24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 33 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 901 / Section 33
App. § 901-33. Indebtedness
Status: in_force

(a) Short-term borrowing.

(1) The Board may borrow money through the issuance of notes of the Authority for the purpose of paying current expenses of the Authority. Such notes must mature within one year.

(2) The Board may also borrow money in anticipation of assessment to each member in an amount not to exceed 90 percent of the amount assessed for each year and may issue notes of the Authority that must mature within one year.

(3) The Board may also borrow money in anticipation of grants-in-aid from any source and any revenues other than assessments through the issuance of notes of the Authority. Such notes must mature within one year but may be renewed as provided by general law.

(4) The Board may also borrow money in anticipation of bond proceeds that have been authorized as provided in this chapter. These notes shall be issued as provided in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53.

(b) Long-term indebtedness.

(1) Submission to voters.

(A)(i) On a petition signed by at least 10 percent of the voters of the Authority, the proposition of incurring a bonded debt or other indebtedness to pay for public improvements or of authorizing a long-term contract shall be submitted by the Board to the voters thereof at a special meeting to be held for that purpose.

(ii) In the alternative, when the Board shall determine by resolution passed by the majority of members present and voting at a duly warned and called meeting that the public interest or necessity demands improvements or a long-term contract, and that the cost of the same will be too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual income and revenue, it shall order the proposition of incurring indebtedness or of authorizing a long-term contract to be submitted to the voters of the Authority at a meeting to be held for that purpose.

(iii) As used in this subdivision (1)(A):

(I)(aa) “Long-term contract” means a contract in which the Authority incurs obligations for which the costs are too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual income and revenues of the Authority in the judgment of the Board.

(bb) “Long-term contract” shall not include any contract that is subject to annual renewal or extension at the election of the Authority, or any contract pursuant to which payment by the Authority shall be subject to annual appropriations in accordance with the annual budget, or any contract for services or the purchase or lease of equipment, materials, or supplies needed in the ordinary course of business of the Authority.

(II) “Public improvements” shall include improvements that may be used for the benefit of the public, whether or not publicly owned or operated.

(iv) Bonded debt or other indebtedness may be authorized for any purpose permitted by 24 V.S.A. chapter 53 or 119 and 10 V.S.A. chapter 12, or any other applicable statutes for any purpose for which the Authority is organized.

(v) The Board may not submit to the voters more than twice in the same calendar year the proposition of incurring bonded or other indebtedness to pay for the same or similar public improvement or of entering the same or similar long-term contract.

(B) Any bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness of the Authority may be sold at par, premium, or discount, at public or private sale or to the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank, as the Authority acting through the Board of Directors shall determine.

(2) Warnings of meeting.

(A) The warning of a special meeting of the Authority to incur bonded debt or other indebtedness or to authorize a long-term contract shall state:

(i) the object and purpose for which the indebtedness or long-term contract is proposed to be incurred or authorized;

(ii) the estimated cost of the improvements or service;

(iii) the amount of bonds or other evidence of indebtedness proposed to be authorized;

(iv) a summary of the terms of any contract proposed to be authorized;

(v) means of raising or apportioning costs entailed thereby for debt service or payments under a long-term contract; and

(vi) the places where and the date and time when the meeting shall be held and the hours of opening and closing the polls.

(B) The Board, in cooperation with the board of civil authority of each member, shall determine the number and location of polling places. There shall be at least one polling place in each member.

(3) Notice of meeting.

(A) The Secretary of the Authority shall cause notice of such special meeting to be published in one or more newspapers of known circulation in the Authority once a week for three consecutive weeks on the same day of the week, the last publication to be not less than five nor more than 10 days before such meeting.

(B) Notice of such meeting shall also be posted in at least three public places within each member at least 30 and not more than 40 days before the meeting and be filed with the clerk of each member and the Secretary of the Authority prior to posting.

(4) Authorization.

(A)(i) The voters of the members shall vote for or against the issuance of bonds or other indebtedness or to authorize a long-term contract based upon the majority of votes cast by the voters.

(ii) When the majority of votes so cast favor the issuance of bonds or other indebtedness or to authorize a long-term contract, the Authority shall be so authorized as provided in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53 (indebtedness) or other applicable statutes or to enter into the long-term contract.

(iii) The ballots cast in each member shall be counted by the election officials of each member, preserved and secured with the checklist, and thereafter the results shall be certified to the Authority Secretary within 48 hours.

(B)(i) The Authority may issue such authorized bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness from time to time in one or more series or separate series, as determined by the Board of Directors, provided that the aggregate principal amount does not exceed the principal amount for which voter approval was obtained.

(ii) Such bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness may bear such date or dates; mature at such time or times not exceeding 40 years from their respective dates; bear interest at such rate or rates (including variable rates) payable semiannually, monthly, or at such other time as determined by the Board of Directors; be in such denominations; be in such form, either coupon or registered; carry such conversion or registration privileges; have such rank or priority; be executed in such manner; be payable in such medium of payment; at such place or places; be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium; and be declared or become due before the maturity date thereof, as such resolutions authorizing their issuance may provide.

(5) Assessment.

(A) The cost of debt service or of payments under a long-term contract shall be included in the annual budget of the Authority and shall be allocated among the members as provided in section 28 of this chapter for the calculation of the annual budget assessment.

(B) The applicable provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 53 (indebtedness) or other enabling law under which debt is incurred or long-term contracts authorized shall apply to the issuance of bonds or other evidence of indebtedness by the Authority and for that purpose the Authority shall be deemed a “municipal corporation,” the Board shall be deemed a “legislative branch,” and the Authority Treasurer shall be deemed a “municipal treasurer” within the purview of that chapter.

(C) Bonds or other evidence of indebtedness and long-term contracts shall be signed by the Treasurer and Chair of the Board.

(6) Bonds eligible for investment.

(A) Bonds and notes issued by the Authority shall be legal investments for all persons without limit as to the amount held, regardless of whether they are acting for their own account or in a fiduciary capacity.

(B) Such bonds and notes shall likewise be legal investments for all public officials authorized to invest public funds.

(7) Tax exemption.

(A) All bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by the Authority are issued by a body corporate and public of the State and for an essential public and governmental purpose.

(B) Such bonds, notes, and other evidence of indebtedness and the interest thereon and the income therefrom, and all fees, charges, funds, revenues, income, and other monies pledged or available to pay or secure the payment of those bonds, notes, and other evidence of indebtedness or interest thereon, are exempt from taxation except for transfer, inheritance, and estate taxes.

(8) Purchases and disposition of own obligations.

(A) The Authority may purchase bonds, notes, and other evidence of indebtedness of the Authority out of any of its funds or money available therefor.

(B) The Authority may hold, cancel, or resell the bonds, notes, and other evidence of indebtedness subject to and in accordance with agreements with holders of its bonds, notes, and other evidence of indebtedness.

(9) Presumption of validity. After issuance, all bonds, notes, and other evidence of indebtedness of the Authority shall be conclusively presumed to be fully authorized and issued by all the laws of this State, and any person or governmental unit shall be stopped from questioning their authorization, sale, issuance, execution, or delivery by the Authority.

(10) Specific provisions. In connection with the issuance of any bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness, in addition to the powers it may now have or hereafter have, the Authority may make such covenants and agreements and exercise such powers as contained in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 34.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 34.02
App. § 9-34.2. School financing
Status: in_force

(a) The voters of the City shall annually approve a budget for the use of Rutland City schools pursuant to the general laws of the State of Vermont.

(b) Any bonded indebtedness approved by the voters after January 1, 2004, shall not be considered as part of the annual General Fund budget.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 136 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 136
App. § 3-136. Officer to be removed from neglect to give bond after notice
Status: in_force

In case of the neglect of any officer to give bonds as above specified after 10 days' notice from the City Council that he or she is required so to do, his or her office shall thereupon become vacant and the vacancy shall be filled as hereinbefore provided.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 308 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 308
App. § 411-308. Recall of officers
Status: in_force

Any officer may be removed by a two-thirds vote of the members of the Board of Supervisors whenever, in its judgment, it shall determine that the best interest of the District will be served by the removal of such officer.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 701
App. § 4-701. Board of Civil Authority
Status: in_force

The Board of Civil Authority shall be defined by 17 VSA § 2103(5).
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 12 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 227 / Section 12
App. § 227-12. Board of Abatement
Status: in_force

The trustees and Clerk of the Village shall constitute a Board for the Abatement of Village Taxes and shall have the same powers and proceed in the same manner as the board for abatement of taxes in towns.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 22.08 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 22.08
App. § 9-22.8. Tenure
Status: in_force

All members of the regular police force, now serving or who shall hereinafter be appointed other than the Chief, shall be retained as such, unless discharged for good cause or due to economic reasons.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1.03 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 1.03
App. § 9-1.3. Wards
Status: in_force

(a) The City of Rutland may be divided into wards by ordinance.

(b) The Board of Aldermen is empowered to make such changes in the number and boundaries of the several wards of the City as they may deem proper, having regard, so far as practicable and convenient, to an equal division of population among them.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 502 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 502
App. § 123-502. Organization
Status: repealed

(a) After the election and qualification of the Selectboard, the Selectboard shall organize and elect a Chair and Vice Chair by a majority vote of the entire Board.

(b) The Selectboard shall conduct its business in accordance with Robert's Rules of Order. The Chair shall be entitled to participate as a full voting member.

(c) Three Selectboard members shall constitute a quorum. No action of the Selectboard shall be valid or binding unless adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the quorum present. In cases where statute requires a greater fraction of the authorized Board for an affirmative vote than as specified above, the statute's provisions of law shall control.

(d) All meetings of the Selectboard shall be open to the public in accordance with the provisions of the Vermont Open Meeting Law.

(e) [Repealed.]

(f) [Repealed.]

(g) [Repealed.]
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1208 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1208
App. § 5-1208. Water and sewer rates
Status: in_force

The City Council shall establish rates to be paid for the use of water supplied by the City water system and sewage disposal and benefit charges. Water rates and sewage disposal charges shall be and are hereby made a lien in the nature of a real estate tax upon the real estate so supplied with water and public sewers, and shall be collected and enforced under such regulations and ordinances as the City Council shall prescribe.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 106 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 106
App. § 413-106. Responsibility to accept solid waste
Status: in_force

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

(b) The District shall provide a system for disposal of all solid waste generated by residential and commercial activities, including tires and metal goods generated within the member municipalities.

(c) The District may provide for:

(1) The disposal of solid waste from industrial activities within a member municipality.

(2) The disposal of sludge through contract with a member municipality, provided that the sludge is disposed of at no cost to the other member municipalities.

(3) The disposal of any or all demolition and construction waste and yard wastes from any member municipality.

(d) The District may contract with a nonmember municipality or a private entity for the disposal of solid waste generated outside the boundaries of the District, provided that the contract will not increase the cost of solid waste disposal to the member municipalities.
24 V.S.A. § 1910e — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 53 / Section 1910e
§ 1910e. Auditing
Status: in_force

Annually on or before April 1 until the year following the end of the period for retention of education property tax increment, a municipality with a housing infrastructure project approved under this subchapter shall ensure that the special tax increment financing account required by section 1910b of this subchapter is subject to the annual audit prescribed in section 1681 or 1690 of this title and submit a copy to the Vermont Economic Progress Council. If an account is subject only to the audit under section 1681 of this title, the Council shall ensure a process is in place to subject the account to an independent audit. Procedures for the audit must include verification of the original taxable value and annual and total municipal and education property tax increments generated, expenditures for financing and related costs, and current balance.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 510 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 409 / Section 510
App. § 409-510. Reconsideration or rescission of vote
Status: in_force

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

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

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

(d) A question voted on shall not be presented for reconsideration or rescission at more than one subsequent meeting without the approval of the Board.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 6 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 703 / Section 6
App. § 703-6. Organization and administration
Status: in_force

(a) This chapter shall enter into effect immediately upon ratification at any duly warned annual or special meeting of the District subsequent to the passage hereof.

(b) The officers of the District shall be a permanent Clerk, a Treasurer, a Moderator and three auditors, all of whom shall have the same duties as in towns. The legislative branch of the District shall be the Board of Water Commissioners.

(c) All officers and commissioners of the existing Champlain Water District shall hold office for their existing terms and until others are elected and qualified following the first annual meeting. The selectboard of each town may appoint an alternative water commissioner for each commissioner elected from that town, whose duty shall be to serve in place of the elected commissioner if the latter is unable to serve and to serve in that commissioner's place if that commissioner resigns or is unable to proceed while in office.

(d) The total number of water commissioners and the number from each member town may be agreed upon by the several member towns. In the absence of such agreement, the number shall be one from each member town. Changes in the total number of commissioners may be made at any annual meeting of the District duly warned for that purpose by majority vote of those present and voting; except that it shall always include at least one from each member town. Water commissioners to serve on the Board of Water Commissioners of the District shall be elected by the member towns at their own annual or special meetings. Such elections shall be by Australian ballot in those member towns that elect their respective legislative branches by Australian ballot. All other District officers shall be elected by the District at its annual meeting. When there is only one nominee for any of the aforementioned offices, the voters may, by acclamation, instruct an officer to elect said nominee by casting one ballot, and upon such ballot being cast, such nominee shall be declared to be legally elected.

(e) The commissioners shall be the administrative body of the District and shall have the same general powers and duties as conferred by statute upon selectboards. They may appoint committees as they deem necessary or appropriate and shall set all policies of the District as required by this chapter or as they may deem proper. The Board of Commissioners shall have the authority to appoint a Manager for the District and fix his or her compensation. The Board may delegate to such Manager any and all functions it may deem necessary and appropriate for the proper administration of the District, including the power to hire an administrative staff; provided, however, that the Board shall have the exclusive power to set and determine the policies of the District.

(f) Until such time as the District is in full operation and producing revenues, the Board of Commissioners shall have the authority to incur indebtedness on behalf of the District for the purpose of developing and constructing any facilities necessary for such operation, for compensating the administrative staff, and for any other related purpose it may deem necessary. Any borrowings that are not capitalized in the form of long-term obligations shall be made a portion of the budget for the first year of actual operation by the District in which it distributes a substantial quantity of water.

(g) All District officers elected at an annual meeting and water commissioners elected by their constituent towns shall enter upon their duties on April 1 following their election, unless a different date is set at an annual meeting. At the first meeting following April 1 of each year, the commissioners shall elect a Chairman. A vacancy occurring in any District office other than commissioner caused by death, resignation, removal from the District, or incapacity of an officer to carry out his or her duties, shall be temporarily filled by the Board of Water Commissioners with a person from the municipality from which the vacancy occurs within 30 days after the vacancy occurs and until the date when the newly elected officers take office. The vacancy shall then be filled at the next annual meeting of the District.

(h) The term of office of the water commissioners and the auditors shall be three years and of all other officers, one year. The initial terms and identity shall be the same as those of present commissioners, auditors, and other officers.

