24 V.S.A. § 1824 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 53 / Section 1824
§ 1824. Specific provisions
Status: in_force

(a) Generally. Any pledge of net revenues or bond proceeds and earnings thereon made by a municipal corporation under this subchapter shall be binding from the time when the pledge is made. Net revenues or bond proceeds and earnings thereon to be pledged and thereafter received by the municipal corporation shall immediately be subject to the lien of the pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any pledge shall be binding against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the municipal corporation, irrespective of whether the parties have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor any other instrument by which a pledge is created need be filed or recorded except in the records of the municipal corporation.

(b) Special covenants. The contracts and bonds entered into and issued under section 1822 of this title may contain provisions relating to:

(1) pledging all or any part of the net revenues of the public utility system or project in order to secure the payment of the bonds, or any part thereof, subject to such agreements with bondholders as may then exist;

(2) the imposition or maintenance of rates, fees, or charges, subject to regulatory requirements, to generate revenues at least sufficient to provide for the costs of operation and maintenance of the public utility system and for payment of principal of and interest on all bonds issued in connection with such public utility as the same shall become due;

(3) the imposition or maintenance of rates, fees, and charges, subject to regulatory requirements, as a multiple of principal and interest payments on bonds of the municipality issued under this subchapter;

(4) periodic review of the financial condition of the public utility system for the purpose of estimating whether its revenues will be sufficient to comply with agreements with the holders of its bonds;

(5) limitations, terms, and conditions with respect to the refunding or redemption of the bonds;

(6) limitations, terms, and conditions with respect to the issuance of additional bonds in connection with the public utility system for which the bonds are issued, except bonds secured by a subordinate pledge of net revenues;

(7) limitations on the purpose to which the proceeds of sale of bonds may be applied and pledging the proceeds to secure the payment of the bonds or of any issue thereof;

(8) the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any agreement with bondholders may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which consent may be given;

(9) requirements for the maintenance and operation of the utility system in accordance with prudent utility practice and regulatory requirements;

(10) vesting in a trustee or trustees, within or without the State, the right to receive all or any part of the net revenue pledged and assigned to, or for the benefit of, the holder or holders of bonds issued hereunder, and to hold, apply, and dispose of the same; and vesting in the trustee or trustees such rights, powers, and duties in trust as the trustee may need to recover the amounts pledged to the holders of the municipal corporation's bonds and to enforce any covenants made by the municipal corporation to secure its bonds, and limiting or abrogating the right of the holders of its bonds to appoint a trustee under this subchapter or limiting the rights, powers, and duties of the trustee;

(11) prescribing what acts or omissions of the municipality shall constitute “events of default” and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of such bonds shall become or may be declared due before maturity and as to the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived;

(12) limitations on the rights, liabilities, powers, and duties arising upon the breach by it of any covenant, conditions, or obligations;

(13) a definition, subject to regulatory requirements, of the standard of care, maintenance, and operation of the public utility project, including the maintenance of insurance and the application of proceeds of policies of insurance and condemnation awards thereon;

(14) the pledge of proceeds to be derived upon the sale or disposition of the public utility project for the purpose of paying bonds issued by the municipal corporation for such project or defeasing the lien securing said bonds;

(15) limitations on the right of the municipal corporation to encumber, sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of property used in public service operations of the public utility system; except for the sale, lease, or disposition of a part of such property, which in the reasonable judgment of the municipality has become unserviceable, obsolete, worn out, or no longer necessary in the operations of the public utility system or has been replaced by other property, and except for encumbrances in connection with bonds secured by a subordinate pledge of net revenues;

(16) the bonds to be issued, the issuance of its bonds in escrow or otherwise, and the use and disposition of the proceeds thereof; provisions for the replacement of lost, destroyed, or mutilated bonds; prohibitions against extending the time for the payment of its bonds or interest thereon and to redeem its bonds and provisions for their redemption and the terms and conditions thereof; and

(17) the creation of special funds for construction or operating costs, debt service, reserve, or similar purposes and covenanting as to the use and disposition and investment of the monies held in such funds.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 904 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 13 / Section 904
App. § 13-904. Powers and duties
Status: in_force

(a) The Manager shall carry out the policies laid down by the Council and to that end he or she shall be the Chief Executive Officer and the head of the administrative branch of the City government and shall be responsible to the Council for the efficient administration thereof.

(b) The Manager shall attend all meetings of the Council, except when his or her removal is being considered, and keep them informed of the financial condition and future needs of the City and shall make such reports as may be required by law, this charter, or ordinance or may be requested by the Council. He or she shall make such other reports and recommendations as he or she may deem advisable, but may not vote. He or she shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by this charter or required of him or her by law, ordinance, or resolution of the Council not inconsistent with this charter.

(c) The Manager shall be an ex-officio member of all standing committees except the Zoning Board, but may not vote.

(d) The Manager shall prepare the annual budget and submit it to the Council and be responsible for its administration after adoption, in accordance with subchapter 13 of this charter.

(e) The Manager shall compile for general distribution at the end of each fiscal year a complete report on the finances and administrative activities of the City for the year.

(f) The Manager shall provide to the Council a monthly financial statement, with a copy to the City Treasurer.

(g) The Manager shall be responsible for the enforcement of all City laws and ordinances.

(h) The Manager shall be responsible for the collection of all taxes due the City.

(i) The Manager shall be the General Purchasing Agent of the City and purchase all supplies for every department thereof.

(j) The Manager shall be responsible for the system of accounts, except where otherwise delegated under this charter.

(k) The Manager shall be responsible for the operation of all departments of the City not otherwise provided for in this charter or the laws of the State.

(l) The Manager shall have exclusive authority to appoint, fix the salary of, suspend, and remove all employees of the City appointed by him or her subject to the provisions of this charter. He or she should advise the Council of his or her intention before appointing, removing, or suspending the head of a department.

(m) The Manager may, when advisable or proper, delegate to subordinate officers and employees of the City, any duties conferred upon him or her by this charter or by action of the Council, and hold them responsible for the faithful discharge of such duties, but the City Manager shall remain ultimately responsible to the Council for all administrative actions under his or her jurisdiction.

(n) The Manager, by letter filed with the City Clerk, may appoint an officer or employee of the City to perform his or her duties during his or her temporary absence or disability. In the event of failure of the Manager to make such designation, the Council may by resolution appoint an officer or employee of the City to perform the duties of the Manager until he or she shall return or his or her disability shall cease. However, if the Manager has within his or her administration formed and appointed the position of Assistant City Manager, said Assistant shall automatically assume the Manager's responsibilities during his or her temporary absence or disability.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123B / Section 2
App. § 123B-2. General law; application
Status: in_force

Except when changed by the provisions of this charter, all provisions of the statutes of the State of Vermont relating to municipalities shall apply to the Town of Jamaica.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 24.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 24.02
App. § 9-24.2. Powers and duties of Commissioner
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of Public Works shall be the Superintendent of Streets, Superintendent of Sewage and Disposal, Superintendent of Water Works, and City Tree Warden. Together with the City Engineer, the Commissioner shall be responsible for making all public surveys of public streets, water courses, bridges and culverts, sewers, and ground of said City and all plans and specifications for the construction, improvement, and repair thereof. In carrying out these duties the Commissioner shall consider long range planning for the development of the City and keep proper records of all matters relative to the office. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to perform such additional duties as may be required by the Board of Aldermen.
24 V.S.A. § 4328 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4328
§ 4328. Terms of office inconsistent with charter provisions
Status: in_force

When a charter of a municipality exists having terms respecting the appointment and authority of municipal officials, relating to their activities under this chapter, which terms are inconsistent with this chapter, those terms of that charter shall prevail.
24 V.S.A. § 3262 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 87 / Section 3262
§ 3262. Written agreements; consent of property owners; energy savings analysis
Status: in_force

(a) Upon an affirmative vote made pursuant to section 3261 of this title and the performance of an energy savings analysis pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, an owner of a dwelling, as defined in Section 103(v) of the federal Truth in Lending Act, within the boundaries of a district may enter into a written agreement with the municipality that shall constitute the owner's consent to be subject to a special assessment, as set forth in section 3255 of this title. Entry into such an agreement may occur only after January 1, 2012. A participating municipality shall follow underwriting criteria established by the Department of Financial Regulation, and shall establish other qualifying criteria to provide an adequate level of assurance that property owners will have the ability to meet assessment payment obligations. A participating municipality shall refuse to enter into a written agreement with a property owner who fails to meet the underwriting or other qualifying criteria.

(b) Prior to entering into a written agreement, a property owner shall have an analysis performed to quantify the project costs and energy savings and estimated carbon impacts of the proposed energy improvements, including an annual cash-flow analysis. This analysis shall be conducted by the entities appointed as energy efficiency utilities under 30 V.S.A. § 209(d)(2), or conducted by another entity deemed qualified by the participating municipality. All analyses shall be reviewed and approved by the entities appointed as energy efficiency utilities.

(c) A written agreement shall provide that:

(1) The length of time allowed for the property owner to repay the assessment shall not exceed the life expectancy of the project. In instances where multiple projects have been installed, the length of time shall not exceed the average lifetime of all projects, weighted by cost. Lifetimes of projects shall be determined by the entities appointed as energy efficiency utilities under 30 V.S.A. § 209(d)(2) or another qualified technical entity designated by a participating municipality.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law:

(A) At the time of a transfer of property ownership including foreclosure, the past due balances of any special assessment under this subchapter shall be due for payment, but future payments shall continue as a lien on the property.

(B) In the event of a foreclosure action, the past due balances described in subdivision (A) of this subdivision (2) shall include all payments on an assessment under this subchapter that are due and unpaid as of the date the action is filed, and all payments on the assessment that become due after that date and that accrue up to and including the date title to the property is transferred to the mortgage holder, the lien holder, or a third party in the foreclosure action. The person or entity acquiring title to the property in the foreclosure action shall be responsible for payments on the assessment that become due after the date of such acquisition.

(3) A participating municipality shall disclose to participating property owners each of the following:

(A) the risks associated with participating in the program, including risks related to the failure of participating property owners to make payments and the risk of foreclosure;

(B) the provisions of subsection (h) of this section that pertain to prepayment of the assessment.

(d) A written agreement or notice of such agreement and the analysis performed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall be filed with the clerk of the applicable municipality for recording in the land records of that municipality and shall be disclosed to potential buyers prior to transfer of property ownership. Personal financial information provided to a municipality by a participating property owner or potential participating property owner shall not be subject to disclosure as set forth in 1 V.S.A. § 317(c)(7). If a notice of agreement is filed instead of the full written agreement, the notice shall attach the analysis performed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section and shall include at least each of the following:

(1) the name of the property owner as grantor;

(2) the name of the municipality as grantee;

(3) the date of the agreement;

(4) a legal description of the real property against which the assessment is made pursuant to the agreement;

(5) the amount of the assessment and the period during which the assessment will be made on the property;

(6) a statement that the assessment will remain a lien on the property until paid in full or released; and

(7) the location at which the original or a true, legible copy of the agreement may be examined.

(e) At least 30 days prior to entering into a written agreement, the property owner shall provide to the holders of any existing mortgages on the property notice of his or her intent to enter into the written agreement.

(f) The total amount of assessments under this subchapter shall not exceed more than 15 percent of the assessed value of the property. The combined amount of the assessment plus any outstanding mortgage obligations for the property shall not exceed 90 percent of the assessed value of that property.

(g) With respect to an agreement under this section:

(1) the assessments to be repaid under the agreement, when calculated as if they were the repayment of a loan, shall not violate 9 V.S.A. §§ 41a, 43, 44, and 46-50;

(2) the maximum length of time for the owner to repay the assessment shall not exceed 20 years; and

(3) the maximum amount to be repaid for the project, including the participating property owner's contribution to the reserve fund under subsection 3269(c) of this title, shall not exceed $30,000.00 or 15 percent of the assessed value of the property, whichever is less.

(h) There shall be no penalty or premium for prepayment of the outstanding balance of an assessment under this subchapter if the balance is prepaid in full.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 701
App. § 103-701. Town powers
Status: in_force

The Town may make, alter, and repeal ordinances relating to management, operation, maintenance, replacement, and extension of a Town water system and may fix, and from time to time alter, water rates, insofar as such ordinances and water rates are not in conflict with the deeds of gift to the Village of Bennington and Village of North Bennington.
24 V.S.A. § 4706 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4706
§ 4706. Personal liability
Status: in_force

Neither the members of the Bank nor any person executing bonds or notes issued under this chapter are liable personally on the bonds or notes.
24 V.S.A. § 4902 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 121 / Section 4902
§ 4902. Contents of contract
Status: in_force

(a) The contract shall set forth fully the purposes, powers, rights, and objectives, and responsibilities of the contracting parties.

(b) The contract may provide:

(1) That one person shall hold the same office or offices in the participating municipalities, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary.

(2) The method of choosing officers by election or appointment, the term of office, the compensation of, or mode of setting the compensation of, and the authority to discharge, a person holding office under subdivision (1) of this subsection.

(3) For any duly constituted local or regional board to have jurisdiction in all the municipalities.

(4) For a transfer of a local service function or activity or a portion thereof, previously authorized or exercised by a municipality, to another municipality.

(5) For the acquisition and maintenance of property, forces, and services which the municipalities participating in the contract are authorized by law to acquire and maintain.

(6) For the use of any property, equipment, or personnel of a municipality that is a party to the contract in connection with a joint service or activity authorized by the terms of the contract.

(7) For the deposit of funds appropriated, received, or contributed for purposes of any joint municipal activity or service in one or more special bank accounts, and for designation of persons authorized to have custody of and to draw on such funds.

(8) For the exercise of any powers consistent with law in order to carry out the purposes contemplated in the contract.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 204 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 204
App. § 131-204. 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. § 1705 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 1705
App. § 269-1705. Amendment of charter
Status: in_force

This charter may be amended as set forth by the general law of this State.
24 V.S.A. § 4018 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 113 / Section 4018
§ 4018. Powers may be conferred on obligee
Status: in_force

An authority shall have power by its resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, lease, or other contract to confer upon any obligee holding or representing a specified amount in bonds, or holding a lease, the right, in addition to all rights that may be otherwise conferred, upon the happening of an event of default as defined in such resolution or instrument, by suit, action, or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction:

(1) To cause possession of any housing project or any part thereof to be surrendered to any such obligee.

(2) To obtain the appointment of a receiver of any housing project of said authority or any part thereof and of the rents and profits therefrom. If such receiver be appointed, he or she may enter and take possession of such housing project or any part thereof and operate and maintain the same and collect and receive all fees, rents, revenues, or other charges thereafter arising therefrom and shall keep such monies in a separate account or accounts and apply the same in accordance with the obligations of said authority as the court shall direct.

(3) To require said authority and the commissioners thereof to account as if it and they were the trustees of an express trust. (1961, No. 212, § 18, eff. July 11, 1961.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 401 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 401
App. § 4-401. City meetings and elections
Status: in_force

(a) Annually on or before January 1, the Council shall set the date of the next annual meeting, at which time the voters shall vote for the election of officers, the voting on the City budget, and any other business included in the warnings for the meetings.

(b) Provisions of the laws of the State of Vermont relating to the qualifications of electors, the manner of voting, the duties of elections officers, and all other particulars respective to preparation for, conducting, and management of elections, so far as they may be applicable, shall govern all municipal elections, and all general and special meetings, except as otherwise provided in this charter.

(c) The election of officers and the voting on all questions shall be by Australian ballot system. The City Clerk and Board of Civil Authority shall conduct elections in accordance with general laws of the State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 7
App. § 3-7. Age and residence requirements
Status: in_force

Every citizen of this State not less than 18 years of age who has taken the Freeman's (Voter's) Oath, who resides in said City and who has registered to vote with the Board for Registration of Voters no later than the deadline established by Vermont law prior to any warned City or ward or City district election or any annual or special City meeting shall be a legal voter at said election or meeting, and no other person shall be allowed to vote at such election or meeting.
24 V.S.A. § 2251 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 61 / Section 2251
§ 2251. Application for certificate of approved location
Status: in_force

Application for a certificate of approved location shall be made in writing to the legislative body of the municipality where the salvage yard is located or where it is proposed to be located, and, in municipalities having a zoning bylaw, subdivision regulations established under sections 4301-4498 of this title, or a municipal ordinance or rule established under sections 1971-1984 of this title, the application shall be accompanied by a certificate from the legislative body or a public body designated by the legislative body. The legislative body or its designee shall find the proposed salvage yard location is not within an established district restricted against such uses or otherwise contrary to the requirements or prohibitions of such zoning bylaw or other municipal ordinance. The application shall contain a description of the land to be included within the salvage yard, which description shall be by reference to so-called permanent boundary markers.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1306 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 13 / Section 1306
App. § 13-1306. Departmental budget
Status: in_force

The budget for all departments shall include all proposed expenditures, and the Council and Board of School Directors shall make a gross appropriation for each department for the ensuing fiscal year. The gross appropriation for each department of the City and School District shall not be exceeded except for consent of the Council and Board of Directors, respectively.
24 V.S.A. § 4753b — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 120 / Section 4753b
§ 4753b. Acceptance of funds
Status: in_force

(a) The Commissioner of Environmental Conservation, with the approval of the Secretary of Natural Resources, may accept federal grants made available through the federal Clean Water Act and the federal Drinking Water Act in accordance with this chapter. Acceptance of this grant money is hereby approved, provided all notifications are made under subsection 4760(a) of this title.

(b) The Commissioner shall report receipt of a grant under this section to the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Institutions and the House Committee on Corrections and Institutions and the Joint Fiscal Committee.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 407 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 407
App. § 1-407. Appointments
Status: in_force

(a) Any provision of general law conferring the appointing power or other power upon the Mayor, the Mayor and City Council, the City Council, or other executive heads of a municipality shall be construed as meaning the City Manager and the appointments or power exercised by the City Manager, in accordance with such provision, shall be given the same force and effect as if executed by the official named therein, except as herein otherwise provided.

