24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 17 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 261 / Section 17
App. § 261-17. Ordinances, regulations, and bylaws
Status: in_force

Said Village shall have power to make, establish, alter, or amend or repeal ordinances, regulations, and bylaws for the following purposes:

(1) To establish and regulate a market.

(2) To suppress and restrain disorderly and gaming houses, billiard tables, and all descriptions of gaming and for the destruction of all instruments and devices used for that purpose.

(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 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 or comfort of the inhabitants of said village.

(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 other 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 immoderate riding or driving in the streets and cruelty to animals.

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

(11) To restrain or regulate the running at large of cattle, horses, swine, sheep, and other domestic animals and establish and maintain a pound for impounding the same, subject to the provisions of chapter 179 of the Revised Laws as to notices, fines, penalties, and fees, which fines, penalties, and fees may be doubled.

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

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

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

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

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

(17) To regulate porters, truckmen, cartmen, and cartage; also hackney coaches, cabs, and carriages, and their drivers.

(18) To prescribe the powers and duties of watchmen of said Village.

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

(20) To provide for lighting the Village.

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

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

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

(24) To regulate the burial of the dead.

(25) And said Village may make, establish, alter, amend, or repeal any other by-laws, rules, and ordinances which it may deem necessary for the well-being of said village, and not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States. And such corporation may impose a fine, not exceeding $100.00, for the breach of any bylaw, rule, or ordinance, to be prosecuted and recovered by an action of the case on this statute, before any justice of the peace within said Village, in which action it shall be sufficient to declare generally that the defendant or defendants is or are guilty of the breach of a certain bylaw, naming such bylaw generally; and under such declaration the special matter may be given in evidence. And all writs for the breach of any bylaw may issue in due form of law. Prosecutions for offenses under this charter shall be brought within three months after the commission of the offense, if the respondent remains in the State within the reach of process during the time.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 134 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 134
App. § 3-134. Required of Treasurer and other officers handling City funds
Status: in_force

The Treasurer and all other City officers who receive or disburse any of the funds of the City shall annually, before entering upon the duties of their office, give bonds to the City in amount satisfactory to the City Council for the faithful discharge of their respective duties.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 22 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 22
App. § 3-22. Ballots
Status: in_force

For all City or ward or City district elections, and also for the election of justices of the peace in the City, the Chief Administrative Officer shall prepare all official ballots, consistent with the requirements of any regulation adopted under section 5 of this charter, and otherwise in the same manner and subject to all the provisions of the laws of this State providing for and regulating the preparation and distribution of official ballots in towns and cities; provided, however, that the Chief Administrative Officer shall cause to be printed for every ward or City district in the City not less than 60 ballots for every 50 names or fractional part thereof on the voting list prepared and posted in the ward or City district for any such election; and further provided that the Chief Administrative Officer shall deliver to the inspectors of election in each ward on the day of the election and before the hour for opening the polls in said ward the number of blocks of ballots containing 100 each as shall nearest represent two-thirds of the whole number required to be printed for the ward or City district and shall retain the balance of the ballots for each ward or City district so prepared. For all special elections, the Chief Administrative Officer shall prepare all official ballots at least 45 days prior to the election.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 5 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 405 / Section 5
App. § 405-5. Powers
Status: in_force

The District shall be a body politic and corporate with the powers incident to a municipal corporation under the laws of the State of Vermont consistent with the purpose of the District, and in addition shall have the following powers:

(1) To operate, cause to be operated, and contract for the operation of any and all facilities for the collection, transportation, resource recovery, recycling, and disposal of solid waste.

(2) To purchase, sell, lease, own, acquire, convey, mortgage, improve, and use real and personal property in connection with the purposes of the District and to construct, develop, and maintain solid waste management facilities in accordance with federal, State, and local law. At the election of the municipality in which District-owned or leased real property is located (which election, once made, shall be final unless otherwise mutually agreed upon by the District and such municipality), District-owned and leased real property shall be exempt from municipal property taxation and special assessments; the District may agree to make payments to the municipality in lieu of such taxes or special assessments.

(3) To sue and be sued.

(4) To make contracts of every kind and nature.

(5) To fix, alter, charge, and establish fees and other charges for the services and facilities within its area of operation, which fees and charges shall be equitable and just.

(6) To enter into management contracts with any person or persons for the management of District facilities for such period or periods of time and under such compensation and other items and conditions as shall be deemed advisable by the District Board.

(7) To accept gifts or grants or loans of money or other property from any person.

(8) To enter into contracts, leases, or other transactions with any federal agency, the State, any agency of the State, or with any other public body of the State, including municipalities.

(9) To exercise the power of eminent domain within the District.

(10) To borrow money and issue evidence of indebtedness as provided by 24 V.S.A. chapter 53 as presently enacted and as later may be amended. For the purpose of that chapter, the grand list of the District shall be deemed to be the total of the grand lists of member municipalities, and the debt limit of the District shall not be diminished by any obligation incurred by a member municipality alone. Obligations incurred under such chapter shall be the joint obligations of the District and, except as otherwise expressly provided in the terms thereof, of each member municipality as provided in section 34 of this chapter but shall not be included in the indebtedness of a member municipality for purposes of compliance with debt limitations. The cost of debt service shall be included in the annual budget of the District as provided in section 31 of this chapter, and to the extent not paid by user fees and revenues shall be allocated among the member municipalities as set forth in sections 31 and 34 of this chapter. Where voter approval is required pursuant to 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, the Board of Commissioners shall determine the number and location of polling places, and when a majority of all the voters present and voting on the question from all of the member municipalities at such meeting vote to authorize the issuance of bonds, the Board of Commissioners shall be authorized to issue the bonds as provided in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53 and in this chapter.

(11) To hire and fix the compensation of employees.

(12) To contract with architects, engineers, financial and legal consultants, and other experts for services.

(13) To contract with individuals, corporations, associations, authorities, and agencies for services.

(14) To provide solid waste disposal services for the member municipalities, the inhabitants thereof, and the businesses therein, and for such others as its facilities and obligations may allow.

(15) To contract to pay for solid waste disposal services, including on the basis of guaranteed amounts, whether delivered for disposal and accepted for disposal or not, of solid waste, with payments based on such guaranteed amounts, whether actually disposed of or not, which payments may be variable and may be determined by formulae expressed in such contracts.

(16) To contract with any member municipality for the services of any officers or employees of that municipality useful to the District.

(17) To promote cooperative arrangements and coordinated action among its member municipalities.

(18) To make recommendations for review and action to its member municipalities and other public agencies that perform functions within the region in which its member municipalities are located.

(19) To exercise any other powers that are necessary or desirable for dealing with solid waste problems of mutual concern and that are exercised or are capable of exercise by any of its member municipalities.

(20) To establish a budget and assess member municipalities in accordance therewith.

(21) To appropriate and expend monies.

(22) To establish sinking funds for the retirement of bonded or other indebtedness.

(23) To establish debt service reserve funds, operating reserve funds, capital reserve funds for public improvements, and such other funds and accounts as the Board of Commissioners deems necessary or desirable.

(24) To regulate by ordinance, rule, or regulation the collection, transportation, resource recovery, recycling, and disposal of solid waste within the District and to require that acceptable solid wastes generated within the District and any member municipality therein shall be disposed of only in and upon facilities operated by or on behalf of the District.

(25) To enact and enforce any and all necessary or desirable regulations for the orderly conduct of the government and for carrying out the purpose of the District.

(26) To enter on any lands and premises for the purpose of making surveys and conducting hydrogeological and other scientific studies and to obtain an order for this purpose from a court of competent jurisdiction in the event entry is denied or resisted.

(27) To enter into cooperative or interlocal agreements with other municipalities or persons, within or beyond the territorial limits of the District, providing for the disposal and management of solid waste.

(28) To exercise the power of eminent domain within any municipality that has withdrawn from the District, provided such property or site to be taken by eminent domain must have been considered, by official action of the Board of Commissioners, as a potential site or sites for a solid waste management facility during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date of withdrawal.

(29) To appoint a Grand Juror, a Constable, and such other officers and agents for the enforcement of ordinances, rules, and regulations of the District. The District Grand Juror shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and incur the same liabilities as grand jurors in towns, and shall be entitled to such salary as the Board of Commissioners may determine within limits established by the budget. The District Grand Juror may prosecute before applicable Vermont courts violations of the ordinances, rules, and regulations of the District.

(30) To enter into contracts with banks, insurance companies, or other financial institutions so as to obtain a letter of credit, bond insurance, or other forms of financial guarantees or credit enhancement in connection with District bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness.

(31) To enter into siting agreements with municipalities within which a District facility is to be located, which agreements may specify the terms, conditions, and provisions under which a District facility shall be constructed, maintained, and operated. Such agreements may further provide, in the event it is impossible or impracticable to determine whether damage to the environment is caused by the District facility or from adjacent property, the District may indemnify and hold harmless the municipality from any such damage, costs, and liabilities.

(32) To provide host communities of District facilities with incentive payments, services, and benefits, including monetary payments to protect the health, safety, comfort, convenience, and social and economic security of the host community and its inhabitants; monetary payments and other provisions to assure the protection of the environment and natural resources of the host community; and reimbursement of costs incurred by the host community in negotiating siting agreements including costs of mediation or arbitration.

(33) To exercise all powers necessary, appurtenant, convenient, or incidental to the carrying out of the District's purpose and to exercise all powers granted by any act of the General Assembly, either generally to a class of solid waste districts including the District or specifically to the District. Such powers may be exercised by the District without further amendment of this charter unless specifically required by such act of the General Assembly granting such powers.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 208 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 142 / Section 208
App. § 142-208. Special districts
Status: in_force

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

(b) Such area shall be reasonable geographically, taking into account the areas and persons actually benefited, the type and types of services to be provided, and the fact that the efficiency of providing multiple services in a single special service district might outweigh the fact that the areas and voters benefiting from the respective services might not coincide exactly.

(c) All costs required to support a given special service shall be paid for by the taxpayers receiving said service in such manner as the Selectboard may determine. If the costs are to be paid by a tax on the grand list in the special service district involved, such tax shall be paid and collected in the same manner as other taxes and such tax assessed on any part of the grand list shall be a lien thereon. All funds of any special services shall be kept in a special fund, no part of which may be used for any other purpose.

(d) The warning for each annual or special Town meeting may contain appropriate articles under which the legal voters residing in any special service district may separately vote.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 214 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 214
App. § 411-214. Access to meetings and records
Status: in_force

The conduct of all meetings, including public access thereto, and the maintenance of all records, books, and accounts of the District shall be governed by the Vermont Open Meeting Law, 1 V.S.A. chapter 5.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 518 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 518
App. § 1-518. Creation
Status: in_force

There shall be a Department of Assessment, which shall consist of a Chief Assessor and such assistants as are deemed to be necessary by the City Manager with the approval of the Council. The Chief Assessor and assistant shall be appointed and may be removed by the City Manager subject to approval of the Council.
24 V.S.A. § 5061 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 125 / Section 5061
§ 5061. Death benefit; post retirement
Status: in_force

The beneficiary of a member who dies after retirement shall receive at the member's death, a lump sum equal in amount to the difference between the member's accumulated contributions at the time of retirement and the sum of the annuity payments actually made to the member during his or her lifetime. However, if the member elected an option prior to the commencement of the benefit, the provisions thereof shall apply. Under all options, in the absence of a written designation of beneficiary, or in the event the designated beneficiary is deceased, the residual amount payable as a result of the death of the member after retirement shall be payable as follows:

(1) In the case of an open estate, to the administrator or executor.

(2) In the case of a closed estate and the residual amount payable is valued at less than $1,000.00, in accordance with the Probate Division of the Superior Court decree of distribution.

(3) In the absence of an open estate or Probate Division of the Superior Court decree of distribution, and the residual amount payable is valued at less than $1,000.00 to the surviving spouse of the deceased owner, or, if there is no surviving spouse, then to the next of kin according to 14 V.S.A. § 551.

(4) In all other cases, a probate estate shall be opened by the claimant, or other interested party, in order to determine the appropriate distribution of the residual amount payable. When an estate is opened solely to distribute the residual amount payable under this section, the Probate Division of the Superior Court may waive any filing fees.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3.04 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 107 / Section 3.04
App. § 107-3.4. Referendum
Status: in_force

The voters of the Town may petition for a referendum, by Australian ballot of all voters of the Town, on a final vote on a warned article taken by Representative Town Meeting. Such petition shall be filed within 10 days after adjournment of the meeting.

(1) A petition for referendum shall be signed by at least five percent of the voters of the Town; or

(2) A petition for referendum shall be signed by at least 50 Representative Town Meeting members.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 141 / Section 3
App. § 141-3. Village indebtedness
Status: in_force

Payments of all indebtedness and obligations, contractual or otherwise, of the said Village of Readsboro, and of the Town of Readsboro, shall, on the date this merger is effective, be assumed by the merged and consolidated Town of Readsboro.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 61 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 105 / Section 61
App. § 105-61. Notice of vacancy during unexpired term
Status: in_force

In order to inform citizens of the Town and to afford them the opportunity to participate or serve in Town government, public notice shall be given of municipal vacancies resulting from resignation, death, disability, or change of residence from the Town of a Town officer on any board, commission, or committee or in other public office whether elected or appointed. Such notice shall be made as defined in the Administrative Code.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 23.10 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 23.10
App. § 9-23.10. Political activity
Status: in_force

No member of the Fire Department of the City of Rutland shall act as an executive committeeman, attend any political convention as a delegate, participate in any manner whatever in any canvass in behalf of or against any candidate for any City, county, State, or national office, hold tickets or canvass votes at any election, or take any part whatever in political matters other than to vote, nor be a candidate for any public office.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 601 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 601
App. § 129-601. School Superintendent appointment and term
Status: in_force

The School Superintendent shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the School District and shall be appointed by a majority vote of the School Board of Trustees. The Superintendent shall be selected with special reference to training, experience, education, and ability to perform the duties of this office and without reference to any political position persuasion. The Superintendent shall be employed by written contract for a term not to exceed three years nor less than one year. The Superintendent may be dismissed by the School Board of Trustees for cause as specified in the contract of employment. The Superintendent shall neither simultaneously hold any elective office within the School District nor shall be employed by the School District in any capacity except as specified in this charter. The Superintendent may concurrently hold statewide office with approval of a majority of the School Board of Trustees.
24 V.S.A. § 291 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 291
§ 291. Bond; oath
Status: in_force

Before entering upon the duties of his or her office, a sheriff shall become bound to the treasurer of the county in the sum of $100,000.00, with two or more sufficient sureties by way of recognizance, before the two assistant judges in such county, or give a bond to the treasurer executed by such sheriff with sufficient sureties in like sum to be approved by the two assistant judges, conditioned for the faithful performance of his or her duties and shall take the oath of office before one of the judges, who shall certify the same on the sheriff's commission. Such recognizance or bond and the commission shall be forthwith recorded in the office of the county clerk.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1302 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1302
App. § 5-1302. Procedure for taking property
Status: in_force

(a) Highways and urban renewal. In taking land and other property for the purposes of laying out roads and highways, the City Council shall proceed in the same manner as is provided by law for municipalities in taking land for highways. In taking land and other property for the purposes of urban renewal, the Council shall proceed in the same manner as is provided by law for municipalities in taking land for urban renewal.

(b) Other public purposes.

(1) For all other purposes stated in section 1301 of this subchapter, when the City Council determines that interests in real estate are needed or when a municipality votes to purchase additional lands or interests therein, or when, in the exercise of any of the powers or functions authorized by general law or its charter it becomes necessary for public use and benefit to take, damage, or affect an interest in real estate, and the owner refuses to release or convey the same to the City for a reasonable price, the City Council shall set out the necessary lands or interests therein and cause the same to be surveyed.