(i) All actions by the member towns in the formation of the original Champlain Water District are hereby ratified; and further, all actions of the Champlain Water District, including warnings and procedures in connection with the proposal to construct water facilities and the bond vote of May 21, 1970, is specifically ratified and declared to be of full force, and when issued, said bonds shall be a binding obligation upon the new Champlain Water District as established by this chapter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 331 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 331
App. § 3-331. Creation of Community and Economic Development Office
Status: in_force

There is hereby created in the City of Burlington a Community and Economic Development Office.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 305 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 203 / Section 305
App. § 203-305. Board of Trustees
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees shall have the management of the affairs of the Village and the necessary powers for that purpose.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 403 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 403
App. § 1-403. Manager's absence
Status: in_force

The City Manager may designate a qualified administrative officer of the municipality to perform his or her duties during his or her temporary absence or disability. In the event of his or her failure to make such designation, the Council may, by resolution, appoint an officer of the City to perform the duties of the Manager during such absence or disability, until he or she shall return or his or her disability shall cease.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 910 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 910
App. § 5-910. Officers' bonds
Status: in_force

All officers from whom the City Manager may require bonds, or as required by State statute, shall annually give bonds to the City, to the satisfaction of the City Manager, for the faithful discharge of their respective trusts. Such bond shall be given before the officer concerned enters upon the officer's duties. If the City Manager requires a bond with a fidelity company as surety, the City shall pay the expense thereof. The City Manager may contract for one blanket bond to cover all City officials and employees required to furnish bonds. Such blanket bond may, with the concurrence of other boards or agencies requiring bonds from officers and employees under their control, cover other officers or employees under control of such boards.
24 V.S.A. § 4453 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4453
§ 4453. Challenges to housing provisions in bylaws
Status: in_force

The Attorney General or a designee shall investigate when there is a complaint that a bylaw or its manner of administration violates subdivision 4412(1) of this title, relating to equal treatment of housing and adequate provision of affordable housing. Upon determining that a violation has occurred, the Attorney General may file an action in the Environmental Division to challenge the validity of the bylaw or its manner of administration. In this action, the municipality shall have the burden of proof to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the challenged bylaw or its manner of administration does not violate the provisions of subdivision 4412(1) of this title. If the Division finds the bylaw or its administration to be in violation, it shall grant the municipality a reasonable period of time to correct the violation and may extend that time. If the violation continues after that time, the Division shall order the municipality to grant all requested permits and certificates of occupancy for housing relating to the area of continuing violation.
24 V.S.A. § 3905 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 111 / Section 3905
§ 3905. Certified copy for town clerk's office
Status: in_force

A copy officially certified by the compiler of the record shall be kept in the office of the town clerk.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1705 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 1705
App. § 143-1705. Amendment of charter
Status: in_force

This charter may be amended as set forth by the general laws of this State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 503 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 503
App. § 411-503. Place of meetings
Status: in_force

Annual and special meetings of the District shall be held at such place within the District as the Board of Supervisors shall deem appropriate. All articles calling for action to be taken by the legal votes of the District shall be voted upon by the legal voters of the District at the polling place or places within each member municipality that are designated by the member municipality as a polling place in accordance with the provisions of 17 V.S.A. chapter 51.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 147 / Section 7.02
App. § 147-7.2. Qualifications
Status: in_force

(a) The Manager shall be chosen solely on the basis of his or her executive and 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 federal, State, or Town of Shelburne office.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 206 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 409 / Section 206
App. § 409-206. Special meetings
Status: in_force

Special meetings of the Board may be called at any time by the Chairperson and shall be called by the Clerk upon written request of a majority of the members of the Board. Each supervisor shall be given at least 24-hours' notice of any special meeting by telephone, or by written notice delivered personally, or by regular mail. Notice by mail is effective upon deposit in the mail at least 72 hours before the special meeting. Supervisors waive the notice requirements if they attend the special meeting, unless attendance is for the sole purpose of protesting the holding of the meeting. No action may be taken at a special meeting that is not warned specifically in the notice.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1105 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 1105
App. § 269-1105. Annual meeting; date and time
Status: in_force

The annual meeting of the Village for the consideration of all matters to be voted upon shall be held on the second Tuesday in May, commencing at seven thirty o'clock in the afternoon, commencing in the year 1993. Annual and special meetings of the Village at which voting shall be conducted by Australian ballot shall commence at ten o'clock in the forenoon and close at seven o'clock in the evening.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 904 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 904
App. § 131-904. Board of Adjustment
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any provision of general law, two residents of the Village district as presently or hereafter defined shall serve as members of the Zoning Board of Adjustment. Other members of the Zoning Board of Adjustment shall be residents of the Town of Plainfield and residing in said district.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 111 / Section 301
App. § 111-301. Powers of the Selectboard
Status: in_force

The Selectboard of the Town of Chester, consistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this State, shall have the power and authority to make, establish, alter, amend, or repeal ordinances, regulations and systems of licenses for regulation or revenue, for the following purposes:

(1) To establish and regulate a market.

(2) To make regulations relating to the suppression and restraint of disorderly and gaming houses, bowling alleys, billiard and pool tables, and all descriptions of gaming, and relating to the destruction of all instruments and devices used for that purpose and relating to the location of bowling alleys.

(3) To regulate the exhibition of common showmen and of shows of every kind not interdicted by law.

(4) To abate and remove all public nuisances and private nuisances.

(5) 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 and comfort of the inhabitants of said Town.

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

(7) To regulate the manufacture and keeping of gunpowder, ashes, and all combustible and dangerous materials.

(8) To regulate the making of alterations and repairs of stovepipes, furnaces, 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.

(9) To prevent inordinate driving or riding in streets, and cruelty to animals.

(10) To regulate the erection of buildings and to regulate entrances and exits to public halls and theatres until proper exits are provided, to prevent the encumbering of streets, sidewalks, or public alleys with firewood, lumber, carriages, boxes, and other things, and to provide for the care, preservation, and improvement of public grounds.

(11) To provide a supply of water for the protection of the Town against fire, and for other purposes, and to regulate the use of same.

(12) To compel all persons to remove from the sidewalks and gutters adjacent to the premises owed or occupied by them, all snow and ice, dirt and garbage, and to keep sidewalks and gutters clean.

(13) To license innkeepers, keepers of saloons or victualing houses, peddlers, itinerant vendors, and auctioneers under such regulations and for such sums of money as shall be prescribed therefor.

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

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

(16) To prescribe by regulation, as the same may be necessary and under the general authority herein granted, the powers and duties of the police officers of the Town.

(17) To regulate the grade of streets and the grade and width of sidewalks and the construction thereof and protect the same.

(18) To provide for street lighting.

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

(20) To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, and common prostitutes, and to suppress houses of ill fame.

(21) To establish and maintain a public library and reading room.

(22) To regulate and license junk dealers.

(23) To license taxicabs and to regulate their fees and prescribe their duties; and to rescind any license granted hereunder.

(24) To make rules and regulations for the parking of motor vehicles, automobiles, and vehicles of every kind and description, to exclude the parking thereof from certain public highways or parts thereof, and to make such traffic rules and regulations as the public good may require.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 505 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 505
App. § 103-505. Tax within Bennington Rural Fire District No. 1
Status: in_force

(a) The tax assessed by the Town on the grand list shall be reduced with respect to real estate in the Bennington Rural Fire District No. 1. This reduction shall be in direct proportion to the amount of the tax assessed by the Town that is used by the Town to provide fire protection services to property not included in the Bennington Rural Fire District No. 1.

(b) The purpose of this section is to make substantially uniform the taxes assessed throughout the Town for fire protection furnished by all fire departments in the Town. This tax reduction shall remain in effect until such time as the Bennington Rural Fire District No. 1 dissolves itself or merges with the Town of Bennington, in accordance with the charter of the Town of Bennington.
24 V.S.A. § 1991 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 60 / Section 1991
§ 1991. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Advisory body” means a public body that does not have supervision, control, or jurisdiction over legislative, quasi-judicial, tax, or budgetary matters.

(2) “Candidate” and “candidate's committee” have the same meanings as in 17 V.S.A. § 2901.

(3) “Commission” means the State Ethics Commission established under 3 V.S.A. chapter 31, subchapter 3.

(4) “Confidential information” means information that is exempt from public inspection and copying under 1 V.S.A. § 315 et seq. or is otherwise designated by law as confidential.

(5) “Conflict of interest” means a direct or indirect interest of a municipal officer or such an interest, known to the officer, of a member of the officer's immediate family or household, or of a business associate, in the outcome of a particular matter pending before the officer or the officer's public body, or that is in conflict with the proper discharge of the officer's duties. “Conflict of interest” does not include any interest that is not greater than that of other individuals generally affected by the outcome of a matter.

(6) “Department head” means any authority in charge of an agency, department, or office of a municipality.

(7) “Designated complaint recipient” means:

(A) a department head or employee specifically designated or assigned to receive a complaint that constitutes protected activity, as set forth in section 1997 of this title;

(B) a board or commission of the State or a municipality;

(C) the Vermont State Auditor;

(D) a State or federal agency that oversees the activities of an agency, department, or office of the State or a municipality;

(E) a law enforcement officer as defined in 20 V.S.A. § 2358;

(F) a federal or State court, grand jury, petit jury, law enforcement agency, or prosecutorial office;

(G) the legislative body of the municipality, the General Assembly or the U.S. Congress; or

(H) an officer or employee of an entity listed in this subdivision (7) when acting within the scope of the officer's or employee's duties.

(8) “Domestic partner” means an individual in an enduring domestic relationship of a spousal nature with the municipal officer, provided the individual and municipal officer:

(A) have shared a residence for at least six consecutive months;

(B) are at least 18 years of age;

(C) are not married to or considered a domestic partner of another individual;

(D) are not related by blood closer than would bar marriage under State law; and

(E) have agreed between themselves to be responsible for each other's welfare.

(9) “Illegal order” means a directive to violate, or to assist in violating, a federal, State, or local law.

(10) “Immediate family” means an individual's spouse, domestic partner, or civil union partner; child or foster child; sibling; parent; or such relations by marriage or by civil union or domestic partnership; or an individual claimed as a dependent for federal income tax purposes.

(11) “Legislative body” means the selectboard in the case of a town, the mayor, alderpersons, and city council members in the case of a city, the president and trustees in the case of an incorporated village, the members of the prudential committee in the case of a fire district, and the supervisor in the case of an unorganized town or gore.

(12) “Municipal officer” or “officer” means:

(A) any member of a legislative body of a municipality;

(B) any member of a quasi-judicial body of a municipality; or

(C) any individual who holds the position of, or exercises the function of, any of the following positions in or on behalf of any municipality:

(i) advisory budget committee member;

(ii) auditor;

(iii) building inspector;

(iv) cemetery commissioner;

(v) chief administrative officer;

(vi) clerk;

(vii) collector of delinquent taxes;

(viii) department heads;

(ix) first constable;

(x) lister or assessor;

(xi) mayor;

(xii) moderator;

(xiii) planning commission member;

(xiv) road commissioner;

(xv) town or city manager;

(xvi) treasurer;

(xvii) village or town trustee;

(xviii) trustee of public funds; or

(xix) water commissioner.

(13) “Municipality” means any town, village, or city.

(14) “Protected employee” means an individual employed on a permanent or limited status basis by a municipality.

(15) “Public body” has the same meaning as in 1 V.S.A. § 310.

(16) “Retaliatory action” includes any adverse performance or disciplinary action, including discharge, suspension, reprimand, demotion, denial of promotion, imposition of a performance warning period, or involuntary transfer or reassignment; that is given in retaliation for the protected employee's involvement in a protected activity, as set forth in section 1997 of this title.
24 V.S.A. § 1572 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 51 / Section 1572
§ 1572. City accounts
Status: in_force

The accounting officers of the several cities within the State shall keep uniform accounts in a manner prescribed by the Auditor of Accounts.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 404 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 111 / Section 404
App. § 111-404. Aqueduct and reservoir; laying of pipes
Status: in_force

The said Town is hereby authorized and empowered through its Selectboard to maintain its present aqueduct and reservoir to conduct the water thereof to and distribute the same and for this purpose may enter upon and use any land through or over which it may be necessary for said aqueduct to pass, and may thereon lay and construct such pipes, reservoirs, and appurtenances as may be necessary for its complete construction and repairing of the same; and may also for the purposes aforesaid, dig up or occupy any common, highway, street, or bridge for the purpose of laying, constructing, or repairing such aqueduct and appurtenances thereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 54 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 601 / Section 54
App. § 601-54. Dissolution of District; procedure
Status: in_force

If the Board of Supervisors by resolution approved by two-thirds of all the votes entitled to be cast determines that it is in the best interest of the public, the member municipalities, and the District that the District be dissolved, and if the District then has no outstanding debt or obligations under long term contracts, or will have no debt or obligations upon completion of the plan of dissolution, it shall prepare a plan of dissolution and thereafter adopt a resolution directing that the question of dissolution and the plan of dissolution be submitted to the voters of the District at a special meeting of the District duly warned for the purpose. If two-thirds of the voters of the District present and voting at a special meeting of the District shall vote to dissolve the District and approve the plan of dissolution, the District shall cease to conduct its affairs except insofar as may be necessary for the winding up thereof. The Board of Supervisors shall immediately cause a notice of the proposed dissolution to be mailed to each known creditor of the District and shall proceed to collect the assets of the District and apply and distribute them in accordance with the plan of dissolution.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 25 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 175 / Section 25
App. § 175-25. Referendum
Status: repealed

All Town ordinances, except as specified, may be repealed by vote of the Town as follows: A petition signed by not less than five percent of the registered voters shall be filed with the Town Clerk requesting a vote on a question of repealing the ordinance. The Selectboard shall call a special Town meeting to be held within 60 days of the date of filing the petition to vote on whether the ordinance shall be repealed. The ordinance shall be repealed only if 15 percent of the registered voters vote and a majority of that number vote for repeal.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 105 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 105
App. § 269-105. Reservation of powers to the Village
Status: in_force

Nothing in this charter shall be construed to in any way limit the powers and functions conferred on the Village of Poultney, the trustees of said Village, or its elected and appointed officials by general or special enactments of State statutes or regulations in force or effect or hereafter enacted, and the powers and functions conferred by this charter shall be cumulative and in addition to the provisions of such general or special enactments unless this charter otherwise provides.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 142 / Section 301
App. § 142-301. Existing Water and Sewer Departments
Status: in_force

(a) The municipal water system taken over from the former Village of Richford and any additions thereto shall be maintained separate from all other departments of the Town, and all rents and revenue therefrom not necessary for current expenditures therefore shall be placed in a special fund, no part of which may be used for any other purpose.

(b) The municipal sewage system, not including the separate storm drain pipe lines, taken over from the former Village of Richford and all extensions thereto shall be maintained separate from all other departments of the Town, and all rents and revenues therefrom not necessary for current expenditures therefore shall be placed in a special fund, no part of which may be used for any other purpose.

(c) All costs required to support the municipal Water and Sewer Departments shall be assessed against the properties receiving said service, at a rate to be determined by the Selectboard. Any unpaid assessment shall be a lien as provided in Title 24 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 24.07 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 24.07
App. § 9-24.7. City Engineer
Status: in_force

The City Engineer shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Public Works for an indefinite period. The Engineer shall be a professional civil engineer licensed in the State of Vermont whose duties shall include:

(1) responsibility for all public surveys of the public streets, water courses, water works, bridges and culverts, sewers, and grounds of said City and all plans and specifications for the construction, improvement, and repair thereof;

(2) consideration of long-range planning commensurate with said duties;

(3) consulting engineer for all boards and officers created or authorized by this charter;

(4) traffic engineer for the City.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 407 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 409 / Section 407
App. § 409-407. Capital reserve fund
Status: in_force

The Board may establish and provide for a capital reserve fund to pay for public improvements, replacement of worn out buildings and equipment, and major repairs of District facilities. Any such capital reserve fund shall be kept in a separate account and invested as are other public funds and shall be expended for such purposes for which established. The cost of payments to any capital reserve fund shall be included in the annual budget of the District.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 150 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 150
App. § 3-150. Duties; liabilities; etc
Status: in_force

The Board of Assessors shall have the same powers, discharge the same duties, proceed in the discharge thereof in the same manner, and be subject to the same liabilities as are prescribed for listers, except as herein otherwise provided. They shall also be members of the Board for the Abatement of Taxes. The City Assessor shall be a member of and serve as Chair of the Board of Assessors and may also appoint, and remove, at his or her pleasure a Deputy Assessor, who may serve as an assessor in the absence, inability to serve, or disqualification of the City Assessor, and who shall, in addition, have such clerical and administrative duties as said City Assessor shall assign.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 703 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 703
App. § 123-703. Oath and bond
Status: in_force

Before entering office, the Manager shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his or her duties by the Town Clerk and shall give a bond to the Town in such amount and with such sureties as the Selectboard may require.
24 V.S.A. § 5703 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 138 / Section 5703
§ 5703. Limitations; taxes; indebtedness; eminent domain
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any grant of authority in this chapter to the contrary:

(1) A district shall not accept funds generated by the taxing or assessment power of any municipality in which it is located.

(2) A district shall not have the power to levy, assess, apportion, or collect any tax upon property within the district, nor upon any of its underlying municipalities, without specific authorization of the General Assembly.

(3) All obligations of the district, including financing leases, shall be secured by and payable only out of the assets of or revenues or monies in the district, including revenue generated by an enterprise owned or operated by the district.

(4) A district shall not have powers of eminent domain.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 301
App. § 123-301. Generally
Status: in_force

The officers of the Town of Hardwick 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.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 503 / Section 2
App. § 503-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

St. George Fire District No. 1 is a fire district incorporated:

(1) to design, construct, upgrade, operate, and maintain a water supply and distribution system, including the maintenance and repair of water mains and the provision of a limited water service to the area described in section 1 of this chapter;

(2) to maintain the private roads, Rocky Ridge Circle, and Peet Lane, as shown on the map referenced in section 1 of this chapter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 208 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 208
App. § 3-208. Determination of location of sewers, water pipes, wires, etc
Status: in_force

The City Council shall have sole power to determine the places in said parks where sewers, gas, and water pipes shall be laid; and no trench, for these purposes, shall be opened until the City Council has designated the location of the same and given permission in writing. No telegraph, telephone, or electric light wires, or other wires, or posts or supports therefor, shall be erected in, upon, through, or over said parks without the consent in writing of the City Council, who shall designate the place and manner of maintaining the same, to be altered at such time and in such manner and under such conditions as the City Council shall deem best.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 206 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 142 / Section 206
App. § 142-206. Town meeting
Status: in_force

(a) Provisions of the laws of the State of Vermont relating to voter qualification, warnings, methods of voting, the duties of the Town officers at Town meetings and elections, and all other particulars relating to preparation for, conduct, and management of Town meetings and elections shall, so far as they may be applicable, govern all municipal elections and all annual and special Town and School District meetings, except as otherwise specifically provided in this charter.