(b) There shall be appointed by the City Manager after the annual City election in the manner as hereinafter provided a Superintendent of Streets, a Superintendent of Waterworks, a Recreation Director, a City Engineer, a Building Inspector, an Inspector of Electric Wiring, a Tree Warden, and three members of the Board of Health (see section 512 of this charter, Board of Health). All officers shall hold their offices respectively for one year or until their successors shall be appointed and qualified. The City Manager may also appoint such other subordinate officers as may be elected or appointed in towns. Members of the various boards shall be appointed in the same manner, who shall hold office as otherwise herein provided or until their successor shall be appointed and qualified.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 95 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 95
App. § 3-95. Abstracts sufficient for returns to Secretary of State
Status: in_force

In making returns of the abstract of said grand list to the Secretary of State, no further abstract of the individual lists of the taxpayers in said City than that hereinbefore provided for shall be required.
24 V.S.A. § 4621 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4621
§ 4621. Form of obligation; faith and credit
Status: in_force

(a) Bonds and notes issued under this chapter are not in any way a debt or liability of the State and do not create or constitute any indebtedness, liability or obligation of the State nor are they or do they constitute a pledge of the faith and credit of the State but all such bonds and notes, unless funded or refunded by bonds or notes of the Bank, are payable solely from revenues or funds pledged or available for their payment as authorized herein. Each bond and note other than bonds or notes issued in book entry form must contain on its face a statement to the effect that the Bank is obligated to pay the principal thereof and the interest thereon only from revenues or funds of the Bank and that the State is not obligated to pay the principal or interest and that neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the bonds or notes.

(b) The State does pledge to and agree with the holders of the bonds or notes issued under this chapter, that the State will not limit or restrict the rights hereby vested in the Bank to purchase, acquire, hold, sell, or dispose of municipal bonds, revenue bonds, or other investments or to make loans to governmental units or to establish and collect such fees or other charges as may be convenient or necessary to produce sufficient revenues to meet the expenses of operation of the Bank, and to fulfill the terms of any agreement made with the holders of its bonds or notes or in any way impair the rights or remedies of the holders of those bonds or notes until the bonds and notes, together with interest thereon, and interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceedings by or on behalf of the holders, are fully met, paid, and discharged.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1706 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 1706
App. § 269-1706. Reference to statute
Status: in_force

If any matter mentioned in this charter is said to be controlled by a special statute, the reference to the statute shall include the statute as amended or renumbered or any statute substituted therefor and having a similar subject matter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 206 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 106 / Section 206
App. § 106-206. Special districts
Status: in_force

(a) The Selectboard may designate areas apart from the rest of the Town as special service districts and may provide the voters therein with special services not common to all the voters of the Town, provided that the majority of the voters residing in the respective designated areas and present and voting at the district meeting on the subject shall have approved of such resolution.

(b) Such area shall be reasonable geographically, taking into account the areas and persons actually benefited, the types of services to be provided, and the fact that the efficiency of providing multiple services in a single special service district might outweigh the fact that the areas and voters benefiting from the respective services might not coincide exactly. All costs required to support a given special service shall be paid for by the taxpayers receiving said service, by a tax on the grand list in the special service district involved to be assessed annually by the Selectboard, or in such other manner as the Selectboard determines. 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 any part of the grand list shall be a lien thereon.

(c) All funds of any special service shall be kept in a special fund, no part of which may be used for any other purpose.

(d) The warning for each annual or special Town meeting may contain appropriate articles under which the legal voters residing in any special district may separately vote.

(e) The Selectboard shall designate the Village of Bradford as a special district for the purpose of collecting taxes to pay bond No. 1996, series 1, 81-0394-01-5. Taxes paid to the Village special district shall be used to meet the obligations incurred by the Village under bond No. 1996, series 1, 81-0394-01-5 for the repair and maintenance of roads and highways. When the bond is completely paid, the Village special district shall cease to exist. The Village special district shall be defined by the geographic limits of the Village set forth in the Village zoning map recorded in the land records of the Town of Bradford.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 18 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 901 / Section 18
App. § 901-18. Vice Chair
Status: in_force

The Vice Chair shall preside during the absence of the Chair or in the event the Chair elects not to preside. In either case, the Vice Chair shall have the same duties and authority as the Chair.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 10
App. § 101-10. Elected officers; general
Status: repealed

(a) The following officers shall be elected by the legal voters of the Town of Barre and voting for the officers shall be by Australian ballot:

(1) five Selectboard members;

(2) [Repealed.]

(3) one Clerk; and

(4) one Moderator.

(b) The Office of Clerk may be changed to an appointive office upon approval by the voters at any annual meeting of the Town.

(c) Only a voter of the Town of Barre may seek election to or hold a Town elective office, and no person may hold more than one Town elective office at the same time. No person shall hold offices that are defined as incompatible in Vermont statutes.

(d) Vacancies occurring in any elective office shall be filled by a majority vote of the Selectboard. The appointment shall be valid until the next annual Town election, at which time the voters shall elect a person to fill the position for the unexpired term.

(e) Except as otherwise provided in this charter, all elected officers shall perform the duties prescribed by ordinance.

(f) [Repealed.]
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 225 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 225
App. § 3-225. Powers of Board
Status: in_force

(a) The City Council shall, in addition to the other powers granted to it under this charter, have power to make all necessary repairs, extensions, or improvements to said works, and to provide new supply pipes within the City.

(b) The City Council may pledge the credit of the City and incur obligations to be paid in installments over a period of years and only from revenues of the Water Division of the Public Works Department to pay the cost of such improvements and additions to the property and equipment of the Water Division of the Public Works Department as, in the judgment of the City Council, the interests of the City require to be made and, for the purpose of paying such costs, may pledge, assign, or otherwise hypothecate such portion of the net earnings or profits of the Water Division of the Public Works Department from year to year as may be required to pay such installments, and the City Council shall authorize and direct the execution and issuance of such contracts and evidences of indebtedness as may be necessary to so pledge the credit of the City for the payment of such obligations in such installments from the net earnings of the Water Division of the Public Works Department, such contracts and evidences of indebtedness to be in such form and to contain such provisions and to be executed by such officers as the City Council may by resolution provide; provided, however, that all such obligations and all installments thereof shall be payable only from the net earnings or profits of the Water Division of the Public Works Department and shall not constitute an indebtedness of the City or impose an obligation or liability upon the City to pay the same from any funds of the City other than such net earnings or profits, and in case revenue bonds of the City are issued for such obligations, the same shall not be subject to the bonding limit provided by law.

(c) The City Council shall also have all the powers and duties of sewage disposal commissioners under the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 101.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 45 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 405 / Section 45
App. § 405-45. Public hearings
Status: in_force

Not less than three nor more than 14 days prior to any special meeting called by the Board of Commissioners, at least one public hearing shall be held by the Board of Commissioners at which time the issues under consideration shall be presented and comments received. Notice of such public hearing shall include the publication of a warning in a newspaper of general circulation in the District at least once a week, on the same day of the week, for three consecutive weeks, the last publication not less than five nor more than 10 days before the public hearing.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 254 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 254
App. § 3-254. Acceptance of service
Status: in_force

Service of such citation may be accepted by any or all persons therein named by endorsing their acceptance in writing thereon.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 802 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 802
App. § 103-802. Merger of municipalities within Town
Status: in_force

(a) Any municipality with the Town of Bennington that votes to surrender its existing charter and dissolve under this charter shall cease to exist as a corporate body and political entity on the January 1st next succeeding, unless such vote becomes final or after October 1st in any year, in which event the municipality shall cease to exist as a corporate body and political entity on the March 1st next succeeding.

(b) All assets of any municipality that surrender its existing charter or dissolves under this charter shall become the property of the Town of Bennington on the day such municipality ceases to exist under subsection (a) of this section.

(c) All liabilities of any municipality that surrenders its existing charter or dissolves under this charter that are outstanding obligations of such municipality on the day it ceases to exist under subsection (a) of this section, including the bonded indebtedness of such municipality, shall become liabilities of the Town of Bennington on the day such municipality ceases to exist under subsection (a) of this section.
24 V.S.A. § 292 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 292
§ 292. Office vacant
Status: in_force

When such sheriff neglects to become so bound within 15 days from the beginning of his or her term of office, the office of sheriff shall be vacant.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 286 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 286
App. § 3-286. Board of Medical Examiners-Created; duties; composition; terms; compensation
Status: in_force

(a) There shall be maintained in said City a Board of Medical Examiners of three members who shall perform such duties as may be required of them by the City Council and Retirement Board.

(b) The City Council shall appoint the members of the Board of Medical Examiners. The services and expenses of said medical examiners shall be paid as directed by the City Council.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 41 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 126 / Section 41
App. § 126-41. Town meetings and elections; application of general law
Status: in_force

Those provisions of State law relating to voter qualification, warnings, method of voting, the duties of Town officers at Town meetings and elections, and all other matters relating to preparation for, conducting, and managing Town meetings and elections shall, so far as they may be applicable, govern all Town elections and all annual and special Town meetings.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 34 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 34
App. § 101-34. Board of Abatement
Status: in_force

(a) The Board of Civil Authority, together with the Treasurer and the Assessor, shall constitute the Board of Abatement. The Chair and Clerk of the Board of Civil Authority shall serve as the Chair and Clerk, respectively, of the Board of Abatement.

(b) The Board shall meet at least one time each year, at the call of the Clerk, to consider all requests for abatement of any tax, assessment, charge, or other levy made by the Town, or of any penalties, interest, and other delinquent charges.

(c) Public notice of every meeting of the Board of Abatement shall be given by posting at the municipal building, on the official Town website, and at least three other public places within the Town, as designated by the Selectboard, and by publishing the notice two times in a newspaper having general circulation within the Town within at least two and not more than 10 days prior to the meeting.

(d) Any taxpayer may request abatement of any tax, assessment, charge, or other levy, or any other penalties, interest, and other delinquent charges for which that individual is or may become liable. The Tax Collector may also submit to the Board for its consideration such taxes, assessment charges, or other levies, or penalties, interest, and other delinquent charges as the Tax Collector may see fit and may also offer recommendations to the Board. If the Board finds:

(1) that there is no reasonable probability of collection; or

(2) that the tax, assessment, charge, or other levy was not properly assessed; or

(3) that all persons liable for tax, assessment, charge, or other levy have died or removed from the State; or

(4) that the persons liable for the tax, assessment, charge, or other levy are financially unable to pay same; or

(5) that collection of the tax, assessment, charge, or other levy would work an injustice; or

(6) that collection of the tax, assessment, charge, or other levy would create an undue expense for the Town, then the Board may abate the tax, assessment, charge, or other levy, or the accrued penalties, interest, and other delinquent charges in whole or in part. If wholly abated, all accrued penalties, interests, and other delinquent charges shall also abate in full. If partly abated, such penalties, interests, and charges shall abate pro rata.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 195 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 195
App. § 3-195. Compensation to be set by Council
Status: in_force

The compensation of all police officers, including that of the Chief of Police, shall be fixed by the City Council, and all fees accruing to them under the laws of the State or the provisions of this charter shall belong to said City and shall be paid into the City Treasury.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 11 / Section 7
App. § 11-7. Vacancies
Status: in_force

(a) If a member of the City Council, during his or her term, removes from the ward that he or she represents, his or her office shall become vacant upon removal from the ward.

(b) In case of a vacancy in the office of Mayor, the remaining members of the City Council shall direct the Clerk to call an election of a Mayor by Australian ballot.

(c) In case of a vacancy in the office of a City Council member, the remaining members of the City Council shall direct the Clerk to call an election of a City Council member by Australian ballot by the legal voters of the ward in which such vacancy occurs, to fill such vacancy for an unexpired term. However, if a vacancy occurs in the Office of a City Council member during the last year of the Council member's term and after the annual meeting of the City in that year, an appointment shall be made by the City Council for the balance of the term remaining.

(d) In case of a vacancy in the Office of the City Clerk or City Treasurer, the vacancy shall be handled in accordance with subsections 12(b) and 13(b) of this charter.

(e) School board vacancies shall be handled in accordance with 16 V.S.A. § 424.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 24 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 245 / Section 24
App. § 245-24. Powers exercised through trustees
Status: in_force

The powers granted to the Village hereunder shall be exercised by its trustees, who shall have the supervision of the Village's electric and communications plants as provided for herein and not inconsistent with law:

(1) Sewer system: The Village shall have such powers and the trustees shall have such duties with reference to the municipal sewer system that are in existence as set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapters 97 and 101 or any amendments thereto. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the trustees shall have the supervision of such municipal sewer department, and shall make and establish all needful sewer rates, rules, and regulations for its control and operation.

(2) The trustees shall hire a person to superintend the physical operation of the water, electric, and sewer systems, and communications plant, and provide such person with written guidelines of his or her duties. Said Superintendent shall be responsible for the proper and efficient maintenance and operation of the systems in accordance with such guidelines. The Superintendent shall report once each month to the trustees, and once each year shall make a written report to the trustees. Such written report shall be included in the annual report of the Village of Morrisville. The books and bank accounts of the water, electric, and sewer systems, and communications plant, shall be kept separate from the other books and accounts of the Village. The rents and receipts for the use of such municipal utilities shall only be used and applied to pay the interest upon the bonds in existence for such utility systems, the expense of repairs, improvements, and management of the utility department, and in payment of the utility bonds. The money received from the operation of such municipal utilities shall not be used for any other purposes until all such bonds, notes, or other certificates of indebtedness have been paid.

(3) Any improvements to the nonelectric utility systems that in the aggregate exceed $100,000.00 as adjusted annually for inflation for the water department, or that in the aggregate exceed $100,000.00 as adjusted annually for inflation for the sewer department, shall require the approval of a majority of the legally-qualified voters of the Village present and voting at either an annual or special meeting called and warned for that purpose.

(4) The trustees shall establish rates of rents to be charged and paid by the users of said water, electric, and sewer systems, and communication service, at such times and in such manner as they may determine, and may alter, modify, increase, or decrease such rates and extend them to any description of property or use. Such rates or rents with the charges for wiring and piping shall be chargeable to and may be collected from the owners of the property supplied with the same, unless otherwise agreed upon by the trustees and such owners. All such rents with charges for wiring and piping 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 tax assessed by said Village. The Village may order all rents for water, electric, sewer, and communications service, to be paid in advance, and may make all necessary provisions and orders relating to the supply or stoppage of water, electric, sewer, and communications service, as it may deem expedient to insure the payment of such rents.

(5) The owners of property abutting or adjacent to any street or alley through which a public sewer or drain has been constructed shall construct, under the direction of the trustees, or their designate, a suitable sewer or drain from his or her said property and properly connect the same with the said public sewer or drain. If, after 20 days' notice in writing by the trustees to such owner of such property of such requirement, such owner fails or neglects to construct or connect such sewer or drain, the trustees shall enter upon the property and make such connection, assessing therefor the actual costs of so doing against the said property and the owner thereof. Said trustees shall file in the land records of the Town of Morristown an itemized statement of the costs of constructing and connecting said sewer or drain, and the amount so assessed shall be and remain a lien upon said property, and shall be enforced and collected in the same manner as is provided in this charter for the enforcement and collection of taxes and other assessments.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 43 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 261 / Section 43
App. § 261-43. Injuries to water rights; penalties
Status: in_force

A person who diverts any part of the water from the sources taken by the Village pursuant to the preceding sections, without the written consent of the trustees, or who maliciously destroys or injures a dam, reservoir, aqueduct, pipe, hydrant, or any similar property, or property appurtenant thereto or breaks down or tears away any property placed to protect the same, which is held, owned, or used by said Village, or wantonly or maliciously diverts any part of the water from an aqueduct belonging to said Village, or corrupts such water or renders it impure, either within such reservoir or reservoirs, or in such sources as lead thereto, or obstructs its flow by unnecessarily depositing any foreign substances therein, or wantonly or maliciously interferes with the distribution and flow of the water of said aqueduct by altering, opening, or shutting a stop cock, gate, hydrant or gage in or attached to said aqueduct, or shall maliciously interfere with or injure said electric light wires, lamps, connections, or appurtenances, shall be fined not more than $50.00 or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both, in the discretion of the court, and shall forfeit to the Village the damages occasioned by such malicious act, to be recovered with costs in an action on the case founded in this statute.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 104 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 104
App. § 3-104. Taxes to be paid in installments
Status: in_force

Except when otherwise provided, whenever any tax shall be assessed on the property grand list by the City Council, the tax bill shall be delivered to the Chief Administrative Officer, to whom the taxes so assessed shall be paid, one-quarter of such tax shall be paid to said Chief Administrative Officer within 15 days from the time the tax bill for the same is delivered to him or her; one-quarter of such tax shall be paid to said Treasurer within three months and 15 days from the date when said tax bill is delivered to him or her; and one-quarter of such tax shall be paid to the Chief Administrative Officer within seven months and 15 days from the date when said tax bill is delivered to him or her; and one-quarter of such tax shall be paid to the Chief Administrative Officer within 10 months and 15 days from the date when said tax bill is delivered to said Chief Administrative Officer. All installments of said taxes as received by said Chief Administrative Officer shall be applied by him or her first to payment of any personal property tax and next to payment of any real estate tax. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Finance may establish and amend from time to time a discount that shall be available to a taxpayer who pays the entirety of the real estate taxes due on a particular piece of property on or before the payment due date for the first installment of such real estate taxes; provided, however, that any such discount shall not affect the City's liability to the State for education property taxes.
24 V.S.A. § 75 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 3 / Section 75
§ 75. Telephone
Status: in_force

Each county shall provide adequate telephone service for the county courthouse, the offices of the county clerk, and the sheriff.
24 V.S.A. § 2652 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 71 / Section 2652
§ 2652. Creation of districts
Status: in_force

The Department of Health may divide the State into emergency medical services districts, the number, size, and boundaries of which shall be determined by the Department in the interest of affording adequate and efficient emergency medical services throughout the State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 97 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 97
App. § 3-97. Forms for books may be altered as directed by State Tax Commissioner; extension of time
Status: in_force

The forms hereinbefore provided for the books for the property grand list shall be altered or changed by the Board of Assessors in accordance with any direction that may be given therefor by the Commissioner of Taxes of the State. Extensions of time under the provision of 32 V.S.A. §§ 4341 and 4342, as the same may be amended from time to time, may be granted upon written application therefor made by the Assessors.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 94 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 235 / Section 94
App. § 235-94. Bonding for constructing electric light system
Status: in_force

Said Village by a majority vote at a meeting legally warned for such purpose is authorized to issue bonds not exceeding $40,000.00 on such terms as said Village shall prescribe for the purpose of paying the debt incurred in purchasing and constructing said electric light system and carrying into effect the foregoing provisions. And in case said Village shall neglect to make reasonable provisions for the payment of the interest and principal of said electric light bonds as the same shall become due, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of said Village to make out and deliver to the Collector of Taxes of said Village a tax bill on the grand list of said Village, and he or she shall therewith issue to said Collector his or her warrant substantially in form as now provided to be issued for the collection of town or other taxes, directing the collection and payment of said tax to said Treasurer within 60 days from the time of such delivery in the amount sufficient to promptly pay the interest or principal then past due and unpaid; and such tax shall be paid to said Treasurer, and the money so collected shall be held and used for the payment of such interest and principal as is unpaid. And it is hereby made the duty of the Treasurer of said Village to promptly pay the interest and principal of such bonded indebtedness as the same shall become due without any vote thereupon of said Village; and such tax bill shall have all of the force in every respect of a tax bill voted therefor by said Village.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 175 / Section 7
App. § 175-7. Officers generally
Status: in_force

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

(b) Elected and appointed officials as generally needed or requested shall be required to attend meetings in order to participate in the smooth governance of Woodford.

