested persons.

(c) After the meeting held pursuant to subsection (b), the Board of Supervisors may declare the District dissolved immediately or as soon thereafter as the financial obligations of the District and of each member municipality on account have been satisfied, or it may declare that the District shall continue to exist despite the withdrawal of the member municipality. The membership of the withdrawing municipality shall terminate as of one year following the vote to withdraw or as soon after the one-year period as the financial obligations of the withdrawing municipality have been paid to the District.

(d) The one year waiting requirement in subsection (c) of this section may be waived after all financial obligations of the withdrawing municipality have been paid and upon an affirmative vote of at least 66 percent of the Board of Supervisor votes eligible to be cast, excluding the withdrawing municipality's votes.

(e) A vote of withdrawal taken after the District becomes a body politic and corporate but less than one year after that date shall be null and void. A vote of withdrawal taken after the District has voted to bond itself for construction and improvements or to authorize a long-term contract shall be null and void.
24 V.S.A. § 933 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 33 / Section 933
§ 933. Selectboard may fix; when
Status: in_force

When a town does not fix the amount of the compensation to be paid such officers and town employees, the selectboard shall fix and determine the same except as to their own pay which shall be fixed by the auditors at the time of the annual town audit. If the town has voted to eliminate the office of auditor and the voters fail to fix the compensation to be paid to members of the selectboard, selectboard members shall be compensated at the rate at which they were compensated during the immediately preceding year.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 261 / Section 7
App. § 261-7. Qualification of voters in Village meeting
Status: in_force

Persons who have resided in the Village one year and who are voters in Town meeting shall be voters in Village meeting.
24 V.S.A. § 5125 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 127 / Section 5125
§ 5125. Purposes and powers
Status: in_force

(a) The district may purchase, own, operate, or provide for the operation of land transportation facilities, and may contract for transit services, conduct studies, and contract with other governmental agencies, private companies, and individuals.

(b) The district may exercise all powers necessary, appurtenant, convenient, or incidental to the carrying out of its functions, including the following:

(1) to sue and be sued;

(2) to acquire, purchase, hold, lease as a lessee, and use any franchise, property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein, necessary or desirable for carrying out the purposes of the district, and to sell, lease as lessor, transfer, or dispose of any property or interest acquired by it;

(3) to fix, alter, charge, and establish rates, fares, and other charges for the services and facilities within its area of operation, which rates, fees, and charges shall be equitable and just;

(4) to acquire and operate, or provide for the operation of local transportation systems, public or private, within its area of operation or in a municipality not already a member of a district, with which it contracts to furnish transit service;

(5) to make contracts of every name and nature and to execute all instruments necessary or convenient for the carrying on of its business;

(6) to accept gifts or grants or loans of money or other property, and to enter into contracts, leases, or other transactions with any federal agency, the State, any agency of the State, or with any other public body of the State, including municipalities and school districts;

(7) to adopt necessary rules;

(8) to do all things necessary or convenient for the conduct of its business and the general welfare of the district in order to carry out the powers granted to it by this subchapter or any other law.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 20 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123B / Section 20
App. § 123B-20. Newspaper publication
Status: in_force

The Selectboard may publish notices of vacancies in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 508 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 508
App. § 103-508. Purposes and powers
Status: in_force

(a) The District is created for the general purpose of maintaining and improving the economic, social, cultural, and environmental vitality and quality of the Town of Bennington (in particular, the District created by section 506 of this charter); to promote the Town and the District as a regional retail, commercial, and service center; and to serve as an advocate for the orderly development of the District in order to encourage expansion of the retail, commercial, and service base of the District and the Town by attracting new business and investment.

(b) The rights, powers, and duties of the District shall be exercised by the Select Board and shall be broadly construed to accomplish the purposes set forth above and shall include the following:

(1) to advertise and promote the Improvement District;

(2) to represent the interests of the District;

(3) to receive and expend contributions, grants, and income;

(4) to expend funds as provided for in the budget or as otherwise approved;

(5) to manage and maintain public spaces and to assume or supplement the services and maintenance heretofore provided to the District by the Town as recommended to and approved by the Select Board;

(6) to acquire and dispose of property on behalf of the Town;

(7) to install and make public improvements;

(8) to improve, manage, and regulate public parking facilities and vehicular traffic within the District;

(9) to enter into contracts as may be necessary or convenient to carry out the purpose of this charter;

(10) to regulate, lease, license, establish rules and fees, and otherwise manage the use of public spaces within the District;

(11) to plan for the orderly development of the District in cooperation with the Town Planning Commission;

(12) to do all other things necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes for which this District was created.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 227 / Section 4
App. § 227-4. Sewers, compensation for land taken
Status: in_force

(a) The legal voters of the Village at a meeting duly warned and holden for that purpose, may vote to construct and maintain for the benefit of the Village a common sewer or sewerage system and extend the same through the highways, streets, and lanes of the Village, and when necessary to obtain suitable grades, connections, water supply, outlets for flushing, and discharges, may construct and extend the same through lands of persons or corporations lying within or without the Village, upon paying suitable compensation or damage therefor, and for such purposes may take the land of any individual or corporation.

(b) In taking land for sewage purposes, the trustees shall proceed in the same manner as prescribed by law for the selectboard in taking lands for highways, and in awarding damages therefor, and returns shall be made to the Clerk of the Village.

(c) When any person or corporation shall be dissatisfied with the decision of the trustees, either as to the necessity for or extent of the taking, or as to the award of damages for land taken for such sewer or drain, they may petition the Windham County Superior Court for a rehearing in the premises, and any such number of persons aggrieved may join in the petition; but such petition shall not delay the laying or repairing of such sewer or drain, where the petition is for a reassessment of the damages only; such petition shall be served on the Clerk of the Village within 60 days after the trustees shall have filed their returns in the Village Clerk's office, and not less than 12 days before the term of Court to which it is made returnable. The proceedings shall be had in Court on the petition as are provided by law in case of petitions or appeals from the proceedings of the selectboard in laying out highways, except as herein provided; and the commissioners appointed by the Court shall notify one of the trustees of the Village of the time and place when they will hear the matter.

(d) When the public health requires it, the local Board of Health of the Village may order that any hotel, dwelling house, or other building in the Village shall be connected with the public sewer, and shall give notice in writing to the owner thereof of the order, and if the owner neglects or refuses to comply with the order within a reasonable time, the owner shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars, upon complaint of the State's Attorney of the County of Windham, the Grand Juror of the Town of Whitingham, or the Health Officer of the Village, who for this purpose is constituted a prosecuting officer.

(e) The trustees of the Village may assess annually the owner of any building connected with the sewer the sum as they shall think just, by a sewer rental to be paid by the owner thereof within 30 days after notice in writing is delivered to the owner, the owner's agent, or tenant if the owner resides out of the Village, or if the owner resides out of the Village and has no tenant or agent therein, then by mail to the owner at the owner's last known post office address, which assessment shall be a lien in the nature of a tax. Appeals may be had in the same way and the same proceedings as in appeals above set forth in relation to taking lands for the sewer or drain.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 437 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 437
App. § 3-437. Same-Anticipation notes
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise provided in the authorizing proceedings, if bonds are authorized under this article, temporary notes may be issued in anticipation thereof. The Board of Light Commissioners may delegate the sale of temporary notes to an officer or officers thereof. The principal of and interest on notes may be renewed or paid from time to time by the issue of other notes. Except as otherwise provided, notes issued under this section shall be governed by the provisions of this article relating to bonds insofar as the same may be applicable.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2.09 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 2.09
App. § 9-2.9. Duties of ward officers
Status: in_force

(a) It shall be the duty of the clerk of each ward to preside at the polling place of the ward, to keep a record of all elections held therein, and immediately after any election in such ward, to return to the City Clerk a statement of the votes cast in such ward signed by two ward officials, which statement shall be recorded in the City record.

(b) It shall be the duty of the inspectors of elections to be present, and preserve order at all elections in their respective wards, to decide all questions relative to the right of any person to vote at the election, and with the ballot clerks, to sort and count the ballots, and to inform the City Clerk immediately after such count is completed of the results of the election.