(b) All articles pertaining to the election of officers and monetary issues relating to expenditures warned for annual or special Town or School District meetings shall be voted by Australian ballot, except as otherwise specifically provided in this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 326 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 326
App. § 3-326. Common area fees
Status: reserved

(a) Common area fees are charges levied upon the owners of taxable properties located in the District that shall be used to defray the expenses incurred by the City in connection with the operation, maintenance, and repair of the Marketplace.

(b) Any amount appropriated under section 325 of this charter that is not anticipated from gifts, grants, voluntary contributions, and rentals and fees other than common area fees shall be raised by common area fees. The City Council after not less than one duly warned public hearing shall propose standards to aid in the determination of the benefit described herein. The City Council after public hearing and after considering the advice of the Commission shall establish standards to aid in the determination of the benefits described herein and shall levy such common area fees upon such properties in the proportion that it judges such properties to be benefited by the construction and/or operation of the Marketplace. An important but not necessarily exclusive factor in determining the extent to which the fair market value of such property has been enhanced by virtue of the construction and/or operation of the Marketplace. The amount raised by such assessments shall be appropriated to the Church Street Marketplace District.

(c) The City Council shall set such common area fees for the ensuing fiscal year no later than June 15 of each year, and in doing so shall have given 12 days' notice of the time and place of hearing to the parties interested and shall set forth in its notice a complete schedule of all common area fees set by it and of the properties so assessed. During the 12 days' notice period all parties so assessed, if aggrieved, may appeal, in writing, the assessment to the City Council. The City Council, immediately following termination of the 12 days' notice period and after soliciting the advice of the Commission, shall make final determination of common fees and shall cause such decision to be recorded in full by the Chief Administrative Officer; and when such decision is so recorded, the amount so assessed shall be and remain a lien in the nature of a tax upon the properties so assessed, until the same shall be paid, or such lien is otherwise discharged by operation of law. The City Assessor, at the expense of the District, shall thereupon forthwith notify in writing the owner or owners of record as of April 1 of each year of properties so assessed, their agents, or attorneys, stating therein the amount of such fees, and such fees shall be due and payable to the Chief Administrative Officer in four installments, on the 15th day of August, November, March, and June following the making thereof. Notice shall be deemed adequate if made by publication of notice not less than three times not less than five days nor more than 12 days preceding each installment date. Such notice may also be given by including such common area fees upon the property tax bill mailed to the owners of taxable properties within the District.

(d) [Reserved.]

(e) Any person owning or interested in properties so assessed who is dissatisfied with the amount of such fee shall have the right to judicial review of the City Council's decision. Such review shall be initiated by first paying the first installment of the fee so assessed under protest and by filing a notice of appeal in the Chittenden Superior Court within 20 days following August 12 of each year. Notwithstanding the filing of a notice of appeal, all subsequent installments of such fee must also be paid under protest before the court shall have subject matter jurisdiction to render a judgment affecting any such installment. A copy of such notice of appeal shall be served upon the Burlington Chief Administrative Officer. The proceeding before the Superior Court shall be de novo and the appellant may demand trial by jury. An appeal from the determination of the Superior Court may be taken to the Vermont Supreme Court, pursuant to the Vermont Rules of Civil and Appellate Procedure. The pendency of such proceedings shall not vacate the lien created upon the properties assessed. Should the Court find that a common area fee assessed against an appellant to have been excessive, it shall order the excess payment to be refunded together with such interest thereon that it shall deem appropriate. When such proceedings shall be finally determined, a duly certified copy thereof shall be duly recorded by the Chief Administrative Officer in the records of streets and highways in said Chief Administrative Officer's office within 20 days after the final determination of such proceedings. The amount assessed in such proceedings shall be and remain a lien in the nature of a tax upon the properties so assessed until such assessments are fully paid to the Chief Administrative Officer of the City. In case no assessment shall be made in such proceedings, such records shall discharge said properties from all liens created by the assessments thereon made by the City Council as aforesaid.

(f) If the owner or owners of any property so assessed shall neglect to pay to the Chief Administrative Officer any quarterly installment of such fee on the date such installment is due and payable, the amount of such installment shall be increased by a penalty of five percent. If such installment increased by the five percent penalty is not paid by the 15th day of the month after the date upon which it became due and payable, it shall be delinquent and the Chief Administrative Officer shall increase the amount due by an additional one percent of the original installment. On the 15th day of every month thereafter that the installment or any part thereof remains due, the Chief Administrative Officer shall add to the total amount due an additional amount equal to one percent of the original installment, or any portion thereof, remaining unpaid. The Chief Administrative Officer shall issue a warrant for the collection thereof. The amount due from any person against whom a common area fee has been assessed shall thereafter be deemed to be the amount of any such installment or delinquent portion of such original common area fee increased by all penalties and interest accruing thereon to date and also 12 percent interest, compounded annually on all of such delinquent amounts and any penalties and interest added thereto, from the date of such warrant. The City shall proceed to collect the same in the manner prescribed in this charter for the collection and enforcement of assessments made in laying out or altering streets and highways.

(g) The Mayor, two members of the City Council, and two members of the Commission, on appointment of the City Council, shall constitute a Board for the Abatement of Assessments whenever the same are illegal or in the judgment of the Board cannot be collected or are manifestly unjust.

(h) Meetings of such Board shall be convened in the manner herein prescribed for calling special meetings of the City Council; and notice thereof signed by the Mayor or Chief Administrative Officer, and shall be given to all persons paying common area fees by the publication of notices for two days in all the daily newspapers printed in the City, the first of which publication shall be not more than 10 days, and the last not less than three days prior to said meeting. Whenever any common area fee, or any part thereof, is abated, the Chief Administrative Officer shall make a minute of such abatement on the original assessment on file in his or her office on the margin of the record thereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 198 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 198
App. § 3-198. Fire Department; created; members; appointment
Status: in_force

There shall be a paid Fire Department for said City, which shall consist of the following members, to wit: One Chief Engineer, and such subordinate positions as the City Council may authorize from time to time. The members of said Fire Department shall be employed by the Chief Engineer.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 133 / Section 1301
App. § 133-1301. Ratification of present flood hazard ordinances
Status: in_force

The Town of Poultney flood hazard regulations, revised and adopted June 9, 1980, as amended, are hereby ratified and approved, subject to the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 117.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 501 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 501
App. § 131-501. Powers and duties
Status: in_force

The members of the Selectboard shall constitute the legislative body of the Town of Plainfield for all purposes required by law and except as otherwise herein specifically provided and shall have all powers and authority given to and perform all duties required of town legislative bodies or selectboards under the Constitution and laws of the State of Vermont.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 404 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 404
App. § 413-404. Limitations of appropriations
Status: in_force

Actions or resolutions of the Board of Supervisors for the annual appropriations of any year shall not cease to be operative at the end of the fiscal year for which they were adopted, except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Vermont. Appropriations made by the Board of Supervisors for the various estimates of the budget as defined in subsection 402(a) of this subchapter shall be expended only for such estimates, but by majority vote of the Board of Supervisors, the budget may be amended from time to time to transfer funds between or among such estimates, except as otherwise limited herein. Any balance left or unencumbered in any such budget estimate, or the amount of any deficit at the end of the fiscal year, shall be included in and paid out of the operating budget and appropriations in the next fiscal year.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 219 / Section 2
App. § 219-2. Annual meeting
Status: in_force

The annual meeting of the corporation shall be held each year on the date, at the time, and at the location as the Village trustees may determine. Notice of which shall be posted at three public places in the Village, at least 10 days previous to the meeting, which notice shall be signed by the Clerk of the corporation and, in case of the Clerk's failure, by the trustees, and for want of the trustees, by a majority of the justices of the peace residing in the Village, who shall give notice of the first meeting and organize the same; and whenever five percent of the legal voters of the corporation shall so request, upon the Clerk's neglect or refusal, the trustees may call a special meeting of the corporation, giving like notice of the same, and specifying in the notice the object of the meeting; and at the meeting none but inhabitants qualified by law to vote in Town meetings in the Town, and who shall have resided for one year within the bounds herein or hereinafter described and established for the Village, shall be entitled to vote.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 35 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 219 / Section 35
App. § 219-35. Bonds; authorization
Status: in_force

Each of the bonds shall be signed by the trustees of the Village and countersigned by the Treasurer. The bonds shall contain on the face thereof a statement of the authority conferred by this chapter and of the vote of the Village authorizing the issue thereof, and the same shall be conclusive evidence of the fact of the liability of the Village to a bona fide holder thereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 11 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 11
App. § 3-11. Performance of duties; terms
Status: in_force

The ward officers shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of their respective duties and shall hold their offices until their successors are chosen and qualified.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 41 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 173 / Section 41
App. § 173-41. Definitions
Status: in_force

(a) “Board” or “Selectboard” means the duly elected members of the Selectboard of the Town acting as a group and in their official capacity.

(b) A “vacancy” in any office is deemed to exist if the holder of the office resigns, dies, is removed from office, moves from the Town, is convicted of a felony, or is judicially declared to be mentally incompetent.

(c) “Day” means a calendar day.

(d) “Voters” means the names included, at any given point in time, on the checklist most recently revised by the Board of Civil Authority for use in a Town meeting or election.

(e) From “time to time” means as the need may become realized or apparent.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 28 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 173 / Section 28
App. § 173-28. Ordinances
Status: repealed

(a) Town ordinances or rules may be adopted, amended, repealed, or enforced as provided by law or this charter. The Selectboard shall have the power to enact any ordinance or rule that it specifically finds necessary and desirable for the promotion of the public health, safety, welfare, or convenience of the Town or its citizens.

(b) A Town ordinance may provide:

(1) that any professional fees or costs incurred by the Town in the enforcement of any ordinance shall be charged to the violator; those charges shall constitute a lien against real property or a levy against personal property and shall be enforced within the time and in the manner provided for the collection of taxes on real or personal property;

(2) that the Selectboard may authorize the Town Attorney to bring an action in the name of the Town of Windsor for any relief that the Selectboard may deem appropriate for the enforcement of any Town ordinance.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 26 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 239 / Section 26
App. § 239-26. Property of Village under former charter
Status: in_force

The property belonging to the Village of Manchester under its previous chapter and owned by it at the time of the taking effect of this charter shall vest in the Village of Manchester hereby constituted, and the Village shall be held for the liabilities of the former Village of Manchester, outstanding at the time; and the Village, hereby incorporated, shall succeed to all of the rights, powers, and privileges, and all taxes receivable and other assets of the former Village of Manchester.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 23 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 213 / Section 23
App. § 213-23. Duty of Clerk
Status: in_force

The Clerk shall keep a record of all meetings and proceedings of the corporation and of the Board of Trustees and give copies of the same when required upon payment of reasonable fees. The Clerk shall warn all meetings of the legal voters of the corporation, by posting notices thereof containing a statement of the business proposed to be transacted, in three or more public places within the limits of the corporation at least six days before the time of meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 34 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 105 / Section 34
App. § 105-34. 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.
24 V.S.A. § 1401 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 43 / Section 1401
§ 1401. Appraisers; appointment
Status: in_force

Subject to the approval of the Governor, the Director of the Division of Property Valuation and Review shall appoint biennially on the first Tuesday of March a board of three appraisers for the unorganized towns and gores in each county, with power to revoke any such appointment and to fill any vacancy in such board.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123B / Section 4
App. § 123B-4. Reservation of powers to the Town
Status: in_force

Nothing in this charter shall be construed in any way to limit the powers and functions conferred on the Town of Jamaica, the Selectboard of the Town, or its elected and appointed officials by general or special enactments of State statutes or regulations in force or effect or hereafter enacted, and the powers and functions conferred by this charter shall be cumulative and in addition to the provisions of such general or special enactments unless this charter otherwise provides.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 703 / Section 10
App. § 703-10. Record of proceedings
Status: in_force

The Clerk shall keep a record of the votes and the proceedings of the District meetings and give certified copies thereof when required. A Clerk who neglects to perform his or her duty shall forfeit $20.00 to the District, to be recovered in an action of tort under 24 V.S.A. § 3347.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 211 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 113 / Section 211
App. § 113-211. Powers and duties
Status: in_force

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

(b) Within the limitations of the foregoing, the Selectboard shall have the power to:

(1) appoint and remove a Town Manager and supervise, create, change, and abolish offices, commissions, or departments other than the offices, commissions, or departments established by this charter;

(2) assign additional duties to offices, commissions, or departments established by this charter but may not discontinue or assign to any other office, commission, or department duties assigned to a particular office, commission, or department established by this charter;

(3) appoint the members of all boards, commissions, committees, or similar bodies unless specifically provided otherwise by this charter;

(4) make, amend, and repeal ordinances as provided in sections 106-109 of this charter;

(5) provide for an independent audit by a certified public accountant;

(6) inquire into the conduct of any officer, commission, or department and investigate any and all municipal affairs.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 801 / Section 1
App. § 801-1. Creation of Authority
Status: in_force

There is hereby created a transit authority to be known as the “Green Mountain Transit Authority.”
24 V.S.A. § 3342 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 91 / Section 3342
§ 3342. Organization and operation-Establishment of consolidated water district
Status: in_force

(a) When a majority of the voters of each town of a proposed consolidated water district present and voting in each case by Australian ballot at a town meeting duly warned for that purpose for the same day and during the same hours that shall be at least eight consecutive hours shall vote to join with one or more neighboring towns as specified in the warning for the purpose of forming a consolidated water district, such vote shall be certified by the clerk of each town to the Secretary of State; and when all towns proposed as members of the consolidated water district as specified in such vote have so affirmatively voted and the results have been certified to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State shall file the same in his or her office and shall send a written notice to the clerk of each town to be included in the consolidated water district that the requirements of this section have been met by each town in the district. Upon the filing of such records in the Office of the Secretary of State, the consolidated water district shall become a body politic and corporate with the powers incident to a public corporation and such records shall be notice to all parties of the establishment of the consolidated water district with all the powers incident to such a district as provided under this section; and the filing shall be prima facie evidence that the requirements for the creation of a consolidated water district as set forth in this section have been fully complied with. A consolidated water district may sue and be sued and may hold and convey real estate and personal estate for the use of the district and shall have and may exercise the powers and be subject to the duties and obligations of a municipal corporation provided for in chapter 89 of this title so far as the same may be applicable and except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

(b) A consolidated water district may enter into agreements with the State or federal governments or any agency of either or any corporation, commission, or board authorized by the State or federal government to grant or loan money to or otherwise assist in the financing of projects such as a consolidated water district is authorized to carry out, and to accept grants and borrow money from any such agency, corporation, commission, or board, as may be necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

(c) The district shall have the right of eminent domain as set forth in sections 3301, 3302, 3303, and 3304 of this title within the district.

(d) If a town in its entirety votes to enter a consolidated water district and is accepted by the district, no village or municipal subdivision thereof may be a member concurrently. If a town either takes no vote, is not accepted, or declines to be a member of the district, any municipal subdivision thereof, including a village or fire district, may be considered under the language of this statute as a “town” and may become a member. If a subdivision is a member of a consolidated water district and the entire town later votes to join the district, the town shall replace its municipal subdivisions in the district.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 9 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 225 / Section 9
App. § 225-9. Nomination of candidates
Status: in_force

Unless proceeding by Australian ballot, nomination of persons to fill Village offices shall be from the floor at the Village meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 503 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 151 / Section 503
App. § 151-503. Special assessments
Status: in_force

Despite any contrary provision in general law, the Select Board may in its sole discretion make a special assessment upon real estate for the installation or construction of a public improvement, the special assessment to be the proportion of the total cost of the improvement as the benefit to a parcel of real estate bears to the total benefit resulting to the public in general.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1312 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1312
App. § 5-1312. Lien not vacated
Status: in_force

While the final resolution is pending on an appeal from an assessment made under the provisions of this subchapter, the City shall not vacate the lien created by such assessment, but shall suspend the same until final determination of the proceedings. The liens for all City assessments shall not be vacated or dissolved.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 601 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 601
App. § 1-601. Payment of taxes
Status: in_force

(a) Taxes on real and personal property shall be paid in four equal payments, with one-fourth of the annual tax bill for each taxpayer due and payable on August 15, November 15, February 15, and May 15 of each year to the City Treasurer unless otherwise changed by the City Council.