(2) The City Council shall appoint a time and place for hearing and give at least ten days' notice before such hearing to the persons evidencing a recorded interest therein either personally or by written notice left at the residence or place of business of such person. At such hearing, the Council shall determine the damages sustained by such interested persons.

(3) The damages agreed upon or assessed shall be paid or tendered to such persons before taking possession of the lands. Upon payment or tender of damages as determined by the Council, the City shall be entitled to take possession of such property.

(c) Notice to mortgagee and application of payment. When such lands are encumbered by mortgage, the City Council shall cause the same notice to be given to the mortgagee or assignee thereof as is required to be given to the owner, and the damages agreed upon or otherwise determined, as finally ascertained, shall be paid to the property owner and the mortgagee or assignee.

(d) Removal of improvements. When the City Council decides to take lands, in its order for that purpose, it shall fix a time and notify the owner or occupant thereof. Within such time the owner shall, if so ordered, remove his or her buildings, fences, wood, or trees, which, in the case of enclosed or improved lands, shall not, without the consent of the owner, be less than three months nor until compensation for damages to such lands is tendered or paid. If such obstructions are not removed within such time, the Council shall remove them at the expense of the City.

(e) Record of orders and proceedings. Orders and proceedings of the Council under the provisions of this section, with the survey of the lands taken, shall be recorded in the land records of the City or in the land records of the town in which such lands are located.

(f) Disagreement as to damages. When the owner of such land does not accept the damages awarded by the City Council, the Council and the owner may agree to refer the question of damages to one or more disinterested persons whose award shall be made in writing and shall be final.

(g) Petition; appointment of commissioners. When a person having an interest in such land is dissatisfied with the action of the Council in locating and setting it out or with the damages awarded therefor by them, such person may apply by petition to the Superior Court for the county in which such land lies within 60 days of the recording of the order of the City Council. The petition with a citation shall be served on the City Clerk as a writ of summons requiring entry to be made therein within 21 days from the date of service. The court shall appoint three disinterested commissioners who shall inquire into the amount of damages sustained by the persons interested therein.

(h) Notice, hearing, report, costs. The commissioners shall give the City Clerk and the petitioners six days' notice of the time and place of the hearing. When they have completed their inquiries, they shall report to the court. Upon hearing, the court may accept or reject the report, in whole or in part, may make such orders as are necessary for locating and setting out such land and for the removal of obstructions thereon, may render judgment for the petitioners for such damages as they have severally sustained, may tax costs for either party, and may award execution in the premises.

(i) Title to vest payment of damages. When the damages finally awarded are paid to the person entitled thereto, title to such lands or the right to damage or affect lands shall vest in the City.

(j) Definitions. As used in this charter:

(1) “Necessity” means a reasonable need that considers the greatest public good and the least inconvenience and expense to the condemning party and to the property owner. Necessity shall not be measured merely by expense or convenience to the condemning party. Necessity includes a reasonable need for the project in general as well as a reasonable need to take a particular property and to take it to the extent proposed. In determining necessity, consideration shall be given to the:

(A) adequacy of other property and locations;

(B) quantity, kind, and extent of cultivated and agricultural land that may be taken or rendered unfit for use, immediately and over the long term, by the proposed taking;

(C) effect upon home and homestead rights and the convenience of the owner of the land;

(D) need to accommodate present and future utility installations within the improvement area;

(E) need to mitigate the environmental impacts of the improvements; and

(F) effect upon grand lists and revenues.

(2) Damages resulting from the taking or use of property under the provisions of this charter shall be the value for the most reasonable use of the property or right in the property, and of the business on the property, and the direct and proximate decrease in the value of the remaining property or right in the property and the business on the property. The added value, if any, to the remaining property or right in the property that accrues directly to the owner of the property as a result of the taking or use, as distinguished from the general public benefit, shall be considered in the determination of damages.

(3) “Interested person” or “person interested in lands” or “property owner” means a person who has a legal interest of record in the property taken or proposed to be taken.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 401 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 401
App. § 5-401. Election and tenure of Mayor
Status: in_force

The Mayor shall be elected by and from the qualified voters of Montpelier. The Mayor shall hold office for a term of two years or until the Mayor's successor is elected and qualified.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 507 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 507
App. § 129-507. Administrative Code
Status: in_force

(a) The Town Manager shall prepare and submit to the Selectboard a proposal for an Administrative Code of the Town of Milton. For the purpose of preparing and updating the Administrative Code, the Town Manager may have the assistance of the Town Attorney and shall have the authority to request a committee of citizens to assist in the preparation of the proposal. The proposal shall be a comprehensive code of administrative organization and procedure for the Town and, at a minimum, shall include the following:

(1) organization of the administrative departments and elected officers of the Town into such divisions as may be appropriate defining the functions and duties of each;

(2) a complete personnel policy for Town employees;

(3) a detailed outline of financial procedures to be followed by the Town, including purchasing policy, expenditure of appropriated funds, the system of accounting for the Town, and the form and frequency of financial reports.

(b) The Administrative Code, when accepted by the Selectboard, shall be considered a valid extension of the policies set forth in this charter and shall be reviewed and revised by the Selectboard biennially and upon the adoption of a revised Town Charter.
24 V.S.A. § 2299i — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 61 / Section 2299i
§ 2299i. Effect of payment of awards
Status: in_force

After resolution of any appeals on the issue of necessity and upon the payment or deposit of the compensation determined by the legislative body of the solid waste management district, with interest, in accordance with its determination, the district shall be the owner of the property or right described in the findings. However, when an appeal is taken on the issue of compensation only, ownership shall be an equitable title only with right of possession until there is compliance with the judgment of the Superior Court.
24 V.S.A. § 1530 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 51 / Section 1530
§ 1530. Compensation
Status: in_force

If a municipality votes to pay a salary or other compensation for collecting taxes in lieu of fees and commissions, the latter shall be turned in to the municipal treasurer at least once a month.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 30 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 207 / Section 30
App. § 207-30. Public parks and playgrounds
Status: in_force

The Bellows Falls Village corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by gift or purchase land inside or outside the corporate limits of the Village corporation to be held by it and used as a public park and public playground. The Village, for the purpose of purchasing land for the park and playground, and to pay for the same and for improvement and maintenance, is hereby authorized to levy and collect, from year to year, such taxes upon the rateable estate of the Village as may be necessary, to borrow money, to pay the purchase price, and to issue its bonds or notes for that purpose, provided that all taxes laid and all loans authorized shall be only by virtue of a majority vote of the Village voters present and voting at a meeting duly warned and held for that purpose.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 101
App. § 1-101. Corporate existence retained
Status: in_force

The boundaries of the City of Barre shall be those as set forth and described in 1945 Acts and Resolves No. 221 and any amendments thereafter enacted. The City of Barre shall continue to be a municipal corporation.
24 V.S.A. § 1203 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 36 / Section 1203
§ 1203. Conflicts of interest
Status: in_force

Local boards shall comply with the provisions of 12 V.S.A. § 61(a) when they conduct contested hearings and make findings under this chapter. For purposes of this section, prohibitions referring to those within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity shall refer to the person's spouse, as well as to the person's and the spouse's: parent, child, brother, sister, grandparent, or grandchild.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1002 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 113 / Section 1002
App. § 113-1002. Existing ordinances and contracts
Status: in_force

The passage of the charter herein enacted shall not affect any act or contract executed or liability incurred prior to its effective date or affect any suit or prosecution pending or to be instituted, to enforce any right, rule, regulation, or ordinance, or to punish any offense against any such ordinance enacted prior to the passage of this charter. All ordinances, resolutions, regulations, and rules made under any act of the General Assembly shall continue in effect as if such ordinance, resolution, regulation, or rule had been enacted under the provisions of this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 203 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 409 / Section 203
App. § 409-203. Selection of supervisors
Status: in_force

(a) Initial Board. The initial Board shall be appointed by the legislative body of each member. Appointments shall be made within 30 days of the effective date of this agreement and certified by the clerk of each member to the Clerk of the District.

(b) Subsequent Boards. For subsequent Boards, the voters of each member shall decide the method by which its supervisor(s) shall be chosen. Unless the voters of a member decide at a regular or special meeting warned for that purpose to have their supervisor(s) appointed by the legislative body of the member, their supervisor(s) shall be elected at their annual meeting for the term specified in this section.

(c) Terms. Supervisors on the initial Board shall serve for a term ending with the appointment or election of the Board in 1990. In order to stagger the terms of the supervisors on the second Board, the initial Board at their organizational meeting shall draw by lot the terms that the supervisors from their respective municipalities shall hold upon election or appointment to the second Board. At least half the supervisors of the second Board shall serve two-year terms, and the remainder shall serve one-year terms. Thereafter, all terms shall be for two years.

(d) Elections. Elections for supervisor(s) shall take place biennially (except for the election following a one-year term of a supervisor to the second Board) at the annual meeting of each member in the same manner as elections for the legislative body of the member. Results of the election shall be certified by the clerk of each member to the Clerk of the District.

(e) Appointments. If a member chooses to have its legislative body appoint its supervisor(s) to the District, the legislative body shall make its appointment by the end of March in the year in which the term of the preceding supervisor for that member expires. The clerk of each member shall certify its appointment to the Clerk of the District.

(f) Oath of office. All supervisor(s) shall take an oath of office similar to that taken by members of legislative bodies of municipalities, as in 24 V.S.A. § 831. The oath shall be administered by the clerk of the supervisor's municipality.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1301 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 153 / Section 1301
App. § 153-1301. Laws governing
Status: repealed

No section or provision of this charter may be repealed or amended unless the act making such repeal or amendment refers specifically to this charter and to the sections or provisions so repealed or amended. Any amendment to this charter must be submitted to the voters for their approval and, upon such approval, submitted to the General Assembly as provided by statutes. Amendments may be placed on the ballot by the Selectboard, a duly authorized Charter Review Commission appointed by the Selectboard, or upon petition filed with the Town Clerk by five percent of the legal voters of the Town. The petition must clearly state the amendment and must be filed at least 75 days before any annual Town meeting. In the event the petition is filed more than 90 days prior to the next annual Town meeting, the Selectboard shall be required to hold a special Town meeting for the purpose of considering the proposed amendment.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 307 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 307
App. § 5-307. Council meetings
Status: in_force

The City Council shall hold meetings monthly on a regular schedule, and more often at the call of the Mayor.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 34 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 401 / Section 34
App. § 401-34. Collection
Status: in_force

Annually, after adoption of the budget by the Board of Supervisors, the Treasurer of the District shall issue and present a warrant to the legislative body of each member municipality requiring the amount of such assessment, if any, be paid to him or her in accordance with the schedule of payments adopted by the Board of Supervisors. The legislative body of each member municipality shall draw an order on the municipal treasurer for the amount of such assessment and the municipal treasurer shall pay to the District Treasurer the amount of such order in accordance with the schedule for payments adopted by the Board of Supervisors. If any member municipality shall fail to pay when due any assessment against it by the District, the District shall be entitled to collect interest on any payment due, from its due date at the maximum rate that the municipality is allowed by law to collect on overdue taxes. Such interest, together with the amount due, court costs, and reasonable attorney's fees of the District may be recovered by the District in a civil action under this section, notwithstanding the availability of any other remedy available to the District.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 503 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 127 / Section 503
App. § 127-503. Meetings
Status: in_force

(a) As soon as possible after the election of the Chair and Vice Chair, the Board shall fix the time and place of its regular meetings and such meetings shall be held at least twice a month.

(b) The Board shall determine its own rules and order of business.

(c) If there are five Selectboard members, three shall constitute a quorum. No action of such Board shall be valid or binding unless adopted by the affirmative vote of at least three Selectboard members. If the Board is expanded to seven Selectboard members, four shall constitute a quorum and no action of such Board shall be valid or binding unless adopted by the affirmative vote of at least four Selectboard members. In cases where State law requires a greater fraction of the authorized board for an affirmative vote than as specified above, such provisions of State law shall control.

(d) All meetings of the Board shall be open to the public unless by an affirmative vote of the majority of the members of the entire Board they shall vote a portion of a session to be an executive session. Executive sessions are only for deliberation and all issues shall be voted on at a public meeting of the Board in order to be valid and legal.

(e) The agenda of the Selectboard meetings shall be made available to the public at least 24 hours prior to the meeting and posted in one public place.

(f) Any members of the Board may add items of business to the written agenda upon commencement of the meeting, provided that a majority of the membership of the entire Board vote to add such items of the agenda.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 19 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 11 / Section 19
App. § 11-19. Ordinances; City Council to establish penalty
Status: in_force

The City Council may provide a penalty for the violation of any ordinance, regulation, or bylaw not to exceed $500.00. Each day the violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. If no penalty shall be fixed for the violation of any ordinance, regulation, or bylaw, the court before which such action is heard shall impose a fine not to exceed $500.00 for each offense.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 28 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 126 / Section 28
App. § 126-28. Recall of elected officers
Status: in_force

(a) Any elected officer identified in section 22 of this charter may be removed from office by recall according to the following procedure:

(1) A petition signed by not less than 15 percent of the Town's registered voters requesting a vote on whether the elected officer shall be removed from office shall be filed with the Selectboard.

(2) The Selectboard shall call a special Town meeting, to be held within 45 days after its receipt of the petition, to vote on the question of whether the elected officer shall be removed from office.

(3) The elected official shall be removed from office if:

(A) not fewer than the number of voters of the Town who actually voted in the election in which the officer was elected or not less than one-third of the registered voters of the Town, whichever is greater, cast ballots at the special Town meeting; and

(B) a majority of that applicable number of voters votes to remove the officer from office.

(b) If the Town votes to remove an elected officer, the office shall immediately become vacant, and the Selectboard shall fill the vacancy as provided in section 25 of this charter.

(c) The vote on a recall petition shall be by Australian ballot.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 124 / Section 10
App. § 124-10. Effective date
Status: in_force

This charter shall take effect upon passage by the General Assembly, and all appointed offices that were formerly elected offices (Town Treasurer and listers) shall thereupon become appointed offices, even if nominating petitions have been filed for election at the year 2006 annual Town meeting. However, the unexpired term of any person elected to office at, or prior to, the year 2006 annual Town meeting shall nevertheless be completed.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 103 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 103
App. § 411-103. Composition
Status: in_force

The District is composed of and includes all of the lands and residents within those municipalities that vote to approve this agreement at the time of the creation of the District, or that shall be subsequently admitted to the District in accordance with the procedures hereinafter set forth, and except for such municipalities as shall subsequently withdraw from the District in accordance with the procedures hereinafter set forth.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 302 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 203 / Section 302
App. § 203-302. Terms of officers
Status: in_force

The term of office of officers elected at the annual meeting shall commence at the time of their election and continue for one year, and until their successors are chosen and qualified, provided the term of office of trustees shall be five years except as provided in section 301 of this charter.
24 V.S.A. § 1968 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 58 / Section 1968
§ 1968. Referrals for domestic violence and sexual violence cases; Attorney General protocols
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding section 1967 of this title, community justice centers may accept referrals for domestic violence and sexual violence cases, provided the community justice center has a current and executed memorandum of understanding with a local member organization of the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (Vermont Network). Such memorandums of understanding shall include protocols set forth in subsection (c) of this section.

(b) If the restorative justice approach set forth in the memorandum of understanding includes law enforcement or prosecutor referrals, a prosecutor and law enforcement agency with jurisdiction shall be party to the memorandum of understanding.