(c) For all City or ward elections, and all City meetings, the City Clerk shall prepare all official ballots in the same manner and subject to all the provisions of the laws of this State providing for and regulating the preparation and distribution of official ballots in towns and cities.
24 V.S.A. § 2031 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 61 / Section 2031
§ 2031. Jitneys; regulations; powers
Status: in_force

The legislative branch of a municipality shall have the power to make, establish, alter, amend, or repeal regulations for the operation, parking, soliciting, delivery, or fares in the jitney and taxi business in general within the municipality and to establish penalties for the breach thereof, not to exceed $100.00 for each violation thereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 503 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 503
App. § 129-503. Responsibilities, powers, and duties
Status: in_force

(a) In general, the Town Manager shall be accountable to the Selectboard and shall have general supervision of the property and business affairs of the Town and expenditures of all monies appropriated for Town purposes subject to prior approval by the Selectboard. The Town Manager shall not supervise any elected Town officer in the conduct of such officer's duties.

(b) In particular, the Town Manager shall have power and it shall be the duty:

(1) To organize, operate, continue, or discontinue such departments as the Selectboard may determine.

(2) To carry out the policies laid down by the Selectboard, to keep the Selectboard informed of the financial condition and future needs of the Town, and to make such reports as may be required by law or requested by the Selectboard together with any other reports and recommendations that are deemed advisable.

(3) To keep full and complete records of the actions of the office of Town Manager.

(4) To appoint, fix their compensation, and remove, upon merit and fitness alone, any subordinate official, employee, or agent supervised. Although the Town Manager may hold subordinate officers and employees of the Town responsible for the faithful discharge of their duties, the Town Manager shall remain ultimately responsible to the Selectboard for all administrative actions taken.

(5) To be present at all regular meetings of the Selectboard except when excused by the Selectboard and to have the right to attend all other meetings of the Selectboard and committees except when removal or suspension is being discussed.

(6) To keep the Selectboard fully advised as to the needs of the Town within the scope of the Town Manager's duties and annually to furnish to them a five-year projection of capital improvements for the Town.

(7) To examine or cause to be examined, with or without notice, the affairs of any department controlled or the conduct of any officer or employee. For that purpose, the Town Manager shall have access to all books and papers of such departments for the information necessary to conduct a proper examination.

(8) To be the general purchasing agent of the Town and purchase all supplies for every department using the purchasing policy approved by the Selectboard.

(9) To be responsible for keeping such books and accounts of disbursements for all Town departments.

(10) To supervise all special programs of the Town as if the same were a separate department of the Town unless otherwise voted by the Selectboard.

(11) To participate in the discussion of matters coming before the Selectboard and its committees but not the right to vote.

(12) To perform such other duties that may be required of the office by vote of the Selectboard by law or by ordinance consistent with this charter.

(13) To have charge, control, and supervision of the Police Department and to appoint, remove, and fix the compensation of all officers and employees thereof.

(14) The Town Manager or designee shall be the Collector of Delinquent Taxes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 102 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 235 / Section 102
App. § 235-102. Laying of water pipes
Status: in_force

The trustees, or a majority of them, may lay water pipes, within the limits of said Village and for that purpose may enter upon the lands of any land owner in said Village, and lay and maintain water pipes through such land and repair the same when necessary, upon payment or tender of payment of such compensation as damages therefor as the said trustees shall award to such land owner, and to any tenant or occupant of such land to the amount that his or her interests are affected thereby.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 300 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 300
App. § 3-300. Copy of charter to be kept in office of Chief Administrative Officer
Status: in_force

A copy of this charter shall be kept in the office of the Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Burlington to which shall be affixed a certificate under the hand of the Secretary of State and the Seal of the State of Vermont, that the laws therein contained are statute laws of the State of Vermont, and such certified copy shall be an authentic record of such laws.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 505 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 505
App. § 413-505. Signing of warning
Status: in_force

The original warning of any special meeting of the District shall be signed by a number of the Board of Supervisors equal to a majority of the total votes entitled to be cast and shall be filed with the District Clerk before being posted.
24 V.S.A. § 1529 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 51 / Section 1529
§ 1529. First constable as collector
Status: in_force

The first constable shall be collector of State, county, town, and town school district taxes when a collector of taxes is not elected at the annual town meeting, and shall pay over the taxes collected agreeably to the warrants for their collection.
24 V.S.A. § 1407 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 43 / Section 1407
§ 1407. Abatement of taxes
Status: in_force

Appraisers for unorganized towns and gores shall have the same power to abate a tax in the hands of a supervisor that the board for the abatement of town taxes has to abate town taxes, and shall certify such abatement to the State Treasurer.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 422 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 422
App. § 3-422. Rates sufficient to pay for services and bonds to be charged
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever bonds are issued pursuant to this article, said City shall charge and collect adequate rates and charges for electric energy and for gas and all other services, facilities, and commodities sold, furnished, or supplied by the electric plant and system and gas plants and system sufficient to provide for the proper operation and maintenance of said systems and for the payment of the principal of and interest on all indebtedness payable from said revenues, and all other payments in connection therewith. All such revenues shall be paid into the City Treasury in a special fund to be called the “Light Department Fund,” and shall be subject to the covenants contained in any ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under this article.

(b) In no case shall funds collected from electric ratepayers be used to cross-subsidize or finance the repayment of any debt instrument used to fund the construction, operation, or utilization of any new cable television, fiber optic cable, or other telecommunications network or telecommunications business, and the expenses from such enterprises may not be included in the cost of electric service, except to the extent that the City has utilized such funds directly for its own utility plant or electric services.
24 V.S.A. § 4556 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4556
§ 4556. Cooperation by government agencies; cost
Status: in_force

All officers, departments, boards, agencies, divisions, and commissions of the State must render any services to the Bank as are within the area of their respective governmental functions as fixed by law and as may be requested by the Bank and must comply promptly with any reasonable request by the Bank as to the making of any study or review as to desirability, need, cost, or expense with respect to any public project, purpose or improvement, or the financial feasibility thereof or the financial or fiscal responsibility or ability in connection therewith of any governmental unit making application for loan to the Bank and for the purchase by the Bank of municipal bonds or revenue bonds to be issued by that governmental unit. The cost and expense of any services requested by the Bank shall, at the request of the officer, department, board, agency, division, or commission rendering the service, be paid for by the Bank.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 601 / Section 3
App. § 601-3. Composition
Status: in_force

The District is composed of and includes all of the lands and residents within those municipalities in the State of Vermont that vote to approve and enter into this District at the time of its creation and other municipalities as are subsequently admitted to the District as provided by this chapter, except for those municipalities that may withdraw as provided by this chapter. The municipalities composing the District shall constitute its members and are designated as member municipalities.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 508 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 508
App. § 414-508. Conduct of meetings
Status: in_force

(a) At all special meetings of the District, the following provisions of 17 V.S.A. chapter 51 shall apply except where clearly inapplicable: subchapter 1 (election officials), subchapter 3 (vote tabulators), subchapter 4 (polling places), subchapter 6 (early or absentee voters), subchapter 7 (process of voting), subchapter 8 (count and return of votes), subchapter 9 (recounts and contest of elections), and subchapter 10 (jurisdiction of courts). For purposes of this charter, the District Clerk shall perform the functions assigned to the Secretary of State under 17 V.S.A. chapter 51.

(b) Rutland Superior Court shall have jurisdiction over petitions for recounts.

(c) The District shall bear the cost of election expenses.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 102 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 102
App. § 411-102. Purpose
Status: in_force

The District is created and shall exist for the purpose of providing for the effective, economical, and environmentally sound management of solid waste generated by the member municipalities and their residents.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1501 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 153 / Section 1501
App. § 153-1501. Merger of the Village and Town of Stowe
Status: in_force

Effective as of July 1, 1996, the Village of Stowe as constituted by 1896 Acts and Resolves No. 168, as amended, shall merge with and into the Town of Stowe, within its present geographic limits, as a single municipal corporation under the name of the Town of Stowe, and the Village of Stowe shall, except as hereinafter specifically provided otherwise for transition purposes, cease to exist as a municipal corporation and its charter shall be abolished.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 60 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 60
App. § 3-60. Same-issuance prior to maturity or redemption; amounts; issuance, maturities, security, rights of owners, and rights, duties, and obligations of City; general laws relating to refunding of municipal bonds
Status: in_force

Any refunding bonds or notes may be issued at such time prior to the maturity or redemption of the refunded bonds or notes as the City Council deems to be in the public interest. The refunding bonds or notes may be issued in sufficient amounts to pay or provide the principal of the bonds or notes being refunded, together with any redemption premium thereon, any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of payment of such bonds or notes, the expenses if issue of the refunding bonds or notes, the expenses of redeeming the bonds or notes being refunded, and such reserves for debt service or other capital or current expenses from the proceeds of such refunding bonds or notes as may be required by a resolution under which bonds are issued. The issue of refunding bonds or notes, the maturities and other details thereof, the security therefor, the rights of the owners thereof and the rights, duties, and obligations of the City with respect thereto shall be governed by the provisions of this City charter relating to the issue of bonds other than refunding bonds insofar as the same may be applicable. None of the provisions of the general laws relating to the refunding of municipal bonds and indebtedness shall apply to such refunding bonds or notes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 24 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 285 / Section 24
App. § 285-24. Highway district
Status: in_force