(b) At the close of the fiscal year, any unexpended funds remaining from the City budget may be retained, if approved by vote of the City Council, as an undesignated fund balance for future use. Any funds retained pursuant to this provision shall be limited to an amount not greater than five percent of the City budget. Any amount remaining in excess of five percent in the City budget must be used in the subsequent budget to cut the tax rate.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 57 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 57
App. § 3-57. Manner of taking land for reservoirs, aqueducts, water pipes, etc
Status: in_force

In taking lands for the purpose of establishing and maintaining reservoirs, aqueducts, water pipes, hydrants, or any other apparatus necessary for such purposes, the City Council shall proceed in the same manner in which selectboards of towns are authorized to proceed in the taking of lands for highways, and in performing all acts and doing all business in taking such lands, the Mayor shall preside over said City Council and shall vote as other members thereof. Any person owning or interested in such lands who is dissatisfied with the decision of the City Council taking such lands or in awarding him or her damages therefor may have the same proceedings in respect thereto that shall be conducted in the same manner and have the same effect, as if such lands were taken by a selectboard in any town in the State for the purpose of laying out, altering, or resurveying a highway in said town; but if such proceedings are instituted only in respect to the appraisal of damages for land so taken by the City Council, such proceedings shall not prevent said City from establishing and maintaining reservoirs, aqueducts, water pipes, hydrants, and other apparatus necessary for such purposes upon the lands so taken, as if no such proceedings had been instituted.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 502 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 142 / Section 502
App. § 142-502. Continuance in office
Status: in_force

Except as specifically provided by this charter, if at the time this charter takes full effect a Town officer holds any office or position, he or she shall continue in such office or position until the taking effect of some specific provision(s) under this charter directing that he or she vacate the office or position.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1501 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 13 / Section 1501
App. § 13-1501. Taxes on real and personal property
Status: in_force

Taxes on real and personal property shall be due and payable in no fewer than three equal installments on such dates of each tax year as shall be determined annually by the City Council.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 106 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 113 / Section 106
App. § 113-106. Introduction; first and second readings; public hearing
Status: in_force

(a) Every ordinance, repeal of an ordinance, or amendment to an ordinance shall be introduced in writing. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be “The Selectboard of the Town of Colchester hereby ordains...”. If the Selectboard passes the proposed ordinance upon first reading it shall cause the proposed ordinance to be published in its entirety, or a concise summary of it, in the Selectboard's designated newspaper of general circulation in the Town at least once, together with a notice of the time and place when and where there will be a public hearing to consider the same for final passage. The first publication shall be at least 15 days prior to the date of said public hearing.

(b) At the time and place so designated or at any time and place to which the hearing may from time to time be adjourned, such ordinance shall be available in written form for the public.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 68 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 68
App. § 3-68. Authorized expenditures
Status: in_force

No money shall be paid out of the City Treasury unless an approved budgetary authorization for such expenditure exists, sufficient unexpended funds remain in such budgetary line item, and a properly executed voucher requesting such expenditure is in the possession of the Chief Administrative Officer's Office for the proper spending authority.
24 V.S.A. § 3341 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 91 / Section 3341
§ 3341. General provisions-Policy and definitions
Status: in_force

(a) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State to authorize two or more towns or other municipal corporations to join together to establish a consolidated water district for the purpose of developing or acquiring a supply of water and a water distribution system for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of the district or the member systems within the district with pure water for domestic, sanitary, agricultural, commercial, and industrial purposes, and for supplying the member towns with water for all lawful municipal purposes, including development, construction, and operation of water sources to supply existing municipal water systems.

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

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

(2) “Water system” means and includes all plants, systems, facilities or properties used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in connection with the supply or distribution of water, and any integral part thereof, including water supply systems, water distribution systems, reservoirs, wells, intakes, mains, laterals, aqueducts, pumping stations, standpipes, filtration plants, purification plants, hydrants, meters, valves, and all necessary appurtenances and equipment and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the water commission for the operation thereof.

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

(4) “Cost” as applied to a water system shall 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 water 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.

(5) “Wholesale consolidated water district” means a water district established for the purpose of developing sources of water, together with a system of delivering or treating it, or both, to existing municipal or private water companies. (1964, No. 20 (Sp. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 10, 1964; amended 1966, No. 10 (Sp. Sess.), eff. Feb. 22, 1966; 1967, No. 209, § 1, eff. April 17, 1967.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 61 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 235 / Section 61
App. § 235-61. Buildings
Status: in_force

The said Village of Ludlow may erect and keep in repair any buildings necessary or convenient for its purposes.
24 V.S.A. § 4442 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4442
§ 4442. Adoption of bylaws and related regulatory tools; amendment or repeal
Status: in_force

(a) Public hearings. Not less than 15 nor more than 120 days after a proposed bylaw, amendment, or repeal is submitted to the legislative body of a municipality under section 4441 of this title, the legislative body shall hold the first of one or more public hearings, after public notice, on the proposed bylaw, amendment, or repeal, and shall make copies of the proposal and the written report of the planning commission available to the public upon request. Failure to hold a hearing within the 120 days shall not invalidate the adoption of the bylaw or amendment or the validity of any repeal.

(b) Amendment of proposal. The legislative body may make minor changes to the proposed bylaw, amendment, or repeal, but shall not do so less than 14 days prior to the final public hearing. If the legislative body at any time makes substantial changes in the concept, meaning, or extent of the proposed bylaw, amendment, or repeal, it shall warn a new public hearing or hearings under subsection (a) of this section. If any part of the proposal is changed, the legislative body at least 10 days prior to the hearing shall file a copy of the changed proposal with the clerk of the municipality and with the planning commission. The planning commission shall amend the report prepared pursuant to subsection 4441(c) of this title to reflect the changes made by the legislative body and shall submit that amended report to the legislative body at or prior to the public hearing.

(c) Routine adoption. A bylaw, bylaw amendment, or bylaw repeal shall be adopted by a majority of the members of the legislative body at a meeting that is held after the final public hearing, and shall be effective 21 days after adoption unless, by action of the legislative body, the bylaw, bylaw amendment, or bylaw repeal is warned for adoption by the municipality by Australian ballot at a special or regular meeting of the municipality.

(d) Petition for popular vote. Notwithstanding subsection (c) of this section, a vote by the legislative body on a bylaw, amendment, or repeal shall not take effect if five percent of the voters of the municipality petition for a meeting of the municipality to consider the bylaw, amendment, or repeal, and the petition is filed within 20 days of the vote. In that case, a meeting of the municipality shall be duly warned for the purpose of acting by Australian ballot upon the bylaw, amendment, or repeal.

(e) Multipurpose hearings. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any public hearing held under this chapter to be held for more than one purpose under this chapter. A municipality may prepare and adopt a plan, one or more bylaws, and a capital budget and program in the same proceedings. However, all the provisions of this chapter applicable to each purpose of the hearing shall be complied with.

(f) Unorganized towns and gores. A bylaw, amendment, or repeal of a bylaw of an unorganized town or gore shall be adopted by a majority of votes cast at a meeting of the regional planning commission in which the unorganized town or gore is located at which a quorum is present. However, a bylaw, amendment, or repeal of a bylaw of the unified towns and gores of Essex County, namely Averill, Avery's Gore, Ferdinand, Lewis, Warner's Grant, and Warren's Gore, shall be adopted by the board of governors.

(g) Time for action. If the proposed bylaw, amendment, or repeal is not approved or rejected under subsection (c) of this section within one year of the date of the final hearing of the planning commission, it shall be considered disapproved unless five percent of the voters of the municipality petition for a meeting of the municipality to consider the bylaw, amendment, or repeal, and the petition is filed within 60 days of the end of that year. In that case, a meeting of the municipality shall be duly warned for the purpose of acting upon the bylaw, amendment, or repeal by Australian ballot.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 40 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 601 / Section 40
App. § 601-40. Special meetings
Status: in_force

The Board of Supervisors may call a special meeting of the District when it deems it necessary or prudent to do so and shall call a special meeting of the District when action by the voters of the District is necessary under this chapter or under any applicable law. In addition, the Board of Supervisors shall call a special meeting of the District if petitioned to do so by not less than five percent of the legal voters of the District but only for any legal purpose beyond the power and jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors may rescind the call of a special meeting called by it but not a special meeting called by application of five percent of the legal voters of the District. The Board shall endeavor to have the times of a special meeting coincide with the times of annual municipal meetings, primary elections, general elections, or a similar meeting when the electorate of the member municipalities will be voting on other matters.
24 V.S.A. § 4342 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4342
§ 4342. Regional planning commissions; membership
Status: in_force

A regional planning commission shall contain at least one representative appointed from each member municipality. All representatives may be compensated and reimbursed by their respective municipalities for necessary and reasonable expenses.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 15 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 219 / Section 15
App. § 219-15. Water supply; takings
Status: in_force

When the Village shall vote, in a meeting duly warned for that purpose, to provide itself with a water supply, the trustees of the Village shall proceed to acquire the same, and if the owner of any pond, spring, stream, water source, water right, land, or easement in or over lands necessary for the public use and benefit in connection with the water supply refuses to convey the same to the Village at a reasonable price, or refuses to convey to the Village the right to damage or affect lands to such extent as may be needed in the acquirement, use, or enjoyment of the water supply, also for a reasonable price, the Village trustees may petition the Selectboard of the Town of Enosburgh, setting forth that the taking of the pond, spring, stream, water source, water right, land, or easement in or over lands is necessary for public use and benefit in connection with the water supply; whereupon the Selectboard shall appoint a time and place for hearing and give at least 10 days' notice thereof in writing to all persons interested, either personally or by the written notice left at the residence of the owner or occupant of the lands, and, on hearing, shall determine the necessity for the taking and shall ascertain the damages sustained by any interested persons, and the damages agreed upon or assessed by the Selectboard, pursuant to the hearing, shall be paid or tendered to the persons before possession is taken by the Village.
24 V.S.A. § 1306 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 39 / Section 1306
§ 1306. Oaths and bonds of officers
Status: in_force

The clerk, treasurer, and collector of such corporation shall be sworn. The treasurer and collector shall have crime insurance coverage or give a bond to the corporation in such sum and with such sureties as are prescribed and approved by the trustees, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 53 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 53
App. § 403-53. Priority
Status: in_force

When a special meeting of the District is called to act upon a proposition to incur bonded or other indebtedness, the special meeting procedures outlined in subchapter 4 of this chapter shall control over the meeting procedures outlined in this subchapter in the event of conflict.
24 V.S.A. § 4506 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 118 / Section 4506
§ 4506. Disposition of property
Status: in_force

Land, rights, or other property acquired by a municipality under this chapter shall not be sold or diverted to uses other than conservation or recreation except after approval by an affirmative vote of the voters of the town at the annual meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 444 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 444
App. § 3-444. Construction of article
Status: in_force

The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law. Bonds may be issued hereunder for the improvement of the electric plant of the City notwithstanding that any other law may provide for the issuance of bonds for like purposes and without regard to the requirements, restrictions, or procedural provisions contained in any other law. Any proceedings heretofore taken by the City relating to the subject matters of this article, whether or not commenced under any other law, may, at the option of the City Council, be discontinued and new proceedings instituted under this article. It shall not be necessary for the City proceeding under this article to obtain a certificate of convenience or necessity, franchise, license, permit, or other authorization or approval from any bureau, board, commission, or other instrumentality of the State of Vermont or the City in order to acquire or improve the electric plant or for the issuance of bonds in connection therewith hereunder.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1506 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 13 / Section 1506
App. § 13-1506. Sales, rooms, meals, and alcoholic beverages tax
Status: in_force

(a) The City Council may impose a tax on those transactions in the City involving sales, rooms, meals, and alcoholic beverages that are subject to taxation by the State of Vermont. The authority of the City Council to impose a tax on these transactions was approved by the voters on November 7, 2006. Imposition of any tax by the City Council under this section shall be at the rate or rates specified in 24 V.S.A. § 138 and shall be imposed in accordance with the requirements of 24 V.S.A. § 138(a)(2), (c), and (d).

(b) The City Council shall impose a tax authorized by this section by adopting an ordinance in the manner provided by sections 106-109 of this charter.

(c) Sales tax revenue received by the City shall be used to reduce the municipal property tax collected on the City grand list and shall not be used to increase total City revenues.

(d) Rooms, meals, and alcoholic beverage tax revenues received by the City may, at the sole discretion of the City Council, be used in any of the following ways:

(1) to deposit in a reserve fund established by the City Council to fund the purchase of land or for construction or reconstruction of City buildings and infrastructure;

(2) to reduce the municipal property tax collected on the City grand list without increasing total City revenues; or

(3) any combination of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1505 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 1505
App. § 143-1505. Current bonded indebtedness
Status: in_force

Outstanding bonds previously issued by the Village of Richmond shall be obligations of the Town of Richmond on and after the effective date of this charter; provided, however, that until fully paid, said bonds and notes shall constitute a general obligation only with respect to that part of the Town formerly comprising the Village of Richmond and any part of the Town of Richmond presently outside the limits of the Village of Richmond and now receiving Village water and sewer services. Said bonds and notes shall not constitute a debt or obligation of the Town of Richmond, except as specifically provided in this section, and shall be paid only by rates, charges, and assessments levied for water and sewer service within the former Village, and shall be secured as general obligations only by the full faith and credit of the Town as it applies within the former Village. Nothing herein shall be construed as abridging the power of the Town or the Town School District to authorize and issue bonds as provided by the general law of this State.
24 V.S.A. § 1977 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 59 / Section 1977
§ 1977. Complaint for municipal civil ordinance violations
Status: in_force

(a) The complaint in a municipal civil case shall be signed by the issuing municipal official. The original copy shall be filed with the Judicial Bureau, a copy shall be retained by the issuing municipal official, and two copies shall be given to the defendant.

(b) The municipal official may void or amend the municipal complaint issued by that official by so marking the complaint and sending it to the Judicial Bureau.

(c) The Court Administrator shall approve an appropriate summons and complaint form, pursuant to 4 V.S.A. § 1105(a), to implement the assessment of the full and waiver penalty provisions of this section.
24 V.S.A. § 2601 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 69 / Section 2601
§ 2601. Aid to hospitals
Status: in_force

At any legal meeting thereof, a town or incorporated village may appropriate such sums of money as it deems necessary for the erection, equipment, or support of any nonsectarian hospital established within the county where such town is located, or in an adjoining county, or in an adjoining county in another state.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 705 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 705
App. § 4-705. Brownell Library Trustees
Status: in_force

The Brownell Library Board of Library Trustees that holds office at the time of enactment of this charter shall serve until their terms are completed. Any existing policies of the Library Trustees at the time of the enactment of this charter shall become the policies of the new Brownell Library Board of Trustees. The five permanent, self-perpetuating Library Trustees shall function in accordance with the terms of the Brownell Trust agreement dated May 25, 1925. The Library Trustees shall have the authority to establish any new policy for the operation of the Library or repeal or replace any existing policy and shall otherwise act in conformance with the Vermont statutes. Notwithstanding the forgoing, the Library is required to follow all financial and personnel policies adopted by the City Council.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 13 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 175 / Section 13
App. § 175-13. Terms of office
Status: in_force

Each officer so appointed shall serve from the date he or she is appointed and qualified until the end of his or her term. Each officer shall hold over until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. Each appointed officer may succeed himself or herself, if the Selectboard so approves, after fulfilling notice provisions. Service and term of office will cease immediately upon an officer being recalled or disqualified following action approved by this charter.
24 V.S.A. § 4868 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 121 / Section 4868
§ 4868. Reports
Status: in_force

Each union municipal district shall prepare an annual report of its activities, including a financial statement, to be distributed to its member municipal units, and shall prepare and distribute any other reports required by its by-laws.
24 V.S.A. § 1881 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 53 / Section 1881
§ 1881. Form of bonds, notes, and certificates
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any general or special law or charter provision to the contrary, a municipal corporation may issue bonds, notes, or certificates in coupon form payable to the bearer, in registered form without coupons, or in book entry form.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 176 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 176
App. § 3-176. Statement showing necessity for construction or purchase required
Status: in_force

Before the school commissioners shall purchase any real estate for school purposes, or enter into any contract for the construction of any school building, other than repairs of and additions to existing school buildings deemed necessary by said school commissioners, they shall file with the Chief Administrative Officer of the City Council a statement showing the necessity of such purchase of real estate, or of the construction of such building, together with an estimate of the cost of such real estate, or of the construction of such building, and the amount of money necessary for such repairs.
24 V.S.A. § 3105 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 83 / Section 3105
§ 3105. Public hearing; notice
Status: in_force

(a) No such ordinance or amendments or supplements may become effective or be altered until after a public hearing at which interested parties and citizens may be heard.