(c) All Town officers shall be governed by general law, the Town charter, personnel policy, job description, and established rules of procedures and ethics and handbooks published for Vermont municipal officials.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 124 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 124
App. § 3-124. Chair; clerk, records
Status: in_force

Each of the boards and commissions named in section 120 of this charter shall organize by the election of a chair and by the appointment of a clerk and, with the exception of the Board of Assessors and the Board of Tax Appeals, the clerk shall keep a written record of the proceedings of his or her respective board, such records to be the property of the City. The clerk need not be a member of the board or commission.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 13 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 7 / Section 13
App. § 7-13. City Clerk
Status: in_force

The City Clerk shall perform for the City the same duties devolving by law upon town clerks, except so far as the same are rendered unnecessary by this charter, and shall receive the same fees therefor, or shall receive such compensation from the City for his or her services as the City Council shall allow. He or she shall be Clerk of the City Council and shall keep a record of their proceedings. He or she shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his or her duties, and his or her records, copies, and certificates shall be legal evidence in all courts and for all purposes, the same as those of town clerks. He or she shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the records and papers of the City, which shall not be taken out of his or her office unless upon the order or process of a court of competent jurisdiction. He or she shall have the same rights and authority conferred upon town clerks and may perform any official act that may be performed by town clerks.
24 V.S.A. § 3902 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 111 / Section 3902
§ 3902. Rooms for use of veterans' organizations
Status: in_force

A town may appropriate the necessary funds to pay the rentals of rooms for the use of organizations of veterans of wars of the United States.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 6 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 253 / Section 6
App. § 253-6. Village Moderator
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the Moderator to preside at all the meetings of the Village, and he or she shall have the same power as a Moderator of Town meetings.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 31 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 11 / Section 31
App. § 11-31. St. Albans Academy
Status: in_force

(a) 1892 Acts and Resolves No. 157, the act incorporating the St. Albans Academy and graded school, also known as the St. Albans City School, and all acts amendatory thereof, shall remain in full force with the following modifications: the boundaries of St. Albans Academy and graded school, also known as the St. Albans City School, shall thereafter be the same as the boundaries of the City of St. Albans.

(b) The Board of School Commissioners shall consist of seven school commissioners. At the next annual meeting of the City, three school commissioners shall be elected for terms of three years, two school commissioners for terms of two years, and two school commissioners for terms of one year; provided, however, that incumbent school commissioners shall continue to serve their remaining terms. Thereafter at each annual City meeting, such number of school commissioners will be elected to terms of three years as are necessary to succeed those whose terms shall expire in the year in which the election is held; each of the school commissioners shall be a legal voter in and elected by the voters of the City and shall hold office until the commissioner's successor is duly elected.

(c) The Board of School Commissioners, so constituted, shall have the same powers, discharge the same duties, and be subject to the same liabilities as are prescribed for school board members or school boards under the laws of this State. The Board shall have the exclusive management and control of the public schools of the City and of all the school property of the City. The Board shall annually in the month of March and subsequent to annual election elect one of its members Chair of the Board of School Commissioners, and such election shall be certified to the City Clerk who shall record the same in the City records. The Board of School Commissioners shall employ a Superintendent of the City Schools who shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by the Board or required by law.

(d) The Board of School Commissioners shall make an annual report of its doings and expenditures to the City Council on or before the first day of April in each year, in which report it shall make estimates of the necessary expenditures for the support of the School District for the ensuing year. The commissioners shall include in their report the amount of income derived from all sources for school purposes other than by taxation and the amount of money to be raised by taxation for the support of the School District, which report shall be published with the report of the City officials.

(e) The Board of School Commissioners shall annually notify the City Council on or before the first day of April of the amount of money required for the support of the School District to be raised by taxation, and the City Council shall include such tax in its annual rate bill; but such tax shall not in any year exceed the maximum school tax rate set forth in section 23 of this charter unless an additional school tax is specially voted by the City.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 201 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 111 / Section 201
App. § 111-201. Town powers
Status: in_force

The Town of Chester may exercise the following powers and functions in addition to those already or otherwise conferred upon it by law:

(a) To establish and maintain a Police Department, to provide for the appointment of police officers, who shall be sworn and who shall have the same powers as constables in the service of civil and criminal process and such further special authority as may be provided in any bylaws or ordinances of said Town enacted under authority of law.

(b) To acquire by gift or purchase, sell, convey, lease, assign, maintain, and service real and personal property as may be necessary or incidental to the exercise of its municipal powers, duties, and functions and to exercise in connection therewith any incidental powers as may be necessary to preserve and maintain the value of any such property once lawfully acquired.

(c) To establish and maintain a Fire Department.

(d) To establish, maintain, and keep in repair systems of sewers and drainage and to apportion and assess the expenses thereof against property benefited thereby as hereinafter provided.

(e) To light its highways and bridges and to lay dust on said highways and bridges by sprinkling or otherwise, and to assess by vote of the Town such portion as may be voted to the cost of sprinkling or otherwise laying the dust on the highways and bridges against abutting land owners.

(f) To establish, maintain, and keep in repair the water system heretofore owned by the Village of Chester and to provide the government and control of the same as hereinafter is specifically provided.

(g) To provide for the collection and disposition of garbage, waste, and other refuse material.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129C / Section 3
App. § 129C-3. Town manager
Status: in_force

(a) The Town Manager shall be the chief executive officer and the head of the administrative branch of the Town government and shall be responsible to the Selectboard for the efficient administration of the municipal affairs of the Town.

(b) The Town Manager shall have the authority to hire, appoint, discipline, and remove all Town employees, subject to the provisions of personnel rules approved by the Selectboard. The Town Manager may authorize a department head to hire, appoint, discipline, or remove an employee, subject to the Manager's discretion and supervision.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 14 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 245 / Section 14
App. § 245-14. Residence
Status: in_force

All persons qualified to vote in a Town meeting of the Town of Morristown who reside within the corporate limits, described in section 2 of this charter, shall be legal voters of the Village of Morrisville. The residents of the Village shall belong to and remain residents of the Town of Morristown.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 8 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 253 / Section 8
App. § 253-8. Village Treasurer and Collector
Status: in_force

The Treasurer and Collector shall perform for the corporation the same duties required by law respectively of a town treasurer and a collector of town taxes, and shall have the same powers, shall proceed in the same manner, be subject to the same liabilities, and give like bonds to the corporation for the faithful performance of its respective duties.
24 V.S.A. § 5145 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 129 / Section 5145
§ 5145. Time and notice of disconnection
Status: in_force

(a) Disconnection of utility service shall occur only between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. of the business day specified on the notice of disconnection, or within the same hours during the four business days thereafter.

(b) When service is disconnected or interrupted at the premises of the ratepayer, which shall include disconnection or interruption at or near the premises of the ratepayer, the individual making the disconnection shall immediately inform a responsible adult on the premises that service has been disconnected or interrupted, or if no responsible adult is then present, shall leave on the premises in a conspicuous and secure place a notification advising that service has been disconnected or interrupted and what the ratepayer has to do to have service restored.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 49 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 149 / Section 49
App. § 149-49. Financial administration and Town budget
Status: in_force

(a) Finance Director.

(1) The Town Manager may appoint, upon merit alone, a person who shall serve as the Finance Director.

(2) The Finance Director shall be a member of the Town administration and be subject to all rules and regulations of the Town administration, and may not be the Town Treasurer or a Selectboard member.

(3) The Finance Director shall perform such duties as the job description submitted by the Town Manager and approved by the Selectboard shall indicate.

(b) Depository of Town funds; cash and fund management.

(1) The Selectboard shall designate the depository of Town funds and shall ensure the appropriate cash management by the Town Treasurer and administration.

(2) The Selectboard may provide for such security to Town deposits as it may deem necessary, except that personal surety bonds shall not be deemed proper security.

(3) The officer responsible for each fund shall issue a report of investments and yields to the Town Manager and the Selectboard at least annually and when requested by either the Town Manager or the Selectboard.

(c) Independent audit.

(1) The Selectboard shall provide for an annual independent audit of all Town accounts and may require for any special audit it deems necessary.

(2) The audits shall be made by certified public accountant or firm of such accountants who have no personal interest, direct or indirect, with Town government, its fiscal affairs, or its officers.

(3) The Town Manager shall appoint such accountant or firm annually at a time proper to the scheduling of the audit itself.

(4) Should the State of Vermont make such an audit at the request of the Selectboard, it shall meet the requirements of this section.

(5) At the conclusion of the audit, the auditors shall present their report and findings to the Selectboard in open session.

(d) Authorization for expenditure of Town funds.

(1) Money shall not be paid out of the Town Treasury unless it is authorized by a payroll or payment authorization signed by at least three members of the Selectboard, or in accordance with the provisions of 24 V.S.A. § 1623.

(2) No payment of money on account of any department of which the Town Manager has supervision shall be made except upon vouchers approved by the Town Manager or the Town Manager's designated agent.

(3) In the event of the absence, termination, or suspension of the Town Manager, the Selectboard may approve the vouchers or authorize their approval by a Town employee or other Town officer.

(4) The Town Manager may provide for periodic or quarterly allotments of the appropriations to departments, funds, or agencies under such rules as the Town Manager may prescribe and as may be agreeable to the Selectboard.

(e) Financial reports, and records.

(1) Regular reporting. The Town Manager shall submit, on a schedule prescribed by the Selectboard, but not less often than quarterly, a budget report indicating the relationship between actual and estimated revenues and expenditures to date.

(2) All accounting records, in relation to the receipt, holding, or disbursement of money of the Town kept by any official of the Town, shall be paid for by the Town, shall remain the property of the Town, and shall be turned over to the Town Clerk whenever the keeper of the accounting records retires from office. All records pertaining to Town affairs kept by the Town Manager, Town Clerk, or other elective or appointive officer of the Town shall be kept in the Town buildings in their proper places and shall not be removed therefrom without an order of a court or a vote of the Selectboard.

(f) Purchasing and procurement.

(1) All purchasing and procurement for the Town shall be the responsibility of the Town Manager, who may delegate purchasing authority within the limits allowed by charter.

(2) All purchasing and procurement shall be by competitive bid or quote wherever practical or as required.

(3) The Town Manager shall maintain purchasing and procurement policies approved by the Selectboard as part of the Town code.
24 V.S.A. § 4003 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 113 / Section 4003
§ 4003. Housing authority; establishment
Status: in_force

(a) In each municipality there is hereby created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the housing authority; provided, however, that such authority shall not transact any business or exercise its power under this chapter, until or unless the governing body of the municipality by proper resolution shall declare that there is a need for the authority to function in the municipality.

(b) The governing body shall adopt a resolution declaring that there is a need for a housing authority in the municipality, if it shall find:

(1) that unsanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the municipality; or

(2) that there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in the municipality available to persons of low income or elders of a low income, or both, at rentals they can afford. In determining whether accommodations are unsafe or unsanitary, the governing body may take into consideration the degree of overcrowding, the percentage of land coverage, the light, air, space, and access available to the inhabitants of the accommodations, the size and arrangement of the rooms, the sanitary facilities, and the extent to which conditions exist in the buildings that endanger life or property by fire or other causes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 31 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 405 / Section 31
App. § 405-31. Preparation of budget
Status: in_force

On or before December 1 in each year, the Board of Commissioners shall prepare a budget for the district for the next fiscal year, which shall include an estimate of the revenue of the District from fees and other sources, except membership assessments, and the planning and solid waste management expenses for the next fiscal year, including debt service, payments due on long-term contracts, payments due to any sinking funds for the retirement of indebtedness, payments due to any capital reserve funds, debt service reserve funds, operating reserve funds, and payments due to any other funds established by the District. The budget shall be in such form as deemed desirable by the Board of Commissioners, and shall be so arranged as to show budgeted income and expenditures of the current fiscal year and budgeted and actual income and expenditures of the preceding fiscal year.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 411 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 411
App. § 414-411. Capital reserve fund
Status: in_force

(a) The Board of Supervisors, with the approval of a majority of the voters present and voting at a special District meeting called and warned for such purpose, may establish and provide for a capital reserve fund to pay for public improvements in furtherance of the purposes for which the District was created.

(b) Any such capital reserve fund shall be kept in a separate account and invested as are other public funds and may be expended for the purpose for which established, or other purposes when authorized by a majority of the voters present and voting at a special District meeting duly called and warned for that purpose.

(c) The cost of payments to any capital reserve fund shall be included in the annual budget of the District and shall be allocated among the member municipalities as provided in section 404 of this charter.
24 V.S.A. § 5707 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 138 / Section 5707
§ 5707. Committees
Status: in_force

The board has authority to establish one or more committees and grant and delegate to them such powers as it deems necessary. Members of an executive committee shall serve staggered terms and shall be board members. Membership on other committees established by the board is not restricted to board members.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 101
App. § 131-101. Corporate existence retained
Status: in_force

The inhabitants of the Town of Plainfield as presently constituted and the inhabitants of the Village of Plainfield as constituted by 1867 Acts and Resolves No. 189, as amended by 1910 Acts and Resolves No. 314, 1913 Acts and Resolves No. 327, 1927 Acts and Resolves No. 174, 1933 Acts and Resolves No. 194, 1965 Acts and Resolves No. 227, and the vote of the Village of Plainfield at the annual meeting thereof held on May 3, 1976, except that part of the Village of Plainfield located in the Town of Marshfield, are hereby incorporated and continued to be incorporated and declared to be a body corporate and politic under the name of the Town of Plainfield; and under that name may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend in any court; may have a common seal and alter it at pleasure; may borrow money on the credit of the Town, in the mode and under the restrictions hereinafter provided and as provided by the general law of this State; may elect Representatives to the General Assembly of the State, and the number of justices of the peace as provided in Chapter II of the Vermont Constitution for a town of equal population; and generally shall have, exercise, and enjoy all such rights, immunities, powers, and privileges as are conferred upon, or are incident to, towns in this State; and shall be subject to like duties, liabilities, and obligations, except as otherwise provided in this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 353 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 353
App. § 3-353. Department to be under supervision of Director
Status: in_force

The management, direction, and control of Burlington City Arts shall be vested in the Director, subject to the orders and ordinances of the City Council.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 303 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 303
App. § 103-303. Further powers of Select Board members
Status: in_force

In addition to powers otherwise conferred by law, the Select Board members shall also have the power to:

(1) organize, and from time to time reorganize, the Fire Department under the supervision of a coordinating committee formed by the Select Board from its members; such Department shall be a volunteer department, unless an affirmative vote of the members of the Fire Department authorizes a transition to a paid or combination paid and volunteer department as set forth in a transition plan proposed by the Select Board working with a committee formed from members of the Fire Department;

(2) continue any existing contract with a volunteer fire department or to enter on behalf of the Town into contracts with other volunteer fire departments to provide additional fire protection to the inhabitants;

(3) create, consolidate, or dissolve departments as necessary or relevant for the performance of municipal services;

(4) create, consolidate, or dissolve commissions and committees as necessary or relevant and appoint the members thereof;

(5) provide on an annual basis an independent audit of all Town financial records by a certified public accountant;

(6) inquire into the conduct of any officer, commission, or department and investigate any and all municipal affairs;

(7) discharge all duties heretofore devolving on the Town Agent by general law and hire attorneys on behalf of the Town; and

(8) establish an adequate number of polling places within the Town as required for the convenience of the Town voters and without regard to election district boundaries, to the end that election expenses may be lessened and confusion among the voters as to the proper place for them to vote may be avoided; however, one such polling place shall be in North Bennington and the central polling place shall be within the boundaries of the former Village of Bennington.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 903 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 19 / Section 903
App. § 19-903. Oath of office
Status: in_force

All elective officials of the City shall, before assuming office, take, subscribe, and file with the City Clerk the following oath:

“I ________ solemnly swear or affirm, under penalty of law, that I will faithfully execute the Office of ________ of the City of Winooski to the best of my judgment and abilities, according to law.”
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 603 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 603
App. § 1-603. Treasurer's warrant
Status: in_force

Upon the failure to pay any installment in full when due, the City Treasurer shall issue a warrant against the delinquent taxpayer for the amount of the tax remaining unpaid. The warrant shall be delivered to the Collector of Taxes together with a bill of the delinquent tax. The Collector shall proceed to collect the taxes due together with the penalties described in section 602 of this charter. The warrant shall remain in full force until all the taxes thereon have been fully paid or otherwise discharged.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 702 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 127 / Section 702
App. § 127-702. Manager nonpartisan
Status: in_force

(a) The Manager shall be chosen solely on the basis of his or her executive, administrative, and professional qualifications.