(c) On or before July 1, 2024, the Community Justice Unit of the Office of the Attorney General (Community Justice Unit), in consultation with the Vermont Network and the Center for Crime Victim Services, shall create guidance for memorandums of understanding. Memorandums of understanding shall include protocols that:

(1) establish a defined approach based on evidence or an established, promising program;

(2) prioritize victim safety;

(3) include voluntary referral and participation by parties;

(4) require initial and annual training for relevant community justice center staff, facilitators, and volunteers and relevant law enforcement and prosecutors on the dynamics involving domestic violence and sexual violence, trauma-informed approaches, and restorative justice principles;

(5) establish roles and participation of the community justice center, the local domestic and sexual violence organization, and other community partners as needed;

(6) establish written confidentiality standards that ensure constitutional protections and the privacy of participants;

(7) establish universal data collection standards developed by the Community Justice Unit; and

(8) establish written annual evaluation and quality improvement plans and processes that engage community and system stakeholders.

(d) The Community Justice Unit shall review each memorandum of understanding to ensure compliance with the protocols set forth in subsection (c) of this section and guidance created by the Community Justice Unit. The Community Justice Unit may engage other stakeholders who are relevant to the defined approach under consideration in the review process.

(e) Once a memorandum of understanding has been verified for compliance by the Community Justice Unit and has been executed by the parties, community justice centers may accept referrals involving domestic violence or sexual violence.

(f) Information related to any offense that a person divulges in preparation for, during, or as a follow-up to the provision of programming pursuant to this section shall not be used against the person in any criminal, civil, family, or juvenile investigation, prosecution, or case for any purpose, including impeachment or cross-examination. This subsection shall not be construed to prohibit the limited disclosure or use of information to specific persons in the following circumstances:

(1) Where there is a threat or statement of a plan that a person may reasonably believe is likely to result in death or bodily injury to themselves or others or damage to the property of another person.

(2) When disclosure is necessary to report bodily harm any party causes another during the restorative justice programming.

(3) Where there is a reasonable suspicion of abuse or neglect of a child or vulnerable adult and a report is made in accordance with the provisions of 33 V.S.A. § 4914 or 33 V.S.A. § 6903 or to comply with another law.

(4) Where a court or administrative tribunal determines that the materials were submitted by a participant to the program for the purpose of avoiding discovery of the material in a court or administrative proceeding. If a participant wishes to avail themselves of this provision, the participant may disclose this information in camera to a judicial officer for the purposes of seeking such a ruling.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 16 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 291 / Section 16
App. § 291-16. Legislative authority
Status: in_force

The Legislature of this State reserves the power hereafter to alter, amend, or repeal this charter.
24 V.S.A. § 4624 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 119 / Section 4624
§ 4624. Tax exemption
Status: in_force

All property of the Bank is public property devoted to an essential public and governmental function and purpose and is exempt from all taxes and special assessments of the State or any subdivision thereof. All bonds or notes issued under this chapter are issued by a body corporate and public of this State and for an essential public and governmental purpose and those bonds and notes, 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 or notes, or interest thereon, are exempt from taxation except for transfer inheritance and estate taxes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7.07 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 107 / Section 7.07
App. § 107-7.7. Borrowing in anticipation of taxes
Status: in_force

The Selectboard and the school directors may borrow money, at the most favorable rate of interest they can obtain, in anticipation of Town and School District revenues to be collected within the fiscal year.
24 V.S.A. § 1033 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 33 / Section 1033
§ 1033. Inspector of wiring
Status: in_force

A municipality may authorize the selectboard, mayor and board of aldermen, or trustees to appoint an inspector of electric wiring and fix his or her compensation.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 245 / Section 1
App. § 245-1. Applicability
Status: in_force

(a) When approved by a majority of the legal voters of the Village of Morrisville present and voting by Australian ballot at an annual meeting duly warned for that purpose, the following shall be the charter of the Village of Morrisville.

(b) This charter may be amended or revised in the manner prescribed by 17 V.S.A. § 2645.

(c) Except as modified by the provisions of this charter, all provisions of the Vermont Statutes Annotated applicable to municipalities shall apply to the Village of Morrisville.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 303 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 111 / Section 303
App. § 111-303. Recordation and certificate of prima facie evidence
Status: in_force

The bylaws, rules, and ordinances of said Town shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of said Town, and the Clerk's certificate that such by-laws, rules, and ordinances were adopted at an annual meeting of said Town, or at a special meeting thereof, called for that purpose shall be prima facie evidence of such fact in any court in this State; and certified copies of said by-laws, rules, and ordinances and Clerk's certificates shall also be received as evidence in all the courts of the State.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 264 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 264
App. § 3-264. Notice of hearing
Status: in_force

Said assessments shall be made upon giving to the parties interested 12 days' notice of the time and place of hearing, in the manner herein provided in respect to laying out or altering highways.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 184 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 184
App. § 3-184. Same-Powers and duties
Status: in_force

The City Council shall make rules and regulations for the government of the entire police force and shall fix the qualifications of applicants for positions and service on said force and the Chief of Police shall furnish the City Council with any information they may require concerning the finances of the Police Department. The Chief of Police shall be responsible for all expenditures made by the Police Department and no expenditures shall be made by the Department except in conformity with the standards promulgated by the City Council. The Board of Police Commissioners shall have such authority and responsibility relating to the management of the Police Department, its services, and facilities as may be delegated from time to time by resolution of the City Council. Said Board shall notify the Mayor and the Chief Administrative Officer, in writing, of any and all changes, modifications, or additions to the rules and regulations of the Department.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 7 / Section 7
App. § 7-7. Mayor and Board of Aldermen as City Council
Status: in_force

The administration of all fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of said City, and the government thereof, shall be vested in the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. The Board of Aldermen shall consist of four aldermen, who shall elect one of their number President of said Board. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen, in their joint capacity, shall be called the City Council. The Mayor and aldermen shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties. The Mayor and aldermen shall receive such compensation as the City shall determine at its annual or any special City meeting.
24 V.S.A. § 1754 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 53 / Section 1754
§ 1754. Validation
Status: in_force

All outstanding bonds and notes of a municipal corporation issued prior to June 1, 1935, are hereby declared legal and binding obligations in accordance with the terms thereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 104 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 104
App. § 411-104. Duration
Status: in_force

The District shall continue as a body politic and corporate until and unless dissolved in accordance with the procedures hereinafter set forth.
24 V.S.A. § 3405 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 95 / Section 3405
§ 3405. Determination of amount; record; lien
Status: in_force

At such hearing, the selectboard shall assess each real estate owner outside such municipality benefited by the construction of such sewer, drain, or outlet, his or her proportion of the expense, according to frontage or the benefit received. When such assessment is made and signed by the selectboard or a majority of it, it shall be recorded in the office of the town clerk. When so recorded, it shall be a first lien except taxes and may be enforced, as a tax lien is enforced, upon the land described in the assessment until the same is paid.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 202 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 202
App. § 117-202. Selectboard - Number, terms of office, election
Status: in_force

(a) There shall be a Selectboard consisting of five members.

(b) The terms of office of Selectboard members shall be for three years.

(c) Unless necessary to fill a vacancy, no more than two Selectboard members shall be elected at any annual meeting. Notwithstanding, the terms of the presently elected Selectboard members shall not be modified by this section.

(d) All Selectboard members shall be elected at large.
24 V.S.A. § 4431 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4431
§ 4431. Purchase or acceptance of development rights
Status: in_force

A municipality may develop a program for purchase or acceptance of development rights and stewardship of those rights for the purposes set forth in section 4302 of this title and in conformance with the plan.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 165 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 165
App. § 3-165. Manner of filling vacancies
Status: in_force

In case of a vacancy in the office of school commissioner, occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the ward, or as a result of such school commissioner no longer residing in such ward as a result of reapportionment or other causes, the same shall be filled by a new election in the proper ward; and in case there shall arise an occasion for any such new election, for any of the above mentioned causes, the same shall be held within 90 days of the date of such vacancy, provided such vacancy shall occur before the first day in October in any year; otherwise it shall be filled at the next annual City election. In the case of reapportionment, such election shall be held at the next ensuing annual City meeting and the term of the school commissioner who no longer resides in the ward as a result of reapportionment shall continue until the newly elected school commissioner assumes office on the first Monday in April.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 11.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 11.02
App. § 9-11.2. Budget estimate
Status: in_force

Except for the Board of School Commissioners, it shall be the duty of any person who is authorized to incur any indebtedness chargeable to the City, to prepare each October 1 a detailed line-item budget estimate for each department for the upcoming fiscal year.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123 / Section 101
App. § 123-101. Corporate existence retained
Status: in_force

The inhabitants of the Town of Hardwick as presently constituted are incorporated and declared to be a body corporate and politic under the name of the Town of Hardwick and under that name may sue and be sued, prosecute, and defend in any court; may have a common seal and alter it at pleasure; may borrow money on the credit of the Town in the mode and under the restrictions provided in this charter and as provided by the general law of this State; and generally shall have, exercise, and enjoy all 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. § 106 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 127 / Section 106
App. § 127-106. Ordinances; penalties for breach thereof
Status: in_force

(a) A Town ordinance may provide:

(1) for a fine in an amount not greater than $1,000.00; and

(2) that each week a violation continues shall constitute a separate offense. 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 now or hereafter 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 with an application for an injunction shall not prevent a criminal prosecution for the violation of an ordinance.

(b) A municipal court may be established with such jurisdiction, operation, and procedures as may be voted by annual Town meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1503 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1503
App. § 5-1503. City election ballot
Status: in_force

In any election involving a federal, State, county, special district, or school district office or question and a City question or City office, the City Clerk shall prepare a ballot that contains only the City questions and candidates, except for justices of the peace.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 44 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 901 / Section 44
App. § 901-44. Conduct of meetings
Status: in_force

(a) At all special meetings of the Authority, the provisions of Title 17 shall apply except where clearly inapplicable.

(b) The Authority Secretary shall perform the functions assigned to the Secretary of State under that title. The Washington Unit of the Vermont Superior Court shall have jurisdiction over petitions for recounts. Election expenses shall be borne by the Authority.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 438 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 438
App. § 3-438. Same-regulation
Status: in_force

(a) The Public Utility Commission shall exercise its regulatory powers in such a manner as to permit the City to fulfill all of its obligations, including its obligations to the holders of the bonds issued hereunder.

(b) The Public Utility Commission shall not be empowered to suspend the effective date of any change in the rates and charges of the City's electric plant pending final determination as to the justness or reasonableness of such change, but the Commission may require that the City undertake to refund rates and charges collected in excess of those that are finally determined just and reasonable. Any increase in the rates and charges of the City's electric plant shall be implemented by means of an identical percentage increase to each class or division of electric plant ratepayers under rate design tariffs previously approved by the Public Utility Commission until such time as the Public Utility Commission shall specifically approve an alteration in such rate design and corresponding tariffs.

(c)(1) If the City exercises its authority under subdivision 431(4) or section 449 of this charter, the Public Utility Commission, in considering any application for a certificate of public good, shall ensure that any and all losses from these businesses, and, in the event these businesses are abandoned or curtailed, any and all costs associated with investment in cable television, fiber optic, and telecommunications network and telecommunications business-related facilities, are borne by the investors in such business, and in no event are borne by the City's taxpayers, the State of Vermont, or are recovered in rates from electric ratepayers.

(2) Any certificate of public good issued shall contain terms or conditions that are consistent with both the statutory requirements of 30 V.S.A. chapter 13 and the establishment of competitive neutrality between incumbents and new entrants, after the evaluation of factors that include the payment of pole attachment rental fees, and the provision of public access channels, equipment, and facilities.
24 V.S.A. § 1979 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 59 / Section 1979
§ 1979. Procedure
Status: in_force

(a) Municipal ordinance violations shall be heard by the Bureau and the procedure shall be as provided in 4 V.S.A. chapter 29.

(b) At the hearing, the municipal attorney or designee of the legislative body of the municipality may dismiss or amend the complaint, subject to the approval of the hearing officer.

(c) Upon entry of default judgment pursuant to 4 V.S.A. § 1105(f), the hearing officer shall assess the full penalty provided for in the ordinance that was found to have been violated.

(d) Upon entry of judgment against the defendant after a contested hearing, the hearing officer shall assess a civil penalty in an amount not less than the waiver penalty and not more than the full penalty provided for in the ordinance that was found to have been violated.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 151 / Section 701
App. § 151-701. Charter Review Committee
Status: in_force

At least once every five years, the Select Board shall appoint a Charter Review Committee of not fewer than five nor more than nine members from among the residents of the Town. The Committee shall review the charter and recommend any changes it finds necessary or advisable for the purpose of improving the operation of Town government. The Committee shall prepare a written report of its recommendations in time for those recommendations to be submitted to the Select Board for review not later than one year after the appointment of the Committee. At the discretion of the Select Board, the recommendations may be warned for ballot vote at an annual or special Town meeting to be held not later than one year after the submission of the report. The Select Board shall provide in its budget for any year when a Charter Review Committee is appointed funding for the Committee.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 54 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 54
App. § 403-54. Withdrawal of member municipality
Status: in_force

A member municipality may withdraw from the District upon the following terms and conditions:

(1) Withdrawal prior to the District incurring bonded indebtedness or entering long-term contracts.

(A) The Board of Supervisors shall not enter into any long-term contract, or call a special meeting on incurring long-term debt for a period of 18 months from the date of establishment of the District.

(B) No member municipality may withdraw from the District for a period of one year from the date of establishment of the District.

(C) Prior to the District incurring bonded indebtedness or entering into a long-term contract, a member municipality may vote to withdraw in the same manner as the vote for adoption of this chapter by such member municipality. If a majority of the voters of a member municipality present and voting at a meeting duly warned for that purpose may vote to withdraw from the District, the vote may be certified by the clerk of that municipality and presented to the Board of Supervisors. The membership of the withdrawing municipality shall terminate as soon after the vote to withdraw as the financial obligations of the withdrawing municipality have been paid to the District.

(2) Withdrawal after the District has incurred bonded indebtedness or entered into long-term contract. After the District has incurred bonded indebtedness or entered into a long-term contract, a member municipality may vote to withdraw in the same manner as the vote for adoption of this chapter by such member municipality. It shall be a condition that the withdrawing municipality shall enter into a written agreement with the District in which the chapter and withdrawing municipality shall be obligated to continue to pay its share of the debt incurred by the District for the remaining bonding term or contract term. In addition, the withdrawing municipality shall obligate itself to pay the cost of redesigning and rebuilding any facility of the District occasioned because of the reduced volume of solid waste. The cost shall be determined by an independent engineering firm hired by the Board of Supervisors. These additional costs shall be paid either in a lump sum or in installments at such times and in such amounts as required by the Board of Supervisors. In addition, in the event there is a resource recovery facility, if the withdrawal of a municipality will reduce the minimum volume of solid waste required to meet the District's long-term contractual commitments, no withdrawal of a member municipality shall be permitted during the period of such commitments.

(3) Determination of withdrawal. No withdrawal of a municipality shall become effective or deemed conclusive until such time as there shall be filed by the Clerk of the District in the records of the District a certificate attesting to the satisfaction of every condition set forth in subdivision 54(1)(C) or (2) of this chapter, whichever is applicable, as determined and approved by the Board of Supervisors.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 304 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 304
App. § 131-304. Ordinances; effective date
Status: in_force

Every ordinance shall become effective upon passage unless otherwise specified or, if the ordinance be conditioned upon approval of the voters of the Town, then upon a favorable vote of a majority of those voting thereon.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 289 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 289
App. § 3-289. Record of proceedings to be kept; report to City Council required
Status: in_force

The Secretary to the Retirement Board shall record the minutes of all Retirement Board meetings and furnish copies of these minutes to the City Council. The financial information on the Fund shall be published in the annual City report.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 45 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 149 / Section 45
App. § 149-45. Board review and final action
Status: in_force

Board review.