(b) Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality at least 15 days before the holding of the hearing.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 506 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 506
App. § 3-506. Definitions
Status: in_force

The following terms when used in this article shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:

(1) “Bonds” means any bonds, notes, or other obligations of the City issued pursuant to this article.

(2) “City” means the City of Burlington.

(3) “Improvement” means any improvement, extension, betterment, addition, alteration, reconstruction, extraordinary repair, equipping, or reequipping of the waterworks or wastewater system of the City.

(4) “Revenues” means all rates, fees, charges, and other receipts derived from the ownership or operation of the City's waterworks or wastewater system and may include, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, investment earnings and the proceeds of insurance, condemnation, sale, or other disposition of system assets and proceeds of borrowing hereunder.

(5) “System” means the waterworks system or the wastewater system.

(6) “Wastewater system” means the complete wastewater treatment and collection system now owned by the City, including all treatment plants and sanitary sewer lines, together with any improvements thereto hereafter constructed or acquired.

(7) “Waterworks system” means the complete water supply, treatment, and distribution system now owned by the City, together with any improvements thereto hereafter constructed or acquired.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 41 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 41
App. § 3-41. Meetings to be public; except
Status: in_force

All meetings of the City Council and all meetings of the City Council with Mayor presiding are declared to be public meetings open to the public at all times. Provided, that executive sessions of such bodies shall be permitted in accordance with the provisions of 1 V.S.A. chapter 5, as amended.
24 V.S.A. § 3106 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 83 / Section 3106
§ 3106. Report; prosecutions; injunctions
Status: in_force

A building inspector shall:

(1) make a detailed report of his or her doings to the board of aldermen, selectboard, or trustees, as the case may be, at least once in six months, showing the number of certificates of permit granted, the number refused, and such other information as may be of importance relating to the discharge of his or her duties; and

(2) inquire into and report to the municipal attorney or other designee of the legislative body of the municipality for prosecution, all violations of this chapter, and may apply, as building inspector, to a Superior judge for an injunction or other legal or equitable remedy in aid of his or her powers as he or she may be advised.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 504 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 142 / Section 504
App. § 142-504. Reference to statute
Status: in_force

If any matter mentioned in this charter is said to be controlled by a specific statute, the reference to such statute shall include the statute as amended or renumbered, or any statute substituted therefore and having a similar subject matter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 28 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 261 / Section 28
App. § 261-28. Further powers of trustees respecting water
Status: in_force

Said Village is hereby authorized and empowered, through said trustees, to construct and complete an aqueduct, with all necessary reservoirs and appurtenances, to conduct said water to and distribute the same through said Village, and for this purpose may enter upon and use any land over or through which it may be necessary or desirable for said aqueduct to pass, and may thereon lay and construct such pipes, reservoirs, and appurtenances as may be necessary for the complete construction and repairing of the same, and it may also, for the purposes aforesaid, dig up or occupy any common, highway, street, or bridge for the purpose of laying constructing or repairing such aqueduct and the appurtenances thereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 801 / Section 2
App. § 801-2. Area of operation
Status: in_force

(a) The area of operation shall be the urbanized area of Chittenden County as established by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Green Mountain Transit Authority may operate service outside the urbanized area of Chittenden County with approval from the Agency of Transportation. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent other transit providers from offering transit connecting to the urbanized area of Chittenden County, or providing on demand services in that area, with the approval of the Agency of Transportation.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 407 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 19 / Section 407
App. § 19-407. Court authorized to order abatement
Status: in_force

In any prosecution for a nuisance resulting in a judgment or conviction, the court before which the nuisance action has been brought shall order the nuisance or offense complained of to be removed or abated and shall determine the expense of removing or abating the same and tax such expense as part of the costs of prosecution.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1201 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 1201
App. § 4-1201. Governing law
Status: in_force

This charter may be amended in accordance with the procedure provided for by State statutes for amendment of municipal charters.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2.08 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 2.08
App. § 9-2.8. Ward officers
Status: in_force

(a) The ward officers shall be a Clerk and a First, Second, and Third Inspector of Elections, and any other officers required by law of the State for each polling place at an election. One of said Inspectors shall be a member of the minority party casting the largest vote at the general election next preceding. Said officers shall be subject to rules and regulations of the Board of Civil Authority, not in conflict with State statutes.

(b) The ward officers shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of their respective duties and shall hold their offices until their successors are chosen and have qualified. They shall be paid such compensation as shall be voted by the Board of Civil Authority.

(c) In case there is no representative of the minority party herein provided for on the Board of Inspectors of Elections of any ward, the Mayor shall, before any election is held in such ward, declare a vacancy in the Third Inspector's place in such ward, and shall thereupon fill such vacancy by appointing a legal voter residing in such ward and belonging to such minority party.

(d) In case of a vacancy in any ward office occasioned by death, removal from the ward or City, resignation, inability to serve, failure to elect, or other cause, the same shall be filled by the Mayor.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 12 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 703 / Section 12
App. § 703-12. Annual budget, apportionment, assessment, taxes
Status: in_force

(a) The Board of Water Commissioners of the District shall at each annual meeting present to the District its budget for the ensuing year, which shall include an estimate of the revenue from water rates and other sources, except taxes and the expenses for the ensuing year, and the District shall appropriate such sum as it deems necessary for such of said expenses as are not disapproved, which disapproval may not include interest on or principal of any indebtedness created or assumed by the District, together with the amount required to pay any balance left unpaid from the preceding year as will not be met from such estimated revenues, expressing said sum in dollars in its vote.

(b) The Board of Water Commissioners may add any expense in excess of revenue to the next year's budget. In which case it may not be disapproved, provided that such expense shall not be so included to an amount greater than 20 percent of such budget except to the extent a larger amount can be included, as determined by the Board, without increasing the rates charged by the District. Any such excess that is not so included shall be divided among the member towns as follows: one-third of such excess, or all of such excess until the water system has been in operation for at least one full calendar year, shall be divided among the member towns in the proportion that the population of each such town according to the last national census bears to the total population of the District, and the balance of such excess shall be divided among the member towns in the proportion that the total number of gallons sold by the District for distribution in each member town bears to the total number of gallons so sold for distribution in all the member towns in the calendar year in which the excess arose. Where one or more municipalities maintaining public water systems (the contained municipalities) lie within a member town (the containing town), the following rules shall apply:

(1) a share based on population shall be computed for the containing town but not for any of the contained municipalities;

(2) shares based on gallonage shall be computed as if each contained municipality were a separate member town and as if the territory of the contained municipalities were excluded from the territory of the containing town.

(c) The legislative branch of each member town shall, upon receipt of the notice of the shares of the District expenses to be paid by the member town, assess upon the grand list of such member town, in addition to any tax previously voted thereon, a tax sufficient to raise the member town's shares in such expenses. Where there are contained municipalities, the taxes to raise the population share of the containing town shall be assessed and collected by the containing town on a town-wide basis, and the taxes to raise the gallonage shares of the contained municipalities and of the containing town shall be assessed and collected by the containing town, but the territory of each contained municipality and the remaining territory of the containing town shall be treated as separate taxing Districts for the purpose of raising their respective gallonage shares. The taxes assessed under this act shall be collected as are other taxes of the assessing town and be deposited in the account of the assessing town. The legislative branch of the assessing town shall order the additional taxes to be paid over to the Treasurer of the District as collected by the 20th of the month after such taxes become payable. If by the end of its fiscal year a member town has failed to collect and pay over to the Treasurer of the District a sum sufficient to pay the member's population or gallonage share of the expenses of the District, or the gallonage share of any contained municipality, the legislative branch of such member town shall assess a special tax of five percent on the applicable grand list, or such multiple thereof as is necessary to make up the unpaid balance of said share, which special taxes shall be collected as are other taxes of the assessing town. Upon the collection of said special taxes, the same shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the District. If by the end of its fiscal year a member town fails to pay any population or gallonage share of expenses of the District that it was to have collected, or fails to make up a deficit therein from the preceding year as above provided, the Board of Water Commissioners of the District may bring an action of contract on this statute in the name of the District to recover of the member town twice the amount due from it that remains unpaid, and upon judgment may levy its execution against any of the real or personal property within the town or the applicable taxing District as the case may be.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 15 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 289 / Section 15
App. § 289-15. Prosecutions
Status: in_force

A fine not exceeding $20.00 with costs of prosecution may be imposed by the corporation for the breach of any of its bylaws with the alternative sentence to the house of correction in case the fine and costs are not paid as is provided by law in criminal cases.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 505 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 142 / Section 505
App. § 142-505. Amendment of charter
Status: in_force

This charter may be amended as set forth by the general laws of the State of Vermont.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 506 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 506
App. § 5-506. Voter checklists
Status: in_force

The City Clerk and Board of Civil Authority shall manage voter qualification, registration, checklist, and absentee balloting in accordance with general laws of the State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 805 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 805
App. § 4-805. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of appointing an Assessor is in lieu of the election of listers. The City shall be governed by, and each taxpayer shall have rights granted by, the applicable State statutes concerning real and personal property taxation, appeal therefrom, and other statutes concerning taxation.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1104 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 1104
App. § 131-1104. Municipal laws
Status: in_force

[Transitional provisions related to the continuation in force of the municipal laws of the Town of Plainfield and the Village of Plainfield as municipal laws of the Town of Plainfield.]
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 204 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 106 / Section 204
App. § 106-204. Fire prevention
Status: in_force

For the prevention and control of fires, the Town of Bradford may function with volunteer firefighters. The fire officers shall be an advisory body reporting to the Selectboard.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 107 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 107
App. § 123-107. Ordinances; adoption by the Selectboard
Status: in_force

(a) If the Selectboard desires to adopt an ordinance, the Selectboard shall record it in the official record kept of the Selectboard proceedings, and the Selectboard shall adopt it subject to final approval after the public hearing as set forth in this section. The ordinance shall then be posted in three public places within the Town and published by title and summary setting forth the subject matter, effective date, and penalty for violation of the ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town, together with a notice of the time and place of a public hearing to consider the ordinance for final passage, the publication and posting to be on a day at least one week and not more than two weeks prior to the hearing.

(b) At the public hearing or at any time and place to which the hearing may be adjourned, the ordinance shall be read in full, unless the Selectboard elects to read the ordinance by title. After such a reading, all persons interested shall be given an opportunity to be heard.

(c) After the public hearing, the Selectboard may finally adopt the ordinance, with or without amendment. If the Selectboard amends the ordinance prior to passage, the Selectboard shall cause the amended ordinance to be entered in the official record of its proceedings and shall also cause notice of the amended and passed ordinance to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town on a day not more than 14 days after adoption.

(d) Every ordinance shall become effective 60 days after adoption, unless the Selectboard specifies a longer period or if the ordinance is conditioned on approval by voters of the Town, then upon such voter approval. If within 30 days of the adoption a petition for reconsideration and repeal is filed, the ordinance shall not become effective until after the question of reconsideration and repeal is voted.

(e) The Town Clerk shall prepare and keep in the Town Clerk's office and the Town Manager's office a book of ordinances, which shall contain each Town ordinance, together with a complete index of the ordinances according to subject matter. Failure to comply with this provision shall not invalidate any Town ordinance lawfully passed or heretofore adopted.
24 V.S.A. § 1931 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 55 / Section 1931
§ 1931. Police officers
Status: in_force

(a) The legislative body, and in its stead, the town manager, when appointed pursuant to chapter 37 of this title, of a municipality as defined in section 2001 of this title may establish a police department and appoint police officers and a chief of police who shall be a police officer. Such legislative body or town manager may temporarily appoint qualified persons as additional police officers when necessary, or appoint qualified persons as temporary police officers in the event no police department is established, shall specify the term and duties of such officers, and may fix their compensation, which may be paid by the municipality. They shall be sworn and shall hold office during good behavior, unless sooner removed for cause, or in the case of temporary police officers, for the term specified. Such appointment, oath, and removal shall be in writing and recorded in the office of the clerk of the municipality.

(b) The direction and control of the entire police force, except as otherwise provided, shall be vested in the chief of police. If the chief of police is absent or disabled, or if the office of chief of police is vacant, the appointing authority may appoint another officer to discharge the duties of the chief of police.

(c) The legislative body or town manager shall report the creation of a new police department or the elimination of an existing police department to the Vermont Criminal Justice Council within five working days of the creation or elimination. The report shall include the effective date of creation or elimination, the mailing address for the police department, and the name of the appointed police chief.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 15 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 15
App. § 101-15. Repealed. 2023, No. M-3, § 2, eff. May 4, 2023.
Status: repealed

(Repealed by 2023, No. M-3, § 2, eff. May 4, 2023.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 902 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 902
App. § 143-902. Water and sewer commissioners
Status: in_force

(a) The Town shall have a single Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners consisting of five members whose duties, powers, and authority with respect to the municipal water system and sewer system shall be as established by the law of this State, applicable to boards of water commissioners and boards of sewage disposal commissioners generally, and as specifically provided for in this charter.

(b) Following each annual meeting, the Selectboard shall appoint the members of the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners, who shall serve until appointments are made to the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners following the next annual meeting, subject to subdivisions (2)(A) and (B) of this subsection as to any nonselectboard members. Appointments shall be made to the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners in the following manner:

(1) Appointments shall be made so that there are at least three members who are members of the Selectboard, but who need not be customers of the Town water system or the Town sewer system, and so that there are at least two members, each of whom is a customer of at least either the Town water system or the Town sewer system. A person shall be deemed a customer of the Town water or the Town sewer system if he or she owns property that is connected to either system or owns an interest in an entity that owns property connected to either system.

(2) If appointments cannot be made so as to constitute the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners in accordance with subdivision (1) of this subsection by appointments solely from members of the Selectboard, the following shall apply:

(A) The Selectboard shall appoint as many non-Selectboard members as are necessary to constitute the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners in accordance with subdivision (1) of this subsection. Each non-Selectboard member shall be a resident of the Town and a customer of at least the Town water system or the Town sewer system and shall serve at the pleasure of the Selectboard.

(B) If a non-Selectboard member ceases to be a resident of the Town, or ceases to be a customer of at least the Town water system or the Town sewer system, or the office otherwise becomes vacant, the Selectboard shall fill the vacancy with a Selectboard member or a non-Selectboard member who is a customer of at least the Town water system or the Town sewer system to serve until an appointment is made to the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners following the next annual meeting.

(C) If a Selectboard position on the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners becomes vacant, the Selectboard shall fill the vacancy with another Selectboard member who need not be a customer of either the Town water system or Town sewer system to serve until an appointment is made to the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners following the next annual meeting.

(D) Notwithstanding any provision of this subsection, if within 45 days following an annual meeting the Selectboard does not fill a requisite nonselectboard position on the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners, the Selectboard shall fill the position with a Selectboard member, regardless of whether he or she is a customer of either the Town water system or the Town sewer system.

(c) In addition to those powers, duties, and responsibilities imposed by law upon boards of water commissioners and sewage disposal commissioners, the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners shall:

(1) exercise control over, administer, manage, and operate the municipal water and sewage disposal systems of the Town as presently constituted or as may be enlarged hereafter; and

(2) establish rates and charges for water and sewage disposal services provided by the Town.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 203 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 414 / Section 203
App. § 414-203. Appointment
Status: in_force

Annually on or before the last Monday in March, each member municipality shall appoint its representative to the Board of Supervisors. The selectboard of each member municipality shall appoint a representative who shall be a member of the selectboard or a designee if all members of the selectboard decline to serve. The representatives of the City of Rutland shall be:

(1) the Mayor or a designee appointed by the Mayor;

(2) an alderman appointed by resolution of the Board of Aldermen; and

(3) a resident of the City of Rutland appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Board of Aldermen according to the procedures for confirmation of appointments set forth in chapter 9, section 15.04 of this title (City of Rutland charter).
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 303 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 303
App. § 1-303. Special meetings; quorum
Status: in_force

Special meetings of the City Council may be called at any time by the Mayor. They may also be called by the Clerk on a petition signed by a majority of the City Council and filed with the Clerk. Notice of special meetings shall be served on the Mayor and councilors by the Clerk delivering to each member a copy of the call, or leaving it at the place of the member's residence. A majority of the City Council shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 33 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 405 / Section 33
App. § 405-33. Adoption
Status: in_force

(a) Following the public hearing provided for in section 32 of this chapter, the Board of Commissioners shall review the proposed budget in light of comments received at the hearing, and shall thereupon approve the budget for adoption pursuant to subsection (b) of this section with or without changes.