All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Newbury and all the highway taxes assessed upon the ratable estate thereof shall be paid in money, and the Selectboard of the Town of Newbury shall make out a tax bill thereof and deliver the same seasonably, as required by law, with a warrant for its collection to the Collector of the Village, who shall collect the same as other taxes of the Village are collected, and pay two-thirds of the same over to the Treasurer of the Village, which money shall be drawn from the treasury by the trustees and shall be expended by them in building, constructing, maintaining, repairing, sprinkling, and lighting streets, highways, walks, alleys, sewers, and lanes of the Village, and no highway surveyors shall be elected for the Village; and the remaining one-third of the highway taxes shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the Town of Newbury.
24 V.S.A. § 4770 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 120 / Section 4770
§ 4770. Eligibility
Status: in_force

(a) For the purpose of this subchapter, “VEDA” means the Vermont Economic Development Authority which is authorized to make loans on behalf of the State under this chapter when the loan recipient is a privately-owned public water system. Such loans shall be issued and administered by VEDA pursuant to this subchapter.

(b) The owner or owners of a privately-owned community water system or a privately-owned nonprofit, noncommunity public water system may apply to VEDA for a loan from the Vermont EPA Drinking Water State Revolving Fund established under subchapter 1 of this chapter, the proceeds of which may be used to acquire requisite permits, design, plan, construct, repair, or improve an existing privately-owned public community water system in order to comply with federal and State standards and protect the public health. In addition, the owner or owners of a privately-owned, nonprofit community water system may apply to VEDA for a loan from the Vermont Drinking Water Planning Loan Fund established in section 4753 of this chapter.

(1) A municipality, as defined under section 126 of Title 1, is not eligible for a loan under this subchapter.

(2) A nonprofit organization is eligible to apply for a loan under this subchapter if that organization qualifies as tax exempt.

(c) VEDA and the Secretary may prescribe any form of application or procedure required of the applicant for a loan hereunder, and may impose an application and an administrative fee determined reasonable and necessary to cover administrative costs. Fee proceeds shall be deposited in the administrative fee account established in subsection 4755(a) of this chapter. The loan application shall request such information as VEDA deems necessary to implement this subchapter.

(d) Notwithstanding the eligibility criteria of subsection (a) of this section, loan proceeds may not be used for:

(1) laboratory fees for monitoring;

(2) operations and maintenance expenses; or

(3) projects primarily intended to serve future growth.
24 V.S.A. § 5702 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 138 / Section 5702
§ 5702. Establishment; general provisions
Status: in_force

(a) Establishment. Upon written application by 20 or more voters within a proposed district or upon its own motion, the legislative body of a municipality may establish a rural economic development infrastructure district. The application shall describe the infrastructure to be built or acquired; the plan for financing its acquisition; the anticipated economic benefit; the source of revenues for loan, bond, or lease payments; and plans for retention and disbursement of excess revenues, if any. The application also shall clearly state that the proposed district shall not have authority to levy taxes upon the grand list and may not levy service charges or fees upon any underlying municipality except for services used by such municipality, its own officers, and employees in the operation of municipal functions. Notice of establishment of a district shall be recorded as provided in subsection (e) of this section, posted in at least three public places within the municipality for at least 30 days, and published in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipality not more than 10 days from the date of establishment by the legislative body. Following 40 days from the later of the date of establishment by the legislative body of the municipality or an affirmative vote under subdivision (d)(1) or (2) of this section, the district shall be deemed to be a body politic and corporate, capable of exercising those powers and prerogatives explicitly granted by the legislative body of the municipality in accordance with this chapter and the district's establishment application.

(b) Districts involving more than one municipality. Where the limits of a proposed district include two or more municipalities, or portions of two or more municipalities, the application required by this section shall be made to and considered by the legislative body of each such municipality.

(c) Alteration of district limits. The legislative body of a municipality in which a district is located may alter the limits of a district upon application to the governing board of the district, provided the governing board gives prior written consent. A district expansion need not involve contiguous property. Notice of an alteration of the limits of a district shall be recorded as provided in subsection (e) of this section, posted in at least three public places within the municipality for at least 30 days, and published in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipality not more than 10 days from the date of the legislative body's decision to alter the limits of a district.

(d) Contestability.

(1) If a petition signed by five percent of the voters of the municipality objecting to the proposed establishment or alteration of limits of a district is presented to the municipal clerk within 30 days of the date of posting and publication of the notice required by subsection (a) or (c) of this section, as applicable, the legislative body of the municipality shall cause the question of whether the municipality shall establish or alter the limits of the district to be considered at a meeting called for that purpose. The district shall be established in accordance with the application or the limits altered unless a majority of the voters of the municipality present and voting votes to disapprove such establishment or alteration of limits.

(2) If a petition signed by five percent of the voters of the municipality objecting to a legislative body's decision denying the establishment or the alteration of limits of a district is presented to the municipal clerk within 30 days of the legislative body's decision, the legislative body shall cause the question of whether the municipality shall establish or alter the limits of the district to be considered at an annual or special meeting called for that purpose.

(e) Recording. A record of the establishment of a district and any alteration of district limits made by a legislative body shall be filed with the clerk of each municipality in which the district is located, and shall be recorded with the Secretary of State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 15.03 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 15.03
App. § 9-15.3. Annual appointments
Status: in_force

(a) The Mayor shall annually in the month of March appoint one cemetery commissioner, one member of the Board of Health, and one Pension Committee member.

(b) At the discretion of the Mayor, the offices of the Inspector of Milk and Inspector of Meat may be combined.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 306 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 409 / Section 306
App. § 409-306. Clerk
Status: in_force

The Clerk of the District shall be appointed by the Board. The Clerk, with the approval of the Board, may appoint an Assistant Clerk. Neither the Clerk nor the Assistant Clerk may be a supervisor. The Clerk shall have charge and custody of the public records of the District and the Seal of the District. The Clerk shall record all votes and proceedings of the District, including meetings of the District and meetings of the Board and shall cause to be posted and published all warnings of meetings of the District. The Clerk shall prepare all warnings of meetings of the District as required by subchapter 5 of this chapter. Following approval by the Board, the Clerk shall cause the annual report to be distributed to the legislative bodies of the members. The Clerk shall prepare and distribute any other reports required by laws of the State of Vermont and resolutions or regulations of the Board. The Clerk shall perform all the duties and functions incident to the office of secretary or clerk of a body politic and corporate.
24 V.S.A. § 962 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 33 / Section 962
§ 962. Special meeting
Status: in_force

A town at a special meeting may fill a vacancy in a town office.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 415 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 19 / Section 415
App. § 19-415. Action on petitions
Status: in_force

(a) Action by Council. When an initiative or referendum petition has been finally determined sufficient, the Council shall promptly consider the proposed initiative ordinance in the manner provided in this Article or reconsider the referred ordinance by voting its repeal. If the Council fails to adopt a proposed initiative ordinance without any change in substance within 60 days or fails to repeal the referred ordinance within 30 days after the date the petition was finally determined sufficient, it shall submit the proposed or referred ordinance to the voters of the City.

(b) Submission to voters. The vote of the City on a proposed or referred ordinance shall be held not less than 30 days from the date of the final Council vote thereon. If no regular City election is to be held within the period prescribed in this subsection, the Council shall provide for a special election; otherwise, the vote shall be held at the same time as such regular election, except that the Council may in its discretion provide for a special election at an earlier date within the prescribed period. Copies of the proposed or referred ordinance shall be made available at the polls.