(1) The Selectboard shall schedule one or more meetings, as it deems appropriate, for the review and discussion of the proposed budget and comments from the Budget Advisory Committee.

(2) Upon completion of its review, the Selectboard shall act to finalize its budget proposal.

(3) The Selectboard shall then schedule a public hearing prior to Town meeting, warned as such.

(4) Following the public hearing, the Selectboard shall act to officially finalize the budget to be finalized or proposed at Town meeting.

(5) The Selectboard, in finalizing the budget, shall place it on the warning as a gross appropriation.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 143 / Section 701
App. § 143-701. Transfer
Status: in_force

(a) On and after the effective date of this charter, the ownership, control, and management of the Village water and sewer systems shall be vested in the Town, subject to all indebtedness and liabilities relating thereto; provided, however, that administration of said systems and payment of existing liabilities relating thereto shall be as specifically provided for in this charter.

(b)(1) By resolution, the Selectboard may designate areas of the Town special water and sewer system districts and may provide that property therein shall be provided by water and sewer services not so provided to all other areas within the Town; provided, however, that the designation shall not become effective until approved by a majority of all voters residing within the proposed district present and voting at a special meeting called and held for that purpose.

(2) A special water or sewer district shall be reasonable geographically, taking into account the areas, property, and persons actually benefited; the types of services to be provided; and the fact that the efficiency of providing multiple services in a single, special service district might outweigh the fact that the areas and property benefiting from the respective services might not coincide exactly. All costs required to support a given special service district shall be paid for by persons receiving the service, by a tax on the grand list for that special service district involved, to be assessed annually by the Selectboard, or by any other charge or fee permitted by law. If the costs are to be paid by a tax, the tax shall be paid and collected in the same manner as other taxes and the tax assessed on any part of the grand list shall be a lien thereon. All funds of any special service shall be kept in a special fund, no part of which may be used for any purpose other than the payment of debt service, operation, and maintenance, and a reserve fund with respect to the service for which the funds are collected.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 501 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 249 / Section 501
App. § 249-501. Water and light
Status: in_force

Said corporation is empowered to contract with any water company or any electric light company for water and lights or either for extinguishing fires, for watering the streets, for public drinking places, and for lighting the streets and other public purposes, and may levy and collect a tax to provide funds to meet such contracts.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 15 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 171 / Section 15
App. § 171-15. Appointed nonadministrative officials
Status: repealed

(a) General provisions applying to appointed positions.

(1) The appointed positions in subdivisions (b)(1), (2), and (5) of this section shall all be appointed by a majority vote of the Selectboard.

(2) Terms of appointment shall begin immediately upon Selectboard action and run for a period as specified herein.

(3) All appointees shall be administered the oath of office in the form as provided by statute.

(4) Appointees may be afforded compensation or reimbursement for expenses as determined by the Selectboard.

(5) To the highest degree possible, the Selectboard shall strive for a balance of opinion on all appointive positions, boards, and commissions.

(6) All appointive boards and commissions, although operating independently, shall be required to cooperate with the Selectboard in the exercise of their duties in the pursuit of the public good. They shall be required to file an annual report for inclusion in the Town report and also to file any other reports requested by the Selectboard, and be in attendance at any meeting requested by the Selectboard.

(7) Elected officials shall serve in appointed positions, boards, and commissions if the specific membership of the board or commission calls for their service, subject to the limits outlined herein.

(8) Members of the administrative service may serve in appointive positions as limited by charter, but may not vote on any issue directly affecting their position or conditions of employment.

(9) The Selectboard may create any appointive officers or positions not provided for by this charter or required by law as it deems to be in the best interests of the Town.

(b) Appointed positions.

(1) The following positions are created by this charter, their functions to be governed by the applicable State statute, as limited by charter or ordinance:

(A) Tree Warden.

(B) [Repealed.]

(C) Collector of Delinquent Taxes.

(D) [Repealed.]

(E) Town Health Officer. The Town Health Officer is appointed by the Commissioner of Health upon the recommendation of the Selectboard.

(F) Town Constable.

(2) Appointed boards and commissions established by charter.

(A) Planning Commission.

(i) The Selectboard shall appoint the members of the Planning Commission in accordance with State statute. There shall be seven members, a majority of which shall be residents, appointed for staggered four-year terms.

(ii) The duties and responsibilities of the Planning Commission shall be in accordance with State statute as limited herein.

(B) Development Review Board.

(i) The Selectboard shall appoint the members of the Development Review Board in accordance with State statute. There shall be seven members who shall serve staggered three-year terms.

(ii) Duties and responsibilities of the Development Review Board shall be in accordance with State statute as limited herein.

(C) Conservation Commission.

(i) The Conservation Commission consists of seven members, appointed by the Selectboard for staggered four-year terms.

(ii) The Commission advises the Planning Commission and Selectboard on matters relating to the Town's natural resources, including site plans. It promotes open space and conservation through studies, negotiations, and advice on the use of the Town Environmental Reserve Fund.

(3) The Board of Civil Authority.

(A) The Selectboard, justices of the peace, and Town Clerk shall constitute the Board of Civil Authority. The Board is responsible under general State law for checklist maintenance and other election functions and appeals of property assessments.

(B) The Board of Civil Authority shall be governed by general law in the exercise of its authority.

(4) The Board for the Abatement of Taxes.

(A) The Board for the Abatement of Taxes shall consist of the Board of Civil Authority and Town Treasurer, plus the listers unless the Town votes to eliminate the office of lister. The Board is responsible for making decisions on tax abatement pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 1535.

(B) The Board for the Abatement of Taxes shall be governed by general law in the exercise of its authority.

(C) The quorum for the Board of Abatement of Taxes shall consist of a majority of the Board of Civil Authority, Town Treasurer, and Town Listers unless the Town votes to eliminate the office of lister.

(5) Cemetery Commission.

(A) The Cemetery Commission shall consist of up to five cemetery commissioners appointed by the Selectboard for staggered terms of five years.

(B) The Cemetery Commission shall advise the Selectboard regarding the condition, operation, and maintenance of cemeteries.

(C) The Town Clerk shall, under the direction of the cemetery commissioners, ensure that cemetery lots are properly laid out, and that sale of lots is properly conducted.

(D) The Cemetery Commissioners shall issue and update regulations regarding cemetery use, interment, and burial fees.

(6) Old Brick Church Board of Trustees.

(A) The Old Brick Church Board of Trustees shall consist of up to five members appointed by the Selectboard for staggered terms of five years.

(B) The Board shall be responsible for overseeing the use and maintenance of the Old Brick Church building.

(7) Boards, commissions, committees created by Selectboard action.

(A) The Selectboard may, at any time, in response to a perceived need, create, by ordinance or resolution, a board, commission, or committee.

(B) In doing so, the action must clearly state the reason for the creation of the body.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 4 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 109 / Section 4
App. § 109-4. Settling the affairs of the Village of Proctorsville
Status: in_force

Prior to the merger, the officers of the Village of Proctorsville shall settle so far as possible their financial affairs and shall except as hereinafter provided, on said date, turn over and deliver to the Clerk of the Town of Cavendish all records, books, and documents of the Village of Proctorsville, and to the proper officers of the Town all property of the Village of Proctorsville, except the heretofore noted property of the independent Proctorsville Fire District.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 34 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 126 / Section 34
App. § 126-34. Record of Selectboard meetings
Status: in_force

(a) The Selectboard shall keep an official written record of all of its meetings, which shall be open for public inspection at the Town Clerk's office at all times during normal business hours.

(b) The minutes of each meeting shall be approved by the Selectboard. The approved minutes of a meeting shall be filed in the Town Clerk's office and a copy shall be filed in the Cobleigh Library.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 104 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 19 / Section 104
App. § 19-104. Intergovernmental relations
Status: in_force

The City may exercise any of its powers or perform any of its functions and may participate in the financing thereof, jointly or in cooperation by contract or otherwise, with the State and any one or more of the political subdivisions of the State or agencies thereof, or the United States or any agency thereof.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 105 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 19 / Section 105
App. § 19-105. Power over water resources
Status: in_force

(a) No person, association of persons, corporate entity, or municipality, or any combination thereof, may develop, conserve, or use in whole or in part the water resources of the Winooski River as it flows through the City of Winooski for a water power project located in whole or in part in the City of Winooski without obtaining the approval of the City Council of the City of Winooski in addition to any other necessary State or federal agency approvals.

(b) The City of Winooski may make, amend, repeal, and enforce any ordinances, regulations, rules, and bylaws not contrary to the laws of the State of Vermont or of the United States as it may deem necessary to carry into effect the powers and duties conferred and imposed by this section.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 19 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 173 / Section 19
App. § 173-19. Town Manager
Status: in_force

(a) The Selectboard shall appoint a Town Manager in accordance with the provisions of State law and this charter. The Town Manager:

(1) may serve for a fixed or an indefinite term at the discretion of the Selectboard of the Town;

(2) before entering upon his or her duties, shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his or her duties and shall give a bond to the Town in an amount and with sureties as the Selectboard may require;

(3) shall be considered an executive officer of the Town removable at any time in the discretion of the Selectboard upon the Selectboard adopting a resolution providing for removal and passed with the affirmative votes of a majority of the Selectboard; the resolution may be effective immediately upon passage, or upon the expiration of a period of time set forth in the resolution.

(b) The Town Manager, subject to the requirements of State law, shall have general supervision of the affairs of the Town, shall be the adminis- trative head of all departments of the Town government, and shall be responsible for the efficient administration of the Town.

(c) The Town Manager shall have authority, and it shall be the Town Manager's duty:

(1) To cause duties required of towns not committed to the care of any particular officer to be duly performed and executed.

(2) To perform all duties now conferred by law upon the Selectboard, except that he or she shall not prepare tax bills, sign orders on the General Fund of the Town other than orders for poor relief, call special or annual Town meetings, lay out highways, establish and lay out public parks, make assessments, award damages, act as a member of the Board of Civil Authority, nor make appointments to fill vacancies that the Selectboard is now authorized by law to fill; but the Town Manager shall, in all matters excepted in this subdivision, render the Selectboard assistance as it requires.

(3) To be the general purchasing agent of the Town and purchase all supplies for every department of the Town; but purchases of supplies for departments over which the Town Manager is not given control shall be made according to requisition by those departments.

(4) To have charge and supervision of all public Town buildings and their repairs; and all building done by the Town, unless otherwise specially voted, shall be done under his or her charge and supervision.

(5) To perform all the duties now conferred by law upon the Road Commissioner of the Town, including the signing of orders.

(6) To supervise and expend all special appropriations of the Town, as if the same were a separate department of the Town, unless otherwise voted by the Town.

(7) To appoint, upon merit and fitness alone, and, when the Town Manager deems necessary for the good of the Town, suspend or remove any subordinate official, employee, or agent under the Town Manager's supervision as provided for in this charter. All appointments may be without definite terms unless for provisional, temporary, or emergency service, in which case, terms shall not exceed the maximum periods prescribed by the personnel rules and regulations. The Town Manager may authorize the head of a department or of an office responsible to the Town Manager to appoint and remove subordinates in the office or department.

(8) To collect all taxes due the Town and to perform all duties now conferred by law upon the Collector of Taxes, if the Town so votes. The Town Manager shall continue to do so until the Town votes otherwise at a meeting duly warned for the purpose of voting on that question. For the collection of taxes, a Town Manager may charge and collect the same fees as a collector of taxes, and the fees collected shall be paid into the Treasury of the Town.

(d) The powers, duties, and liabilities imposed upon any other departments of the Town inconsistent with the provisions of this article shall be suspended and shall be conferred and imposed upon the Manager; wherever in the Town charter there is a reference to the Town Administrator, that reference shall be deemed to be to the Town Manager.

(e) In the event of resignation, illness, injury, death, suspension, or removal of the Town Manager, the Selectboard may appoint an interim Town Manager to serve during any period of incapacity due to illness, injury, or temporary suspension of the Town Manager, or in the case of resignation, death, permanent suspension, or removal during the transition period in which the Selectboard is interviewing, identifying, selecting, and appointing a Town Manager. An interim Town Manager shall have all of the powers and perform all of the duties of the Town Manager. Interim Town Managers shall serve as such at the discretion of the Selectboard and shall be appointed or reappointed for terms not to exceed 180 days. In the event of the absence of either a Town Manager or an Interim Town Manager, the acting Town Manager designated as such by the Selectboard under subsection 12(e) of this charte
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 505 / Section 2
App. § 505-2. Body corporate and corporate limits
Status: in_force

(a) The legal voters of the District shall be a body corporate. The corporate limits shall be the boundary lines of the Town of Williamstown, being bounded as follows: easterly by the line of Washington; southerly by the lines of Chelsea and Brookfield; westerly by the lines of Northfield and Berlin; and northerly by the lines of Berlin and Barre.

(b) While the District encompasses the same area as the Town of Williamstown, it shall be a corporate body separate from the Town of Williamstown. It shall elect its own officers, vote its own taxes, and manage its own affairs as follows:

(1) The Fire District Prudential Committee shall, for the Fire District, set a Fire District tax rate in the same manner that the Selectboard set the Town tax rate as provided by 17 V.S.A § 2664.

(2) The Prudential Committee shall make contact with the Town for the collection of Fire District taxes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 806 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 806
App. § 5-806. Development Review Board
Status: in_force

(a) The Development Review Board shall consist of seven regular members and two alternate members, appointed by the City Council in accordance with 24 V.S.A. § 4460, as may be amended from time to time.

(b) On May 1, 2018 the City Council shall appoint three members to three-year terms, three members to two-year terms, and one member and two alternates to one-year terms. Thereafter all terms shall run for three years beginning on May 1. Appointments to vacated positions shall run until the expiration of the existing term.

(c) The Development Review Board shall, upon the request of an interested person, hear the appeal of any decision or act taken by the Administrative Officer in accordance with the procedures outlined in 24 V.S.A. chapter 117, subchapter 11, as may be amended from time to time, and perform such other duties as may be required by the City Council, this charter, ordinances, or applicable State laws.

(d) A quorum shall consist of a minimum of four regular or alternate members up to a maximum of seven regular or alternate members.

(e) Alternate members may serve on the Development Review Board when one or more regular members are unable to attend a meeting.

(f) The Development Review Board shall be further governed by rules and procedures as provided in the City ordinances.
24 V.S.A. § 2508 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 67 / Section 2508
§ 2508. Cutting shade trees prohibited
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in 19 V.S.A. chapter 9, a shade tree shall not be cut or removed, in whole or in part, except by a tree warden or his or her deputy or by a person having the written permission of a tree warden.
24 V.S.A. § 2202a — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 61 / Section 2202a
§ 2202a. Municipalities-Responsibilities for solid waste
Status: in_force

(a) Municipalities are responsible for the management and regulation of the storage, collection, processing, and disposal of solid wastes within their jurisdiction in conformance with the State Solid Waste Management Plan authorized under 10 V.S.A. chapter 159. Municipalities may issue exclusive local franchises and may make, amend, or repeal rules necessary to manage the storage, collection, processing, and disposal of solid waste materials within their limits and impose penalties for violations thereof, provided that the rules are consistent with the State Plan and rules adopted by the Secretary of Natural Resources under 10 V.S.A. chapter 159. A fine may not exceed $1,000.00 for each violation. This section shall not be construed to permit the existence of a nuisance.