(b) Within 45 days of the approval of the budget by the Board of Commissioners, the legislative body of each member municipality shall act to approve or disapprove the budget. The budget shall be approved if approved by the legislative bodies of a majority of the member municipalities. For such purposes, each municipality shall be entitled to one vote. A legislative body that disapproves the budget must file with the Board of Commissioners a written statement of objections to the budget identifying those specific items to be changed, and failure to file such statement of objections within the 45 day period shall constitute approval by such municipality. A legislative body that fails to act to approve or disapprove the budget within the 45-day period shall likewise be deemed to have approved the budget.

(c) Unless a petition is filed in accordance with the provisions of subsection (e) of this section, the budget shall become effective 45 days after the date of its adoption, or at such time following the expiration of 45 days from the date of its adoption as is determined by the Board. If a petition is filed in accordance with subsection (e) of this section, the taking effect of the budget shall be governed by subsection (g) of this section.

(d) A budget adopted by the Board may be disapproved by a vote of a majority of the qualified voters of the District voting on the question at a special meeting duly warned for the purpose, pursuant to a petition signed and submitted in accordance with subsection (e) of this section.

(e) A petition for a vote on the question of disapproving a budget shall be signed by not less than five percent of the qualified voters of the District, and presented to the District Secretary within 30 days following the date of adoption of the budget.

(f) When a petition is submitted in accordance with subsection (e) of this section, the Board shall call a special meeting within 60 days from the date of receipt of the petition to determine whether the voters will disapprove the budget.

(g) If a petition for a special meeting is duly submitted in accordance with this section, to determine whether a budget shall be disapproved by the voters of the District, the budget shall take effect on the conclusion of the meeting, or at such later date as is specified in the budget, unless a majority of the qualified voters voting on the question at the meeting vote to disapprove the budget, in which event it shall not take effect.

(h) The ballots cast in each member municipality shall be counted by the election officials of each member municipality, preserved and secured with the checklist, and thereafter the result shall be certified to the District Secretary within 48 hours. The provisions of Title 17 shall apply to any District meeting called pursuant to this section.

(i) If the annual budget for any fiscal year is not approved as of the beginning of that fiscal year, the District shall continue to operate on the budget for the immediately preceding fiscal year until a new budget is approved.

(j) Notwithstanding any disapproval of the budget, the District shall be obligated to pay the principal of and interest on bonds, notes, and other evidence of indebtedness of the District and to satisfy any other obligations relating thereto and to pay obligations under any long-term contracts. To the extent provided by the terms of such bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness, or long-term contracts, each member municipality shall be obligated to pay its share of such indebtedness and obligations under long-term contracts. Unless otherwise provided in the vote authorizing the same, a municipality's share of indebtedness shall be determined by the Board of Commissioners and shall be in an amount proportionate to the actual or estimated tonnage or volume of solid waste generated by that municipality as determined by the Board of Commissioners pursuant to section 34 of this chapter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 38.01 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 38.01
App. § 9-38.1. Controlling statute
Status: repealed

This charter shall be adopted and amended or repealed in conformity with 17 V.S.A. § 2645 or as amended.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1111 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 1111
App. § 131-1111. Plan of consolidation, effect of charter
Status: in_force

[Transitional provisions related to the effect of the charter on the consolidation of the Town of Plainfield and the Village of Plainfield.]
24 V.S.A. § 4764 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 120 / Section 4764
§ 4764. Planning
Status: in_force

(a) Engineering planning advance. A municipality or a combination of two or more municipalities desiring an advance of funds for engineering and land use planning for public water supply systems, as defined in subdivision 4752(9) of this title, or improvements, or for clean water projects or improvements, may apply to the Department for an advance under this chapter. As used in this subsection, “engineering planning” may include source exploration, surveys, reports, designs, plans, specifications, or other engineering services necessary in preparation for construction of the types of systems or facilities referred to in this section. Not more than 25 percent of funds awarded to a municipality as a planning advance pursuant to this subsection may be utilized to evaluate land use implications of facilities, including impacts on the State Planning Goals as set forth in section 4302 of this title, availability of housing, and economic development.

(b) Regional engineering planning. The Department, with the approval of the Secretary, may use up to ten percent of the total capital appropriation for construction grants to undertake regional engineering planning and process research. Funds approved for regional engineering planning may be awarded directly to a lead municipality and administered in accordance with this chapter.

(c) Funding. In each fiscal year, the Department may use up to 30 percent of the total capital appropriation for construction grants provided under 10 V.S.A. chapter 55 to award engineering planning advances.

(d) Technical assistance from Regional Planning Commission. Any municipality may contract with the Regional Planning Commission established under section 4341 of this title to assist in administration and management of the planning advance and coordination of engineering services and to evaluate land use implications. Costs associated with these services from the Regional Planning Commission shall be eligible for reimbursement under an engineering planning advance described in subsection (a) of this section.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 40 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 405 / Section 40
App. § 405-40. Capital reserve fund
Status: in_force

The Board of Commissioners may establish and provide for a capital reserve fund to pay for public improvements, replacement of worn-out buildings and equipment, and planned and unplanned major repairs of a management facility, in furtherance of the purpose for which the District was created. Any such capital reserve fund shall be kept in a separate account and invested as are other public funds and shall be expended for such purposes for which established. The cost of payments to any capital reserve fund shall be included in the annual budget of the District.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 35 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 173 / Section 35
App. § 173-35. Officers-appointive
Status: in_force

All offices in the Town of Windsor not required by Vermont statute to be filled by election or according to specific provision of this charter shall be deemed appointed offices to be filled by a majority vote of the Selectboard. The terms of such appointed offices shall be for a definite time, normally one year, but in no case exceeding the maximum term of office of a member of the Selectboard.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 23 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 173 / Section 23
App. § 173-23. Appropriations
Status: in_force

(a) All amounts specified in the budget and approved by the voters at the annual Town meeting are appropriated for the purposes specified. The Selectboard may transfer appropriated amounts between general classifications of expenditures. All unexpended and unencumbered appropriations, except appropriations for capital expenditures and reserve accounts, shall lapse at the close of the fiscal year or, by action of the Selectboard, may be placed in a Capital Reserve Fund.

(b) The majority of the Selectboard shall sign the orders at each regularly scheduled meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 905 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 905
App. § 129-905. Planning Director
Status: in_force

The Planning Director shall be appointed in accordance with 24 V.S.A. § 4325(11). Upon appointment, the Planning Director shall be under the direction of the Town Manager for faithful performance of his or her duties as prescribed in the Vermont statutes and this charter.
24 V.S.A. § 1209 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 36 / Section 1209
§ 1209. Decisions
Status: in_force

(a) A final decision in a contested hearing shall be in writing and shall separately state findings of fact and conclusions of law.

(b) Findings of fact shall explicitly and concisely restate the underlying facts that support the decision. They shall be based exclusively on evidence of the record in the contested hearing.

(c) Conclusions of law shall be based on the findings of fact.

(d) The final decision in any case involving local Act 250 review of municipal impacts shall include notice that it constitutes a rebuttable presumption under the provisions of 10 V.S.A. chapter 151, and notice that presumption may be overcome in proceedings under 10 V.S.A. chapter 151.

(e) The presiding officer shall cause copies of the decision to be delivered to each party.

(f) Transcriptions of the proceedings of contested hearings shall be made upon the request and upon payment of the reasonable costs of transcription by any party.
24 V.S.A. § 4348b — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4348b
§ 4348b. Readoption of regional plans
Status: in_force

(a) Unless they are readopted, all regional plans, including all prior amendments, shall expire every eight years.

(b)(1) A regional plan that has expired or is about to expire may be readopted as provided under section 4348 of this title for the adoption of a regional plan or amendment. Prior to any readoption, the regional planning commission shall prepare an assessment report which shall be submitted to the Agency of Commerce and Community Development and the municipalities within the region. The assessment report may include:

(A) the extent to which the plan has been implemented since adoption or readoption;

(B) an evaluation of the goals and policies and any amendments necessary due to changing conditions of the region;

(C) an evaluation of the land use element and any amendments necessary to reflect changes in land use within the region or changes to regional goals and policies;

(D) priorities for implementation in the next five years; and

(E) updates to information and data necessary to support goals and policies.

(2) The readopted plan shall remain in effect for the ensuing eight years unless earlier readopted.

(c) Upon the expiration of a regional plan under this section, the regional plan shall be of no further effect in any other proceeding.

(d) All regional plans that expire after July 1, 1991 shall be readopted to be consistent with planning goals and shall follow the review process referred to in 1988 Acts and Resolves No. 200.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 324 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 324
App. § 3-324. Purposes and powers
Status: in_force

(a) The City Council shall have authority and responsibility for the management of the Church Street Marketplace District, its services, and facilities. The City Council shall have the responsibility to establish, improve, and maintain a Marketplace within the District.

(b) In furtherance of its purpose, the City Council shall have the following rights, powers, and duties:

(1) To exercise the powers set forth in the first paragraph of section 231 of this charter with respect to the Marketplace; provided that, in relation to the Electric Light Department, the Commission shall have the same status as a private user.

(2) To acquire on behalf of the City by gift, purchase, exercise of the power of eminent domain, or otherwise, all types of interests in real property and rights-of-way that will become part of the Marketplace to be used in connection therewith.

(3) To construct or contract for the construction of improvements of any kind or nature necessary or convenient for the establishment or operation of the Marketplace.

(4) To pay, from the funds provided for herein, the whole or any portion of the cost of constructing and maintaining such improvements, including the cost of preliminary planning for the Marketplace.

(5) To prohibit in whole or in part vehicular traffic, other than motor vehicle traffic on the Marketplace, and to recommend to the Public Works Commission the prohibition or regulation of motor vehicle traffic within the Downtown Improvement District.

(6) To recommend to the Planning Commission the imposition of restrictions on the height, use, and exterior appearance, including restrictions on the use of signs, for buildings fronting on the Marketplace; such restrictions to be imposed only after notice and public hearings and, except for the use of signs, such restrictions to be prospective in nature.

(7) To make such improvements within the Church Street Marketplace District as are necessary or convenient to the operation of the Marketplace.

(8) To enter into contracts in the name of and on behalf of the City with State or federal agencies, including the Chittenden County Transportation Administration, as may be necessary or convenient to carry out the purpose of this article.

(9) To lease space, including air rights, in, below, and above the Marketplace but only in compliance with section 55 of this charter.

(10) To appoint such employees and agents as it may deem necessary or expedient for the operation of the Marketplace. The Director shall be appointed by the Mayor in accordance with the requirements of section 127 of this charter. The Director shall have the special and immediate care and practical supervision of the Marketplace, subject to the authority of the Mayor as Chief Executive Officer and the orders and ordinances of the City Council.

(11) To enter into management and maintenance contracts to facilitate the carrying out of any of its powers and duties enumerated herein, such contracts to be, where the Commission deems it appropriate and practicable, with operating departments of the City.

(12) To issue permits for various uses in the Marketplace, and to adopt regulations and charge fees for such issuance.

(13) To charge rentals and fees for its services and for use of space in the Marketplace.

(14) To receive and expend voluntary contributions for the carrying out of its purposes.

(15) To advertise and promote the Marketplace and its activities pursuant to this section when the Commission determines that such advertisement and promotion will promote the prosperity and general welfare of the citizens of the City of Burlington and of the State.

(16) To do all other things necessary or convenient to carrying out the purposes of this article. Nothing herein shall be construed to mean that the City Council may interfere with or regulate the internal management of properties within the District.

(c) The City Council may by resolution delegate any of the powers relating to the Downtown Improvement District and the Church Street Marketplace District to the Church Street Marketplace Commission.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 602 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 4 / Section 602
App. § 4-602. Powers of Manager
Status: in_force

(a) The Manager shall be the chief administrative officer of the City of Essex Junction. The Manager shall be responsible to the Council for the administration of all City of Essex Junction affairs placed in the Manager's charge by or under this charter. The Manager shall have the following powers and duties in addition to those powers and duties delegated to municipal managers under the Vermont statutes.

(b) The Manager shall appoint and, when the Manager deems it necessary for the good of the service, suspend or remove all City of Essex Junction employees, including the Treasurer, and other employees provided for by or under this charter for cause, except as otherwise provided by law, this charter, collective bargaining unit contracts, or personnel rules adopted pursuant to this charter. The Manager may authorize any employee who is subject to the Manager's direction and supervision to exercise these powers with respect to subordinates in that employee's department, office, or agency. There shall be no discrimination in employment, in accordance with applicable State and federal laws, including 21 V.S.A. § 495. Appointments, lay-offs, suspensions, promotions, demotions, and removals shall be made primarily on the basis of training, experience, fitness, and performance of duties, in such manner as to ensure that the responsible administrative officer may secure efficient service.

(c) The Manager, or designee, shall direct and supervise the administration of all departments, offices, and agencies of the City of Essex Junction, except as otherwise provided by this charter or by law.

(d) The Manager shall recommend hiring of a City Attorney with Council approval and shall hire special attorneys as needed.

(e) The Manager or a staff member designated by the Manager shall attend all Council meetings and shall have the right to take part in discussion and make recommendations but may not vote. The Council may meet in executive session without the Manager for discussion of the Manager's performance or if the Manager is the subject of an investigation pursuant to subdivision 201(b)(4) of this charter.

(f) The Manager shall see that all laws, provisions of this charter, and acts of the Council, subject to enforcement by the Manager or by officers subject to the Manager's direction and supervision, are faithfully executed.

(g) The Manager shall prepare and submit the annual budget and capital program to the Council.

(h) The Manager shall submit to the Council and make available to the public a complete report on the finances and administrative activities of the City of Essex Junction as of the end of each fiscal year.

(i) The Manager shall make such other reports as the Council may require concerning the operations of the City of Essex Junction's departments, offices, and agencies subject to the Manager's direction and supervision.

(j) The Manager shall keep the Council fully advised as to the financial condition and future needs of the City of Essex Junction and make such recommendations to the Council concerning the affairs of the City of Essex Junction as the Manager deems desirable.

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

(l) The Manager may when advisable or proper delegate to subordinate officers and employees of the City of Essex Junction any duties conferred upon the Manager by this charter, the Vermont statutes, or the Council members.

(m) The Manager shall perform such other duties as are specified in this charter or in State law or as may be required by the Council.

(n) The Manager shall fix the compensation of City employees.

(o) The Manager shall recommend appointment of the City Clerk annually, with Council approval.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 34 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 901 / Section 34
App. § 901-34. Sinking fund
Status: in_force

(a) The Board may establish and provide for a sinking fund for the retirement of bond issue or other debt or to provide security for the payment thereof.

(b) When so established, the sinking fund shall be kept intact and separate from other monies at the disposal of the Authority and shall be accounted for as a pledged asset for the purpose of retiring or securing such obligations.