(c) Withdrawal of petitions. An initiative or referendum petition may be withdrawn at any time prior to the 15th day preceding the day scheduled for a vote of the City by filing with the City Clerk a request for withdrawal signed by the petitioners. Upon the filing of such request, the petition shall have no further force or effect and all proceedings thereon shall be terminated.
24 V.S.A. § 2932 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 79 / Section 2932
§ 2932. Development Board; grants
Status: in_force

The Development Board may with the approval of the Governor award a grant to an incorporated economic development district organized either on an intrastate or interstate basis for the purpose of matching federal funds made available by the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. No grant by the Development Board to a single district shall exceed $15,000.00.
24 V.S.A. § 296 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 296
§ 296. Transportation of prisoners
Status: in_force

All commitments to a State correctional facility or to any other place named by the Commissioner of Corrections or committing court shall be made by any sheriff, deputy sheriff, State Police officer, police officer, or constable in the State, or the Commissioner of Corrections or his or her authorized agent.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 39 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 261 / Section 39
App. § 261-39. Village may establish water rents and regulate the mode of payment
Status: in_force

For the purpose of the support of said Water Department, and to insure the payment of the annual interest on said water bonds, and to provide for their final payment, said corporation shall establish rates of annual rents to be charged and paid by the users of said water, at such times and in such manner as shall be determined by said corporation; and may from time to time alter, modify, amend, increase, or diminish such rates, and extend them to any description of property or use, as said corporation may deem proper. Such rates or rents shall be chargeable to, and may be collected of the owners of the property so supplied, unless otherwise agreed upon by said corporation and said owners, and shall be a lien and charge upon the buildings, lots, and other property so supplied, and may be collected in the same manner as any corporation tax. Said corporation may order water rents to be paid in advance, and may make all necessary provisions and orders relating to the supply or stoppage of water as said corporation may think expedient to ensure such advance payments.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 7
App. § 101-7. Nomination of candidates
Status: in_force

Nominations of persons to fill Town offices shall be by petition containing the signatures of at least 30 voters or one percent of the voters, whichever is less. Petitions shall be filed with the Town Clerk, together with a written assent signed by the nominee. Both petition and written assent shall be filed at least 45 and not more than 55 days prior to the election. When a petition is presented to the Town Clerk for filing, the Town Clerk shall immediately examine the same and ascertain whether it conforms to the provisions of this section. If not found in conformity, the Town Clerk shall designate the defect in writing and return the petition, together with the written reason for rejection, within six hours, to the candidate in whose behalf it was filed. Such petition may again be presented when properly amended if this can be done within the time allowed for filing such petition. All Town elections shall be nonpartisan and no party designation or slogan shall be printed on any Town ballot or petition.
24 V.S.A. § 1309 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 39 / Section 1309
§ 1309. Taxes; assessment and collection
Status: in_force

At a meeting legally warned for that purpose, corporations formed under this subchapter may vote a tax upon the taxable estate therein or may vote a specific amount to be appropriated for the lawful purposes of the corporation. If a corporation votes a specific amount to be appropriated, the trustees shall, after the grand list book has been computed and lodged, set the tax rate necessary to raise the specific amount voted. The trustees shall make out and deliver to the collector a tax bill, with a warrant for its collection, and the collector shall have the same powers to collect such tax bill as a collector of town taxes.
24 V.S.A. § 1483 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 49 / Section 1483
§ 1483. Contents of plan
Status: in_force

The plan of merger shall include provisions relating to structure, organization, functions, operation, finance, property, and other appropriate matters; shall include special provisions contained in a charter of any municipality included in the plan, which provisions are peculiar to that municipality, and which it is desired to retain as charter provisions of the consolidated municipality; and shall include adequate provisions for the satisfaction of all obligations of the parties concerned. The plan shall provide that any area or group of voters in the consolidated municipality or town may have special services, not common to all the voters in the municipality or town, provided for them, if so voted. All costs of whatever nature required to support these special services shall be paid for by the taxpayers receiving these services, by a tax on their grand list, to be assessed annually by the selectboard or the equivalent officers of a municipality, or in such other manner as the selectboard or the equivalent officers of a municipality shall determine. If the costs are to be paid by a tax, such tax shall be paid and collected in the same manner as other taxes and such tax assessed on their grand list shall be a lien thereon.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 5 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 157 / Section 5
App. § 157-5. Appointed officers
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 4(a) of this charter to the contrary, the Selectboard shall appoint the following officers to terms of not less than one year nor more than three years:

(1) Town Clerk;

(2) Town Treasurer;

(3) all Town officers whose appointment is required by law.

(b) The Selectboard may create and fill such other appointive offices, not provided for by this charter or otherwise required by law, as it believes best serve the interests of the Town.

(c) Appointments shall be made for such terms as are established by law or, in the case of officers created by the Selectboard pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, annually.

(d) The appointed Town Clerk and Town Treasurer shall be subject to the Town personnel policies and may be removed pursuant thereto. All other appointed officers may be removed as provided by law or, in the absence of an express provision addressing removal, by the Selectboard at any time.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 805 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 153 / Section 805
App. § 153-805. Amount to be raised by taxation
Status: in_force

The Town shall annually consider an article to raise by taxes on the grand list an amount equal to those expenditures to be paid by taxes which amount was appropriated by the voters at Town meeting and which expenditures are not met by funds from other sources.
24 V.S.A. § 4385 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4385
§ 4385. Adoption and amendment of plans; hearing by legislative body
Status: in_force

(a) Not less than 30 nor more than 120 days after a proposed plan or amendment is submitted to the legislative body of a municipality under section 4384 of this title, the legislative body of a municipality with a population of 2,500 persons or less shall hold the first of one or more public hearings, after public notice, on the proposed plan or amendment, and shall make copies of the proposal and any written report by the planning commission available to the public on request. A municipality with a population of more than 2,500 persons shall hold two or more such hearings. Failure to hold a hearing within the 120 days shall not invalidate the adoption of the plan or amendment.

(b)(1) The legislative body may change the proposed plan or amendment, but shall not do so less than 15 days prior to the final public hearing. If the legislative body at any time makes substantial changes in the concept, meaning, or extent of the proposed plan or amendment, it shall warn a new public hearing or hearings under subsection (a) of this section.

(2) If any part of the proposal is changed, the legislative body, at least 15 days prior to the hearing, shall file a copy of the changed proposal with the clerk of the municipality, with any individual or organization requesting a copy in writing, and with the planning commission. The planning commission shall submit to the legislative body at or prior to the public hearing a report that analyzes the extent to which the changed proposal, when taken together with the rest of the plan, is consistent with the legislative goals established in section 4302 of this title.

(c) A plan of a municipality or an amendment thereof shall be adopted by a majority of the members of its legislative body at a meeting which is held after the final public hearing. If, however, at a regular or special meeting of the voters duly warned and held as provided in 17 V.S.A. chapter 55, a municipality elects to adopt or amend municipal plans by Australian ballot, that procedure shall then apply unless rescinded by the voters at a regular or special meeting similarly warned and held. If the proposed plan or amendment is not adopted so as to take effect within one year after the date of the final hearing of the planning commission, it shall be considered rejected by the municipality. Plans and amendments shall be effective upon adoption. Copies of newly adopted plans and amendments shall be provided to the regional planning commission and to the Commissioner of Housing and Community Development within 30 days after adoption, which may be done electronically, provided the sender has proof of receipt. If a municipality wishes its plan or plan amendment to be eligible for approval under the provisions of section 4350 of this title, it shall request approval. The request for approval may be before or after adoption of the plan by the municipality, at the option of the municipality.

(d) Plans may be reviewed from time to time and may be amended in the light of new developments and changed conditions affecting the municipality. An amendment to a plan does not affect or extend the plan's expiration date.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 288 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 288
App. § 3-288. Reexamination of person on retired list; reappointment, etc
Status: in_force

(a) Once each year during the first seven years following disability retirement the Retirement Board may require any disability beneficiary who has not yet attained normal retirement age to undergo a medical examination by the Board of Medical Examiners. Based upon the health status, training, education, background, and job availability, the Retirement Board may reduce the disability benefit or stop it entirely.

(b) No disability pension shall be granted hereunder, in any case, without a report from the Board of Medical Examiners.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10.06 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 10.06
App. § 9-10.6. Constable/tax collector
Status: in_force

The City Treasurer shall also act as Constable and Tax Collector for the City of Rutland with all the duties and powers conferred upon a constable or tax collector as provided by Vermont State law, but the fees allowed to the Tax Collector or Constable shall be paid into the General Fund of the City of Rutland.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2.07 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 2.07
App. § 9-2.7. Qualifications of voters-penalties
Status: in_force

(a) Voting qualifications for the right to vote in any City election or meeting shall be the same as those required by State statutes for municipal meetings.