(b) Municipalities may satisfy the requirements of the State Solid Waste Management Plan and the rules of the Secretary of Natural Resources through agreement between any other unit of government or any operator having a permit from the Secretary, as the case may be.

(c)(1) On or before July 1, 1988, each municipality, as defined in subdivision 4303(12) of this title, shall join or participate in a solid waste management district organized pursuant to chapter 121 of this title on or before January 1, 1988 or participate in a regional planning commission's planning effort for purposes of solid waste implementation planning, as implementation planning is defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6602.

(2) On or before July 1, 1990, each regional planning commission shall work on a cooperative basis with municipalities within the region to prepare a solid waste implementation plan for adoption by all of the municipalities within the region that are not members of a solid waste district, that conforms to the State Waste Management Plan and describes in detail how the region will achieve the priorities established by 10 V.S.A. § 6604(a)(1). A solid waste implementation plan adopted by a municipality that is not a member of a district shall not in any way require the approval of a district. On or before July 1, 1990, each solid waste district shall adopt a solid waste implementation plan that conforms to the State Waste Management Plan, describes in detail how the district will achieve the priorities established by 10 V.S.A. § 6604(a), and is in conformance with any regional plan adopted pursuant to chapter 117 of this title. Municipalities or solid waste management districts that have contracts in existence as of January 1, 1987, which contracts are inconsistent with the State Solid Waste Plan and the priorities established in 10 V.S.A. § 6604(a), shall not be required to breach those contracts, provided they make good faith efforts to renegotiate those contracts in order to comply. The Secretary may extend the deadline for completion of a plan upon finding that despite good faith efforts to comply, a regional planning commission or solid waste management district has been unable to comply, due to delays in completion of a landfill evaluation under 10 V.S.A. § 6605a.

(3) A municipality that does not join or participate as provided in this subsection shall not be eligible for State funds to plan and construct solid waste facilities, nor can it use facilities certified for use by the region or by the solid waste management district.

(4) A regional plan or a solid waste implementation plan shall include a component for the management of nonregulated hazardous wastes.

(A) At the outset of the planning process for the management of nonregulated hazardous wastes and throughout the process, solid waste management districts or regional planning commissions, with respect to areas not served by solid waste management districts, shall solicit the participation of owners of solid waste management facilities that receive mixed solid wastes, local citizens, businesses, and organizations by holding informal working sessions that suit the needs of local people. At a minimum, an advisory committee composed of citizens and business persons shall be established to provide guidance on both the development and implementation of the nonregulated hazardous waste management plan component.

(B) The regional planning commission or solid waste management district shall hold at least two public hearings within the region or district after public notice on the proposed plan component or amendment.

(C) The plan component shall be based upon the following priorities, in descending order:

(i) the elimination or reduction, whenever feasible, in the use of hazardous, particularly toxic, substances;

(ii) reduction in the generation of hazardous waste;

(iii) proper management of household and exempt small quantity generator hazardous waste; and

(iv) reduction in the toxicity of the solid waste stream, to the maximum extent feasible in accordance with the priorities of 10 V.S.A. § 6604(a)(1).

(D) At a minimum, this plan component shall include the following:

(i) an analysis of preferred management strategies that identifies advantages and disadvantages of each option;

(ii) an ongoing educational program for schools and households, promoting the priorities of this subsection;

(iii) an educational and technical assistance program for exempt small quantity generators that provides information on the following: use and waste reduction; preferred management strategies for specific waste streams; and collection, management, and disposal options currently or potentially available;

(iv) a management program for household hazardous waste;

(v) a priority management program for unregulated hazardous waste streams that present the greatest risks;

(vi) a waste diversion program element that is coordinated with any owners of solid waste management facilities and is designed to remove unregulated hazardous waste from the waste stream entering solid waste facilities and otherwise to properly manage unregulated hazardous waste; and

(vii) a waste management system established for all the waste streams banned from landfills under 10 V.S.A. § 6621a.

(E) For the purposes of this subsection, nonregulated hazardous wastes include hazardous wastes generated by households and exempt small quantity generators as defined in the hazardous waste management regulations adopted under 10 V.S.A. chapter 159.

(d) By no later than July 1, 2015, a municipality shall implement a variable rate pricing system that charges for the collection of municipal solid waste from a residential customer for disposal based on the volume or weight of the waste collected.

(e) The education and outreach requirements of this section need not be met through direct mailings, but may be met through other methods such as television and radio advertising; use of the internet, social media, or electronic mail; or the publication of informational pamphlets or materials.
24 V.S.A. § 4763c — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 120 / Section 4763c
§ 4763c. Loans to municipalities for municipal public water supply systems
Status: repealed

(a) The Secretary may certify to the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank established by section 4571 of this title the award of a loan to a municipality to assist with a public water supply system project, when the Secretary finds that:

(1) the project is necessary;

(2) the proposed type, size, and estimated cost of the project are suitable for its intended purpose; and

(3) the municipality will have the technical, financial, and managerial ability to operate the facility in compliance with federal and State law.

(b) The certification by the Secretary shall specify the interest rate, and indicate which of the following loan conditions concerning construction loans apply:

(1) The term shall not exceed 30 years, and the annual interest rate, plus the administrative fee, shall be not more than three percent or less than zero percent, except that when the applicant municipality is disadvantaged as defined by subdivision 4752(12) of this title, the term shall not exceed 40 years. When the applicant municipality is disadvantaged as defined in subdivision 4752(12)(A), the annual interest rate, plus the administrative fee, shall be not less than minus three percent.

(2) In no instance shall the annual interest rate, plus the administrative fee, be less than necessary to achieve an annual household user cost equal to one percent of the median household income of the applicant municipality or served area, taking into account:

(A) debt retirement of the project, including any monies a municipality may borrow to match federal funds available to the Vermont EPA Drinking Water State Revolving Fund pursuant to section 4763d of this title;

(B) prior drinking water projects; and

(C) estimated annual operation and maintenance costs as determined by the Secretary.

(3) Loans awarded to a municipality that has not initiated repayment prior to January 1, 2019 may be extended as provided by subdivisions (b)(1) and (b)(2) of this section.

(c) A municipal legislative body may execute a loan agreement under this subsection provided the loan is authorized by municipal voters and secured by the full faith and credit of the municipality.

(d) A loan shall be issued and administered pursuant to this chapter.

(e) Loans shall be available to the extent funds are available and according to priorities established by the Secretary.

(f) For purposes of this section, the Secretary shall determine the median household income of a municipality from the most recent federal census data available when the priority list used for funding the project was approved, or at the option of an applicant municipality, based on the recommendation of an independent contractor hired by the municipality and approved by the Secretary. The determination of the Secretary shall be final. The cost of an independent contractor may be included in the total cost of a project.

(g) Loans awarded for the purpose of refinancing old debt shall be for a term of no more than 20 years and at an interest rate set by the State Treasurer at no less than zero percent and no more than the market interest rate, as determined by the Bond Bank, except that municipalities or private water system owners that qualify for loan awards under section 4770 of this title and that incurred debt and initiated construction after April 5, 1997 may receive loans at interest rates and terms pursuant to subdivision (b)(2)(A) of this section.

(h) Loans awarded for the purpose of conducting feasibility studies and preparation of engineering plans and designs shall be for a term of no more than five years at an interest rate of zero percent.

(i) [Repealed.]

(j) The Secretary may forgive up to $25,000.00 of a loan from the Vermont Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to municipalities for improvements to public school water systems following substantial completion of the project. The Secretary shall establish amounts, eligibility, policies, and procedures for loan forgiveness in the annual State Intended Use Plan (IUP), as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 300f et seq., with public review and comment prior to finalization and submission to the EPA.

(k) Subject to the interest rate and administrative fee limitations of subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary may designate projects as U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development-Vermont EPA Drinking Water State Revolving Fund jointly funded projects, and reduce the Vermont EPA revolving fund interest rate, plus administrative fee, in order to make the total loan cost of the joint loan to the municipality equivalent to the total loan cost of a separately funded Vermont EPA revolving loan for the same project.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 27 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 27
App. § 3-27. Presiding officer; powers
Status: in_force

At all meetings of the legal voters of said City, the Mayor shall preside and shall have the powers of a moderator in town meetings.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 2 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 417 / Section 2
App. § 417-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

The District is created, as a body politic and corporate, and shall exist for the purpose of providing a comprehensive system for managing solid waste, recyclable materials, organic material, and exempt hazardous waste generated within member municipalities. The principal elements of the management system may include the following: collection, transportation, processing, citizen information and education, land disposal, recycling centers, intermediate processing facilities, composting facilities, or resource recovery facilities, or any combination thereof, within and outside the District, as well as any other methods allowed by law. The District may accept solid waste and other materials from outside the District.
24 V.S.A. § 303 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 303
§ 303. Obstructing sheriff; penalty
Status: in_force

A person who refuses a sheriff entrance to his or her house or other buildings as provided in section 302 of this title, or threatens him or her or abuses him or her or his or her assistants before or after he or she has entered such buildings, or hinders him or her in any way in the execution of the warrants provided for in section 302, shall be fined not more than $200.00.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 40 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 173 / Section 40
App. § 173-40. Effective date
Status: in_force

The charter shall become effective upon approval in accordance with 17 V. S. A. § 2645. Copies shall be available to the public at cost at the Town Clerk's office.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 504 / Section 3
App. § 504-3. Powers
Status: in_force

Bolton Fire District No. 1 shall have all powers granted to a fire district pursuant to 20 V.S.A. chapter 171, and the fire district shall have the authority to:

(1) bill all users of water and wastewater services provided by the District for their pro rata share of the expense of providing, operating, and maintaining the service;

(2) expend such sums for acquiring, constructing, and maintaining the water and wastewater works, companies, and all equipment and real estate used in connection therewith, including reservoirs and dams;

(3) use and occupy such portions of the highways within Bolton Fire District No. 1 as may be necessary for constructing and maintaining the water and wastewater works and water and wastewater mains.
24 V.S.A. § 1571 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 51 / Section 1571
§ 1571. Accounts; reports
Status: in_force

(a) The town treasurer shall keep an account of monies, bonds, notes, and evidences of debt paid or delivered to him or her, and of monies paid out by him or her for the town and the town school district, which accounts shall at all times be open to the inspection of persons interested.

(b) Monies received by the town treasurer on behalf of the town may be invested and reinvested by the treasurer with the approval of the legislative body.

(c) The town treasurer shall file quarterly reports with the legislative body regarding his or her actions set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this section.

(d) The town treasurer shall annually, on or before June 30, complete and provide to the selectboard a copy of the document made available by the Auditor of Accounts pursuant to 32 V.S.A. § 163(11) regarding internal financial controls.
24 V.S.A. § 2794 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 76A / Section 2794
§ 2794. Repealed. 2023, No. 181 (Adj. Sess.), § 65(a), eff. July 1, 2034.
Status: in_force

(a) Upon designation by the Vermont Downtown Development Board under section 2793 of this title, a downtown development district and projects in a downtown development district shall be eligible for the following:

(1) Priority consideration by any agency of the State administering any State or federal assistance program providing funding or other aid to a municipal downtown area with consideration given to such factors as the costs and benefits provided and the immediacy of those benefits, provided the project is eligible for the assistance program.

(2) The Downtown and Village Center Tax Credit Program described in32 V.S.A. § 5930aa et seq.

(3) A planning grant, in an amount not to exceed $8,000.00 per site, for an initial site assessment of a suspected contaminated site, if the site otherwise qualifies under the community development block grant program in 10 V.S.A. chapter 29.

(4) Financing of transportation projects under the State Infrastructure Bank, created under 10 V.S.A. chapter 12.

(5) Assistance from the Secretary of Natural Resources for current owners and prospective purchasers who otherwise qualify under the Brownfield Property Cleanup Program set forth in 10 V.S.A. chapter 159, subchapter 3, or in the case of current owners, who are innocent owners. For the purposes of this subsection, an “innocent owner” is an owner who did not do any of the following:

(A) Hold an ownership interest in the property or in any related fixtures or appurtenances, excluding a secured lender's holding indicia of ownership in the property primarily to assure the repayment of a financial obligation at the time of any disposal of hazardous materials on the property.

(B) Directly or indirectly cause or contribute to any releases or threatened releases of hazardous materials at the property.

(C) Operate, or control the operation, at the property of a facility for the storage, treatment, or disposal of hazardous materials at the time of the disposal of hazardous materials at the property.

(D) Dispose of, or arrange for the disposal of hazardous materials at the property.

(E) Generate the hazardous materials that were disposed of at the property.

(6) Technical assistance by the Department of Housing and Community Development with regard to planning and coordination issues, including adaptive reuse of buildings within the district, development of a marketing plan for the downtown district that includes a heritage tourism component, development of a program to encourage merchants and building owners to rehabilitate, restore, and improve building façades, and, in coordination with the Agency of Transportation, planning for multi-modal transportation needs of the community.

(7) Hospitality training to be arranged by the Department of Tourism and Marketing.

(8) Promotion of the downtown development district by the Department of Tourism and Marketing as part of the Department's Integrated Marketing and Promotion Program.

(9) Consistent with the Department's available resources and subject to the Department's priority for ensuring public safety, technical support from the Department of Public Safety for the rehabilitation of older and historic buildings.

(10) A rebate of the cost of a qualified sprinkler system in an amount not to exceed $2,000.00 for building owners or lessees. Rebates shall be paid by the Department of Public Safety. To be qualified, a sprinkler system must be a complete automatic fire sprinkler system installed in accord with Department of Public Safety rules in an older or historic building that is certified for a State tax credit under 32 V.S.A. § 5930cc(a) or (b) and is located in a downtown development district. A total of no more than $40,000.00 of rebates shall be granted in any calendar year by the Department. If in any year applications for rebates exceed this amount, the Department shall grant rebates for qualified systems according to the date the building was certified for a State tax credit under 32 V.S.A. § 5930cc(a) or (b) with the earlier date receiving priority.

(11) Participation in the Downtown Transportation and Related Capital Improvement Fund Program established by section 2796 of this title.

(12) Priority for locating proposed State functions by the Commissioner of Buildings and General Services or other State officials, in consultation with the legislative body of a municipality and based on the suitability of the State function to a downtown location.

(13) A reallocation of receipts related to the tax imposed on sales of construction materials as provided in 32 V.S.A. § 9819.

(14) The authority to create a special taxing district pursuant to chapter 87 of this title for the purpose of financing both capital and operating costs of a project within the boundaries of a downtown development district.

(b) Prior to designation of a downtown as a downtown development district by the Vermont Downtown Development Board under section 2793 of this title, the Board may deem eligible any otherwise qualified owners or lessees of buildings within a downtown for the tax credits under 32 V.S.A. chapter 151, subchapter 11J if the Board finds that the legislative body of the municipality in which the property is located is intending to seek designation of the downtown as a downtown development district and has taken substantial actions and made substantial commitments in furtherance of that intent.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 39 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 101 / Section 39
App. § 101-39. Compensation and fees
Status: repealed

(a) The Town election shall annually vote the compensation to be paid to the following officers:

(1) Selectboard members;

(2) [Repealed.]

(3) Moderator.

(b) The Selectboard shall annually consider and from time to time shall set the compensation of the following officers:

(1) Town Clerk;

(2) Constable;

(3) Town Attorney;

(4) Tax Collector;

(5) Town Manager;

(6) Board of Civil Authority;

(7) Board of Abatement; and

(8) Treasurer.

(c) The Town Manager, with approval of the Selectboard, shall set the compensation for all other Town officers and employees.