(b) The Manager shall not take part in the organization or direction of a political party, serve as a member of a party committee, nor be a candidate for election to any public office.

(c) The Manager shall be a resident of the Town of Middlebury, once he or she has been appointed to office. The Selectboard may grant permission for the Manager to live outside the Town should there be sufficient reason.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1502 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 247 / Section 1502
App. § 247-1502. Board of Sewage Disposal
Status: in_force

The trustees of the Village shall constitute a Board of Sewage Disposal System commissioners and they shall have such duties and the Village shall have such powers with reference to any sewage system that may be established as set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapters 97 and 101 or any amendments thereto.
24 V.S.A. § 2651 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 71 / Section 2651
§ 2651. Definitions
Status: repealed

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Advanced emergency medical treatment” means those portions of emergency medical treatment as defined by the Department of Health, which may be performed by licensed emergency medical services personnel acting under the supervision of a physician within a system of medical control approved by the Department of Health.

(2) “Ambulance” means any vehicle, whether air, ground, or water, that is designed, constructed, used, or intended for use in transporting ill or injured persons.

(3) “Ambulance service” means a person licensed by the Department of Health to provide emergency medical treatment and transportation to ill or injured persons.

(4) “Basic emergency medical treatment” means those portions of emergency medical treatment, as defined by the Department of Health, which may be exercised by licensed emergency medical services personnel acting under their own authority.

(5) “District board” means the board of directors of a district appointed under section 2653 of this title.

(6) “Emergency medical personnel” means persons, including volunteers, licensed by the Department of Health to provide emergency medical treatment on behalf of an affiliated agency whose primary function is the provision of emergency medical treatment. The term does not include duly licensed or registered physicians, dentists, nurses, or physician assistants when practicing in their customary work setting.

(7) “Emergency medical services” means an integrated system of personnel, equipment, communication, and services to provide emergency medical treatment.

(8) “Emergency medical services district” means a political subdivision established to facilitate the provision of pre-hospital emergency medical treatment within a given area.

(9) “Emergency medical treatment” means pre-hospital, in-hospital, and interhospital medical treatment rendered by emergency medical personnel given to individuals who have experienced sudden illness or injury in order to prevent loss of life, the aggravation of the illness or injury, or to alleviate suffering. Emergency medical treatment includes basic emergency medical treatment and advanced emergency medical treatment.

(10) “First responder service” means a person licensed by the Department of Health to provide emergency medical treatment.

(11) “Medical control” means the entire system of quality assurance and medical accountability for basic and advanced emergency medical treatment as prescribed by this chapter. “Prehospital medical control” shall include direction and advice given to emergency medical personnel by a physician or a person acting under the direct supervision of a physician provided through:

(A) off-line medical control functions or direction of emergency medical personnel through use of protocols, review of cases, and determination of outcomes, and through training programs; and

(B) on-line medical control functions, via radio or telephone, of field personnel at the site of the emergency and en route to a hospital emergency department.

(12) “Medical facilities” means a hospital providing emergency services to an emergency medical services district.

(13) “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, municipality, or political subdivision, including emergency medical services districts as provided for in this subchapter.

(14) [Repealed.]

(15) “Volunteer personnel” means persons who are licensed by the Department of Health to provide emergency medical treatment on behalf of an affiliated agency without expectation of remuneration for the treatment rendered other than nominal payments and reimbursement for expenses, and who do not depend in any significant way on the provision of such treatment for their livelihood.

(16) “Affiliated agency” means an ambulance service or first responder service licensed under this chapter, including a fire department, rescue squad, police department, ski patrol, hospital, or other entity licensed to provide emergency medical services under this chapter.
24 V.S.A. § 4449 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4449
§ 4449. Zoning permit, certificate of occupancy, and municipal land use permit
Status: in_force

(a) Within any municipality in which any bylaws have been adopted:

(1) No land development may be commenced within the area affected by the bylaws without a permit issued by the administrative officer. No permit may be issued by the administrative officer except in conformance with the bylaws. When an application for a municipal land use permit seeks approval of a structure, the administrative officer shall provide the applicant with a copy of the applicable building energy standards under 30 V.S.A. §§ 51 (residential building energy standards) and 53 (commercial building energy standards). However, the administrative officer need not provide a copy of the standards if the structure is a sign or a fence or the application certifies that the structure will not be heated or cooled. In addition, the administrative officer may provide a copy of the Vermont Residential Building Energy Code Book published by the Department of Public Service in lieu of the full text of the residential building energy standards.

(2) If the bylaws so adopted so provide, it shall be unlawful to use or occupy or permit the use or occupancy of any land or structure, or part thereof, created, erected, changed, converted, or wholly or partly altered or enlarged in its use or structure after the effective date of this chapter, within the area affected by those bylaws, until a certificate of occupancy is issued therefor by the administrative officer, stating that the proposed use of the structure or land conforms to the requirements of those bylaws. Provision of a certificate as required by 30 V.S.A. § 51 (residential building energy standards) or 53 (commercial building energy standards) shall be a condition precedent to the issuance of any such certificate of occupancy.

(3) No permit issued pursuant to this section shall take effect until the time for appeal in section 4465 of this title has passed, or in the event that a notice of appeal is properly filed, no such permit shall take effect until adjudication of that appeal by the appropriate municipal panel is complete and the time for taking an appeal to the Environmental Division has passed without an appeal being taken. If an appeal is taken to the Environmental Division, the permit shall not take effect until the Environmental Division rules in accordance with 10 V.S.A. § 8504 on whether to issue a stay, or until the expiration of 15 days, whichever comes first.

(4) No municipal land use permit issued by an appropriate municipal panel or administrative officer, as applicable, for a site plan or conditional use shall be considered abandoned or expired unless more than two years have passed since the permit approval was issued.

(b) Each permit issued under this section shall contain a statement of the period of time within which an appeal may be taken and shall require posting of a notice of permit on a form prescribed by the municipality within view from the public right-of-way most nearly adjacent to the subject property until the time for appeal in section 4465 of this title has passed. Within three days following the issuance of a permit, the administrative officer shall:

(1) deliver a copy of the permit to the listers of the municipality; and

(2) post a copy of the permit in at least one public place in the municipality until the expiration of 15 days from the date of issuance of the permit.

(c)(1) Within 30 days after a municipal land use permit has been issued or within 30 days of the issuance of any notice of violation, the appropriate municipal official shall:

(A) deliver the original or a legible copy of the municipal land use permit or notice of violation or a notice of municipal land use permit generally in the form set forth in subsection 1154(c) of this title to the town clerk for recording as provided in subsection 1154(a) of this title; and

(B) file a copy of that municipal land use permit in the offices of the municipality in a location where all municipal land use permits shall be kept.

(2) The municipal officer may charge the applicant for the cost of the recording fees as required by law.

(d) If a public notice for a first public hearing pursuant to subsection 4442(a) of this title is issued under this chapter by the local legislative body with respect to the adoption or amendment of a bylaw, or an amendment to an ordinance adopted under prior enabling laws, the administrative officer, for a period of 150 days following that notice, shall review any new application filed after the date of the notice under the proposed bylaw or amendment and applicable existing bylaws and ordinances. If the new bylaw or amendment has not been adopted by the conclusion of the 150-day period or if the proposed bylaw or amendment is rejected, the permit shall be reviewed under existing bylaws and ordinances. An application that has been denied under a proposed bylaw or amendment that has been rejected or that has not been adopted within the 150-day period shall be reviewed again, at no cost, under the existing bylaws and ordinances, upon request of the applicant. Any determination by the administrative officer under this section shall be subject to appeal as provided in section 4465 of this title.

(e) Beginning October 1, 2010, any application for an approval or permit and any approval or permit issued under this section shall include a statement, in content and form approved by the Secretary of Natural Resources, that State permits may be required and that the permittee should contact State agencies to determine what permits must be obtained before any construction may commence.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 37 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 37
App. § 3-37. Manner of convening
Status: in_force

All meetings of the City Council with Mayor presiding shall, unless otherwise provided, be convened in the same manner as herein provided for calling special meetings of the City Council.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10.01 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 107 / Section 10.01
App. § 107-10.1. Representative Town Meeting; authorized
Status: in_force

The Town of Brattleboro is hereby authorized to establish the representative form of Town Meeting as hereinafter set forth. For the purpose of this subchapter, the term Town Meeting shall include meetings of the Town School District of Brattleboro.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 110 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 127 / Section 110
App. § 127-110. Nonapplicability to zoning and subdivision
Status: in_force

(a) The provisions of sections 107, 108, and 109 of this charter shall not apply to the enactment, amendment, or repeal of any zoning ordinance or zoning bylaw; any land subdivision ordinance or land subdivision bylaw; nor to the enactment, amendment, or repeal of any municipal plan or comprehensive municipal plan, nor to the enactment, amendment, or repeal of any regional municipal plan or comprehensive regional plan, the enactment, amendment, or repeal of such ordinances, bylaws, and plans being specifically controlled by 24 V.S.A. chapter 117, or by such other State statutes regulating zoning, subdivision, and municipal and regional plans as may be enforced from time to time. The adoption, amendment, or repeal of all other ordinances shall be in conformity with sections 107, 108, and 109 of this charter.

(b) The right of referendum and initiative contained in sections 108 and 109 of this charter shall apply to the amendment or repeal of an ordinance as well as to its enactment.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 289 / Section 10
App. § 289-10. Prosecutions
Status: in_force

Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this act or the provisions of any act or bylaw of the Village of Westminster, made in pursuance of this act may be commenced before any justice of the peace of the County of Windham, and all fines and costs imposed for the violation of the provisions of this act or the bylaws of the corporation, or the laws of the State within the limits of the corporation, shall be paid into the treasury of the corporation and the costs of prosecution shall be paid out of the same treasury to the persons entitled thereto.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 701
App. § 269-701. Appointed by trustees
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees shall appoint a Village Manager whose responsibilities, powers, and terms of employment shall be as provided by State law.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 704 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 215 / Section 704
App. § 215-704. Membership on Board not disqualification to serve as law enforcement or judicial officer
Status: in_force

A member of said corporation shall not be deprived by reason of such membership to act as judge, juror, sheriff, constable, or justice of the peace in any cause or proceeding in which such corporation is interested.
24 V.S.A. § 1521 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 51 / Section 1521
§ 1521. Tax bills and warrants
Status: in_force

The selectboard shall seasonably make out and deliver to the proper collector, or to the town treasurer, if the town has voted to collect its taxes by that officer, tax bills for State, county, town, town school district, and highway taxes, with the name of each person taxed and the amount of the tax. They shall annex proper warrants thereto for collection and may include all of such taxes or a part thereof in one tax bill; provided, however, that a tax bill that includes an assessment of tax on a homestead shall separately state the amount of tax imposed on the housesite for municipal services and the amount of tax imposed on the housesite for education property tax. One warrant only shall be required for the collection of taxes on such tax bill. The selectboard shall certify on a tax bill, so made out what taxes are included therein and the rate percent of each tax so included.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 91 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 105 / Section 91
App. § 105-91. Governance
Status: in_force

(a) An Administrative Code shall be written and approved by the Selectboard, but the Administrative Code shall only implement and shall not expand upon the authorities granted in this charter or in general State law. Prior to the adoption or any amendment of the Administrative Code, the Selectboard shall hold two public meetings concerning that adoption or amendment.

(b) Decisions of the Town of Berlin shall be made using the Administrative Code, this charter, Town ordinances, and Town policies.

(c) The sole and exclusive body authorized to make decisions relating to issues of statewide or national interest, including positions on pending legislation, shall be the voters of the Town at Town meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 503 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 142 / Section 503
App. § 142-503. Municipal laws
Status: repealed

(a) All Town ordinances, resolutions, bylaws, orders, policies, and regulations that are in force at the time this charter becomes fully effective shall remain in full force and effect excepting only those ordinances, resolutions, orders, policies, and regulations that are inconsistent with this charter.

(b) The adoption of this charter shall not effect any ordinance, resolution, or bylaw lawfully enacted, adopted, ordained, or established by the Town of Richford or the former Village of Richford that is not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter, but the same shall remain in full force and effect until repealed, altered, or amended. The Selectboard, by resolution duly adopted, shall incorporate and adopt as Town ordinances all ordinances and bylaws of the former Village of Richford that have not in substance heretofore been adopted by the Town.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 11.07a — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 147 / Section 11.07a
App. § 147-11.7a. General Fund unrestricted fund balance
Status: in_force

At the sole discretion of the Selectboard, a General Fund unrestricted reserve may be established in an amount that may not exceed five percent of the General Fund budget being considered by the Selectboard for presentation to the voters at Town meeting. The purpose of the fund shall be to aid in the cash flow and operation of the Town and to be used for such purpose as may be caused by an emergency. For expenditures other than an emergency, if in any year a portion of the unrestricted fund balance is applied as revenue to the General Fund or in a year that the reserve fund exceeds five percent of the current operating budget, funds must be applied to fund items found in the Town's capital improvement plan.
24 V.S.A. § 4414a — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4414a
§ 4414a. Cannabis cultivation district
Status: in_force

A municipality, after consultation with the municipal cannabis control commission, if one exists, may adopt a bylaw identifying cannabis cultivation districts where the outdoor cultivation of cannabis is preferred within the municipality. Cultivation of cannabis within a cannabis cultivation district shall be presumed not to result in an undue effect on the character of the area affected. The adoption of a cannabis cultivation district shall not have the effect of prohibiting cultivation of outdoor cannabis in the municipality.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 127 / Section 701
App. § 127-701. Appointed by Selectboard
Status: in_force

The Selectboard shall appoint a Town Manager for an indefinite term, and upon such conditions as they may determine.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 208 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 208
App. § 414-208. Weighted voting
Status: in_force

Each member of the Board of Supervisors shall be entitled to cast one vote for every 100 registered voters, rounded to the nearest hundred, in the municipality that the member represents. The number of votes entitled to be cast on behalf of the City of Rutland for voting purposes on the Board shall be divided equally among the three representatives of the City of Rutland. A member of the Board of Supervisors may not split his or her votes. The number of registered voters in each member municipality for voting purposes on the Board shall be based upon data compiled and issued by the Secretary of State in reference to primary and general elections. If the Secretary of State ceases to keep and provide the data, the number of registered voters in each member municipality shall be based upon the checklist used at the last annual meeting of each municipality.
24 V.S.A. § 3351 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 91 / Section 3351
§ 3351. Debts and liabilities of member towns
Status: in_force

No debt or liabilities of a town that is a member of the district shall accrue against the district. (1964, No. 20 (Sp. Sess.), § 11, eff. March 10, 1964.)
24 V.S.A. § 1208 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 36 / Section 1208
§ 1208. Qualification of members
Status: in_force

(a) Members of a local board in a contested hearing shall not participate in the decision unless they have heard all testimony and reviewed all other evidence submitted for the board's decision.

(b) Members who have not attended every session of the board in a contested hearing may participate in the decision if they have listened to the recording of the testimony they have missed (or read transcripts of this testimony) and reviewed all exhibits and other evidence, prior to deliberation.
24 V.S.A. § 4703 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4703
§ 4703. Powers of trustee on default
Status: in_force

A trustee appointed under section 4702 of this title may, and shall in the trustee's name, upon written request of the holders of 25 per centum in principal amount of the outstanding notes or bonds:

(1) By suit, action, or proceeding, enforce all rights of the noteholders or bondholders, including the right to require the Bank to collect rates, charges, and other fees and to collect interest and amortization payments on loans made to governmental units and on municipal bonds, revenue bonds, and notes held by it adequate to carry out any agreement as to, or pledge of, the rates, charges, and other fees and of the interest and amortization payments, and to require the Bank to carry out any other agreements with the holders of the notes or bonds and to perform its duties under this chapter;

(2) Bring suit upon the notes or bonds;

(3) By action or suit, require the Bank to account as if it were the trustee of an express trust for the holders of the notes or bonds;

(4) By action or suit in equity, enjoin anything that may be unlawful or in violation of the rights of the holders of the notes or bonds;

(5) Declare all the notes or bonds due and payable, and if all defaults are made good, then with the consent of the holders of 25 per centum of the principal amount of the outstanding notes or bonds, annul the declaration and its consequences;

(6) The trustee shall in addition to the foregoing have all the powers necessary for the exercise of any functions specifically set forth herein or incident to the general representation of bondholders or noteholders in the enforcement and protection of their rights.
24 V.S.A. § 1 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 1 / Section 1
§ 1. Counties in State
Status: in_force

The State is divided into the counties of Addison, Bennington, Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, Orange, Orleans, Rutland, Washington, Windham, and Windsor.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 416 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 416
App. § 1-416. Appointment
Status: in_force

The City Council shall annually appoint from among the legally qualified voters of the City a Collector of Taxes and fix his or her compensation; and for cause, incapacity, negligence, or misconduct, they may remove such officer and fill any vacancy in such office by the appointment of a successor Collector of Taxes from among the legally qualified voters of the City arising from any cause. The successor Collector of Taxes shall hold the office for the unexpired term of his or her predecessor in office.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 3
App. § 403-3. Composition
Status: in_force

The District is composed of and includes all of the lands and residents within those municipalities that vote to approve this chapter at the time of its creation, and such other municipalities as are subsequently admitted to the District as provided in this chapter, except for those municipalities that may withdraw as provided in this chapter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 201 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 201
App. § 5-201. City voting districts
Status: in_force

There shall be three voting districts for the City, which shall be defined and filed with the City Clerk. The City Council may make changes from time to time to the boundaries of the districts in order to provide an equal division of population among them in accordance with U.S. Census data. Voting district changes shall not be made more frequently than once in five years. Such changes shall be approved by the voters at an annual or special meeting of the City and shall become effective immediately upon approval unless a later date is established therein.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 403 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 403
App. § 5-403. Vacancy in Office of Mayor
Status: in_force

(a) In the case of a vacancy in the Office of Mayor, with more than 120 days of unexpired term remaining, the City Council shall forthwith direct the City Clerk to call a special meeting of the legal voters of the City for the election of an interim mayor to serve for the unexpired term and until the Mayor's successor is duly elected and qualified.