(b) The penalties for illegal voting at any City election shall be the same as those prescribed for illegal voting by State statutes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 209 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 106 / Section 209
App. § 106-209. Severability
Status: in_force

If any provision of this charter shall for any reason be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining provisions. To this end, the provisions of this charter are severable.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1122 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1122
App. § 5-1122. Special indebtedness for water purposes, sewage disposal, and heat improvements
Status: in_force

For the purpose of owning, operating, improving, and managing its public water works system, a public sewage disposal system, heat facilities and devices, facilities, and other measures intended to conserve energy use, promote efficient energy use, or any combination thereof, the City may pledge all or any part of the net revenues of such enterprises in the manner provided by general laws of the State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 901 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 215 / Section 901
App. § 215-901. Authority to construct electric light plant
Status: in_force

The Village shall also have authority to construct an electric light plant for the purpose of lighting the streets, walks, and public grounds of the Village, and lighting any buildings in the Village, and, for this purpose, may take or purchase, acquire, and hold any water power, land, and rights of way in the Town, needed for the construction, maintenance, and operation of the electric light plant, and may use any public highway over which it may be necessary or desirable to pass with the poles and wires of the same, provided the use of the public highway for the purpose of public travel is not unnecessarily impaired.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 301
App. § 414-301. 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. No person may hold more than one office at a time.
24 V.S.A. § 4444 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4444
§ 4444. Public hearing notice for adoption, amendment, or repeal of bylaw and other regulatory tools
Status: in_force

(a) Any public notice required for public hearing under this subchapter shall be given not less than 15 days prior to the date of the public hearing by:

(1) the publication of the date, place, and purpose of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality affected;

(2) the posting of the same information in three or more public places within the municipality in conformance with location requirements of 1 V.S.A. § 312(c)(2); and

(3) compliance with subsection (b) or (c) of this section.

(b) A municipality may complete public notice commenced under subsection (a) of this section by publishing and posting the full text of the proposed material or by publishing and posting the following:

(1) A statement of purpose.

(2) A map or description of the geographic areas affected.

(3) A table of contents or list of section headings.

(4) A description of a place within the municipality where the full text may be examined.

(c) As an alternative to the publication and posting provisions established under subsection (b) of this section, a municipality may make reasonable effort to mail or deliver copies of the full text or the material specified in subdivisions (b)(1) through (4) of this section, together with the public hearing notice of the proposed material and the public hearing notice to each voter, as evidenced by the voter checklist of the municipality, and to each owner of land within the municipality, as evidenced by the grand list of the municipality.

(d) No defect in the form or substance of any public hearing notice under this chapter shall invalidate the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any plan, bylaw, or capital budget and program. However, the action shall be invalidated if the notice is materially misleading in content or fails to include one of the elements required by subsection (b) of this section or if the defect was the result of a deliberate or intentional act.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 36.05 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 36.05
App. § 9-36.5. Board of Commissioners; composition
Status: in_force

(a) The administration, management, and supervision of the Authority shall be vested in a Board of Commissioners, except as provided otherwise herein. The Board shall consist of:

(1) the City Treasurer;

(2) one member, appointed by the Board of Aldermen for a one-year term;

(3) six members, who shall be residents of the City for their respective terms of office, appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the Board of Aldermen pursuant to this charter; and

(4) one member, who shall be a property owner within the City and a resident of Rutland County, appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the Board of Aldermen pursuant to this charter.

(b) Except for members appointed for the creation of the Board, members shall serve for three-year terms.

(c) Upon creation, three members shall be appointed for a term to expire on April 1 of the third year after appointment, two members shall be appointed for a term to expire April 1 of the second year after appointment, and two members shall be appointed for a term to expire on April 1 of the first year after appointment. All terms shall thereafter expire on April 1 of the third calendar year following appointment. A person appointed to fill an unexpired term shall serve to the end of that term. At the creation of the Commission, the appointments may only be denied by a majority vote of the Board of Aldermen, and thereafter all appointments shall be made pursuant to this charter.

(d) Annually the Board shall elect a Chair, Treasurer, and Clerk whose names shall be certified to the City Clerk.

(e) If any commissioner or employee of an Authority owns or controls an interest, direct or indirect, in any property included or planned to be included in any project, the commissioner or employee immediately shall disclose the same in writing to the Authority and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the Authority, and that person shall refrain from any participation in that matter, but shall not be precluded from involvement in any other matters.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 303 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 127 / Section 303
App. § 127-303. Terms of office - Selectboard members
Status: in_force

(a) Each Selectboard member shall be elected for a three-year term, except in the first election after this charter is adopted, at which two Selectboard members shall be elected for three-year terms, and one Selectboard member shall be elected for a two-year term. The two incumbent Selectboard members shall serve to the ends of their respective elected terms. After the first election following adoption of this charter, Selectboard members shall be elected for three-year terms as prior terms expire. Additional Selectboard members elected under subsection 302(e) of this charter shall be elected to initial terms that expire at the annual meeting for three-year terms.

(b) All Selectboard members shall be elected at large. The persons with the largest number of votes for offices of equal terms shall be elected to those offices. If there are Selectboard offices with different terms, each candidate shall specify the term for which he or she seeks election.
24 V.S.A. § 4866 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 121 / Section 4866
§ 4866. Powers and duties
Status: in_force

A union municipal district may:

(1) Hire and fix the compensation of employees.

(2) Contract with consultants and other experts for services.

(3) Contract with the State of Vermont or the federal government, or any agency or department thereof, for services.

(4) Contract with any participating municipality for the services of any officers or employees of that municipality useful to it.

(5) Contract with a county sheriff to provide law enforcement services to the union district.

(6) Promote cooperative arrangements and coordinated action among its participating municipalities.

(7) Make recommendations for review and action to its participating municipalities and other public agencies which perform functions within the region in which its participating municipalities are located.

(8) Exercise any other powers which are exercised or are capable of exercise by any of its participating municipalities, and necessary or desirable for dealing with problems of mutual concern.

(9) Borrow money and issue evidence of indebtedness as provided by chapter 53 of this title. Obligations incurred under such chapter shall be the joint and several obligations of the district and of each member municipality but shall not affect any limitation on indebtedness of a member municipality. The cost of debt service shall be included in the annual budget of the district, and shall be allocated among the member municipalities as provided in the agreement for the allocation of the assessment for the ordinary expenses of the district. Where voter approval is required pursuant to chapter 53 of this title, the governing body of the district shall determine the number and location of polling places, and when a majority of all the voters present and voting on the question from all of the member municipalities at such meeting vote to authorize the issuance of bonds, the district shall be authorized to issue the bonds as provided in said chapter. The counting of ballots shall be conducted by the governing board of the district together with the town or city clerk from each member municipality or his or her designee.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 104 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 133 / Section 104
App. § 133-104. Form of government
Status: in_force

The municipal government provided by this charter shall be known as council-manager form of government. Pursuant to these provisions and subject only to the limitations imposed by the Vermont Constitution and by this charter, all powers of the Town shall be vested in an elective council, hereinafter referred to as the Selectboard.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 17 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 405 / Section 17
App. § 405-17. Election
Status: in_force

The Board of Commissioners annually shall elect from among its members a Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, and Secretary, and those other officers as it deems appropriate for the conduct of its business. Upon majority vote of the Board, the Treasurer or Secretary may be nonboard members.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 18 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 239 / Section 18
App. § 239-18. Abatement of taxes; remittance of fines or forfeitures
Status: in_force

The trustees of the Village shall have power to abate taxes paid or assessed by virtue of this charter, to remit fines or forfeitures imposed for violation of this charter or bylaws, ordinances, or regulations of the Village, and to discharge the offenders from imprisonment for same.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10.04 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 10.04
App. § 9-10.4. School monies and bonds
Status: in_force

The City Treasurer shall keep a separate account of all the monies appropriated for the use of schools which monies shall consist of the income accruing in every legal way and the City Treasurer shall pay out of any monies mentioned in this section, all warrants drawn by the Board of School Commissioners for the use of schools.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 13 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 401 / Section 13
App. § 401-13. Quorum
Status: in_force

For the purpose of transacting business, the presence of 50 percent of the municipal representatives to the Board of Supervisors shall constitute a quorum. However, a smaller number may adjourn to another date. The entire number of regular representatives to be appointed to the Board under section 9 of this chapter shall be used to determine a quorum, regardless of whether vacancies exist.
24 V.S.A. § 3607 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 101 / Section 3607
§ 3607. Hearing to determine necessity
Status: in_force

The judge to whom the petition is presented shall fix the time for hearing, which shall not be more than 60 or less than 30 days from the date the judge signs the order. Likewise, the judge shall fix the place for hearing, which shall be the county courthouse or any other convenient place within the county in which the land in question is located. If the Superior judge to whom the petition is presented cannot hear the petition at the time set for the hearing, the Chief Superior Judge shall assign another Superior judge to hear the cause at the time and place assigned in the order. (1963, No. 214, § 3; amended 2021, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 28, eff. May 31, 2022; renumbered from 24 V.S.A. § 3605 by 2023, No. 143 (Adj. Sess.), § 13, eff. July 1, 2024.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 42 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 42
App. § 403-42. Special meetings
Status: in_force