(d) All fees prescribed by State law, charter, ordinance, or otherwise shall be collected for the benefit of the Town and paid to the Town Treasurer. No fees shall be used directly by any receiving officer or inure directly to the officer.
24 V.S.A. § 2686 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 71 / Section 2686
§ 2686. False requests for ambulance service or first responder service
Status: in_force

A person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if he or she requests ambulance or first responder service from a person or organization engaged in providing such service without actual need for such service, knowing that the request is false or baseless. A person who violates this section shall be fined not more than $200.00 or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 41 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 41
App. § 403-41. Disposal fees
Status: in_force

The Board of Supervisors may from time to time establish and adjust a disposal fee structure (tipping fee) for the purpose of generating revenues from sources other than assessments to member municipalities, particularly concerning the operation and maintenance of any District solid waste disposal or resource recovery facility, or both.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 9 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 703 / Section 9
App. § 703-9. Checklist
Status: in_force

The clerk of each town within the District shall furnish to the Clerk of the District, at the expense of each member town, authenticated copies of the checklists of legal voters within said town as the same appears after revision of such check list before this last town meeting, annual or special, preceding the date of the District meeting, which checklist shall control for the purposes of determining the voters eligible to vote at the District meeting. Whenever a matter, including bond issues, is to be determined by ballot or voting machine, the Board of Water Commissioners may designate polling places in each member town. Each member town shall provide at its expense such polling places together with ballot clerks necessary to supervise the ballots in the same manner that elections are supervised in the towns under the appropriate Vermont statutes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 26 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 207 / Section 26
App. § 207-26. Application of sewerage management
Status: in_force

The rents and receipts of said corporation for the use of sewerage shall first be applied to pay the annual principal and interest as it becomes due upon sewerage bonds issued by said corporation, and whenever such rents and receipts shall exceed the amount required to pay such principal and interest, and the interest of any other sewerage bonds of said corporation to pay such excess, in the necessary repairs, management, and addition to said sewerage; and the balance of such excess, if any, shall be applied to Sewerage Department operations for ensuing years. Any deficit shall also be applied to Sewerage Department operations for ensuing years.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 234 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 234
App. § 3-234. Purposes and powers
Status: in_force

The City Council, except as herein otherwise provided, shall have the same power to lay out, alter, resurvey, and discontinue streets and highways as is vested by law in selectboards of towns; and all proceedings in respect to laying out, altering, resurveying, and discontinuing streets and highways in said City shall be had in the same manner as provided by the law of this State in respect to such matters in towns.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 7 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 7
App. § 403-7. Responsibility to accept solid waste
Status: in_force

(a) The District becomes responsible for providing a system for resource recovery, as delineated in subsection (b) of this section, when the Board of Supervisors declares the disposal system operational.

(b) The District may provide a system for resource recovery and disposal of all solid waste generated by residential and commercial activities, tires, and metal goods generated within the member municipalities. The District may provide for the disposal of solid waste from industrial activities within a member municipality. The District may provide for the disposal of biosolids through contract with a member municipality. The District may provide for the resource recovery or disposal of any or all demolition and construction waste or yard wastes, or both, from any member municipality.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 6 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 151 / Section 6
App. § 151-6. Redesignated. 2023, No. M-27 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. May 30, 2024.
Status: in_force

(Renumbered to 24A V.S.A. § 151-705 by 2023, No. M-27 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. May 30, 2024.)
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 25.08 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 25.08
App. § 9-25.8. Evidence of service
Status: in_force

The return of the sheriff or constable upon the original citation, and the certificate of the Clerk and the receipts, shall be prima facie evidence of the service of the citation as herein provided. The citation and return thereon, with the certificates of the City Clerk and the receipts shall be made part of the record of the proceedings and shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk.
24 V.S.A. § 2203a — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 61 / Section 2203a
§ 2203a. Municipal disposal
Status: in_force

Each town and city shall provide for the operation and maintenance of any of the following: sanitary landfills, incinerators, recycling centers, intermediate processing facilities, composting plants, or resource recovery facilities or a combination thereof as the exclusive means for disposal of solid waste, as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6602, subject to the rules and guidelines promulgated by the Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 407 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 153 / Section 407
App. § 153-407. Compensation of officers; appointees
Status: in_force

(a) Compensation paid to the Selectboard members and other elected officials shall be set by the voters at the annual meeting. Officers' salaries must be set forth as a separate item in the annual budget presented to the meeting.

(b) The Selectboard shall fix the compensation of all appointees and the Town Manager, except as otherwise provided in this charter.

(c) Except as hereinafter provided, all fees prescribed by State law, charter, ordinance, or otherwise shall be collected for the benefit of the Town and paid to the Town Treasurer. No fees shall be used directly by any receiving officer or inure directly to the benefit of the officer.
24 V.S.A. § 4417 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 117 / Section 4417
§ 4417. Planned unit development
Status: in_force

(a) Any municipality adopting a bylaw should provide for planned unit developments to permit flexibility in the application of land development regulations for the purposes of section 4302 of this title and in conformance with the municipal plan. The following may be purposes for planned unit development bylaws:

(1) To encourage compact, pedestrian-oriented development and redevelopment, and to promote a mix of residential uses or nonresidential uses, or both, especially in downtowns, village centers, new town centers, and associated neighborhoods.

(2) To implement the policies of the municipal plan, such as the provision of affordable housing.

(3) To encourage any development in the countryside to be compatible with the use and character of surrounding rural lands.

(4) To provide for flexibility in site and lot layout, building design, placement and clustering of buildings, use of open areas, provision of circulation facilities, including pedestrian facilities and parking, and related site and design considerations that will best achieve the goals for the area as articulated in the municipal plan and bylaws within the particular character of the site and its surroundings.

(5) To provide for the conservation of open space features recognized as worthy of conservation in the municipal plan and bylaws, such as the preservation of agricultural land, forest land, trails, and other recreational resources, critical and sensitive natural areas, scenic resources, and protection from natural hazards.

(6) To provide for efficient use of public facilities and infrastructure.

(7) To encourage and preserve opportunities for energy-efficient development and redevelopment.

(b) The application of planned unit development bylaws to a proposed development may:

(1) Involve single or multiple properties and one owner or multiple owners. Procedures for application and review of multiple owners or properties under a common application, if allowed, shall be specified in the bylaws.

(2) Be limited to parcels that have a minimum area specified in the bylaws or a minimum size or number of units.

(3) Be mandatory for land located in specified zoning districts or for projects of a specified type or magnitude as provided in the bylaws.

(c) Planned unit development bylaws adopted pursuant to this section at a minimum shall include the following provisions:

(1) A statement of purpose in conformance with the purposes of the municipal plan and bylaws.

(2) The development review process to be used for review of planned unit developments to include conditional use or subdivision review procedures, or both, as specified in the bylaws.

(3) Specifications, or reference to specifications, for all application documents and plan drawings.

(4) Standards for the review of proposed planned unit developments, which may vary the density or intensity of land use otherwise applicable under the provisions of the bylaws in consideration of and with respect to any of the following:

(A) The location and physical characteristics of the proposed planned unit development.

(B) The location, design, type, and use of the lots and structures proposed.

(C) The amount, location, and proposed use of open space.

(5) Standards requiring related public improvements or nonpublic improvements, or both; and the payment of impact fees, incorporating by reference any development impact fee ordinance adopted pursuant to chapter 131 of this title.

(6) Provisions for the proposed planned unit development to be completed in reasonable phases, in accordance with the municipal plan and any capital budget and program.

(7) Provisions for coordinating the planned unit development review with other applicable zoning or subdivision review processes, specifying the sequence in which the various review standards will be considered.

(8) Reviews that are conducted in accordance with the procedures in subchapter 10 of this chapter.

(d) Planned unit development bylaws may provide for, as part of the standards described in subdivisions (c)(4) and (c)(5) of this section, the authorization of uses, densities, and intensities that do not correspond with or are not otherwise expressly permitted by the bylaws for the area in which a planned unit development is located, provided that the municipal plan contains a policy that encourages mixed use development, development at higher overall densities or intensities, or both.

(e) Standards for the reservation or dedication of common land or other open space for the use or benefit of the residents of the proposed planned unit development shall include provisions for determining the amount and location of that common land or open space, and for ensuring its improvement and maintenance.

(1) The bylaws may provide that the municipality may, at any time, accept the dedication of land or any interest in land for public use and maintenance.

(2) The bylaws may require that the applicant or landowner provide for and establish an organization or trust for the ownership and maintenance of any common facilities or open space, and that this organization or trust shall not be dissolved or revoked nor shall it dispose of any common open space, by sale or otherwise, except to an organization or trust conceived and established to own and maintain the common open space, without first offering to dedicate the same to the municipality or other governmental agency to maintain those common facilities or that open space.

(f) The approval of a proposed planned unit development shall be based on findings by the appropriate municipal panel that the proposed planned unit development is in conformance with the municipal plan and satisfies other requirements of the bylaws.

(g) The appropriate municipal panel may prescribe, from time to time, rules and regulations to supplement the standards and conditions set forth in the zoning bylaws, provided the rules and regulations are not inconsistent with any municipal bylaw. The panel shall hold a public hearing after public notice, as required by section 4464 of this title, prior to the enactment of any supplementary rules and regulations.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 501 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 129 / Section 501
App. § 129-501. Town Manager appointment and term
Status: in_force

The Town Manager shall be the Chief Administrative Officer of the Town and shall be appointed by a majority of the Selectboard. The Town Manager shall be selected with special reference to training, experience, education, and ability to perform the duties of the office and without reference to any political position persuasion. The Town Manager shall be appointed for an indefinite period and may be removed at the discretion of the Selectboard. The Town Manager shall neither simultaneously hold any elective office within the Town nor be employed by the Town in any capacity except as specified in the charter. The Town Manager may concurrently hold statewide office with approval of a majority of the Selectboard.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1505 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 133 / Section 1505
App. § 133-1505. Transfers of appropriations
Status: in_force

At any time within the fiscal year, the Selectboard may transfer funds from single budget line items to other budget line items. A budget line item will be an individual budget item listed on the budget presented to and approved under section 1503 of this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 504 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 113 / Section 504
App. § 113-504. Appeal
Status: in_force

If a property owner is dissatisfied with the assessment of the owner's property, the property owner may proceed first to a grievance hearing before the Board of Assessment, thence secondly to a Board of Civil Authority meeting, and further a subsequent appeal to the Director of the Property Valuation and Review Division. Any dissatisfied property owner may appeal in the same manner and under the same time restrictions and regulations as set forth in Vermont Statutes Annotated as amended.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 801 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 801
App. § 131-801. Application of general laws
Status: in_force

Provisions of the laws of this State relating to voter qualification, warnings, methods of voting, the duties of 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 meetings, except as otherwise provided in this charter.
24 V.S.A. § 181 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 181
§ 181. Settlements; record; filing
Status: in_force

Such clerk shall keep on file in his or her office the statements furnished him or her by the assistant judges, upon which he or she has drawn orders, and shall keep a record of such orders, within the number of each, its date, amount, to whom payable, and for what purpose drawn. He or she shall also preserve and keep on file the claims, accounts, or vouchers for which such orders were drawn.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1507 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 127 / Section 1507
App. § 127-1507. Sec. 4 of the Incorporated District No. 4
Status: in_force

(a) The officers of said District shall be a Moderator, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector, and an Auditor, who shall be chosen annually, and a Prudential Committee of seven, hereafter to be chosen as follows:

(b) At each annual meeting of the Town of Middlebury, there shall be elected a member of the Committee for a term of five years, except however, that at successive five-year intervals after each of the years 1969 and 1970, there shall be elected at the Town's annual meeting, an additional member for a term of five years. Each member of the Committee so elected shall take office at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the annual meeting of School District No. 4 in Middlebury. A vacancy on the Committee shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by a majority of the members of the Committee. The officers shall hold their respective offices until their successors are chosen.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 16 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 245 / Section 16
App. § 245-16. Waterworks
Status: in_force

(a) The Village shall have such powers, and the trustees shall have such duties, with reference to any waterworks that are in existence as set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapter 89 or any amendments thereto.

(b) Without limiting the generality of subsection (a) of this section, the trustees shall have the supervision of such municipal water department, and shall make and establish all needful water rates, rules, and regulations for its control and operation.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1107 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 131 / Section 1107
App. § 131-1107. Transfer of property, rights, privileges, and franchises
Status: in_force

[Transitional provisions relating to the transfer of property and property, rights, franchises, rights of action, land records, and other records belonging or appertaining to the Town and Village of Plainfield and contracts relating to the water works and sewage collection and disposal system formerly possessed by the Village.]
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 304 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 151 / Section 304
App. § 151-304. Organization of the Select Board
Status: in_force

(a) Forthwith after the annual meeting of the town, the Select Board members shall organize and elect a Chair and Vice Chair.

(b) The Chair of the Board, or in the Chair's absence, the Vice Chair, shall preside at all meetings of the Board and the presiding officer shall be a voting member of the Board.

(c) When a vacancy occurs on the Select Board, the remaining members may fill the vacancy by appointment of a registered voter of the Town, such appointment to be for the period until the next annual meeting, when the voters of the Town shall fill the vacancy.

(d) The Board shall fix the time and place of its regular meetings to be held at least twice a month.

(e) The presence of three members shall constitute a quorum.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 123B / Section 3
App. § 123B-3. Powers of the Town
Status: in_force

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

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

(c) In this charter, no mention of a particular power shall be construed to be exclusive or to restrict the scope of the powers that the Town would have if the particular powers were not mentioned, unless this charter otherwise provides.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 304 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 249 / Section 304
App. § 249-304. Auditor
Status: in_force

The Auditor shall at least once each year, and whenever the Auditor sees fit to examine and adjust and state the accounts of all corporation officers and of the corporation and shall report all such accounts and the items thereof and the state of the treasury to the corporation at each annual meeting, and shall cause the report to be printed and a copy thereof to be delivered to each taxpayer of the corporation at least five days before the day of said annual meeting.
24 V.S.A. § 4781 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 120 / Section 4781
§ 4781. Eligibility and loan application
Status: in_force

(a) The Vermont Economic Development Authority (VEDA) is authorized to make loans on behalf of the State to private entities for a clean water project; provided, however, that no State funds are used. Such loans shall be issued and administered by VEDA pursuant to this subchapter.

(b) A private entity may apply to VEDA for a loan from the Vermont Environmental Protection Agency Pollution Control Revolving Fund, established in section 4753 of this title, for a clean water project. The loan proceeds shall be used to acquire, design, plan, construct, enlarge, repair, improve, or implement a clean water project. Loan proceeds shall not be used for operation and maintenance expenses or laboratory fees for monitoring.