(c) The cost of payments to any sinking fund shall be included in the annual budget of the Authority.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 11.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 107 / Section 11.02
App. § 107-11.2. Bus Service Advisory Committee
Status: in_force

Bus Service Advisory Committee. “Five” unlimited terms. The Committee oversees the operation of the Town-subsidized bus service and makes recommendations to the Selectboard regarding Town bus service. It meets monthly.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 7 / Section 3
App. § 7-3. City boundaries and corporate powers
Status: in_force

The inhabitants of that portion of the Towns of Newport and Derby included within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the southeast corner of land of J. C. Roby, and southwest corner of land of William Buck in the Town of Derby on the north line of the Town of Coventry, and following the lot line between the lands of the said Roby and said Buck northerly, which said lot line is the easterly line of the new municipality, and continuing that line between the lands of the following persons: E. Miller, Fred Blake, Will Halley, Frank O. Hill, J. H. Gaines, Will Rann, Charles Lemorey, Henry Lahar, and Mrs. Benj. Hinman, on the westerly side of said lot line, and A. R. Hudon and wife, Theophile Meoykins, and Isaac Labounty on the easterly side of said lot line follow said lot line to a point which is N. latitude 44 degrees 55′ 56″ and W. longitude 72 degrees 11′ 46″ and 467 feet southerly of the southerly boundary of Pine Hill road so-called; thence S. 81 degrees E. following the present New England Telephone & Telegraph Company's trunk line 506 feet to an iron pin corner at an angle in said telephone line; thence N. 40 degrees E. 160 feet to the southerly line of said Pine Hill road; thence following the Pine Hill Road southeasterly on the southerly side thereof until it strikes the land owned by Mrs. Hitchcock on the northerly side of said road and following the southerly line of the Charles Noyes Farm and the southerly line of the Frank Hayward farm to the southeasterly corner of the said Hayward Farm where it strikes the road to Arnold's Mills, so called; thence following said road on the easterly side thereof northerly across Clyde River to Clyde Street; thence following Clyde Street on the northerly side thereof westerly to the east line of Dr. George F. Adams' land; thence northerly on said Adams' east line and on the east line of land owned by Aaron Grout to the road running from Derby Center to West Derby village; thence following said Derby Center Road on the northerly edge thereof to the east line of land owned by Fortunat Dubuc and wife and known as the Colby farm thence northerly on the east line to the northeast corner of said farm; thence following westerly on the north line of said farm to the north line of the present village of West Derby; thence following said village line westerly to Sias Avenue, or Beebe Road, so called, following said Sias Avenue northerly on the westerly side thereof to Austin Beebe's north line; thence westerly following Austin Beebe's north line to Elijah Leavitt's east line; thence northerly following Elijah Leavitt's east line to the road that runs from Sias Avenue to the railroad track, following said road a few rods on the northerly side thereof to the east line of the farm owned by Charles and Myrtie A. Marsh, on the north side of said road; thence following the east line of said Marsh Farm to its northeast corner; thence westerly following its north line to the railroad right of way; thence following said right of way on the easterly side thereof to the railroad culvert (No. 91) crossing what is known as Meadow Brook; thence following said brook to the shore of Lake Memphremagog, following the shore of Lake Memphremagog southwesterly to Indian Point near the cottage now owned by Charles F. Bigelow, and including in the limits of the City Horse Neck Island, which lies a few rods from the said lake shore and is owned by F. E. Miles; thence westerly across the lake from Indian Point in a straight line to the northeast corner of the farm formerly owned and occupied by Tarrant S. Cummings and now owned by Joseph Bouchard; thence westerly on said Bouchard's north line to the easterly side of the poor farm road; thence southerly on the easterly side of said road to the south line of said Bouchard's Farm; thence easterly to William Hyer's west line; thence southerly on the west lines of lands owned by said Hyer, Richmond and son and Arthur Wells to the west line of land owned by O. D. Hancock; thence southerly on said Hancock's west line and in a straight line to the Coventry Town line; thence following said Coventry Town line to the point begun at in Derby, are hereby incorporated and made a body corporate and politic under the name of the City of Newport, and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend in any court, may have a common seal and alter it at pleasure, may take, hold, purchase, and convey such property, real and personal, as the purposes of the corporation may require, may borrow money on the credit of the City in the mode and under the restrictions hereinafter provided, may elect a representative to the General Assembly and the same number of justices of the peace as a town of equal population may elect, shall 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. § 70 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 70
App. § 3-70. Excess expenditures prohibited; assessments for street improvements credited to Streets Division of the Public Works Department
Status: in_force

(a) No superintendent, board, or commission member or corresponding executive officer of any City department, with the exception of the Health, Police, and Fire Departments, and then only in case of an emergency, shall expend any money or incur any obligation, unless there is an available appropriation from which the same may be paid and to which it may be charged, and shall not at any time expend any money or incur any obligation in excess of such appropriation. In case any such superintendent, board, or commission member or corresponding executive officer of any City department violates this provision, the City Chief Administrative Officer shall report such occurrence to the Mayor and to the City Council. The Mayor shall advise the City Council as to whether there was appropriate justification for such violation and if the Mayor and City Council agree that such violation was unjustified, the Mayor may recommend and the City Council may determine that the office shall thereupon become vacant and shall be forthwith filled for the unexpired term by the officials authorized to make the original appointment in such case. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the City Council to remove a duly-elected school commissioner or the Superintendent of Schools.

(b) Except as otherwise provided by resolution of the City Council, all assessments for street improvements shall be credited to the Streets Division of the Public Works Department and be available to said Division as an appropriation for its use only when and as collected and paid to the Chief Administrative Officer.
24 V.S.A. § 4553 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4553
§ 4553. Liberal construction
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and the purposes of the chapter as complete and independent authority for the performance of each and every act and thing authorized by this chapter and all powers granted by this chapter shall be broadly interpreted to effectuate that intent and purposes and not as a limitation of powers.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 25.01 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 25.01
App. § 9-25.1. Membership and duties
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of Public Works, President of the Board of Aldermen, and the Mayor shall constitute the Board of Highway Commissioners and shall have the same power to lay out, alter, resurvey, and discontinue streets and highways as is vested by law in selectboards of towns except as otherwise provided herein.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 705 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 705
App. § 5-705. Violation of an ordinance
Status: in_force

The violation of an ordinance shall be enforced according to State statute.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 24 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 417 / Section 24
App. § 417-24. Clerk
Status: in_force

The Clerk shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the public records of the District and the Seal of the District. The Clerk shall record all votes and proceedings of the District, including meetings of the District and meetings of the Board of Supervisors. The Clerk shall prepare and warn all meetings of the District and Board of Supervisors in accordance with Vermont law and shall cause the annual report approved by the Board of Supervisors to be distributed to the legislative bodies of the member municipalities. The Clerk shall prepare and distribute any other reports required by the laws of the State of Vermont and resolutions or regulations of the Board of Supervisors. The Clerk shall perform all of the duties and functions incident to the office of secretary or clerk of a body corporate.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 22 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 141 / Section 22
App. § 141-22. General powers
Status: in_force

Said Board shall have all the powers and authority given to it under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Vermont, together with all the implied powers necessary to effectuate and execute the powers granted.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 110 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 110
App. § 123-110. Non-applicability of zoning and subdivision
Status: in_force

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 bylaw, any land subdivision ordinance or land subdivision bylaw, nor to the enactment, amendment, or repeal of any municipal plan, or comprehensive regional plan, the enactment, amendment, or repeal of zoning ordinances, bylaws, and plans being specifically controlled by 24 V.S.A. chapter 117, or by other statute regulating zoning, subdivision, and municipal and regional plans as may be enacted 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.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 9.03 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 147 / Section 9.03
App. § 147-9.3. Local option tax
Status: in_force

The Town Selectboard shall be authorized to levy a one percent tax on sales, meals and alcoholic beverages, and rooms. Any tax imposed under the authority of this section shall be collected and administered pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 138.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 104 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 104
App. § 123-104. Additional powers
Status: in_force

The general grant of authority in section 103 of this charter shall include the following powers, and the enumeration thereof shall not be deemed to be in derogation of the authority conferred by this charter.

(1) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to the installation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of water lines, sewer lines, and equipment necessary for their operation. The installation of such improvements in a particular manner specified may be imposed as a condition precedent to the issuing of a building, occupancy, or use permit under any Town ordinance. The apportionment of part or all the cost of such improvements against property owners or rate payers benefiting thereby may be required. Such assessments shall constitute a lien on the property against which the assessment is made in the same manner and to the same extent as taxes assessed on the grand list of the Town, and all procedures and remedies for the collection of taxes shall apply to special assessments.

(2) To adopt and enforce police ordinances regulating or prohibiting the use, but not the possession of, firearms, air rifles, and devices having the capacity to inflict personal injury; and the parking, operation, and speed of vehicles of any kind upon Town and State aid streets and highways, private and public property; and to regulate or prohibit any activities constituting a hazard to the safety, health, or welfare of the public.

(3) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to the prevention of pollution of air; land; streams, ponds, and other waterways; public and private supplies; waste water; and reservoirs within the Town.

(4) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to the cleaning or repair of any premises that, in the judgment of the Selectboard, is dangerous to the health, welfare, or safety of the public.

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

(6) To adopt and enforce ordinances prohibiting willful injuries to trees planted for shade, ornament, convenience, or use, public and private, and to prevent and punish trespassing or willful injuries to or upon public or private buildings, property, or lands.

(7) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to codes for building construction, including also wiring and plumbing.

(8) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to fire prevention and control.

(9) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to the use, protection, care, and management of all public recreation and natural resource facilities of the Town.

(10) To adopt, amend, repeal, and enforce ordinances relating to public assemblages and the prevention of riots, noises, concerts, nuisances, disturbances, and disorderly assembly.

(11) To adopt and enforce ordinances establishing regulations for signs and billboards as provided by the general law of this State.

(12) To exercise the right of eminent domain in the taking of property by condemnation for public parks, sewage collection and treatment, water storage and distribution.

(13) To adopt and amend ordinances relating to public bidding procedures and conflicts of interest involving elected and appointed officers and employees.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 17 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 901 / Section 17
App. § 901-17. Chair
Status: in_force

The Chair shall preside at all meetings of the Board and shall make and sign all contracts on behalf of the Authority upon approval by the Board. The Chair shall perform all the duties incident to the position and office.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 38 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 401 / Section 38
App. § 401-38. Disposal fees
Status: in_force

The Board of Supervisors shall establish and periodically adjust charges, including tipping fees, for the purpose of generating revenues from sources other than assessments to member municipalities for the District's services in the management of solid waste.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 501 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 251 / Section 501
App. § 251-501. Fire Chief and firefighters
Status: in_force

(a) The Chief of the Fire Department, or in the absence of the Chief, the assistant engineer next in authority shall have power at fires to suppress tumults and riots, by force if necessary, to remove all effects endangered by such fire and protect the same from waste and depredation, to pull down or remove any building when the Chief deems it necessary to prevent the spreading of such fire, and for such acts the Fire Chief and those acting under the Chief's authority shall not be held personally responsible.

(b) It shall be the Chief's duty, under the direction of the Board of Trustees, to inspect the manufacture or keeping of gun powder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, gasoline, fireworks, and other combustibles, and the construction and repairs of fireplaces, chimneys, and stoves within the Village, and if the Chief deems the same dangerous to the safety of the inhabitants, the Chief shall by order in writing approved by the Board of Trustees and recorded by the Clerk and delivered to the person so conducting such manufacturing, keeping, construction, or repairs direct in what way to construct the same, and any person neglecting or refusing to obey any such order so made, recorded, and delivered shall be punished by a fine as established by ordinance or bylaw with costs of prosecution.

(c) The duties of the Chief may also include ex-officio Fire Warden and Emergency Management Director.
24 V.S.A. § 4768 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 120 / Section 4768
§ 4768. Repayment of advances
Status: in_force

Advances under this subchapter shall be repaid when construction of the facilities or any portion thereof is undertaken. Where a construction grant or loan is authorized by the Department for the project, the amount of the outstanding advances shall be retained from the initial payments of the grant or loan funds. In other instances, if repayment is not made within 60 days upon demand by the Department, the sum shall bear interest at the rate of 12 percent per annum from the date payment is demanded by the Department to the date of payment by the municipality. The Department may approve proportional repayment when construction is initiated on a small portion of the planned project.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 404 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 404
App. § 103-404. Duties for Manager
Status: in_force

(a) The Town Manager shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Town and shall:

(1) Carry out the policies established by the Select Board, to whom the Town Manager shall be accountable.

(2) Attend all meetings of the Select Board, except when his or her compensation or removal is being considered, shall keep the Select Board informed of the financial condition and future needs of the Town, and shall make such other reports as may be required by law, requested by the Select Board, or deemed by him or her to be advisable.

(3) Perform all other duties prescribed by this charter or required by law or by resolution of the Select Board.

(4) Be an ex-officio member of all standing committees except the Development Review Board, and shall not vote.

(5) Prepare an annual budget, submit it to the Select Board, and be responsible for its administration after adoption.

(6) Compile for general distribution at the end of each fiscal year a complete report on the finances and administrative activities of the Town for the year.

(7) Provide to the Select Board a monthly financial statement, with a copy to the Town Treasurer.

(8) Perform all duties now conferred by law on the Road Commissioner within all areas of the Town, except within such villages as may vote not to surrender their charters under this charter, notwithstanding the provisions of 24 V.S.A. § 1236(5).

(9) Perform all duties now conferred by law on the Collector of Delinquent Taxes.

(10) Under policies approved by the Select Board, be the General Purchasing Agent of the Town and purchase all equipment and supplies and contract for services for every department pursuant to the purchasing and bid policies approved by the Select Board.

(11) Be responsible for the system of accounts.

(12) Be responsible for the operation of all departments, including the Police and Fire Departments.

(13) Under policies approved by the Select Board, have exclusive authority to appoint, fix the salaries of, suspend, and remove all officers and employees except those who are elected or who are appointed by the Select Board. When the Town Manager position is vacant, this authority shall be exercised by the Select Board.

(b) The Town Manager may, when advisable or proper, delegate to subordinate officers and employees of the Town any duties conferred upon him or her.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 107 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 106 / Section 107
App. § 106-107. Water and Sewer Department
Status: in_force

(a) The services of the Water and Sewer Department of the Town of Bradford shall be fee based, with all costs paid by the users. All water and sewer rates of the Village of Bradford in effect at the time of the merger shall continue in effect until changed as provided in sections 206 and 207 of this charter. Annual water and sewer charges shall be at a rate sufficient to cover annual expenditures, temporary indebtedness, and the amortizing of bonded indebtedness and interest.

(b) A Water and Sewer Commission shall be elected as outlined in section 206a of this charter. A Commission report and budget shall be submitted for approval at the annual Town meeting.

(c) During the transition period, the Commission will consist of the present Water Board and the trustees who are currently responsible for sewer management. As the trustees finish their terms, they will not be replaced.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 16 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 239 / Section 16
App. § 239-16. Village taxing authority on ratable estate
Status: in_force

(a) The Village may, at any annual meeting or special meeting called for that purpose, as hereinbefore provided, lay a tax upon the ratable estate within the Village, whether of residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, and the trustees shall make out a rate bill accordingly and deliver the same to the Collector, who shall have the same power to collect the tax as the collector of town taxes, and may in like manner sell property to satisfy the same, and for want thereof, commit to jail any person against whom he or she has a delinquent tax.

(b) The grand list of the ratable estate within the Village, as made out by the listers of the Town of Manchester and filed by them in the office of the Clerk of the Town, shall be the grand list of the Village, and the trustees shall cause a copy of the list to be made and filed in the office of the Clerk of the Village within 10 days after the same shall be completed and filed by the listers in the Town Clerk's office.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129B / Section 2
App. § 129B-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 Montgomery.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 69 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 69
App. § 3-69. Fiscal year; reports required
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The fiscal year of the City shall begin on the first day of July in one year and end on the 30th day of June in the next year. A full record of the revenues and expenditures of all City departments shall be kept; and a clear statement of the affairs of the City generally, including all receipts and disbursements of City monies shall be published online and be available for inspection upon request.

(2) The name and amount of salary paid to every City employee shall be published in the City's annual report. The name and amount of compensation paid to any other individual to the extent required to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service on a 1099 form or otherwise shall be published online and available for inspection upon request prior to the annual meeting.

(3) The annual audit of the City's financial records shall be finalized at least 30 days before the annual meeting or as the City Council may by resolution prescribe. The annual report of the City shall include a summary of the audit and a copy of the management letter, and full copies of each annual audit shall be published online and available upon request.

(b) Each City Department that has a commission shall consult with and seek the recommendation of its commission prior to submission of its annual budget to the Mayor.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1305 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1305
App. § 5-1305. Special assessment-Sewers and drains
Status: in_force

Every person whose particular drain shall empty into any common sewer, either at the time of the construction of the common sewer or thereafter, or who in the opinion of the City Council shall receive benefit thereby for draining the person's premises, or whose lands shall be benefited by the proximity of such common sewer, or the owners of lands adjoining or abutting streets in which a common sewer is to be laid, may upon notice be assessed by said City Council a just share toward the expense of laying and constructing such common sewer. Such assessment shall be and remain until paid a lien in the nature of a tax upon the land assessed.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 107 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 413 / Section 107
App. § 413-107. Procedure for adoption of ordinances, rules, and regulations
Status: repealed

(a) Any ordinance, rule, or regulation of the District may be adopted by the Board of Supervisors at a duly called Board of Supervisors' meeting following the following procedure:

(1) If the Board of Supervisors desires to adopt an ordinance, rule, or regulation, it shall hold at least one public hearing on the proposed ordinance, rule, or regulation.

(2) Public notice shall be given of the public hearing by publication of the date, place, and purpose of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation within the District on a date not less than 15 days prior to the date of the hearing.

(3) The notice shall also be posted in at least three public places within each member municipality and mailed to the town clerk of each municipality at least 30 days prior to the date of the hearing.

(4) The notice shall make reference to a place within the District where copies of the proposed ordinance, rule, or regulation may be examined, and the full text of the ordinance, rule, or regulation, or a concise summary of it, including a statement of purpose, principal provisions, and table of contents or list of section headings, shall also be published.

(5) Following such public hearing, the Board of Supervisors may at any duly called Board of Supervisors' meeting adopt the ordinance, rule, or regulation by resolution, and the ordinance, rule, or regulation shall become effective upon adoption.

(6) An ordinance, rule, or regulation adopted in accordance with these procedures may be amended or repealed in accordance with the same procedures.

(7) No ordinance, rule, or regulation or amendment or repeal shall be subject to any voter referendum, provided that a special meeting may be called on such matters in accordance with the procedures of subchapter 5 of this chapter.

(b) The foregoing procedure shall not be required for rules as to the internal workings of the Board, or internal administration of this District.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 312 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 312
App. § 1-312. Audits
Status: in_force

(a) The City Council shall prior to the close of each financial year employ by contract a public accountant to examine the financial statements of the funds of the City.