The Board of Supervisors may call a special meeting of the District when it deems it necessary or prudent to do so and shall call a special meeting of the District when action by the voters of the District is necessary under this chapter or under any applicable law. In addition, the Board of Supervisors shall call a special meeting of the District if petitioned to do so by not less than five percent of legal voters of the district. The Board of Supervisors may rescind the call of a special meeting called by it but not a special meeting called on application of five percent of the legal voters of the District. The Board of Supervisors shall endeavor to have the time of such special meetings coincide with the time of annual municipal meetings, primary elections, general elections, or similar meetings when the electorate within the member municipalities will be voting on other matters.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 718 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 19 / Section 718
App. § 19-718. Tax increment financing
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this Article shall impair, affect, or alter any revenues or sources of revenues now or hereafter existing that are derived from the City's Tax Increment Financing District created under 2000 Acts and Resolves No. 159, Secs. 37 and 38, as amended by 2003 Acts and Resolves No. 68, Sec. 40.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 801 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 215 / Section 801
App. § 215-801. Borrowing authority
Status: in_force

The Village at an annual or at any special meeting called for that purpose is authorized and empowered to vote to borrow money for any of the purposes mentioned in this charter, and to issue its notes and bonds, and the notes or bonds shall be signed by the Trustees and countersigned by the Treasurer of the Village, and if interest coupons are attached they shall be signed by the Treasurer; and the bonds or notes shall contain a statement that they were issued for the purposes mentioned and in conformity with the provisions of this charter, and the statement shall be conclusive evidence of the same, and of the liability of the Village to pay the notes or bonds in an action by a person who in good faith holds the notes or bonds. The Village Treasurer shall keep a record of every note or bond issued under the provisions of this charter, stating the number and denomination of each note or bond, when and where payable, to whom issued, and the rate of interest; and also shall keep a record of payments, interest, and principal, and if any coupons are taken up shall deface the same.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 31 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 175 / Section 31
App. § 175-31. Fiscal year
Status: in_force

The fiscal year shall commence on the first day of January and end on the last day of December unless the Town at its annual meeting shall determine otherwise. If the Town votes another fiscal year, it shall specify the procedure for transition, including the method for financing the transition.
24 V.S.A. § 4011 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 113 / Section 4011
§ 4011. Joint action
Status: in_force

Any two or more authorities may join or cooperate with one another in the exercise of any or all of the powers conferred by this chapter for the purpose of financing, planning, undertaking, constructing, or operating a housing project or projects located within the area of operation of any one or more of said authorities. (1961, No. 212, § 11, eff. July 11, 1961.)
24 V.S.A. § 1956 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 57 / Section 1956
§ 1956. Personnel rules
Status: in_force

The officers, firemen, and employees of a fire department organized under this chapter may be governed by rules adopted by the legislative body of the municipality under subchapter 11 of chapter 33 of this title.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 26 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 26
App. § 3-26. Questions at special meeting to be decided by ballot
Status: in_force

The questions at any such special meeting shall be determined by ballot and the checklist shall be used. There shall be at such meeting a separate polling place, or polling places, for each ward, and as many of the ward officers hereinbefore named as shall be necessary shall act at such meetings in the same manner as at City or ward or City district elections. For all such meetings, it shall be the duty of the Chief Administrative Officer to prepare suitable ballots in sufficient quantity.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 404 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 404
App. § 414-404. Budget, appropriation, and assessment; apportionment of taxes
Status: in_force

(a) Taxes shall be apportioned among the member municipalities on the basis of relative tonnage or volume of solid waste loads generated by or within each of the member municipalities such that each member municipality shall be assessed a percentage of the sum appropriated equal to the percentage that its solid waste load bears to the total solid waste load generated within the District. The loads shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors and may be based upon actual tonnage or volume delivered, historic tonnage or volume, imputed or estimated tonnage or volume, or guaranteed tonnage or volume whether actually delivered or not.

(b) If, after the first year of operation of any District solid waste facility, the Board of Supervisors determines that prior assessments were substantially inequitable, it shall retroactively adjust prior year assessments such that municipalities overcharged are given a proportionate credit against future assessments and municipalities undercharged are assessed a proportionate surcharge payable over the period that the Board determines will be reasonable.

(c) Thereafter, the Board of Supervisors may from time to time reestablish the percentage of solid waste load that is attributed to each member municipality and adjust the assessments accordingly, but no retroactive adjustments shall be made.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129D / Section 101
App. § 129D-101. Applicability of general law
Status: in_force

(a) All provisions of the Constitution and the general law of the State of Vermont relating to towns and their officers shall apply to the Town of Northfield (the “Town”).

(b) The Town shall have all the powers now or hereafter conferred upon towns by the Constitution and the general law of the State of Vermont.

(c) No grant of authority, power, or prerogative hereunder shall be construed as being in derogation of or a limitation on any authority, power, or prerogative conferred by the general law upon the Town.
24 V.S.A. § 1935 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 55 / Section 1935
§ 1935. Powers
Status: in_force

Police officers who are employed by a police department established under this chapter or pursuant to charter shall have the same powers as sheriffs in criminal matters and the enforcement of the law and the same powers, immunities, and matters of defense in serving criminal and civil process. The powers granted to police officers under this section may be exercised statewide.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 101
App. § 3-101. Annual assessment to pay bond interest authorized
Status: in_force

The City Council shall at the same meeting and immediately after it gives final approval to the annual City budget, assess upon the property grand list of said City for the fiscal year a tax that will be sufficient to pay the interest due and to become due in such fiscal year on all outstanding bonds of the City so far as such interest payments are not otherwise provided for, and also sufficient to pay the principal of all such bonds matured and maturing during such fiscal year, so far as such principal payments are not otherwise provided for, including provision therefor by refunding, and shall appropriate in the annual budget for the fiscal year in which such tax is assessed for the payment of such bond interest and principal such sum as may be required for that purpose. Such tax shall not be included within the limitations of amount of tax for City purposes prescribed by section 99 of this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 201 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 201
App. § 3-201. Powers relating to Fire Department
Status: in_force

The City Council shall have full power to try and determine all complaints against any member of said Department, and to remove them, or any of them summarily, or on conviction of insubordination, neglect of duty, incompetency, or violation of the rules, regulations, or ordinances governing said Department. The City Council shall also have the power, upon the recommendation of the Chief Engineer, to make such changes in the positions held by any member of the Department, either to remove him or her or place him or her in a subordinate position, as they may deem for the best interests of the Department.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 18 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 18
App. § 3-18. Copies of list to be given inspectors
Status: in_force

After all such additions, alterations, and corrections shall have been made by said Board for Registration of Voters, a true copy of such checklist shall be made by the Chief Administrative Officer, and delivered to the inspectors of election in the several wards, for use at such annual or special City election or ward or City district election; and no person whose name is not on such lists shall be allowed to vote at any such election.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 403 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 403
App. § 414-403. Budget adoption, appropriation, and assessment
Status: in_force

Annually on or before January 15, the Board of Supervisors shall adopt the budget, appropriate any 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 the taxes are due and payable by the member municipalities.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 41 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 405 / Section 41
App. § 405-41. Management fees
Status: in_force

Giving due consideration to the fact that State policy, as established in 10 V.S.A. § 6601, provides the generators of waste should pay disposal costs that reflect the real costs to society of waste management and disposal, the Board of Commissioners shall from time to time establish and adjust a management fee structure (tipping fee) for the purpose of generating revenues from sources other than assessments to member municipalities, particularly concerning the operation and maintenance of any District solid waste management or resource recovery facility. Once the District has a disposal facility, it will rely primarily on tipping fees for revenues, and shall work with the members to implement those fees.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 401 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 401
App. § 117-401. Appointment of Manager
Status: in_force

(Renumbered to 24A V.S.A. § 117-901 by 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 29, 2024.)

The Selectboard shall appoint a Town Manager under and in accordance with Vermont Statutes Annotated, as amended from time to time hereafter. The Manager shall have all of the powers and duties as set forth in that chapter and in this charter. (Renumbered from 24A V.S.A. § 117-601 by 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 29, 2024.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 19 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 19
App. § 3-19. Designation of polling places
Status: in_force

At least 30 days prior to a local, primary, or general election, the City Council, in consultation with the City Clerk's Office, ward clerks, and inspectors of election, shall determine the number and location of polling places. Polling places shall be located in each ward unless a more accessible facility is available outside the ward that is in as close proximity as possible to the ward in which each voter resides. If more than one polling place is located within the same building, each shall be located so that it is separate and distinct from the others, in accordance with 17 V.S.A. § 2501(e).
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 1101
App. § 117-1101. Laws governing
Status: in_force

(Renumbered to 24A V.S.A. § 117-1201 by 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 29, 2024.)