(c) The Secretary and VEDA may prescribe any form of application or procedure for a loan hereunder, request from an applicant any information deemed necessary to implement this subchapter, and impose an application fee and an administrative fee determined reasonable and necessary to cover administrative costs. Fee proceeds shall be deposited in the administrative fee account established in subsection 4755(a) of this chapter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 45 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 105 / Section 45
App. § 105-45. Alternate Town officers
Status: in_force

The Selectboard is authorized to appoint people to serve as alternate Town officers in anticipation of disqualifications or unavailability, as needed.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 51 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 235 / Section 51
App. § 235-51. Grand list
Status: in_force

The grand list of Ludlow, comprised within the limits of the Village, shall constitute the grand list of the Village. All the territory embraced within the limits of said Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Ludlow, and all the highway taxes assessed upon the ratable estate therein shall be paid in money.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1209 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1209
App. § 5-1209. Water meters
Status: in_force

The City Council may provide for use of meters or other mechanical devices as a basis of charging users of water supplied by the City water system and may in its discretion provide for use of such devices by all users of specified classes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1106 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 269 / Section 1106
App. § 269-1106. Village report
Status: in_force

The contents of the Village report shall be the responsibility of the Village auditors except as otherwise provided for in this charter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 41 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 155 / Section 41
App. § 155-41. Auditors
Status: in_force

The auditors shall meet within 30 days of the close of the fiscal year, examine and adjust the accounts of the Town and Town School District, and otherwise follow the auditing provisions of Title 24 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 5.03 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 147 / Section 5.03
App. § 147-5.3. Vacancies
Status: in_force

When a vacancy occurs on the Selectboard, the remaining members shall fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting when the Town shall fill the vacancy for any remaining portion of the term of the Selectboard member who created the vacancy.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 803 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 251 / Section 803
App. § 251-803. Use of water; payment; inspection; damages
Status: in_force

The owner of any tenement, house, or building who shall take the water of said Village shall be liable for the rent or the price of the same, and the officers and agents of said corporation entrusted with the care and superintendence of the water may at all reasonable times enter all premises so supplied to examine the pipes and fixtures and prevent any unnecessary waste, and if any person or persons without the consent of said corporation shall use any of said water, an action of tort under this statute may be maintained against such person by said corporation for the recovery of damages therefor and such action may be commenced and prosecuted by the Board of Water Commissioners in the name of said Village.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 26 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 26
App. § 403-26. Treasurer
Status: in_force

The Treasurer of the District shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors. The Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Supervisors, may appoint an Assistant Treasurer. When authorized by the Board of Supervisors, the Treasurer shall sign, make, or endorse in the name of the District all checks and orders for the payment of monies and pay out and disburse the same. The Treasurer shall be a nonvoting member of the Executive Board.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 239 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 239
App. § 3-239. Power granted
Status: in_force

Said City Council in laying out or altering streets and highways shall have power, on giving 12 days' notice of the time and place of hearing to the parties interested, to assess the owners of lands adjoining such street or highway so much of the expense of opening, making, or altering such highway, including land damages as the City Council shall adjudge such lands will be benefited thereby.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 204 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 153 / Section 204
App. § 153-204. Ordinances
Status: in_force

(a) Method of adoption and enforcement.

(1) Ordinance-making authority granted to the Town by this charter and general law shall be exercised pursuant to the provisions of subsections (b) through (e) of this section.

(2) The Selectboard may provide penalties for the breach of any ordinance authorized by general law or this charter; may prosecute any person violating the same through the Town grand jurors or police officers who for such purposes shall be informing officers; and may maintain actions to restrain actual or threatened violations of the same. The establishment of any fine or penalty shall be by ordinance.

(b) Introduction; first and second readings; public hearings.

(1) Every ordinance shall be introduced in writing. If the Selectboard adopts the proposed ordinance, the Selectboard shall cause the ordinance or a concise summary of it meeting the requirements of 24 V.S.A. § 1972(a) to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town in the form adopted, 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 such publication shall be at least one week prior to the date of the public hearing.

(2) At the time and place so advertised, or at any time and place to which such hearing may from time to time be adjourned, such ordinance shall be read in full, and after such reading, all persons interested shall be given an opportunity to be heard.

(3) After such hearing, the Selectboard may finally adopt such ordinance with or without amendment, except that, if the Selectboard makes an amendment, it shall cause the amended ordinance or a concise summary of it meeting the requirements of 24 V.S.A. § 1972(a) to be published at least once together with a notice of the time and place of a public hearing at which such amended ordinance will be further considered, which publication shall be at least three days prior to the public hearing. At the time so advertised or at any time and place to which such meeting may be adjourned, the amended ordinance shall be read in full, and after such hearing, the Selectboard may finally adopt such amended ordinance, or again amend it subject to the same procedure as outlined herein.

(c) Effective Date. Every ordinance shall become effective upon passage unless otherwise specified.

(d) Rescission. All ordinances shall be subject to rescission by a special Town meeting, as follows: If, after final passage by the Selectboard of any such ordinance, a petition signed by voters of the Town not less in number than five percent of the legal voters of the Town is filed with the Town Clerk requesting its reference to a special Town meeting, the Selectboard shall fix the time and place of such meeting, which shall be within 60 days after the filing of the petition, and notice thereof shall be given in the manner provided by law in the calling of a special Town meeting. An ordinance so referred shall remain in effect upon the conclusion of such meeting unless a majority of those present vote against the ordinance at the special meeting.

(e) Petition for enactment.

(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this section, voters of the Town may at any time petition in the same manner as in subsection (d) for the enactment of any proposed lawful ordinance by filing such petition, including the text of such ordinance, with the Town Clerk. The Selectboard shall call a special Town meeting to be held within 60 days of the date of such filing, unless prior to such meeting such ordinance shall be enacted by the Selectboard. The ordinance shall take effect immediately after the conclusion of such meeting provided that voters constituting a majority of those voting thereon, shall have voted in the affirmative.

(2) The proposed ordinance shall be examined by the Town Attorney before being submitted to the special Town meeting. The Town Attorney is authorized, subject to the approval of the Selectboard, to correct such ordinances so as to avoid repetitions, illegalities, and unconstitutional provisions and to ensure accuracy in its text and references and clearness and precision in its phraseology, but he or she shall not materially change its meaning and effect.

(f) Filing. The Town Clerk shall prepare and keep in the Town Clerk's office a book of ordinances, which shall contain each ordinance finally passed by the Selectboard together with a complete index of the ordinances according to subject matter.

(g) Existing ordinances. All existing ordinances shall remain in effect.
24 V.S.A. § 901a — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 33 / Section 901a
§ 901a. Tort claims against municipal employees
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this section, “municipal employee” means any person employed for a wage or salary by a municipality; a volunteer whose services have been requested by the legislative body of a municipality; a volunteer whose services have been requested by a municipal officer; or a volunteer whose services have been requested by an employee of the municipality acting within the scope of the employee's authority.

(b) When the act or omission of a municipal employee acting within the scope of employment is alleged to have caused damage to property, injury to persons, or death, the exclusive right of action shall lie against the municipality that employed the employee at the time of the act or omission; and no such action may be maintained against the municipal employee or the estate of the municipal employee.

(c) When a municipality assumes the place of a municipal employee in an action as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the municipality may assert all defenses available to the municipal employee, and the municipality shall waive any defense not available to the municipal employee, including municipal sovereign immunity.

(d)(1) The municipality shall defend and indemnify a municipal employee for any legal costs if a municipal employee is improperly named as a defendant in a proceeding.

(2) The municipality shall defend or, when a cause of action contains elements not covered by insurance, reimburse legal defense and expense costs incurred by a municipal employee in the event that a municipal employee is named as a party under subsection (e) of this section and the employee is dismissed from the matter before the entry of a judgment by the court or the acts or omissions of the employee are determined not to be willful, intentional, or outside the scope of the employee's authority.

(e) This section shall not apply to an act or omission of a municipal employee that was willful, intentional, or outside the scope of the employee's authority.

(f) When two or more conflicting statutes provide protection to a municipal employee whose act or omission is alleged to have caused damage to property, injury to persons, or death, a court shall apply the statute that grants greater protection to the municipal employee.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 507 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 407 / Section 507
App. § 407-507. Australian ballot
Status: in_force

The Australian ballot system shall be used at all special meetings of the District when voting is to take place.
24 V.S.A. § 76 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 3 / Section 76
§ 76. County law library
Status: in_force

Each county may maintain a complete set of Vermont Reports including the digest thereof in the county clerk's office and in each Probate office. The county may maintain in the courthouse or elsewhere such additional law books as in the opinion of the assistant judges are needful for the judges and officials having offices in the county.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 3.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 147 / Section 3.02
App. § 147-3.2. Elective Officers
Status: repealed

The elective officers of the Town shall be:

(1) five Selectboard members;

(2) a Town Clerk;

(3) [Repealed.]

(4) a Moderator; and

(5) a First Constable.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 10 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 291 / Section 10
App. § 291-10. Hiring of money
Status: in_force

The Village of Woodstock shall have authority to hire money from time to time for the purposes of carrying into effect the object of this charter and for other legal purposes of the Village.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 101 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 217 / Section 101
App. § 217-101. Boundaries and corporate existence
Status: in_force

All that portion of the Town of Derby in the County of Orleans, enclosed within the following boundaries, to wit:

Beginning at the national boundary line post on the highway leading from A. P. Ball's to Hiram Todd's and thence along said boundary line easterly to a point that intersects with a continuation of the easterly line of land owned by H. D. Holmes, thence southerly along said continuation of, and the said easterly line of said Holmes' land, to the southeast corner of said land, thence west following the south line of the said Holmes' land, to the highway leading to the farm now owned by Asa Moran, across said highway to the pasture owned by the A. T. Foster estate and following the east line of said pasture to the northeast corner of land owned by H. E. Foster, thence along the east line of said Foster land to the southeast corner of said land; thence westerly on the south line of said Foster's and along the south line of land now owned by F. D. Butterfield to the highway leading from Derby Line to Derby Center; thence across said highway to the line of road leading west, known as “Hammer Handle Road” along the south lines of land owned by William Spaulding, A. B. Nelson, H. E. Foster, and A. G. Bugbee to southwest corner of said A. G. Bugbee's land; thence along the west line of land owned by the said Bugbee and land owned by Henry E. Foster, northerly to said Foster's northwest corner; thence easterly from said point to the southwest corner of land owned by J. B. Goodhue; thence northerly and on said Goodhue's west line to the highway leading from Mrs. H. H. Leslie's farm to Derby Line; thence along the highway in an easterly direction to a point opposite H. D. Holmes' west line; thence across said highway and on said Holmes' west line to his northwest corner; thence across the Tomiphobia River to land owned by Connecticut and Passumpsic R. R. R. Co., or by Massawippi Valley R. R. Co.; thence in a westerly direction along said river to a point where it intersects the national boundary line; thence in an easterly direction along said boundary line to the place begun at, shall be known as the Village of Derby Line, and in and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute, and defend in any court, may purchase, take, hold, sell, and convey real estate and personal property necessary for its corporate purposes, and shall have all the rights and privileges and be subject to all the liabilities incident to public corporation.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 303 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 407 / Section 303
App. § 407-303. Chair
Status: in_force

The Chair of the Board of Supervisors shall be the chief executive officer of the District. The Chair shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Supervisors and shall make and sign all contracts on behalf of the District upon approval by the Board of Supervisors. The Chair shall perform all of the duties incident to the position and office.
24 V.S.A. § 5062 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 125 / Section 5062
§ 5062. Retirement Board; Medical Board; actuary; rates of contribution; safekeeping of securities
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the Retirement System and for making effective the provisions of this chapter are hereby vested in a board of five trustees, known as the Retirement Board. The Board shall consist of:

(A) the State Treasurer;

(B) two employee representatives who shall at all times during their term of office both be contributing members of the System and have completed five years of creditable service, elected by the membership of the System;

(C) one employer representative who shall at all times during their term of office be a member of a governing body, the chief executive officer, or a supervisor as defined in 21 V.S.A. § 1502(13), of an employer participating in the System, elected by the governing bodies of the System employers; and

(D) one employer representative who shall at all times during their term of office be a member of a governing body, the chief executive officer, or a supervisor as defined in 21 V.S.A. § 1502(13), of an employer participating in the System, appointed by the Governor from a list of not less than three nominations jointly submitted by the Vermont League of Cities and Towns and the Vermont School Boards Association.

(2) An individual shall not be eligible to serve as an employee representative if the individual is eligible to serve as an employer representative.

(b) All trustees shall be entitled to the necessary expenses, including traveling expenses, incurred in the discharge of their duties. All trustees shall be entitled to receive a per diem as provided in 32 V.S.A. § 1010 except a trustee who is a State or municipal employee, provided that a trustee who is a municipal employee shall be entitled to the per diem when the trustee's compensation from the municipality is reduced as result of the performance of his or her official duties, or the trustee's official duties are performed on his or her personal time. Compensation or reimbursements under this subsection shall be from the Fund of the Retirement System.

(c) Each trustee shall be entitled to one vote in the Retirement Board. Three trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business. A majority vote of those present and voting shall be necessary for any resolution or action by the Retirement Board at any meeting of the Board. All trustees shall be notified of any meeting of the Board. The State Treasurer may designate in writing a person within the State Treasurer's Office to attend a meeting or meetings of the Retirement Board in the State Treasurer's place. The designation shall be filed with the Secretary of the Board. A person so designated shall have the same voting rights and responsibilities as the State Treasurer at such meeting or meetings except that the designee shall not automatically assume the Treasurer's place as an officer of the Board.

(d) Subject to the limitations of this chapter, the Retirement Board shall, from time to time, establish rules and regulations for the administration of the Fund of the Retirement System and for the transaction of its business.

(e) The Retirement Board shall elect from its membership a chair and shall appoint a secretary who may be, but need not be, one of the trustees. It shall engage such medical, actuarial, and other services as shall be required to transact the business of the Retirement System. The compensation of all persons engaged by the Retirement Board, and all other expenses of the Board necessary for the operation of the Retirement System, shall be paid at such rates and in such amounts as the Board shall approve.

(f) The Retirement Board shall keep in convenient form such data as shall be necessary for actuarial valuation of the Fund of the Retirement System, and for checking the experience of the System.

(g) The Retirement Board shall keep a record of all its proceedings, which shall be open to public inspection. It shall publish annually a report showing the fiscal transactions of the Retirement System for the preceding fiscal year, the amount of the accumulated cash and securities of the System, and the last balance sheet showing the financial condition of the Retirement System by means of an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the System.

(h) The Attorney General of the State shall be legal advisor to the Retirement Board.

(i) The Retirement Board shall designate a Medical Board to be composed of three physicians not eligible to participate in the Retirement System. If required, other physicians may be employed to report on special cases. The Medical Board shall arrange for and pass upon all medical examinations required under the provisions of this chapter, shall investigate all essential statements and certificates by or on behalf of a member in connection with an application for disability retirement, and shall report in writing to the Retirement Board of its conclusions and recommendations upon all matters referred to it.

(j) The Retirement Board shall designate an actuary who shall be the technical advisor of the Board on matters regarding the operation of the Fund of the Retirement System and shall perform such other duties as are required in connection therewith.

(k) Immediately after the establishment of the Retirement System, the Retirement Board shall adopt for the Retirement System such mortality and service tables as shall be deemed necessary and shall certify the rates of contribution payable under the provisions of this chapter. Beginning July 1, 2023, at least once every three fiscal years following the establishment of the System, the actuary shall make an actuarial investigation into the mortality, service, and compensation experience of the members and beneficiaries of the Retirement System, and taking into account the results of such investigation, the Retirement Board shall adopt for the Retirement System such mortality, service, and other tables as shall be deemed necessary and shall certify the rates of contribution payable under the provisions of this chapter.

(l) On the basis of such mortality and service tables as the Retirement Board shall adopt, the actuary shall make annual valuations of the assets and liabilities of the Fund of the Retirement System.

(m) The Vermont Pension Investment Commission shall designate from time to time a depository for the securities and evidences of indebtedness held in the Fund of the System and may contract for the safekeeping of securities and evidences of indebtedness within and without the State of Vermont in such banks, trust companies, and safe-deposit facilities as it shall from time to time determine. The necessary and incidental expenses of such safekeeping and for service rendered, including advisory services in investment matters, shall be paid from the operation expenses of the System as hereinafter provided. Any agreement for the safekeeping of securities or evidences of indebtedness shall provide for the access to such securities and evidences of indebtedness, except securities loaned pursuant to a securities lending agreement as authorized by subsection (o) of this section, at any time by the custodian or any authorized agent of the State for audit or other purposes.