(b) Annual examination of the financial statements shall be conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and the financial and compliance standards for audit of governmental organizations, programs, activities, and functions. For the purpose of examination and audit authorized by the City, all records, account books, papers, reports, and returns of all departments, including the trustees and custodians of trust funds and all officers and employees who receive or disburse funds for the benefit of the City, shall be made available for audit. It shall also be the duty of each City officer or employee to provide oral explanatory information when required by the public accountant.

(c) As a matter of policy, the City Council shall solicit public bids from public accountants at least once in every three-year period.
24 V.S.A. § 4022 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 113 / Section 4022
§ 4022. Powers
Status: in_force

For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of housing projects, located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any State public body may upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine:

(1) dedicate, sell, convey, or lease any of its interest in any property or grant easements, licenses, or any other rights or privileges therein, to a housing authority or the federal government;

(2) cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing projects;

(3) furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan, or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks, or other places which it is otherwise empowered to undertake;

(4) plan or replan, zone or rezone, any part of such State public body; make exceptions from building regulations and ordinances; any city may also change its map;

(5) cause services to be furnished to the housing authority of the character which such State public body is otherwise empowered to furnish;

(6) enter into agreements with respect to the exercise by such State public body of its powers relating to the repair, closing, or demolition of unsafe, unsanitary, or unfit dwellings;

(7) employ, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, any funds belonging to or within the control of such State public body, including funds derived from the sale of furnishings or property or facilities to a housing authority, in the purchase of the bonds or other obligations of the housing authority; and exercise all rights of any holder of such bonds or other obligations;

(8) enter into agreements, which may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary, with a housing authority or the federal government respecting the exercise by such State public body of any of the powers herein granted;

(9) do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of such housing projects; and

(10) in connection with any public improvements made by a State public body exercising the powers herein granted, such State public body may incur the entire expense thereof. (1961, No. 212, § 22, eff. July 11, 1961.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 506 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 409 / Section 506
App. § 409-506. Warning contents
Status: in_force

The posted notification shall include the date, time, place, and nature of the meeting. It shall, by separate articles, specifically indicate the questions to be voted upon.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 107 / Section 4.02
App. § 107-4.2. Compensation
Status: in_force

The annual Representative Town Meeting shall fix the compensation of the Selectboard.
24 V.S.A. § 1534 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 51 / Section 1534
§ 1534. Meetings; how notified
Status: in_force

Meetings of such board shall be notified like meetings of the board of civil authority, except that at least one of the listers shall have personal notice of such meetings.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 102 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 102
App. § 269-102. General law application
Status: in_force

Except when changed, enlarged, or modified by the provisions of this charter, all provisions of the statutes of the State of Vermont relating to municipalities shall apply to the Village of Poultney.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 43 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 141 / Section 43
App. § 141-43. Construction of special public services
Status: in_force

The cost of initial construction of any special public services and facilities not in existence on the effective date hereof, and/or costs to expand existing facilities to areas not heretofore served, and/or costs to enlarge, expand, or reconstruct existing facilities shall be financed by the Town of Readsboro, supplemented by public funds and grants-in-aid, if any, that may be available for the said purposes, except electric line expansions shall be paid for by those customers requesting such services and in accordance with the rules and regulations presently in effect, and as may be amended.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 303 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 303
App. § 3-303. Alteration, amendment, or repeal of charter
Status: repealed

This charter may be altered, amended, or repealed by the General Assembly whenever the public good shall require.
24 V.S.A. § 1781 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 53 / Section 1781
§ 1781. Change of coupon bonds to registered bonds
Status: in_force

In case a municipal corporation shall have issued coupon bonds and the owner or holder thereof has requested that such bonds be changed to registered bonds as herein provided, then upon written request of such change, duly acknowledged, the treasurer of such a municipal corporation, if directed by the city council of the city, selectboard of the town, school directors of the town school district, or other corresponding officers of the municipal corporation of which he or she is such treasurer, as the case may be, shall cut off and destroy the coupons on the bonds presented for registration and indorse upon the back of each of such bonds over his or her official signature a certificate of registration in substantially the form prescribed by section 1782 of this title, inserting in the appropriate places the date of such registration, the name and address of the registered holder, and his or her own signature as transfer agent. Thereafter such bond shall be transferable only upon the books of such municipality upon presentation to the treasurer thereof with a written assignment duly acknowledged or proved.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 103 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 120 / Section 103
App. § 120-103. Establishment of dedicated fund
Status: in_force

A dedicated fund is hereby established for the purposes set forth in 24 V.S.A. § 3313(b). The fund shall be under the control and direction of the Water Commissioners and its use and maintenance shall be dictated by the general laws of the State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 133 / Section 701
App. § 133-701. Appointed by Selectboard
Status: in_force

The Selectboard shall appoint a Town Manager whose responsibilities, powers, and terms of employment shall be as provided by general law, except as otherwise provided by this charter.
24 V.S.A. § 2408 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 65 / Section 2408
§ 2408. Exceptions
Status: in_force

Any land acquired by virtue of the provisions of section 2407 of this title shall be deemed a municipal forest. A town which has such forest on the effective date of section 2407 of this title, or acquires one hereunder, shall be deemed to have complied with the provisions of such section.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 36 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 36
App. § 101-36. Meetings; open government
Status: in_force

It shall be the policy of the Town of Barre to afford to all of its citizens the opportunity to participate in the government of their Town as fully and completely as may be possible. To this end, all meetings of agencies, boards, citizen committees, and any other group acting under authority or color of authority of the Town of Barre shall be conducted openly and in accordance with the policy of the laws of the State of Vermont relative to meetings of governmental bodies, and no executive session shall be held except in accordance with the terms of the law; provided, however, that the penalties set forth in the general law shall not extend to any person solely by reason of this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 405 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 405
App. § 103-405. Compensation
Status: in_force

The Town Manager shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the Select Board.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 138 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 138
App. § 3-138. Duties of Chief Administrative Officer generally
Status: in_force

(a) The Chief Administrative Officer shall, subject to the authority of the Mayor as Chief Executive Officer, have direct responsibility for those administrative, financial, and record keeping responsibilities that are not assigned by this charter to another City entity. The Chief Administrative Officer shall have supervisory responsibility for those functions, herein outlined, which were formerly the responsibility of the City Clerk and City Treasurer.

(b)(1)(A) The Chief Administrative Officer shall perform for said City the same duties devolving by the law of the State upon town clerks, except insofar as the same are changed or modified by the provisions of this charter and shall receive and collect for and on behalf of the City to be used for City purposes all and the same fees to be paid to town clerks for the performance of those duties under the general laws of the State.

(B) The Chief Administrative Officer shall keep a full and complete record and account of all fees as received and as paid to the Chief Administrative Officer in a form and manner as the Board of Finance and the City Auditor may prescribe, and shall give a proper receipt for every fee collected.

(2) The Chief Administrative Officer shall receive only an annual salary or other compensation as shall be determined by the City Council.

(3) The Chief Administrative Officer shall be ex officio Clerk of the City Council with Mayor presiding, City Council, Board of Civil Authority, Board for the Abatement of Taxes, and Liquor Control Commissioners.

(4) The Chief Administrative Officer shall have exclusive charge and custody of the public records of the City and of all records, papers, and documents belonging to the Town of Burlington at the time the City of Burlington was organized.

(5)(A) The Chief Administrative Officer shall be the presiding officer for ward, City district, City, and legislative district elections.

(B) An assistant within the Chief Administrator's office may be designated by the Chief Administrative Officer to be the presiding officer for ward, City district, City, and legislative district elections.

(c) The Chief Administrative Officer shall have the same powers and be subject to the same liabilities as are prescribed by the laws of this State for town treasurers, shall perform all of the duties relating to the issuing and paying of school bonds, and bonds to retire outstanding indebtedness and such other duties as are herein specified. In the absence or inability of the Chief Administrative Officer to perform his or her duties, the next ranking employee within the Chief Administrative Officer's office (First Assistant City Treasurer) shall have the same powers, be subject to the same liabilities, and perform the same duties as devolve upon the Chief Administrative Officer.

(d) The Chief Administrative Officer shall be responsible to employ such other employees as may be approved by the City Council.

(e) The Chief Administrative Officer shall be authorized to perform other administrative and executive functions and responsibilities as assigned by the Mayor. It shall also be the responsibility of the Chief Administrative Officer to provide adequate staff resources for the City Council, provided such resources are approved as a portion of the annual City budget.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 6.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 107 / Section 6.02
App. § 107-6.2. Compensation
Status: in_force

The annual Representative Town Meeting shall fix the compensation of the school directors.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 104 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 104
App. § 129-104. Ordinances
Status: repealed

(a) General. To adopt ordinances and regulations for the protection of persons and property both public and private and for the betterment of the community.

(b) Adoption by Selectboard.

(1) If the Selectboard desires to adopt a new ordinance or amend or repeal an existing ordinance, they shall cause it to be entered in the official record kept of their proceedings. The new or amended section of the ordinance shall then be published in the official newspaper established by the Selectboard together with a notice of the time and place of a public hearing to consider the ordinance change for final passage, as well as electronically. Such publication to be on a day at least one week and not more than two weeks prior to the date of hearing.

(2) At the public hearing, the new or amended section shall be read in full, unless the Selectboard elects to read the ordinance by title only. After such reading, all persons interested shall be given an opportunity to be heard.

(3) After the public hearing, the Selectboard may adopt the ordinance with or without amendment. If they amend the ordinance prior to passage, they shall cause the amended ordinance to be entered in the official record of their proceedings and shall also cause the entire section of the ordinance, as amended and passed, to be published in the official newspaper established by the Selectboard, posted in four or more public places in the Town and electronically on a day not more than 14 days after adoption.

(4) Every ordinance shall become effective 60 days after adoption unless the Selectboard specify a longer period. If within 60 days after adoption a referendum petition is filed as in subsection (f) of this section, the ordinance shall not become effective until after the question of repeal is voted.

(c) Initiative. Any lawful ordinance may be enacted by vote of the Town as follows: a petition signed by not less than five percent of the registered voters shall be filed with the Town Clerk requesting enactment of the ordinance and accompanied by the text. The warning for the next annual Town meeting shall include the text of the proposed ordinance and shall provide for a “yes” or “no” vote by Australian Ballot.

(d) Filed with Town Clerk.

(1) The Selectboard shall record publications, postings, considerations, and adoption of ordinances with the Town Clerk.

(2) A certificate by the Clerk of the municipality, showing the publication, postings, consideration, and adoption of ordinances or amended ordinances shall be presumptive evidence of the facts as they relate to the lawful adoption of said ordinances or amended ordinances thereof so stated in any actions or proceedings in court or any other tribunal.

(3) The Town Clerk shall prepare and keep in the Town Clerk's office a book of ordinances. Failure to comply with this provision shall not invalidate any Town ordinance lawfully enacted.

(e) Penalties; limitations.

(1) A violation of a Town ordinance shall be classified as a misdemeanor or a rule violation in the same manner as it would be classified by the general State statutes on and after the effective date of this act enacted and prosecuted accordingly. The Town may maintain an action to enjoin the violation of any ordinance or rule, but the election of the Town to proceed under this subsection shall not prevent prosecution for the violation of the ordinance.

(2) A fine in an amount not greater than $800.00.

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

(f) Referendum.

(1) A Town ordinance may be repealed by vote of the Town as follows: a petition requesting a vote on the question of repealing the ordinance shall be signed by not less than five percent of the registered voters and shall be filed with the Town Clerk within 44 days following the date of adoption of the ordinance by the Selectboard. The Selectboard shall call a special Town meeting to be held within 60 days of the date of filing the petition to vote by Australian ballot on whether or not the ordinance shall be repealed. The warning shall include the text of the proposed ordinance and shall provide for a “yes” or “no” vote by Australian Ballot.

(2) If a Town ordinance has been considered by referendum vote in accordance with the provisions set forth in this section, a petition to reconsider said referendum vote shall not be permitted except as provided for in subsection 104(c) of this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 603 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 103 / Section 603
App. § 103-603. Administration of ordinance of villages that merge
Status: in_force

When villages cease to exist pursuant to this charter, the Select Board, Development Review Board, and Administrative Officer shall have jurisdiction of and administer zoning in the village area as a separate zoned area in accordance with the provisions of the ordinance in force therein and the general law. If no Town Administrative Officer or Development Review Board has then been appointed by the Select Board, the Select Board shall make such appointment.
24 V.S.A. § 1301 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 39 / Section 1301
§ 1301. Establishment of villages
Status: in_force

Upon a petition of a majority of the voters in town meeting residing in a village containing 30 or more houses, the selectboard shall establish the bounds of such village and cause a description thereof, by its name and bounds, to be recorded in the office of the town clerk and posted in two or more public places in such village. The residents in such village shall thereupon become a body politic and corporate with the powers incident to a public corporation, be known by the name given in such description, by that name may sue and be sued, and hold and convey real and personal estate for the use of the corporation.
24 V.S.A. § 363 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 363
§ 363. Deputy State's Attorneys
Status: in_force

(a) A State's Attorney may appoint as many deputy State's Attorneys as necessary for the proper and efficient performance of the State's Attorney's office and may remove them at pleasure. The Executive Committee of the Department of State's Attorneys and Sheriffs may authorize or direct the Department's Executive Director to appoint deputy State's Attorneys who shall have all of the same powers and duties of any other deputy State's Attorney except that such deputies may prosecute cases in any county of the State. The Executive Committee shall have the authority to limit the term and scope of any such appointments and may remove such deputies at the Committee's pleasure.

(b) The pay for deputy State's Attorneys shall be fixed by the Executive Director of the Department of State's Attorneys and Sheriffs or through collective bargaining pursuant to 3 V.S.A. chapter 27, but it shall not exceed the pay of the State's Attorney making the appointment or other appointing authority. Deputy State's Attorneys shall be compensated only for periods of actual performance of the duties of the office. Deputy State's Attorneys shall be reimbursed for their necessary expenses incurred in connection with their official duties when approved by the State's Attorneys and the Commissioner of Finance and Management.

(c) Deputy State's Attorneys shall exercise all the powers and duties of the State's Attorneys except the power to designate someone to act in the event of their own disqualification.

(d) Deputy State's Attorneys may not enter upon the duties of the office until they have taken the oath or affirmation of allegiance to the State and the oath of office required by the Constitution, and until the oath together with their appointment is filed for record with the county clerk. If appointed and under oath, a deputy State's Attorney appointed by a State's attorney may prosecute cases in another county if the State's Attorney in the other county files the deputy's appointment in the other county clerk's office. In case of a vacancy in the office of State's Attorney, the appointment of the deputy, except for a deputy appointed by the Executive Committee or Executive Director, shall expire upon the appointment of a new State's Attorney.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 110 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 110
App. § 143-110. Utility services
Status: in_force

The Town shall have the power to impose rates, charges, and assessments upon property located within and without the Town of Richmond for water and sewer service, as provided herein.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 27 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 109 / Section 27
App. § 109-27. Water and Sewer Departments
Status: in_force

Control and management of the Village water system and Town water and sewer systems shall be vested in the Town, subject to all indebtedness and liabilities relating thereto; provided, however, that administration of the systems and payment of existing liabilities relating thereto shall be as specifically provided for in this merger.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 402 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 203 / Section 402
App. § 203-402. Imposition of forfeitures
Status: in_force

The Village may impose a forfeiture of not exceeding $25.00 for violation of any bylaw. Such forfeiture may be recovered in an action of tort founded on this charter, brought in the name of the Village, and in any such action a general complaint counting on the bylaws shall be sufficient.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 301
App. § 143-301. Generally
Status: in_force

The officers of the Town of Richmond 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.
24 V.S.A. § 4009 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 113 / Section 4009
§ 4009. Rentals
Status: in_force

It is hereby declared to be the policy of this State that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with providing decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling accommodations and that no housing authority shall construct or operate any such project for profit, or as a source of revenue to the State or municipality. To this end an authority shall fix the rental for dwellings in its projects at no higher rate than it shall find to be necessary in order to produce revenue which, together with all other available moneys, revenues, income and receipts of the authority from whatever source derived, will be sufficient:

(1) to pay as the same become due, the principal and interest on the bond of the authority;

(2) to meet the cost of and to provide for maintaining and operating the projects, including the cost of any insurance, and the administrative expenses of the authority; and

(3) to create, during not less than six years immediately succeeding its issuance of any bonds, a reserve sufficient to meet the largest principal and interest payments that will be due on such bonds in any one year thereafter and to maintain such reserve. (1961, No. 212, § 9, eff. July 11, 1961; amended 1967, No. 332 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. March 23, 1968.)