This charter may be amended in accordance with the procedure provided for by law for amendment of municipal charters. (Renumbered from 24A V.S.A. § 117-1001 by 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 29, 2024.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 22.03 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 22.03
App. § 9-22.3. Eligibility of police commissioners
Status: in_force

No person shall serve as a police commissioner who has an immediate relative employed by the Rutland City Police Department. Immediate relative shall include spouse, children, stepchildren, parents, stepparents, brothers, sisters, mother-in-law, father-in-law, and other relatives who are actual members of the person's household.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 417 / Section 7
App. § 417-7. Responsibility to accept solid waste
Status: in_force

(a) The District may become responsible for providing a system for solid waste disposal, as delineated in subsection (b) of this section when the Board of Supervisors declares the disposal system operational.

(b) The District may provide a system for disposal or recycling of all solid waste generated by residential and commercial activities within the member municipalities. The District may provide for the disposal of solid waste from industrial activities within a member municipality. The District may provide for the disposal of sludge through contract with a member municipality, provided the sludge is disposed of at no cost to the other member municipalities. Finally, the District may contract with a nonmember municipality or a private entity for the disposal of solid waste generated outside the boundaries of the District, provided the contract will not increase the cost of solid waste disposal to the member municipalities.

(c) Each member municipality agrees to act as a host community in the event the District decides to establish a solid waste transfer, treatment, or disposal facility within that member municipality.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 406a — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 406a
App. § 1-406a. Capital improvement plan
Status: in_force

(a) Preparation and submission. The Manager, after consultation with department heads, shall submit a proposed five-year capital improvement plan to the council at least three months prior to the annual meeting.

(b) Contents. The capital expenditure plan shall include:

(1) a clear narrative summary of needs;

(2) a list of all capital expenditures to be proposed for the next five years with appropriate supporting data;

(3) actual cost estimates, proposed methods of financing, and necessary time schedules for each improvement; and

(4) estimated annual cost of operating and maintaining the facilities to be constructed or acquired.

(c) Revision and update. The capital expenditure plan shall be revised and extended each year to reflect progress or projects still pending.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 104 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 104
App. § 143-104. Reservations of powers to the Town
Status: in_force

Nothing in this charter shall be construed to in any way limit the powers and functions conferred on the Town of Richmond, the Selectboard of said Town, or its elected and appointed officials by general or special enactments of State statutes or regulations in force or effect or hereafter enacted, and the powers and functions conferred by this charter shall be cumulative and in addition to the provisions of such general or special enactments unless this charter otherwise provides.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 15 / Section 1
App. § 15-1. City; how constituted
Status: in_force

That all the freemen of this State, inhabitants of said New Haven, Panton, and Ferrisburgh dwelling and inhabiting within the following bounds, viz: beginning on the line between Ferrisburgh and New Haven at the southeast corner of the town plot in said Ferrisburgh, from thence running north, 320 rods, to a stake and stones; from thence west, 400 rods, to a stake and stones; from thence south across Otter Creek 480 rods, to a stake and stones standing in Panton; from thence east across Otter Creek, 400 rods to a stake and stones standing in New Haven; from thence north, 160 rods, to the bounds first mentioned, including the waters of said Otter Creek within the preceding limits be, and the same is hereby ordained, constituted, and declared to be, from time to time, and forever hereafter one body politic and corporate in fact and in name, by the name of the City of Vergennes, and that by that name they and their successors forever shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, in all suits of what nature soever; and also to purchase, hold, and convey any estate real or personal, and may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at a pleasure, and shall be freemen of said City.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 103 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 103
App. § 414-103. Composition
Status: in_force

The District is composed of and includes all of the lands and residents within the municipalities in the State of Vermont that vote to approve this charter at the time of its creation and other municipalities that are subsequently admitted to or withdraw from the District as provided in subchapter 6 of this charter. The municipalities composing the District shall constitute its members and are designated as “member municipalities.”
24 V.S.A. § 3102 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 83 / Section 3102
§ 3102. Building inspectors
Status: in_force

(a) Upon the adoption of any codes, rules, or regulations as provided in section 3101 of this title, the mayor and board of aldermen of a city, the selectboard of a town, or the trustees of an incorporated village shall appoint and may remove a building inspector, and may appoint and may remove a deputy building inspector, prescribe their duties, and fix their compensation.

(b) The building inspector and any deputy building inspector shall be a disinterested and competent person with experience in the construction of various types of buildings.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 401 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 401
App. § 3-401. Revisions effective without publication
Status: in_force

The ordinances contained in any general revision of the ordinances of the City of Burlington shall take effect upon the passage of said ordinances by the City Council of said City, without publication in a newspaper.
24 V.S.A. § 3352 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 91 / Section 3352
§ 3352. Tax exemption
Status: in_force

Property of a consolidated water district shall be exempt from all taxation by any town within the district. (1964, No. 20 (Sp. Sess.), § 12, eff. March 10, 1964; amended 1967, No. 209, § 5, eff. April 17, 1967.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 401 / Section 4
App. § 401-4. Duration
Status: in_force

The District shall continue as a body politic and corporate unless and until dissolved according to the procedures set forth in this chapter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 804 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 153 / Section 804
App. § 153-804. Appropriations
Status: in_force

From the effective date of the budget, the several amounts stated therein, as approved by the annual Town meeting, become appropriated to the several agencies and purposes therein named.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 902 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 902
App. § 131-902. Ratification of present zoning ordinance
Status: in_force

The Town of Plainfield zoning and flood hazard regulations, as amended, are hereby ratified and approved.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 175 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 225 / Section 175
App. § 225-175. Construction
Status: in_force

The provisions of this charter shall be construed liberally in favor of the Village and in such manner that the effect of this charter will be to make government more efficient and more responsive to the citizens of the Village. In such liberal construction of the charter in favor of the Village, it shall be used consistently and uniformly toward all individuals and groups comprising the Village.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 506 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 506
App. § 413-506. 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 business to be transacted and the questions to be voted upon. The warning also shall contain any article requested by petition signed by five percent of the voters of the District and filed with the District Clerk not less than 40 days before the date of any District meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1102 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 13 / Section 1102
App. § 13-1102. Powers and duties
Status: in_force

(a) The Steering Committee shall hold public meetings on the City and School District budgets as set forth in this charter. The Committee shall review proposed programs to be implemented by the City and the School District in the next fiscal year, or for future years, and may inquire into and review any matters of financial interest to the City and the School District.

(b) The Steering Committee shall hold at least one regular meeting in each calendar quarter. Notice of any regular or special meeting, including a general statement of the purpose thereof, shall be placed in a newspaper of general circulation within the City, or by electronic means, at least seven days prior to the date for such meeting.

(c) All meetings of the Committee shall be open to the public, and executive sessions shall not be permitted.

(d) Any expenses of the Steering Committee shall be approved by the Steering Committee, the cost to be divided equally between the City and the South Burlington School District.
24 V.S.A. § 4777 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 120 / Section 4777
§ 4777. Loan consolidation
Status: in_force

Loans, or the outstanding balance of loans, made for the purpose of preparing engineering plans for a project may be consolidated with any subsequent loans for construction.
24 V.S.A. § 4466 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4466
§ 4466. Notice of appeal
Status: in_force

A notice of appeal shall be in writing and shall include the name and address of the appellant, a brief description of the property with respect to which the appeal is taken, a reference to the regulatory provisions applicable to that appeal, the relief requested by the appellant, and the alleged grounds why the requested relief is believed proper under the circumstances.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3.01 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 147 / Section 3.01
App. § 147-3.1. Generally
Status: in_force

The officers of the Town of Shelburne shall be those provided by law for towns, except as otherwise provided by this charter. Such officers shall have all of the powers and duties necessary to carry out the provisions of this charter as well as those provided by law.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 31 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 31
App. § 403-31. Compensation of officers
Status: in_force

Officers of the District may be paid such compensation or reimbursement of expenses, or both, as may be determined by the Board of Supervisors.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 42 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 126 / Section 42
App. § 126-42. Town meetings
Status: in_force

(a) An annual Town meeting for the consideration of the budget, election of officers, and other Town business shall be held according to State law. Special meetings may be called by the Selectboard to consider any business for which State law requires, or for which the Selectboard deems it desirable to obtain, the approval of the voters of the Town.