(b) Nominations to fill a vacancy in the Office of Mayor shall be by certificate signed by at least 25 voters. The certificate shall be filed with the City Clerk not fewer than 15 and not more than 25 days before the special election.

(c) In the event 120 days or fewer remain of the unexpired term, the Council President shall assume the duties of the Mayor.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1501 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1501
App. § 5-1501. Eligibility of noncitizen voters
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding 17 V.S.A. § 2121(a)(1), any person may register to vote in Montpelier City elections who on election day is a citizen of the United States or a legal resident of the United States, provided that person otherwise meets the qualifications of 17 V.S.A. chapter 43.

(b) A noncitizen voter shall not be eligible to vote on any State or federal candidate or question by virtue of registration under this section.
24 V.S.A. § 2695 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 73 / Section 2695
§ 2695. Administration of home
Status: in_force

In town meeting, a town which provides such home may appoint proper officers for the government of such home, and make necessary rules and regulations for governing such persons as are admitted thereto.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 142 / Section 101
App. § 142-101. Merger of the Village and Town of Richford
Status: in_force

Effective as of midnight at the end of December 31, 1998, the Village of Richford, as constituted by 1878 Acts and Resolves No. 202, as amended, shall merge with and into the Town of Richford, within its present geographic limits, as a single municipal corporation under the name of the Town of Richford, and the Village of Richford shall, except as hereinafter specifically provided, cease to exist as a political entity or body corporate and its charter shall be abolished.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 14 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 239 / Section 14
App. § 239-14. Village as Town highway district
Status: in_force

(a) All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Manchester, and the Selectboard of the Town shall, on or before the first day of September of each year, draw an order on the Treasurer of the Town, to the Treasurer of the Village for five-eighths of the amount of taxes raised or assessed upon the grand list of the Village during the fiscal year next prior to September 1, and expended or used for the highway purposes hereinafter specified by or under the direction of the Town Road Commissioner, the Town Selectboard, or the Town Manager, excepting payments made to the State as provided under sections 4702 and 4703 of the Public Laws and any future revision or amendments thereto or any acts hereafter passed for similar purpose.

(b) The highway purposes herein intended are: construction and maintenance of the highways outside the limits of the Village, including bridges, brooks, and culverts, calcium chloride and other binders; winter road and snow removal and sanding, turning water and opening ditches; highway tools and supplies; new highway equipment and repairs and maintenance of tools and equipment, including gasoline and oil used in operation of the equipment.

(c) The amount due to the Village shall be determined at the end of the fiscal year of the Town by the Town auditors and Selectboard, and the trustees of the Village, and in the event of disagreement, by three arbitrators, one chosen by the Town Selectboard, one by the Village trustees, and a third by the two arbitrators chosen by the Town and Village, and their decision shall be final.

(d) The Selectboard of the Town of Manchester shall also, on or before September 1 of each year, draw an order on the Treasurer of the Town to the Treasurer of the Village for an amount equal to eight percent of the amount paid to the State during the fiscal year of the Town prior to September 1 under sections 4702 and 4703 of the Public Laws and under any future revisions of amendments thereto or any acts hereinafter passed for similar purposes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 603 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 603
App. § 411-603. Dissolution of District
Status: in_force

(a) Upon a vote by a two-thirds majority of the Board of Supervisors present and representing a quorum at a regular or special meeting of the Board, or upon a vote by a majority of the legal voters of the District at an annual or special meeting of the District duly warned for such purpose, the Board shall prepare a plan of dissolution for submission to the voters of the District at an annual or special meeting of the District. At such time as the voters of the District shall, by a two-thirds majority of those legal voters voting thereupon, vote to dissolve the District, then the District shall cease to conduct its affairs except insofar as may be necessary to complete the plan of dissolution and to conclude its affairs. The Board of Supervisors shall cause a notice of the plan of dissolution to be mailed to each known creditor of the District and to the Vermont Secretary of State.

(b) The plan of dissolution shall:

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

(2) identify all liabilities of the District, including contractual obligations;

(3) specify how the assets of the District shall be liquidated and how the liabilities and obligations of the District shall be paid, including the terms and conditions of all assessments to be made against the District's member municipalities;

(4) specify how any assets of the District remaining after payment of all the financial obligations of the District will be distributed among the member municipalities, which distribution shall be in accordance with the same formula utilized in apportioning the costs of the District among the member municipalities.

(c) When the plan of dissolution has been fully implemented, the Board shall certify that fact to the legislative bodies of all the member municipalities, whereupon this agreement and the District shall be terminated.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 38 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 38
App. § 3-38. Regular meetings
Status: in_force

Regular meetings of the City Council shall be held based on a schedule adopted by the City Council for the fiscal year and generally on Mondays once or twice each month. The schedule may be amended by action of the Council.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 5 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 7 / Section 5
App. § 7-5. Warning and convening of annual meeting
Status: in_force

On the first Tuesday of March 1918, and annually thereafter on the first Tuesday of March, a meeting of the legal voters of said City shall be held at nine o'clock A.M., at a place to be appointed by the City Council of said City, of which notice shall be posted in at least three public places within the limits of said City, and at least 14 days previous thereto, and also published for at least two weeks in a newspaper printed in said City, which notices shall be signed by the City Clerk, and in case of his or her failure, by the Mayor; provided, that if the annual meeting shall fail to be holden for want of notice hereinbefore mentioned or for any other cause, the corporation shall not thereby be prejudiced, and the several officers hereafter mentioned may at any time thereafter be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose as hereinbefore provided. The first meeting of said corporation shall be held at the school hall in the present Village of Newport, and shall be called by the Clerk of the Village of Newport. The Clerk of said City shall, at any time when directed by the City Council, or when requested in writing by 25 legal voters of said City, call a special meeting of the legal voters of said City at such time of day and place as directed by the City Council. In case of the failure of the Clerk to call a meeting as aforesaid, that duty shall be performed by the Mayor. The business session of each annual or special City meeting shall be held at eight o'clock in the evening of the day for such meeting, but this shall in no way alter the hour designated, or to be designated, for any meeting where any question must be voted upon under the Australian ballot system.
24 V.S.A. § 2297a — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 61 / Section 2297a
§ 2297a. Enforcement of solid waste ordinance by town, city, or incorporated village
Status: in_force

(a) Solid waste order. A legislative body may issue and enforce a solid waste order in accordance with this section. A solid waste order may include a directive that the respondent take actions necessary to achieve compliance with the ordinance, to abate hazards created as a result of noncompliance, or to restore the environment to the condition existing before the violation and may include a civil penalty of not more than $800.00 for each violation and in the case of a continuing violation, not more than $100.00 for each succeeding day. In determining the amount of civil penalty to be ordered, the legislative body shall consider the following:

(1) the degree of actual or potential impact on public health, safety, welfare, and the environment resulting from the violation;

(2) whether the respondent has cured the violation;

(3) the presence of mitigating circumstances;

(4) whether the respondent knew or had reason to know the violation existed;

(5) the respondent's record of compliance;

(6) the economic benefit gained from the violation;

(7) the deterrent effect of the penalty;

(8) the costs of enforcement;

(9) the length of time the violation has existed.

(b) Notice. When the legislative body has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has violated a solid waste ordinance, the legislative body may issue notice of the alleged violation, which shall be delivered to the respondent in person or mailed to the respondent by first-class mail or by certified mail, return receipt requested. If mailed by first-class mail, the notice is deemed received three days after the date of mailing. A copy of the notice of violation shall be mailed to the Department of Environmental Conservation for information purposes only. The notice of violation shall include:

(1) a brief description of the alleged violation and identification of the ordinance alleged to have been violated;

(2) a brief description of the potential enforcement actions which may be taken by the legislative body and the legislative body's probable course of action;

(3) a statement that the respondent has a right to a preliminary hearing before the legislative body and a description of the procedures for requesting a preliminary hearing.

(c) Preliminary hearing. A person who receives a notice of violation shall be offered an opportunity for a preliminary hearing before the legislative body for the purpose of determining whether a violation exists and reviewing the legislative body's probable course of action. The request for hearing shall be made in writing to the clerk of the town, city, or incorporated village no later than ten days after the date the notice of violation is received. The legislative body shall hold a hearing within 14 days of receipt of the request for a hearing.

(d) Proposed order. After a preliminary hearing, the legislative body may issue a proposed order. If no hearing is requested within ten days after the date of receipt of the notice of violation, the legislative body may issue a proposed order at once. A proposed order shall be delivered to the respondent in person or mailed to the respondent by first-class mail or by certified mail, return receipt requested. If mailed by first-class mail, the order is deemed received three days after the date of mailing.

(e) Contents of proposed order. A proposed order shall include:

(1) a statement that the respondent has the right to request a hearing before the legislative body on the proposed order and the procedures for requesting the hearing;

(2) a statement that the respondent has the right to request a hearing before the Environmental Division after the order has become final and a description of the procedures for requesting a hearing before the Environmental Division;

(3) a statement that filing a request for hearing before the Environmental Division will stop penalties from accruing in the case of a continuing violation;

(4) if applicable, a directive that the respondent take actions necessary to achieve compliance with the ordinance, to abate hazards created as a result of noncompliance, or to restore the environment to the condition existing before the violation;

(5) if applicable, a civil penalty of not more than $800.00 for each violation and in the case of a continuing violation, not more than $100.00 for each succeeding day.

(f) Hearing on proposed order. A person who receives a proposed order shall be offered an opportunity for a hearing before the legislative body, provided that the request for hearing is made in writing to the clerk of the town, city, or incorporated village no later than 15 days after the date of receipt of the order. If the respondent does not request a hearing, the order shall be deemed a final order, and shall be effective on the date of receipt or a later date stated in the order. If the respondent does request a hearing subsequent to receipt of the order, the legislative body shall hold a hearing within 14 days of receipt of the request. After the hearing, the legislative body may withdraw or amend the order and may issue a final order, which shall be delivered or mailed to the respondent in the same manner as proposed orders and which shall be effective on the date of receipt or a later date stated in the order.

(g) Continuing violations. Each day that a violation continues from the effective date of a final order shall constitute a separate violation. However, the filing of a request for hearing with the Environmental Division shall stop penalties from accruing in the case of a continuing violation until the Environmental Division has issued its order.

(h) Effect of imposition of penalty. Imposition of a penalty under this subchapter precludes imposition by the town, city, or incorporated village of any other administrative or civil penalty under any other provision of law for the same violation.

(i) Payment to town, city, or incorporated village. All penalties collected under this subchapter shall be paid to the town, city, or incorporated village whose ordinance is the subject of the violation.

(j) Enforcement. The legislative body may seek enforcement of a final order in the Superior Court or before the Environmental Division. If a penalty is imposed and the respondent fails to pay the penalty within the time prescribed, the legislative body may bring a collection action in the Superior Court.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 201 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 142 / Section 201
App. § 142-201. Applicability of general law
Status: in_force

(a) All provisions of the Constitution and general laws of the State of Vermont relating to towns and their officers shall apply in the Town of Richford.

(b) The Town of Richford shall have all the powers now or hereafter conferred upon towns and villages by the Constitution and general laws of the State of Vermont.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 11.06 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 147 / Section 11.06
App. § 147-11.6. Department budget
Status: in_force

The budget for all departments shall include all proposed expenditures and the budget approved in accordance with section 11.8 of this charter shall include a gross appropriation for each department for the ensuing fiscal year. The gross appropriation for each department shall not be exceeded except by consent of the Selectboard, subject to the provisions of section 11.8 of this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 149 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 149
App. § 3-149. Subject to same penalties as State's Attorneys
Status: in_force

The City Attorney and assistant City attorney shall be subject to all and the same penalties imposed by the law of this State upon State's Attorneys for any neglect or violation of official duty.
24 V.S.A. § 3264 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 87 / Section 3264
§ 3264. Rights of property owners
Status: in_force

A property owner who has entered into a written agreement with the municipality under section 3262 of this title may enter into a private agreement for the installation or construction of a project relating to renewable energy, as defined in 30 V.S.A. § 8002(17), or relating to energy efficiency as defined in section 3267 of this title.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1505 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 1505
App. § 269-1505. Budget limitations-borrowing
Status: in_force

(a) The incurring of bonded indebtedness, the issuing of bonds, the making of temporary loans in anticipation of the sale of bonds, and all other matters pertaining to bonded indebtedness and borrowing for current expenses or in anticipation of the receipt of taxes shall be controlled by applicable statutes.

(b) The Village, by vote at an annual or special meeting, may borrow money under such terms and conditions and for such lawful municipal purposes as the Village shall vote.

(c) The trustees, in the name of the Village, may borrow funds in anticipation of federal and State funds that have been approved and committed. Any debt so incurred for a project shall be repaid from the first federal or State funds received for that project.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 301
App. § 3-301. Designation of chapter
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be designated as the charter of the City of Burlington.
24 V.S.A. § 2296 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 61 / Section 2296
§ 2296. Regulation of amateur radio
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this section:

(1) “Amateur radio” means the use of amateur radio and amateur satellite radio frequencies and services by qualified and federally authorized persons of any age who are interested in radio technique without pecuniary interest.

(2) “Antenna” means an array of wires, tubing, or the like used for the transmission and reception of radio waves.

(3) “Antenna support structure” means a structure or framework that is designed to elevate an antenna above the ground for the purpose of increasing the effective communications range and reliability of an amateur radio station. Amateur radio antenna support structures are removable by design and therefore are a removable structure for assessment purposes.

(b) Notwithstanding subdivision 2291(19) of this title, a municipal ordinance regulating amateur radio antenna or amateur radio antenna support structures shall comply with the requirements of 47 C.F.R. § 97.15(b), as amended from time to time, by allowing for the erection of an amateur radio antenna or an amateur radio antenna support structure at a height and dimension sufficient to accommodate amateur radio service communications.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 39 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 39
App. § 3-39. Special meetings
Status: in_force

Special meetings of the City Council may be called at any time by the Mayor, and shall be called by the Chief Administrative Officer on petition signed by a majority of the City Council then in office and filed with the Chief Administrative Officer. Notice of special meetings shall be provided to the City councilors by any means sufficient to reasonably ensure that all councilors have or should have received notice of the date, time, and purpose of the meeting. Leaving a written notice at the address the Chief Administrative Officer has on file for a councilor or providing notice to the electronic mail address of the councilor or through an electronic scheduling program that sends automatic updates to a councilor shall, among other means, be considered sufficient notice.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 36 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 417 / Section 36
App. § 417-36. Budget adoption, tipping fees, and appropriations
Status: in_force

Annually, on or before January 15, the Board of Supervisors shall adopt the budget, appropriate the sums that it deems necessary to operate and carry out the District's functions for the next ensuing fiscal year, and assess each member municipality for its proportionate share of the sums so appropriated, and adopt a schedule designating when such assessments are due and payable by the member municipalities.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 206 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 206
App. § 413-206. 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. § 201 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 151 / Section 201
App. § 151-201. Elective officers
Status: in_force

(a) The elective officers of the Town shall be five Select Board members elected from the Town at large at a duly warned annual town meeting; a Town Clerk; a Treasurer; and a Moderator, unless by a majority vote of the Town the Moderator becomes an appointed position.

(b) Select Board terms shall include three positions with a three-year term and two positions with a one-year term. All other elective officers shall hold office for a three-year term. The term shall expire the first day following the annual Town meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1103 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 1103
App. § 269-1103. Postponement and combining of Village meeting
Status: in_force

(a) The trustees may postpone the vote on any question to be voted at a special Village meeting to the annual meeting if the special meeting falls within 120 days of the annual meeting.

(b) If a special Village meeting falls within 120 days of another special Village meeting called by petition, the trustees may warn the questions to be voted at the first Village meeting for the later Village meeting and may by resolution rescind the call of the earlier meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1007 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 1007
App. § 129-1007. Budget limitations-Borrowing
Status: in_force

(a) The incurring of bonded indebtedness, the issuing of bonds, the making of temporary loans in anticipation of bond sales, and all other matters pertaining to bonded indebtedness shall be controlled by 24 V.S.A. chapter 53 as applicable.

(b) The Town, through the Selectboard, and the School, through the School Board of Trustees, may borrow money in anticipation of taxes. The total amount so borrowed shall not exceed the largest cumulative deficit plus the next month's expenses for the fiscal year.

(c) In case of emergency, the Selectboard or School Board of Trustees may borrow money in the name of the Town or the School District. The emergency borrowing in any year shall not exceed five percent of the total amount voted at the annual meeting for the Town or School District budget. If the Town or School District fails to adopt a budget, the emergency borrowing shall not exceed five percent of the amount that the previous year's tax rate would raise.

(d) Notes and orders for anticipated and emergency borrowing shall mature not more than one year from the date of issuance and shall not thereafter be renewed unless the Town or School District so votes.

(e) The amount, terms, and conditions of all borrowing except as specified in subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section shall be by vote of the Town or School District.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 306 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 306
App. § 123-306. Appointed officers
Status: repealed

(a) The Selectboard may appoint any officers required by the Town's personnel regulations or this charter.

(b) The Town Manager shall function as the personnel officer of the Town.

(1) The Zoning Administrator shall be appointed in accordance with 24 V.S.A. § 4448. Upon appointment, the Zoning Administrator shall be under the direction of the Town Manager for faithful performance of the Zoning Administrator duties as prescribed in the Vermont statutes and this charter.

(2) A Civil Defense Director whose powers and duties shall be established by law.

(3) A Town Service Officer whose powers and duties shall be as established by law.

(4) A Town Recreation Committee.

(5) Planning commissioners/Zoning Development Review Board whose powers and duties shall be those established by law.

(6) Representative to the Regional Planning Commission whose powers and duties shall be as those established by law.

(7) Town Energy Coordinator.

(8) Dog Warden.

(9) [Repealed.]

(10) Health Officer.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 403 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 142 / Section 403
App. § 142-403. Arvin A. Brown Public Library
Status: in_force

The Town of Richford shall provide suitable rooms in a Town property for the Arvin A. Brown Public Library and shall keep the rooms furnished and heated without expense to the Arvin A. Brown Library Trustees, as set forth in the deed of March 13, 1914 recorded in Book 23, Page 65 of the Richford Land Records.
24 V.S.A. § 3618 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 101 / Section 3618
§ 3618. Ordinances
Status: in_force

The municipal corporation shall have the power to make, establish, alter, amend, or repeal ordinances, regulations, and bylaws relating to the matters contained in this chapter, consistent with law, and to impose penalties for the breach of an ordinance and enforce those penalties.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 332 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 332
App. § 3-332. Purposes and powers
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to the orders and ordinances of the City Council, the Community and Economic Development Office shall develop and implement a comprehensive community and economic development strategy.

(b) In furtherance of its purpose, the Community and Economic Development Office shall, subject to the orders and ordinances of the City Council, have the following rights, powers, and duties:

(1) to work on behalf of the City to stimulate investment, and to attract, retain, and encourage the development of both existing and new economic enterprises;

(2) to develop, coordinate, implement, and administer economic and community development strategies and projects for the City;

(3) to develop, coordinate, implement, and administer a comprehensive program to address the City's housing needs;

(4) to develop, coordinate, implement, and administer waterfront development activities other than those activities that the Planning Commission and the City Council must exercise under the Vermont Planning and Development Act;

(5) to recommend to the City Council, and to solicit on behalf of the City Council, grants-in-aid funds for the City;

(6) to administer Community Development Block Grants and Urban Development Action Grants and to manage such grants-in-aid programs in accordance with the laws and regulations pertaining thereto;

(7) to coordinate and facilitate citizen participation in economic and community development with community organizations, City commissions, and the Neighborhood Planning Assemblies;

(8) to do all other things necessary or convenient to carry out its purposes in accordance with Vermont Statutes Annotated.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 92 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 235 / Section 92
App. § 235-92. Damages and compensation related to construction of electric power system
Status: in_force

In any case where damage or compensation to owners of or other persons interested in the water powers so taken, or such land as may be used for laying, extending, constructing, and maintaining the electric light plant and reservoirs and appurtenances is not adjusted by agreement, or if the owner thereof be a minor, a person who lacks capacity to protect his or her interests due to a mental condition or psychiatric disability, or out of the State, or otherwise incapacitated to sell and convey, the same shall be fixed by the Board of Electric Light Commissioners after hearing the parties interested; the hearing to be had upon written notice of the time and place thereof, given at least six days before the hearing; and the Electric Light Commissioners shall within ten days after the hearing file its award in the town clerk's office in the town or towns where the property in question is situated and to cause the same to be recorded in the land records in the town or towns.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 702 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 19 / Section 702
App. § 19-702. Submission of budget and budget message
Status: in_force

On or before 60 days prior to the City annual meeting, the Manager shall submit to the Council a budget for the ensuing fiscal year and an accompanying message.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 289 / Section 2
App. § 289-2. Powers of Village
Status: in_force

The Village is hereby granted and endowed with the power and authority to exercise the functions of a municipal corporation for the following purposes, and to the following extent only:

(1) To light the public streets and highways and public buildings within the limits of the Village.

(2) To build and maintain sidewalks along the streets and public highways within the Village.

(3) To establish and maintain a fire department and such means of protection against fire, including the maintenance of a system of water supply and hydrants, as may be voted by the Village.

(4) To provide and maintain necessary police protection within and for the Village.

(5) To have perpetual succession and to sue and be sued and to have a common seal and alter the same at pleasure and to purchase, hold, and convey real and personal estate for the use of the Village for the lawful purposes herein specified.

(6) To lay taxes upon the grand list of the Village for any and all the purposes herein specified.

(7) To sprinkle or oil the public streets and highways with the limits of the Village.
24 V.S.A. § 4705 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4705
§ 4705. Notice on default
Status: in_force

Before declaring the principal of notes or bonds due and payable, the trustee must first give 30 days' notice in writing to the Governor, the Bank, the State Treasurer, and the Attorney General of the State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 509 / Section 4
App. § 509-4. Treasurer
Status: in_force

(a) The Prudential Committee shall annually appoint a Treasurer who shall have all the authority, duties, and responsibilities conferred upon fire district treasurers by the general law of the State of Vermont.

(b) The appointed Treasurer shall receive such compensation for his or her services as determined by the Prudential Committee.

(c) The appointed Treasurer shall serve at the pleasure of the Prudential Committee and need not be a resident or voter of North Branch Fire District No. 1.

(d) The appointed Treasurer may also be a Collector of Taxes.
24 V.S.A. § 2301 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 63 / Section 2301
§ 2301. Appropriations
Status: in_force

A municipality may appropriate not to exceed two and one-half percent of its grand list to aid an agricultural fair or other public exhibition intended to promote the interests of any branch of agriculture, mechanic arts, or any of the liberal arts. No such appropriation shall be used so to enable any incorporated fair association to pay dividends on its capital stock.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 502 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 203 / Section 502
App. § 203-502. Assessment of tax on grand list
Status: in_force

The Village may, at any legal meeting, assess a tax on the grand list of the Village for any of the purposes specified in this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 68 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 15 / Section 68
App. § 15-68. Taking; notice
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever a notice is required to be given for the taking of land or any right therein or the awarding of damages therefor, a citation shall be issued, signed by the Clerk or City Attorney of said City, and containing the names of all persons to whom notice is to be given, which citation shall be served, in the manner provided for serving a writ of summons, upon the person or persons to whom notice is to be given, by a sheriff, constable, or police officer of said City, not more than 60 days nor less than six days prior to the time of hearing. The return of said officer upon the original citation shall have the same effect as evidence of such service as is by law given to the return of a sheriff or constable upon a writ of summons. Such citation and return shall be made a part of the record of such proceeding.

(b) If at any stage of the proceedings for the taking of land, or any right or interest therein, for the purposes of this subchapter, it appears that any person or persons owning or interested in such land have not been duly notified, said proceedings shall not be held void by reason thereof, but shall be suspended until such person or persons are duly notified as hereinbefore provided. Whereupon the same proceedings shall be held in the same manner and with the same effect as if said person or persons had been duly notified by the original citation. If any person so notified appears, he or she shall be heard upon all matters therein pending in which he or she is interested.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 18 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 703 / Section 18
App. § 703-18. Withdrawal from the District
Status: in_force

(a) A town that is a member of the District may vote to withdraw from the District if one year has elapsed since it joined said District provided that during that time the District has not voted to bond itself for construction or improvements.

(b) When a majority of the voters of a member town present and voting at a town meeting duly warned for that purpose shall vote to withdraw from the District, such vote shall thereupon be certified by the clerk of the town to the Secretary of State who shall thereupon record such certificate in his or her office and the membership of the withdrawing town in the District to be at an end as of December 31 immediately following or as soon thereafter as the obligations of said withdrawing town as incurred under this chapter have been paid to the District. Any withdrawing town shall also reimburse the District for all expenses incurred by the District in planning, engineering, and administrative services rendered for the purpose of delivering water to said town. No withdrawal shall be final until payment has been made for all services so rendered.

(c) A vote of withdrawal taken after the District has become a body politic and corporate as provided in section 4 of this chapter but less than one year after said date shall be null and void. A vote of withdrawal from the District taken after the District has voted to bond itself for construction or improvements shall be null and void.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 17.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 17.02
App. § 9-17.2. Contractual authority
Status: in_force

The City Purchasing Agent is authorized to enter into contracts for the City, except that any contract calling for payment, either totally, or in installments, of a sum exceeding $1,000.00 shall be signed by the Mayor.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 106 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 106
App. § 143-106. Open meetings
Status: in_force

Meetings of all Town boards and commissions shall be open and held in accordance with the general law of this State relating to public meetings. The record of all official proceedings shall be available for public inspection and copying as provided by the general law of this State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1303 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 1303
App. § 123-1303. Minutes
Status: in_force

(a) Copies of the minutes of the Development Review Board or the Hardwick Planning Commission, or portions of the minutes, shall be made available to any member of the public upon request to the Town Manager and at cost.

(b) Copies of the minutes of the Development Review Board and the Planning Commission shall be filed and kept in the Town Clerk's office in separate books provided for that purpose.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 805 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 251 / Section 805
App. § 251-805. Sewers and drains
Status: in_force

(a) The Trustees shall have the care and supervision of the public sewers and drains of the Village and shall see that the same are properly constructed and maintained, and that the sewers or drains from abutting or adjacent property are properly connected with the public sewer or drain.

(b) Whenever a Sewer Commissioner is appointed by them, as in this charter provided, the Trustees may delegate to the Commissioner the performance of such of the foregoing duties as they may see fit.

(c) If in the judgment of the Board of Trustees the public good and necessity and convenience of individuals shall require the construction of a sewer system in the Village or a sewer main through the principal streets thereof, the Trustees are hereby authorized and empowered to lay out and construct such sewer system or sewer main and may from time to time extend the same as the public good and the necessity and convenience of individuals shall require, and when constructed, the same shall be under the care and control of the Board of Trustees or the Sewer Commissioner as herein provided. The Trustees are also authorized and empowered to lay out and construct the sewer main or parts of the system through lands of individuals or corporations, whenever, in the judgment of the Board, the public good shall so require, provided compensation for damages sustained by private individuals is made to them by the Village.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 515 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 515
App. § 1-515. Formation
Status: in_force

The City Council and the justices of the peace elected, qualified, and residing in the City shall constitute the Board of Civil Authority. The Board of Civil Authority and the Assessor, the latter of whom shall have no vote, shall be the Board for the Abatement of Taxes of the City. The City Clerk shall be the Clerk of said Boards.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 509 / Section 2
App. § 509-2. General law; application
Status: in_force

North Branch Fire District No. 1 shall have all the powers granted to fire districts and municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of this State and this chapter, together with all the implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers therein granted.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 20 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 417 / Section 20
App. § 417-20. Officers
Status: in_force

The Board of Supervisors annually shall elect from among its members a Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, and Clerk and those other officers as it deems appropriate for the conduct of its business. Upon majority vote of the Board of Supervisors, the Treasurer and Clerk may be non-Board members. No person may hold more than one office at one time. Any officer vacancy shall be filled at the next regular or special meeting of the Board of Supervisors.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 115 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 115
App. § 3-115. Descriptions recorded in Chief Administrative Officer's office sufficient for assessment purposes
Status: in_force

Whenever a description of lands or buildings is required for purposes of making assessments under the provisions of this charter, reference to the conveyance to the owner, giving the name of the person from whom acquired and the volumes and pages of the land records in the Chief Administrative Officer's office in which the same is recorded, shall be sufficient.
24 V.S.A. § 2684 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 71 / Section 2684
§ 2684. Penalty
Status: in_force

A person who violates this subchapter shall be subject to a civil fine of not more than $200.00.
24 V.S.A. § 1952 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 57 / Section 1952
§ 1952. Eminent domain
Status: in_force

A town, city, or incorporated village may acquire real property for purposes of a fire house or fire station by exercise of the right of eminent domain in the manner and according to the procedure provided in sections 2805-2812 of this title for acquisition of land for a municipal building.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 66 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 126 / Section 66
App. § 126-66. Savings clause
Status: in_force

The failure to perform any of the duties specified in this subchapter, or the failure to perform any of the duties within the time limits specified in this subchapter, shall not invalidate any action taken at a properly warned annual Town meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1707 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 1707
App. § 269-1707. Penalties; forfeitures of suits not affected
Status: in_force

This charter shall not affect a penalty or forfeiture incurred under any process or to this charter, nor any suit or proceeding had or commenced in a civil or criminal cause before this charter takes effect, but the proceedings therein shall, when necessary, conform to the provisions of this charter, nor this charter affect any claim or defense with respect to any cause of action or criminal violation accruing on or before the effective date hereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 12 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 171 / Section 12
App. § 171-12. Form of government
Status: in_force

(a) All governmental authority of the Town of Williston rests ultimately with the citizens and voters of the Town who shall exercise their power by Australian ballot at the annual Town meeting in determining:

(1) the election of officers of the Town, except the office of Moderator;

(2) the approval of the Town budgets;

(3) all authorizations for bonding or borrowing;

(4) all special appropriations;

(5) any other articles placed on the warning that involve the expenditure of tax dollars;

(6) any vote on a local options tax; and

(7) any vote required to be by Australian ballot by State law.

(b) The Town may vote to change how an issue is voted if permitted by law. Any change must be voted at a duly warned Town meeting. The change, if so voted, will take effect at the next Town meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 508 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 508
App. § 129-508. Selectboard policy
Status: in_force

The Town Manager shall prepare and submit to the Selectboard proposals for Selectboard policies. The Town Manager may have the assistance of the Town Attorney and shall have the authority to request a committee of citizens to assist in the preparation of any proposals. Policies shall be generally applicable to Town government and shall be in writing, codified, and made available to the public. Policies shall be adopted by the Selectboard at regular or special Selectboard meetings. The Selectboard shall give notice of its intent to adopt a policy stating the substance of the proposed policy at least 10 days prior to its adoption.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 50 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 50
App. § 403-50. 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 chapter 51. The Washington Superior Court shall have jurisdiction over petitions for recounts. Election expenses shall be borne by the District.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 401 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 401
App. § 413-401. Fiscal year
Status: in_force

The fiscal year of the District shall commence on July 1 and end on June 30 of the following year.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 61 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 15 / Section 61
App. § 15-61. Water system authorized
Status: in_force

The City of Vergennes is hereby authorized and empowered to construct and maintain a water system, with necessary structures, appliances, pipe lines, aqueducts, pumps, pump house, filtration basin or basins, reservoir or reservoirs, water tower, or towers and all necessary appurtenances to operate the same by water power, gravity, electricity, or other means, and to conduct water to and distribute the same through said City for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants thereof with water for fire, domestic, mechanical, and other purposes and may take and hold, by purchase or the right of eminent domain, in addition to the land, water power, water rights, privileges, and appurtenances thereof already owned or acquired by said City, such land and easements, springs, wells, ponds, streams, water privileges, and other sources of supply, located within or without the City limits, as may be necessary for obtaining a proper and adequate supply, storing and distributing same, preventing the pollution of the water supply of said City, and for proper construction, extension, and maintenance of said water system; provided, however, that such right of eminent domain shall not include the taking of private water power rights. Said City may enter upon and use any land, highways, easements, and rights of way through or over which it may be necessary for the pipes or aqueducts, reservoirs, water towers, structures, and appurtenances as may be necessary for the complete construction and maintenance of said water system and may also, for the purposes aforesaid, dig up or occupy any common, highway, street, right of way, or bridge for the purpose of laying, constructing, or repairing such pipes or aqueducts and all appurtenances thereof and may, for the purposes of this subchapter, build, construct, and repair from time to time, as may be necessary, the dam or falls of the water power now owned and used by said City.
24 V.S.A. § 4680 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4680
§ 4680. Application of funds; excess
Status: in_force

Money or investments in any fund or account of the Bank established or held for any bonds, notes, indebtedness, or liability to be paid, funded, or refunded by issuance of bonds or notes shall, unless the resolution authorizing the bonds or notes provides otherwise, be applied to the payment or retirement of the bonds, notes, indebtedness, or liability, and to no other purpose. If in any fund or account there are any monies in excess of the amount required for payment, funding, or refunding, the monies may be removed from that fund or account but only to the extent that the monies or investments thereafter remaining in the fund or account are not less than the outstanding bonds, notes, indebtedness, or liability of the Bank to be paid, funded, or refunded and for which that fund or account was established or held.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 113 / Section 701
App. § 113-701. Taxes on real and personal property
Status: in_force

Taxes on real and personal property shall be paid in three equal payments, one-third due and payable on or before August 15, one-third due and payable on or before November 15, and one-third due and payable on or before March 15 of each fiscal year.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123B / Section 10
App. § 123B-10. Relationship between and among Town officers
Status: in_force

All Town officers, whether elected or appointed, shall exercise their duties and responsibilities independently unless otherwise provided by law.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 308 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 407 / Section 308
App. § 407-308. Records
Status: in_force

The conduct of all meetings and public access thereto, and the maintaining of all records, books, and accounts of the District shall be governed by the laws of this State relating to open meetings and accessibility of public records.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 22.11 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 22.11
App. § 9-22.11. Suspension
Status: in_force

The Chief of Police shall have the power, for disciplinary purposes, to suspend any member of the Department, without pay, for a period not to exceed six weeks. The Police Commission shall have the power to suspend the Chief of Police for a period not to exceed two weeks.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 901 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 247 / Section 901
App. § 247-901. Fiscal year
Status: in_force

The fiscal year shall commence on the first day of May and close on the last day of April, unless the Village, at its annual meeting shall determine otherwise. If the Village votes another fiscal year, it shall specify the procedure for transition, including the method for financing the transition.
24 V.S.A. § 992 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 33 / Section 992
§ 992. Annual settlements; penalty
Status: in_force

Not less than 25 days before each annual town meeting, all officials and other persons authorized to receive or disburse money belonging to a town shall settle their accounts with the auditors of such town, and the treasurer shall include in such settlement his or her accounts as town school district treasurer. When an officer refuses or neglects to make such settlement, he or she shall be ineligible to reelection for the year ensuing.
24 V.S.A. § 1351 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 41 / Section 1351
§ 1351. Definitions
Status: in_force

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Appraisers” means the appraisers for the unified towns and gores in Essex County, designated in section 1355 of this title.