(b) The polling places at Town elections shall be open for a minimum of nine consecutive hours as specified by the Board of Civil Authority and warned by the Selectboard.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 92 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 126 / Section 92
App. § 126-92. Continuation in office or employment
Status: in_force

Except as may expressly or implicitly be otherwise provided by this charter, at the time this charter takes effect all officers of the Town of Lyndon and all employees of the Town and the former Village of Lyndonville shall continue in such office or employment.
24 V.S.A. § 134 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 134
§ 134. County tax; county treasurer; warrant
Status: in_force

The county treasurer shall issue warrants on or before March 1 requiring the tax to be paid in two equal installments on or before July 5 and on or before November 5.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 23.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 23.02
App. § 9-23.2. Powers and duties of Fire Chief
Status: in_force

The Chief Engineer shall have jurisdiction and control of the administration, disposition, and discipline of the Fire Department and of the firemen within the Department. He or she shall have the power to make such rules and regulations as are necessary, in his or her opinion, to exercise the jurisdiction and control of the Department. He or she shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Fire Department. He or she shall be responsible for the operation, maintenance, and repair of all fire vehicles and fire equipment. He or she shall have sole and exclusive power and authority to extinguish fires at any place within the jurisdiction of the City. He or she shall be the Fire Marshal of the City, and as such it shall be his or her duty and he or she is hereby empowered to enforce all State and local laws relating to the prevention, detection, and extinguishment of fires from any causes whatsoever. He or she shall install or cause to be installed alarm, telegraph, telephone, and radio equipment that is used in the operation of the Fire Department, which is owned or under the exclusive control of the Fire Department. He or she shall be responsible for the prevention of fires and danger to life or property therefrom. He or she is empowered to cause any building, structure, or place or premises to be inspected for fire hazards and may cause the inspection and testing of any fire alarm system of fire extinguishment. He or she may also cause the inspection and testing of any fire exits and may inspect the proper designation and marking thereof.
24 V.S.A. § 1239 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 37 / Section 1239
§ 1239. Compensation; how fixed
Status: in_force

The manager shall receive such pay as may be fixed by the selectboard, unless otherwise specifically voted by the town.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 194 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 194
App. § 3-194. Police to have same powers as constables; jurisdiction limited
Status: in_force

The said police officers shall have the power of constables in all matters arising under the criminal and police laws of the State and the ordinances and police regulations of the City, except that the jurisdiction of the limited police officer shall be restricted as set forth in section 192 of this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 801 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 203 / Section 801
App. § 203-801. Authority to construct and maintain infrastructure
Status: in_force

The Village of Alburgh is authorized and empowered to construct, extend, renew, and maintain a common sewer or sewers in the Village; to build and maintain sidewalks and curbings along the streets and public highways in the Village; to oil and sprinkle the streets in the Village; and to acquire by purchase or construction a lighting system for the use of the Village or its inhabitants.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 101
App. § 413-101. Creation
Status: in_force

Upon approval of this chapter by the participating municipalities, as required in 24 V.S.A. chapter 121, subchapter 3, there is hereby created a union municipal district that shall be known as the Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District (hereinafter referred to as the District) and that shall be a body politic and corporate.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123A / Section 301
App. § 123A-301. Appointed officers
Status: in_force

(a) Town Manager. The Town Manager shall be the chief executive officer of the Town appointed by a majority of the Selectboard. The Town Manager shall be selected with special reference to training, experience, education, and ability to perform the executive and administrative duties of the Manager's office and without reference to his or her political position or persuasion. The Town Manager shall be responsible to the Selectboard for the proper and efficient administration of departments under the Manager's charge as outlined in this charter.

(1) The Town Manager shall be appointed for a period not to exceed three years and may thereafter be appointed for successive terms of not more than three years. The Town Manager shall not simultaneously hold any elective office within the Town nor be employed by the Town in any capacity except as specified in this charter.

(2) The Town Manager need not be a resident of the Town.

(3) Conditions of employment and compensation shall be determined at the time of appointment, and there shall be an annual review of performance and compensation by the Selectboard.

(4) Before entering into the duties of office, the Manager shall be sworn to the impartial and faithful performance thereof with a certificate to that effect to be filed with the Town Clerk.

(5) Removal.

(A) On 90 days' written notice, the Manager may be removed without cause by a majority of the Selectboard so voting at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on removal. During the 90-day period, the Manager may be suspended with pay.

(B) The Selectboard may adopt a resolution stating its intention to remove the Manager and reasons therefore, a copy of which shall be sent to the Manager. The Manager may, within 10 days after notice is sent, request a hearing that shall be held by the Selectboard not less than 10 days nor more than 20 days from the date of the request, after which the Selectboard may dismiss the Manager. If no request for a hearing is filed, the Selectboard may dismiss the Manager immediately. During the period after the resolution of intention is adopted and until the Manager's dismissal, he or she may be suspended with pay.

(C) Termination of benefits will be determined by the Selectboard in conjunction with legal counsel.

(b) Acting Town Manager.

(1) In the event the Town Manager shall be absent from Town for a period of up to two consecutive weeks, he or she may designate an Acting Manager with Selectboard approval who shall exercise the duties of the Manager. The Town Manager may overrule the actions of the Acting Manager.

(2) In the event the Manager is unable to discharge his or her duties or in the event the Manager is suspended or placed on administrative leave, the Selectboard shall appoint an Acting Manager to serve until the Manager is able to assume regular duties or a new Manager is appointed. The Acting Manager appointed to fill a declared vacancy in the office shall have all powers and perform all duties of the Manager. An Acting Manager shall be reviewed within 180 days.

(3) In no case shall a serving Selectboard member act as the Acting Town Manager.

(c) Collector of Delinquent Taxes. These duties shall be assumed by the Town Manager or the Town Manager's designee.

(d) Assistant Town Treasurer. The Town Treasurer may appoint an Assistant Town Treasurer who may be delegated some or all of the powers of the Town Treasurer on a temporary basis by the Town Treasurer upon notice to the Town Manager and the School Superintendent. The Assistant Town Treasurer shall be compensated at the same rate as the Town Treasurer when exercising the powers of the Town Treasurer. In the event the office of Town Treasurer becomes vacant, the Assistant Town Treasurer shall become the Town Treasurer for the remainder of the Town Treasurer's term of office.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 401 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 215 / Section 401
App. § 215-401. Appointment of police officers
Status: in_force

The trustees of said Village shall have power to, and may appoint such number of police officers within said Village, as said Trustees may judge necessary for the interest of the inhabitants of said Village, by writing under their hands, which shall be recorded in the office of the Village Clerk; and such appointment may be revoked at any time.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 175 / Section 4
App. § 175-4. Powers of the Town
Status: in_force

(a) The Town of Woodford shall have all the powers granted to towns and municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of the State and by this charter, together with all the implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers granted. The Town of Woodford may enact ordinances not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Vermont or with this charter and may impose penalties for violation thereof.

(b) The Town may acquire real property within or without its corporate limits necessary or convenient for any lawful purpose, in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, or otherwise, consistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Vermont, and may sell, lease, mortgage, hold, manage, and control such property as its interest may require consistent with the Constitution and laws of the State by vote of a majority of the voters present and voting at a duly warned meeting. Once the voters have approved the sale, lease, or mortgage of property of the Town of Woodford, the Selectboard shall have the full authority to sign all conveyances and legal documents in the name of the Town to complete the transaction.

(c) In this charter, no mention of a particular power shall be construed to be exclusive or to restrict the scope of powers that the Town would have if the particular powers were not mentioned, unless this charter otherwise provides.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 7 / Section 4
App. § 7-4. Voter qualifications
Status: in_force

The qualifications of a voter in City meetings shall be the same as are required of voters in town meetings.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 205 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 106 / Section 205
App. § 106-205. Existing Water and Sewer Departments
Status: in_force

(a) As approved by the majority of the voters of the Village of Bradford, the supervision, management, control, and operation of the Village public water supply system and the Village public sewage system shall be vested in a Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners of the Town of Bradford consisting of five persons, each of whom shall be a ratepayer and resident of the Town of Bradford. The Water and Sewer Commissioners shall be elected as outlined in section 206a of this charter.

(b) The water system of the Village of Bradford taken over by the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners of the Town of Bradford and any additions thereto shall be maintained separate from all other departments of the Town, and all rents and revenues therefrom not necessary for current expenditures therefor shall be placed in a special fund, no part of which may be used for any other purpose.

(c) The sewage system of the Village of Bradford (not including the separate storm sewer pipelines) taken over by the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners of the Town of Bradford and all extensions thereto shall be maintained separate from all other departments of the Town, and all rents and revenues therefrom not necessary for current expenditures therefor shall be placed in a special fund, no part of which may be used for any other purpose.