(2) “Board of Governors” means the Board of Governors for the unified towns and gores in Essex County, elected in section 1351a of this title.

(3) “Gores” means the unified towns and gores in Essex County, or any one of them.

(4) “Supervisor” means the supervisor for the unified towns and gores in Essex County, appointed in section 1351b of this title.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 203 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 153 / Section 203
App. § 153-203. Particular powers
Status: in_force

In addition to powers otherwise conferred upon it by law, the Town is, for the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, welfare, and convenience, authorized:

(1) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to the making and installation of local improvements including curbs, sidewalks, and storm drains in a manner specified by the Town as a condition precedent to the issuance of a building permit.

(2) To adopt and enforce police ordinances regulating the parking, operation, and speed of motor vehicles upon Town and State aid streets and highways.

(3) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to regulations, licensing, or prohibition of the storage and accumulation of garbage, ashes, rubbish, refuse, and waste materials; regulation of the removal and disposal of such materials; licensing for revenue and regulation or prohibition of the collection, removal, and disposal of such material; collection and removal of such materials by the Town either by contract or by a Town officer or department now existing or created for that purpose; and establishment of service rates to be paid the Town for such services.

(4) To establish and maintain a police department and to adopt ordinances pertaining thereto.

(5) To establish and maintain a fire department and to adopt ordinances pertaining thereto.

(6) To establish and maintain a water department and to adopt ordinances pertaining thereto.

(7) To establish and maintain an electric power system and to 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 Utility Commission or any other State governmental agency. It shall have power to adopt ordinances pertaining thereto.

(8) To establish and maintain a sewer department and to adopt ordinances pertaining thereto.

(9) To compel the demolition, completion, and/or repair of any premises in such condition as to be substantially injurious or dangerous to persons or to other property in the vicinity and to adopt ordinances pertaining thereto.

(10) To establish and maintain an ambulance service and to adopt ordinances pertaining thereto.

(11) To establish and maintain a highway department and to adopt ordinances pertaining thereto.

(12) To regulate or prohibit the moving of buildings in the streets or public highways of the Town.

(13) To regulate the holding of public meetings in the streets, highways, or on public property of the Town.

(14) To prevent riots, noises, disturbances, and disorderly assembly.

(15) To establish and enforce an ordinance to control dogs.

(16) To adopt and enforce ordinances establishing building codes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 42 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 261 / Section 42
App. § 261-42. Disposition of water rents
Status: in_force

All monies collected by the Collector of Taxes for said Village upon the list of water rents, as delivered by said Collector for collection by the trustees of said Village, and all water rents received by said trustees shall be paid by them to the Treasurer of said Village.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 303 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 303
App. § 123-303. Terms of office; Selectboard members
Status: in_force

(a) Three Selectboard members shall be elected for a three-year term and two Selectboard members for a one-year term.

(b) All Selectboard members shall be elected at large. The persons with the largest number of votes for office 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. No person shall seek election to concurrent terms for the office of Selectboard member.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 115 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 235 / Section 115
App. § 235-115. Bylaws
Status: in_force

And said Village may make, amend, or repeal any other bylaws, which it may deem necessary for said Village, and not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the State or of the United States.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 5 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129B / Section 5
App. § 129B-5. Amendment
Status: in_force

The amendment of this charter shall be as provided by law.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 17 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 17
App. § 3-17. Chief Administrative Officer to post lists; copies to be filed in Chief Administrative Officer's office
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the Chief Administrative Officer to cause the original of each and every checklist of voters at any time ordered to be posted by the Board for Registration of Voters of said City, to be filed in the Chief Administrative Officer's office with his or her certificate attached, that true copies of such lists have been posted as directed by said Board, together with the time and place in said City at which the same were posted, which certificate shall be prima facie evidence of such posting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 908 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 908
App. § 123-908. Cemetery Commission
Status: in_force

Responsibilities and powers shall be as established by law.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 511 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 511
App. § 103-511. Local option tax
Status: in_force

(a) If the Select Board by a majority vote recommends, the voters of the Town may, at an annual or special meeting warned for the purpose, by a majority vote of those present and voting, assess any or all of the following:

(1) a one-percent meals tax;

(2) a one-percent rooms tax;

(3) a one-percent alcoholic beverages tax; or

(4) a one-percent sales tax.

(b) Any local option tax assessed under subsection (a) of this section shall be collected and administered and may be rescinded as provided by the general laws of this State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 253 / Section 3
App. § 253-3. Powers of Village
Status: in_force

The corporation shall have power to make such prudential bylaws, rules, and regulations as it shall from time to time deem proper; to alter, repeal, or amend the same; such in particular as relate to its streets, sidewalks, alleys, public highways, commons, and parks, the cleaning, repairing, improving the same; such as relate to slaughterhouses and nuisances generally; such as relate to a watch, and the lighting of the streets of the Village, the restraining of any cattle, horses, sheep, swine, or geese from running at large in the Village; to establish and regulate a market; to suppress and restrain disorderly and gaming houses, and all descriptions of gaming, and for the destruction of all instruments and devices used for that purpose; to compel the owner or occupant of any unwholesome, noisome, or offensive house or place to remove or cleanse the same from time to time, as may be necessary for the health or comfort of the inhabitants of the Village; to regulate the manufacture and keeping of gunpowder, ashes, and all other combustible or dangerous materials; to prevent immoderate riding or driving in the streets, and cruelty to animals; to regulate the erection of buildings, and prevent encumbering the streets, sidewalks, and public alleys with firewood, lumber, carriages, boxes, or other things, and provide for the care, preservation, and improvement of public grounds; to provide a supply of water for the protection of the Village against fire, and for other purposes, and to regulate the use of the same; to compel all persons to remove from the sidewalks and gutters adjacent to the premises owned or occupied by them all snow, ice, dirt, and garbage, and to keep such sidewalks and gutters clean; to license innkeepers, keepers of saloons or victualing houses, and auctioneers, under regulations and for sums of money as the trustees may prescribe; to regulate or restrain the use of rockets, squibs, firecrackers, or other fireworks, in the streets or commons, and to prevent the practicing therein of any amusements having a tendency to injure or annoy persons passing thereon, or endanger the security of property; to regulate the making of alterations and repairs of stovepipes, fireplaces, and other things from which damage by fire may be apprehended; and also to regulate the use of buildings in crowded localities for hazardous purposes; to provide for the preservation of buildings from fires by precautionary measures and inspections, and to establish and regulate a fire department and fire companies, and other matters deemed necessary for the proper regulation of the affairs of the Village; provided, that no such bylaws shall be inconsistent with the Constitution or laws of the State or the United States. The corporation shall have power to impose such reasonable fine, penalty, or forfeiture for the breach of any bylaws by it established, as it may judge reasonable, which may be prosecuted for and recovered in an action of debt before any court proper to try the same; in which action it shall be deemed sufficient to declare generally, setting forth the particular bylaw for a breach of which the suit is brought; and all fines, penalties, and forfeitures so recovered shall be paid into the treasury of the Village, to be expended for the benefit and improvement of the Village as may seem best to the Board of Trustees.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 302 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 302
App. § 143-302. Town officers
Status: in_force

(a) The officers of the Town shall have their compensation fixed by the Selectboard.

(b) All elected officers, except as provided by law or as specifically provided in this charter, shall be chosen from the legally qualified voters of the Town and shall hold office for the term specified by law or in this charter or until their successors are elected. All elected officers shall be elected by Australian ballot.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Town shall not have the following officers:

(1) Road Commissioner;

(2) Town Agent;

(3) Town Auditor;

(4) Town Grand Juror.

(d) When an elected officer resigns, makes another Town his or her residence, dies, or becomes incapacitated, the office shall become vacant and shall be filled by the Selectboard. Vacancies in elective offices shall be filled until the next annual meeting. In the case of a vacancy in an office which term does not expire at the next annual meeting, the vacancy shall be filled by the Selectboard until the next annual meeting. At the next annual meeting, the voters shall fill the vacancy by Australian ballot for the remainder of the unexpired term; provided, however, that if the vacancy occurs within the 60-day period prior to the next annual meeting, the vacancy shall be filled by the Selectboard until the annual meeting following the next annual meeting, at which the voters shall fill the vacancy by Australian ballot for the remainder, if any, of the unexpired term.
24 V.S.A. § 3685 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 105 / Section 3685
§ 3685. Changes in membership-Inclusion of additional towns
Status: in_force

(a) When a majority of voters of a town, present and voting at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, shall vote to apply to a neighboring consolidated sewer district for admission as a member of the district, the vote shall thereupon be certified by the clerk of the town to the clerk of the consolidated sewer district and to the Secretary of State. Such vote and certification if accepted by the consolidated district within two years after the date of the vote shall be binding on the town without the subsequent vote in the town contemplated in subsection (b) of this section.

(b) When it appears to the board of sewer commissioners that the boundaries of the consolidated sewer district should be changed to include another town, they may insert an article fully describing the proposed change in the warning for a regular or special meeting of the district, which proposed change shall state the number of additional members to be added to the board of sewer commissioners if such change is approved.

(c) When a majority of the voters voting at such meeting vote to include an additional town within the boundaries of the consolidated sewer district as a member thereof, the board of sewer commissioners shall notify the legislative body of the additional town of the vote. Thereupon the legislative body of the additional town shall duly warn a meeting thereof, setting forth in such warning the vote of the consolidated sewer district and the proposed change in its boundaries. If a majority of the voters voting at the meeting of the additional town vote to be included within the district, the result of the vote and the result of the vote already taken by the consolidated sewer district shall be certified to the Secretary of State, who shall record the same in his or her office. A certificate of such record shall immediately be filed by the Secretary of State in the office of the clerk of the consolidated sewer district and of any additional town to be included therein as a member thereof, which filing shall be notice to all parties of the addition to the consolidated district.

(d) The consolidated sewer district as so enlarged shall thereupon have all the powers and responsibilities given it by this chapter. Any vacancy on the board of sewer commissioners created as a result of the increase in the number thereof shall be filled as provided in section 3674 of this title. The additional member town shall share in the expenses of the district in the proportion provided in this chapter for other member towns from the date the certificate of the Secretary of State is filed in the office of the clerk of the district and the office of the clerk of the additional town. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 14, eff. March 22, 1968.)
24 V.S.A. § 3672 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 105 / Section 3672
§ 3672. Definitions
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates another or different meaning or intent:

(1) “Town” means any municipality within the meaning of 1 V.S.A. § 126.

(2) “Sewage system” includes such equipment, pipeline systems, and facilities as are needed for and appurtenant to the treatment or disposal of sewage and waters, including sewage treatment plants and separate pipelines and structural or nonstructural facilities as are needed for and appurtenant to the treatment or disposal of storm, surface, and subsurface waters, and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the sewer commission for the operation thereof.

(3) “Sewage” means the used water supply of a community, including such groundwater, surface, and stormwater as may or may not be mixed with liquid wastes from the community.

(4) “Stormwater” means the excess water from rainfall.

(5) “Surface water” means water other than stormwater flowing or standing on or over the surface of the ground.

(6) “Groundwater” means water existing beneath the surface of the ground.

(7) “Improvements” means such repairs, replacements, additions, extensions, and betterments of and to a sewage system as are deemed necessary by the sewer commissioners to place or maintain such system in proper condition for its safe, efficient, and economic operation or to meet requirements for service in such areas which may be served by the district and for which no existing service is being rendered.

(8) “Costs” as applied to a sewage system include the purchase price of any such system, the cost of construction, the cost of all labor, materials, machinery, and equipment, the cost of improvements, the cost of all lands, property, rights, easements, and franchises acquired, financing charges, interest prior to and during construction and, if deemed advisable by the sewer commissioners for one year after completion of construction, cost of plans and specifications, surveys, and estimates of cost and of revenues, cost of engineering and legal services, and all other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of such construction.

(b) A consolidated sewer district shall be deemed to be a municipality within the meaning of 1 V.S.A. § 126. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 1b, eff. March 22, 1968; amended 2001, No. 109 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. May 16, 2002.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 200 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 200
App. § 3-200. Powers of fire commissioners
Status: in_force

The Board of Fire Commissioners may exercise such of the referenced powers relating to the Fire Department as may be delegated from time to time by resolution of the City Council.
24 V.S.A. § 1154a — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 35 / Section 1154a
§ 1154a. Records; return postage
Status: in_force

Whenever an instrument listed in section 1154 of this chapter is filed or left for record with the town clerk, the town shall bear the costs of returning the original copy of the instrument to the person who filed or left the instrument for record.
24 V.S.A. § 3625 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 101 / Section 3625
§ 3625. Allocation of sewage capacity
Status: in_force

(a) When capacity under an original or amended discharge permit under 10 V.S.A. § 1263 is or has been granted to any municipality, as defined in 1 V.S.A. § 126, except existing town school districts or incorporated school districts, that capacity shall be allocated, in a manner consistent with a municipality's obligation to its bondholders to establish rates and apply the proceeds as set forth in section 3616 of this title, pursuant to one of the following, whether in the form as adopted, or as later amended:

(1) An ordinance adopted under sections 1972 and 1973 of this title. This ordinance may authorize the municipality to include, in any specific allocation, phasing provisions and other conditions intended to implement provisions of a municipal plan adopted under section 4385 of this title or bylaws adopted under section 4442 of this title.

(2) Bylaws adopted under section 4442 of this title.

(3) Interim bylaws adopted under section 4415 of this title.

(b) Until an ordinance, interim bylaw, or bylaw for allocation of capacity is adopted by a municipality that grants zoning permits pursuant to the provisions of section 4449 of this title:

(1) Capacity may be allocated in amounts not to exceed 6,500 gallons per day, per recipient, and only upon granting of such a permit.

(2) Capacity allocated in conjunction with a permit granted pursuant to the provisions of section 4443 of this title shall revert to the municipality if the permit recipient has failed to initiate construction within one year of the issuance of the permit or has failed to complete construction within three years of the issuance of the permit. At the end of the three-year period, the reserve capacity associated with any unconstructed portion of the project, as determined by the legislative body of the municipality, shall revert to the issuing municipality unless that municipality has specifically required that construction proceed over a period longer than three years.

(3) The legislative body of the municipality shall make the final determination with respect to whether construction has been initiated or completed.

(c) Until an ordinance for allocation of capacity is adopted by a municipality that does not grant zoning permits pursuant to the provisions of section 4449 of this title:

(1) Capacity may be allocated only in amounts not to exceed 6,500 gallons per day, per recipient, and only upon granting of capacity by the municipal legislative body during a duly warned meeting.

(2) Capacity allocated under this subsection shall revert to the municipality if the capacity recipient has failed to initiate construction within one year of the issuance of the allocation or has failed to complete construction within three years of the issuance of the allocation. At the end of the three-year period, the reserve capacity associated with any unconstructed portion of the project, as determined by the legislative body of the municipality, shall revert to the issuing municipality unless that municipality has specifically required that construction proceed over a period longer than three years.

(3) The legislative body of the municipality shall make the final determination with respect to whether construction has been initiated or completed.

(d) When a municipality is not a town, city, or incorporated village, the towns, cities, or incorporated villages in which the municipality is located shall allocate capacity within their corporate boundaries in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(e) This section shall not apply to capacity that is committed or allocated before July 1, 1989. Capacity is committed by a town, city, incorporated village, or fire district when, following issuance of an original or amended discharge permit, formal action to commit is taken by the legislative body at a duly warned meeting. Capacity obtained by a municipality through an intermunicipal contract that existed on July 1, 1989, shall be treated as capacity granted to that municipality, and shall be distributed by that municipality according to the provisions of this section.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 197 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 197
App. § 3-197. Authority to establish rules and regulations for Fire Department
Status: in_force

The City Council may make and establish all proper and necessary rules and regulations for the management and guidance of the Fire Department and for the control and regulation of the fire protection of the City.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 206 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 206
App. § 411-206. Regular meetings
Status: in_force

A schedule of regular meetings of the Board of Supervisors shall be established at the organizational meeting.
24 V.S.A. § 2431 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 65 / Section 2431
§ 2431. Trustees of public funds
Status: in_force

Real and personal estate, except U.S. public money, held by a town in trust for any purpose, including cemetery trust funds, unless the person giving the same otherwise directs, shall be under the charge and management of three trustees, elected by the town when the town so votes. At the meeting when such trustees are first elected, they shall be elected for the following terms: one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years. Their successors shall be elected for the term of three years, but a person chosen to fill a vacancy caused by death, resignation, or otherwise shall serve only for the remainder of the unexpired term.
24 V.S.A. § 3801 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 109 / Section 3801
§ 3801. Sufficient fences
Status: in_force

Fences four and one-half feet high, in good repair and so constructed as to prevent the escape of sheep, and any natural barrier equivalent to such fence shall be deemed sufficient, except fences on the sides of highways that the owners of land are not bound to make and maintain. Occupied land bordering upon highways shall be deemed to be the enclosure of the owner or occupant. A person driving cattle, sheep, swine, or other stock upon a highway, and exercising reasonable care, shall not be liable for damages by reason of the escape of such animals into an enclosure adjoining the highway, unless the fence between the highway and the enclosure is a sufficient fence within the meaning of this section.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 17 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 17
App. § 101-17. Town manager; appointment; term
Status: in_force

A Town Manager shall be the Chief Administrative Officer of the Town. He or she shall be appointed by a majority of the full Selectboard. He or she shall be selected with special reference to his or her training, experience, education, and ability to perform the duties of his or her office, and without reference to his or her political persuasion. He or she shall be appointed for an indefinite period and shall be removable at the discretion of the Selectboard, subject to the conditions relative to hearings, timing of notices, severance pay, and grounds of dismissal as may be specified in this charter, ordinances of the Town, or any employment agreement or contract. The Town Manager shall not simultaneously hold any elective office within the Town, nor shall he or she be employed by the Town in any capacity except as Town Manager.
24 V.S.A. § 3810 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 109 / Section 3810
§ 3810. Duties of fence viewers; division; penalty; appeal
Status: in_force

On request, the fence viewers, or a majority of them, shall examine fences within the town and a division shall be made by them in cases proper for them to determine. If a fence viewer neglects to perform the duties required of him or her, he or she shall forfeit to the party aggrieved $5.00, with costs to be recovered in a civil action on this statute. Either party may appeal from the decision of the fence viewers to a Superior Court if such appeal is claimed within two hours from the rendition of the decision. Such appeal shall be taken as provided by Rule 75 of the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 11.08 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 147 / Section 11.08
App. § 147-11.8. Adoption of budget
Status: in_force

(a) An annual budget shall become effective after adoption by a majority vote of the Town's legal voters present and voting by Australian ballot at the annual Town meeting. If the voters disapprove the proposed budget at the annual Town meeting, the Selectboard shall proceed to warn a special Town meeting to be held within 60 days of the annual meeting, for the purposes of considering the disapproved budget. An informational meeting regarding the proposed budget shall be held the evening preceding the vote regarding the budget. The vote shall conform to the procedure in use for votes by Australian ballot at the regular Town meeting.

(b) After the annual budget has been adopted, the Selectboard shall not make any single appropriation not set forth in the budget that totals in excess of two percent of the annual operating budget. Any such appropriation made by the Selectboard shall only be done if they deem an emergency situation requires such appropriation. Such emergency appropriations shall be reported to the next annual Town meeting. Any single appropriation in excess of said two percent shall require prior approval by vote by Australian ballot at a duly warned Town meeting. The issuance of bonds or notes, except notes for one year or less or in anticipation of revenue or grants and aid to be paid within the fiscal year in which issued, shall be authorized by Australian ballot at the annual or a special Town meeting. Any article in the warning providing for appropriation of funds in addition to the Selectboard's budget shall be voted on by Australian ballot.
24 V.S.A. § 3632 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 102 / Section 3632
§ 3632. Standards for ordinances
Status: in_force

(a) The Secretary of Natural Resources shall adopt by rule minimum standards for municipal ordinances regulating sewage systems.

(b) The purpose of these standards shall be to achieve the proper performance of sewage systems.

(c) The rules may contain recommended procedures for municipalities to use in considering applications for permits.

(d) The rules shall contain standards and procedures for approving innovative sewage systems.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 31 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 285 / Section 31
App. § 285-31. Village ordinance and bylaw violations
Status: in_force

All violations of the Village ordinances and bylaws may be prosecuted in behalf of the Village by its attorneys or police officers, or by any other duly authorized prosecuting officer, before any justice of the peace of the County of Orange, or any municipal court that may hereafter be established in the County of Orange having jurisdiction in the Town of Newbury.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 501 / Section 7
App. § 501-7. Rates
Status: in_force

The Prudential Committee shall establish rates and fees for the water services, including capital improvements, provided by the Fire District, and all rates and fees for water services shall be paid to the District Treasurer.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 51 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 261 / Section 51
App. § 261-51. Licensing and activities of itinerant street vendors and peddlers
Status: in_force

(a) No person shall engage in the business of an itinerant street vendor or peddler within the corporate limits of the Village of Orleans without first applying for and receiving a license so to do. Such license fee shall be fixed by the trustees of such Village, but in the case of persons required to pay a peddler's license tax to the State, such fee shall not exceed $2.00 per year. The provisions of this section shall not apply to person engaged in selling meats, poultry, eggs, butter, fruits, or vegetables that are raised or produced by them.

(b) Any person who shall engage in the business of an itinerant street vendor or peddler, either as principal or agent, within the corporate limits of the Village of Orleans, without first obtaining the license required in this charter, shall be fined not more than $25.00 nor less than $5.00 for each day that the person shall engage in such business without such license.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 25 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 173 / Section 25
App. § 173-25. Taxes
Status: in_force

(a) All real and personal property taxes shall be paid to the Town Treasurer in full or in not more than four equal installments as set forth by specific article in the Town warning. Taxes shall be considered late as established by vote at an annual Town meeting. Taxes shall be considered delinquent as established by vote at an annual Town meeting.

(b) The total tax rate shall be set annually by the Selectboard as soon as practicable after final adoption of the Town budget, lodging of the grand list, and receipt of school tax rate information. In setting the Town rate, the Board shall consider only that amount that is necessary to offset the difference between municipal revenues and municipal expenses, including any deficit carried over from the previous year.

(c) The Treasurer, within 10 days, shall turn all unpaid tax accounts over to the Collector of Delinquent Taxes together with a warrant for the collection of such accounts. Accounts forwarded to the Collector of Delinquent Taxes shall include interest accrued to that date, and simple interest shall continue to accrue at a rate as set forth by a specific article in the Town meeting warning and approved by the voters. A delinquency fee as determined by the Town meeting warning and approved by the voters shall be added to the amount of tax due. The Collector of Delinquent Taxes shall be empowered under general law of the State to levy on personal property, bring actions at law, conduct tax sales, and bring petitions for foreclosure on tax liens. Such acts shall be done in the name of the Town of Windsor.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 49 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 405 / Section 49
App. § 405-49. Australian ballot
Status: in_force

The Australian ballot system shall be used at all special meetings of the District when voting is to take place.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 301
App. § 103-301. Select Board; the legislative body
Status: in_force

The Select Board shall constitute the legislative body of the Town of Bennington and shall have all powers and authority necessary for the performance of the legislative function.
24 V.S.A. § 4430 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4430
§ 4430. Capital budget and program
Status: in_force

(a) A capital budget shall list and describe the capital projects to be undertaken during the coming fiscal year, the estimated cost of those projects, and the proposed method of financing. A capital program is a plan of capital projects proposed to be undertaken during each of the following five years, the estimated cost of those projects, and the proposed method of financing. A capital project is any one or more of the following:

(1) Any physical betterment or improvement, including furnishings, machinery, apparatus, or equipment for that physical betterment or improvement when first constructed or acquired.

(2) Any preliminary studies and surveys relating to any physical betterment or improvement.

(3) Land or rights in land.

(4) Any combination of subdivisions (1), (2), and (3) of this subsection.

(b) The capital budget and program shall be arranged to indicate the order of priority of each capital project and to state for each project all the following:

(1) A description of the proposed project and the estimated total cost of the project.

(2) The proposed method of financing, indicating the amount proposed to be financed by direct budgetary appropriation or duly established reserve funds; the amount, if any, estimated to be received from the federal or State governments; the amount, if any, to be financed by impact fees; and the amount to be financed by the issuance of obligations, showing the proposed type or types of obligations, together with the period of probable usefulness for which they are proposed to be issued.

(3) An estimate of the effect, if any, upon operating costs of the municipality.

(c) The planning commission may submit recommendations annually to the legislative body for the capital budget and program, that shall be in conformance with the municipal plan.
24 V.S.A. § 3114 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 83 / Section 3114
§ 3114. Repair of unsafe structure
Status: in_force

Before 12:00 p.m. of the day following the service of such notice, a person notified as provided in section 3113 of this title shall commence to secure or remove such structure, and shall employ sufficient workers speedily to secure or remove it. If the public safety so requires, and if the mayor and aldermen, selectboard, or trustees, as the case may be, so order, the inspector shall immediately enter upon the premises with the necessary workers and cause such structure to be shored up, taken down, or otherwise secured without delay. Such inspector shall cause a proper fence or boarding put up for the protection of passers-by at the expense of the owner in the manner provided in section 3116 of this title, and such expense may be recovered in a civil action on this statute.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 317 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 317
App. § 1-317. Special assessments
Status: in_force

The City Council may make special assessments for the purchase, construction, repair, reconstruction, or extension of a water system, sewage system, sidewalk, or any other public improvement that is to benefit a limited area of a municipality to be served by the improvement.
24 V.S.A. § 4769 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 120 / Section 4769
§ 4769. Loans to hardship municipalities
Status: in_force

(a) Waiver of bond vote. A hardship municipality may receive a loan for an eligible project that includes a loan subsidy of up to $200,000.00 in the form of 100 percent principal forgiveness with no interest or administrative fee from funds authorized in subdivision 4753(a)(3) of this title, subject to the availability of such loan subsidy. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision 4755(a)(3) of this title, the loan is not required to be evidenced by a municipal bond up to the amount to be forgiven.

(b) Waiver of reimbursement method required in statute. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 4755(b) of this title, loan funds may be disbursed to a hardship municipality for its approved project upon receipt by the Department of eligible project invoices without prior payment by the municipality.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 306 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 306
App. § 269-306. Vacancies of elected and appointed officers
Status: in_force

(a) When an elected or appointed officer specified herein resigns, makes another town his or her residence, dies, or becomes incapacitated, his or her office shall become vacant. A person who fills such a vacancy shall serve until his or her predecessor's term expires. The Village Manager shall cause to be published in a newspaper of general local circulation notice of such vacancy.

(b) Any resident may, within 10 days of the publication, submit his or her name to the Village Manager as an applicant for the vacancy. The names of all applicants shall be entered in the minutes of the next regularly scheduled trustees' meeting.

(c) At the first regular meeting of the Board of Trustees following the expiration of the period set forth in subsections 306(a) and 306(b), the trustees shall fill the vacancy from the list of applicants. Said appointment shall be for the remainder of the unexpired term unless this charter provides otherwise.

(d) A vacancy in the Office of Village President shall be filled by a member of the Board of Trustees, to be appointed by the Board.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 11 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 15 / Section 11
App. § 15-11. Ordinances and regulations
Status: in_force

(a) The City Council shall (subject to the right of said corporation to alter, amend, or repeal the same at any annual or special meeting) have power to make, establish, alter, amend, or repeal ordinances, regulations, and bylaws for the following purposes and to impose penalties for the breach thereof:

(1) To establish and regulate a market and to regulate and license the selling or peddling of meat, fish, or other provisions from vehicles about the City, and all monies paid for such licenses shall belong to the City and be paid into the City Treasury.

(2) To restrain and prohibit all descriptions of gaming and for the destruction of all instruments and devices used for that purpose.

(3) To regulate the exhibitions of common showmen and shows of every kind not interdicted by law and to regulate, restrain, or license itinerant vendors and peddlers, and all monies received for such licenses shall belong to the City and be paid into the City Treasury.

(4) To prevent riots, noises, disturbances, or disorderly assemblages.

(5) To abate and remove nuisances and to restrain and suppress houses of ill-fame and disorderly houses.

(6) To compel the owner or occupant of any unwholesome, noisesome, or offensive house or place to remove or cleanse the same from time to time as may be necessary for the health or comfort of the inhabitants of the City.

(7) To direct the location of all slaughterhouses, markets, steam mills, blacksmith shops, and sewers.

(8) To regulate the manufacture and keeping of gunpowder, ashes, and all other dangerous and combustible material.

(9) To regulate the making of alterations and repairs of stovepipes, furnaces, fireplaces, and other things from which damage from fire may be apprehended and also to regulate the use of buildings in crowded localities for hazardous purposes; to provide for the preservation of buildings from fires by precautionary measures and inspections; to regulate the size, height, and material of new buildings to be constructed in the City, or in certain prescribed localities therein; and to establish and regulate a Fire Department and fire companies.

(10) To prevent immoderate riding or driving in the streets and cruelty to animals.

(11) To regulate the erection of buildings and prevent encumbering the streets, sidewalks, and public alleys with firewood, lumber, carriages, boxes, or other things and provide for the care, preservation, and improvements of public grounds.

(12) To restrain or regulate the running at large of cattle, horses, swine, sheep, and goats and to regulate or restrain the running at large of dogs. And in addition to the tax now imposed by the laws of this State upon owners or keepers of dogs, to impose upon or require of the owner or keeper of any dog or dogs such additional tax or a license fee for the keeping thereof, and prescribe such penalties in default thereof as may be deemed necessary. And all monies received hereunder shall belong to the City and be paid into the City Treasury.

(13) To compel all persons to remove from the sidewalks and gutters in front of the premises owned or occupied by them all snow, ice, dirt, and garbage, and to keep such sidewalks and gutters clean, and to compel the owners or occupants of any land or premises in the City to cut and remove from the streets and sidewalks in front of such land or premises all grass, thistles, and weeds growing or being thereon, under such regulations as may be prescribed therefor.

(14) To license innkeepers, keepers of saloons, victualing houses, billiard saloons, and auctioneers, under such regulations as shall be prescribed therefor, and all monies paid for such licenses shall belong to the City and be paid into the City Treasury.

(15) To regulate or restrain the use of rockets, squibs, firecrackers, or other fireworks in the streets or commons and to prevent the practicing therein of any amusements having a tendency to injure or annoy persons passing therein or to endanger the security of property.

(16) To regulate gauging, the place and manner of selling and weighing hay, packing, inspecting, and branding beef, pork, and produce and of selling and measuring wood, lime, and coal and to appoint suitable persons to superintend and conduct the same.

(17) To license porters, cart-men, and the owners and drivers of hackney coaches, cabs, or carriages, and to regulate their fees and prescribe their duties.

(18) To provide for the lighting of the City.

(19) To prohibit and punish willful injuries to trees planted for shade, ornament, convenience, or use, public or private, and to prevent and punish trespasses or willful injuries to or upon public buildings, squares, commons, cemeteries, or other property.

(20) To manage and control the public places, parks, and commons in said City, and to regulate the use of the same by the public, and to prevent and punish trespasses or willful injuries to or upon any fountains, shade or ornamental tree or shrub, building, or structure placed therein by or under the orders of the corporation in such a manner as shall not be inconsistent with the laws of the State.

(21) To regulate or prohibit the suspending or putting up of any sign or awning in or over any street, lane, alley, common, or other public place in the City and, whenever the public good may require, to order and direct that signs or awnings heretofore erected or suspended as aforesaid shall be taken down or removed.

(b) Said City Council may make and establish, amend, or repeal any other bylaws, rules, and ordinances that it may deem necessary for the well-being of said City and not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the State; and such City Council may impose a fine not exceeding $100.00 to be prosecuted and recovered before any justice of the peace within said City, in which action it shall be sufficient to declare generally that the defendant or defendants is or are guilty of the breach of a certain bylaw, naming such bylaw generally; and under such declaration the special matter may be given in evidence. And all writs for the breach of any bylaw may issue against the body of the defendant or defendants in due form of law, on the complaint of the City Attorney or Grand Juror, the process and procedure to be similar to that employed in prosecutions for breach of the peace, including mittimus, if deemed necessary to enforce the penalty imposed.

(c) As long as the City owes a bonded debt, the City Council shall annually assess upon the grand list of the City, in addition to all other taxes, a tax of at least 10 cents on the dollar, the proceeds of which shall be applied for the redemption of such bonded debt and shall constitute a sinking fund, which shall be safely deposited or invested, under the direction of the City Council so as to yield a proper rate of interest. Such tax shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes of said City are collected, and delinquents shall be subject to the same penalties provided therefor.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 246 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 246
App. § 3-246. Warrant to be issued upon failure to pay assessment; collection
Status: in_force

If the owner of any lands assessed as hereinbefore provided shall neglect to pay to the Chief Administrative Officer the amount of any such assessment for 90 days after the final record in the matter of making such assessment shall have been made in the records of said streets and highways in the Chief Administrative Officer's office, the Chief Administrative Officer shall issue his or her warrant to the Constable of said City for the collection thereof; and said Constable shall have power on such warrant to distrain and sell at public auction so much of the goods and chattels of such owner, and for want thereof so much of said lands so assessed as will satisfy said assessment and all legal fees and shall be entitled to the same fees on such warrant as collectors of town taxes on tax warrants; and the Chief Administrative Officer shall proceed in the same manner as collectors of town taxes are required by law to proceed in selling goods and chattels or real estate at auction for the collection of taxes, except that the Chief Administrative Officer shall have no right on such warrant for want of goods and chattels of such owner to arrest the owner and commit him or her to jail.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 709 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 19 / Section 709
App. § 19-709. Lapse of appropriations
Status: in_force

Every appropriation, except an appropriation for a capital expenditure, shall lapse at the close of the fiscal year to the extent that it has not been expended or encumbered. An appropriation for a capital expenditure shall continue in force until the purpose for which it was made has been accomplished or abandoned.
24 V.S.A. § 1210 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 36 / Section 1210
§ 1210. Appeals
Status: in_force

Appeals under this chapter shall be taken in the manner established for the underlying proceedings to which this chapter is applied.