(n) The Board shall determine the election procedures by which the two employee representatives and employer representative elected by the governing bodies of the System employers who are members of the Board are elected. Elections shall be held to take effect on July 1, 2010, for the first employee representative and employer representative elected by the governing bodies of the System employers and every four years thereafter; and on July 1, 2012, for the second employee representative and employer representative appointed by the Governor and every four years thereafter. The term in office for each elected member of the Board shall be four years. Vacancies of an elected Board member's seat in midterm shall be filled by an individual eligible for election to that seat designated by the remaining members of the Board.

(o) The Vermont Pension Investment Commission may authorize the loan of its securities pursuant to securities lending agreements that provide for collateral consisting of cash or securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies equal to 100 percent or more of the market value of the loaned securities. Cash collateral may be invested by the lending institution in investments approved by the State Treasurer. Approval of investments shall be made in accordance with the standard of care established by the prudent investor rule under 9 V.S.A. chapter 147.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 16.03 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 16.03
App. § 9-16.3. Certification of publication
Status: in_force

Whenever any notice signed by the Mayor, Board of Aldermen, or any City officer or officers, or any advertisement, ordinance, resolution, or bylaw shall have been published in some newspaper or publicly posted under the provisions of the general law, this charter, or the ordinances thereby authorized, the City Clerk shall examine and ascertain whether such notice, advertisement, or ordinance has been duly published or posted, and if such be the fact he or she shall so certify upon the proper City record; and such record or a duly certified copy thereof shall be treated as prima facie evidence of the facts so certified.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 5 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 285 / Section 5
App. § 285-5. Annual and special Village meetings
Status: in_force

The annual meeting of the Village shall be held on the third Tuesday in March, at such hour as the notice hereinafter mentioned shall state, in the Village Hall in the Village or at such other hour and place as the corporation shall hereafter appoint, notice of which shall be posted in four 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 such trustees, by a majority of the justices of the peace residing in the Village; and whenever five legal voters of the Village shall so request by petition in writing, the trustees shall 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 all Village meetings, none but the inhabitants thereof qualified by law to vote in town meetings and who have resided for one year within the limits of the Village shall be entitled to vote.
24 V.S.A. § 4756 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 120 / Section 4756
§ 4756. Eligibility certification
Status: in_force

(a) No construction loan or loan for the purchase of land or conservation easements to a municipality shall be made under this chapter, nor shall any part of any revolving fund that is designated for project construction be expended under section 4757 of this title, until such time as:

(1) The Secretary shall certify to the Bond Bank that all water supply and wastewater permits, land use, subdivision, public building, and discharge permits necessary to construct the improvements to be financed by the loan will be issued to the applicant municipality prior to disbursement of funds under the loan for construction;

(2) The applicant municipality shall certify to the Bond Bank that it will have secured all State and federal permits, licenses, and approvals necessary to construct the improvements to be financed by the loan prior to expending funds under the loan;

(3) The applicant municipality shall certify to the Bond Bank that it has established a rate charge or assessment schedule that will generate annually sufficient revenue to pay the principal of and interest on the municipal bond or other debt instrument that evidences the construction loan made by the Bond Bank to the municipality under this chapter and to pay reasonably anticipated costs of operating and maintaining the financed project and the system of which it is a part. A covenant by the municipality to set, collect, and apply rates, charges, and assessments under section 3313, 3348, 3616, or 3679 of this title shall be sufficient for the purposes of this certification requirement. When the financing of the project anticipates revenues from the sale of electricity, evidence shall be submitted showing that construction of the project has been authorized and that rates for the project have been approved by the Public Utility Commission;

(4) The applicant municipality shall certify to the Bond Bank that it has created a fund under section 2804 of this title, or by any other means permitted by law, including adoption of a resolution or covenant by the legislative branch of the applicant municipality, which fund shall be used only to repair, replace, improve, or enlarge the project for which the loan is made;

(5) The applicant municipality, and the project to be financed by the proceeds of the loan, have been designated by the Agency, or a department thereof, as eligible to participate in a construction or implementation program funded wholly or in part by the State or the United States of America;

(6) The Secretary shall certify to the Bond Bank that any management program to be financed under subdivision 4753(a)(1) and section 4754 of this title is in conformance with all applicable State and federal laws, and all rules and regulations adopted thereunder;

(7) The Secretary shall certify to the Bond Bank that the loan eligibility priority established under section 4758 of this chapter entitles the applicant municipality to immediate financing or assistance under this chapter;

(8) The Secretary shall certify to the Bond Bank the outstanding balance of engineering planning advances paid to the applicant municipality under 24 V.S.A. chapter 120 and included within the loan application submitted under section 4754 of this chapter;

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

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

(b) The Bond Bank may make loans to a municipality for the preparation of final engineering plans and specifications subject to the following conditions and limitations:

(1) The loan shall be evidenced by a note, executed by the municipality, payable over a term not to exceed 30 years at zero percent interest in equal annual payments.

(2) The Secretary of Natural Resources shall have certified to the Bond Bank that the project:

(A) has priority for award of a planning loan;

(B) for which final engineering plans are to be prepared, is described in a preliminary engineering plan or facilities plan that has been approved by the Secretary; and

(C) is in conformance with applicable State and federal law and rules and regulations adopted thereunder.

(c) The Bond Bank may make loans to a municipality for the preparation of preliminary engineering planning studies or facilities plans subject to the conditions and limitations of subdivisions (b)(1) and (2)(A) of this section.

(d) Loans awarded from the same revolving fund under subsections (b) and (c) of this section may be consolidated, and may also be consolidated with loans awarded under subsection (a) of this section. One loan may be issued for construction and preparation of final engineering plans and specifications.

(e) The legislative body of a municipality may execute notes and incur debt on behalf of the municipality under subsections (b) and (c) of this section without public approval, provided that such debt shall be included in any subsequent public authorization of municipal indebtedness necessary to construct the project for which the planning loans were used. A municipality desiring to secure public authorization of debt incurred under subsections (b) and (c) of this section may utilize procedures authorized under section 1786a of this title, and may be refunded through a consolidation under subsection (d) of this section.

(f) The Bond Bank may adopt simplified procedures for processing and awarding loans authorized under subsections (b) and (c) of this section.

(g) The Secretary shall not certify a solid waste project without first finding that the proposed project conforms to the State and local solid waste management plans adopted in accordance with 10 V.S.A. chapter 159. Until such plans are adopted the Secretary shall certify that the project will promote the goals and purposes of 10 V.S.A. chapter 159 and the Solid Waste Task Force report.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 701 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 249 / Section 701
App. § 249-701. Powers of the Village
Status: in_force

Said corporation shall have power to make, amend or repeal by-laws not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States, for the following purposes:

1. To establish and regulate a market.

2. To suppress and restrain disorderly and gaming houses, billiard and pool tables, and all descriptions of gaming, and for the destruction of all instruments and devices used for that purpose.

3. To regulate exhibitions of common show persons, and of shows of every kind not interdicted by law.

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

5. To compel the owner or occupant of any unwholesome, noisesome, or offensive house or place to remove or cleanse the same from time to time, as may be necessary for the health and comfort of the inhabitants of said Village.

6. To direct the location and management of all slaughter houses, meat markets, steam mills, blacksmith shops, and sewers.

7. To prevent immoderate riding or driving in the streets, and cruelty to animals, and may enforce the statutes of the State relating to use of automobiles.

8. 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 the streets, sidewalks, and public alleys with firewood, lumber, carriages, boxes, and other things, and provide for the care, preservation, and improvement of public grounds.

9. To restrain all cattle, horses, sheep, swine, and fowls from running at large in the streets of said Village.

10. To provide a supply of water for the protection of the Village against fire, and for other purposes, and to regulate the use of the same.

11. To compel all persons to remove from the sidewalks and gutters adjacent to the premises owned or occupied by them all snow, ice, dirt, and garbage, and to keep such sidewalks and gutters clean.

12. 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.

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

14. To regulate the grade of streets and the grade and width of sidewalks and the construction thereof and protect the same.

15. To provide for lighting the Village.

16. To prohibit and punish willful injury to trees, regulate the posting of notices and advertisements, and to prevent and punish trespasses or willful injuries to or upon the common, public buildings, and other property.

17. To establish and maintain a public library and reading room.
24 V.S.A. § 1315 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 39 / Section 1315
§ 1315. Appointment of manager
Status: in_force

An incorporated village may avail itself of the provisions of chapter 37 of this title so far as applicable, if a majority of the voters thereof present and voting at any annual or special meeting so vote under a proper article in the warning therefor as in such chapter provided. The trustees of a village adopting the provisions of such chapter shall have the same powers in respect to the employment, direction, supervision, and discharge of a manager and the fixing of his or her bond and salary as are therein conferred upon a selectboard.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 406 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 411 / Section 406
App. § 411-406. Short-term indebtedness
Status: in_force

The Board of Supervisors is authorized to borrow money through the issuance of notes for the purpose of paying the current expenses of the District. Such notes must bear a maturity date within one year but may be renewed in accordance with the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 53.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 1102 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 5 / Section 1102
App. § 5-1102. Submission to voters; public improvements
Status: in_force

(a) When the City Council shall determine that the public necessity or interest demands improvements, and that the cost of the same will be too great to be paid out of the ordinary revenue of the City, the Council may by vote of two-thirds of its members order the submission of a proposition to make such improvements and incur debt to pay for the same to the voters of the City at an annual or special meeting warned and held for that purpose.

(b) The City Council shall, on receipt of a petition signed by ten percent of the voters, promptly order the submission of a proposition to make such improvements and incur debt to pay for them to the voters of the City at an annual or special meeting warned and held for that purpose.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 106 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 106
App. § 117-106. Ordinances - Method of adoption and enforcement
Status: in_force

(Renumbered to 24A V.S.A. § 117-301 by 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 29, 2024.)

(a) The Selectboard may provide penalties for the breach of any ordinance authorized by general law or this charter, may prosecute any person violating the same through the Town Grand Juror or police officers who for such purposes shall be informing officers, and may maintain actions to restrain actual or threatened violations of the same; the establishment of any fine or penalty shall be by ordinance.

(b) Ordinance-making authority granted to the Town by this charter and general law shall be exercised pursuant to the provisions of subchapter 3 of this charter. (Renumbered from 24A V.S.A. § 117-105 by 2023, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. March 29, 2024.)
24 V.S.A. § 5205 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 131 / Section 5205
§ 5205. Exemptions
Status: in_force

A municipality may exempt certain types of development from any part or all of the impact fee assessed, provided that the exemption achieves other policies or objectives clearly stated in the municipal plan. The policies or objectives may include, but are not limited to, the provision of affordable housing and the retention of existing employment, or the generation of new employment.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 320 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 1 / Section 320
App. § 1-320. Authority to take land
Status: in_force

The City Council is also authorized and empowered to establish, construct, and maintain public sewers in and through the lands of individuals and corporations, on making compensation for lands taken therefor, in the same manner as provided by law in the laying out and establishing of highways.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 98a — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 3 / Section 98a
App. § 3-98a. A tax ceiling reduction after reappraisal
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever the City conducts a general reappraisal that results in an increase in the valuation of the taxable grand list, the property tax rate limits as specified for the City tax in section 99 of this charter, the school tax in section 102 of this charter, the police tax in section 102a of this charter, and the street tax in section 102b of this charter shall each be automatically reduced in a proportion corresponding to the increase in the valuation of the taxable grand list due to said reappraisal. When calculating this proportional reduction the valuation of the grand list after reappraisal shall be discounted to account for real growth in the taxable grand list by dividing the reappraised valuation of the taxable grand list by the sum of 100 percent plus the annual rate of real growth in the taxable grand list for the year:

Discounted Grand List = Reappraised Taxable Grand List

Divided by

100% plus the annual percent real growth rate in the taxable

grand list for the year.

(b) The respective tax rate limits shall thereafter be permanently increased only when authorized by the voters at an annual or special City meeting duly warned for such purpose.
24 V.S.A. § 5803 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 139 / Section 5803
§ 5803. Designation of downtown and village centers
Status: in_force

(a) Designation established. A regional planning commission may apply to the LURB for approval and designation of all centers by submitting the regional plan future land use map adopted by the regional planning commission. The regional plan future land use map shall identify downtown centers and village centers as the downtown and village areas eligible for designation as centers. The Department and State Board shall provide comments to the LURB on areas eligible for center designation as provided under this chapter.

(b) Inclusions. The areas mapped by the regional planning commissions as a center shall allow for the designation of preexisting, designated downtowns, village centers and new town centers in existence on or before December 31, 2025.

(c) Exclusions. With the exception for preexisting, nonconforming designations approved prior to the establishment of the program under this chapter or areas included in the municipal plan for the purposes of relocating a municipality's center for flood resiliency purposes, the areas eligible for designation benefits upon the LURB's approval of the regional plan future land use map for designation as a Center shall not include development that is disconnected from a Center and that lacks a pedestrian connection to the Center via a complete street.

(d) Approval. The LURB shall conduct its review pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6033.

(e) Transition. All designated downtowns, village centers, or new town centers existing as of December 31, 2025 will retain current benefits until December 31, 2026 or until approval of the regional future land use maps by the LURB, whichever comes first. All existing designations in effect December 31, 2025 will expire December 31, 2026 if the regional plan does not receive LURB approval under this chapter. All benefits for unexpired designated downtowns, village centers, and new town centers that are removed under this chapter shall remain in effect until July 1, 2034. Prior to June 30, 2026, no check-in or renewals shall be required for the preexisting designations. New applications for downtowns, villages, and new town centers may be approved by the State Board prior to the first public hearing on a regional future land use map or until December 31, 2025, whichever comes first.

(f) Benefits Steps. A center may receive the benefits associated with the steps in this section by meeting the established requirements. The Department shall review applications from municipalities to advance from Step One to Two and from Step Two to Three and issue written decisions. The Department shall issue a written administrative decision within 30 days following an application. If a municipal application is rejected by the Department, the municipality may appeal the administrative decision to the State Board. To maintain a downtown approved under chapter 76A after December 31, 2026, the municipality shall apply for renewal following a regional planning approval by the LURB and meet the program requirements. Step Three designations that are not approved for renewal revert to Step Two. The municipality may appeal the administrative decision of the Department to the State Board. Appeals of administrative decisions shall be heard by the State Board at the next meeting following a timely filing stating the reasons for the appeal. The State Board's decision is final. The Department shall issue guidance to administer these steps.

(1) Step One.

(A) Requirements. Step One is established to create an accessible designation for all villages throughout the State to become eligible for funding and technical assistance to support site-based improvements and planning. All downtown and village centers shall automatically reach Step One upon approval of the regional plan future land use map by the LURB. Regional plan future land use maps supersede preexisting designated areas that may already meet the Step One requirement.

(B) Benefits. A center that reaches Step One is eligible for the following benefits:

(i) funding and technical assistance eligibility for site-based projects, including the Better Places Grant Program under section 5810 of this chapter, access to the Downtown and Village Center Tax Credit Program described in 32 V.S.A. § 5930aa et seq., and other programs identified in the Department's guidance; and

(ii) funding priority for developing or amending the municipal plan, visioning, and assessments.

(2) Step Two.

(A) Requirements. Step Two is established to create a mid-level designation for villages throughout the State to increase planning and implementation capacity for community-scale projects. A center reaches Step Two if it:

(i) meets the requirements of Step One or if it has a designated village center or new town center under chapter 76A of this title upon initial approval of the regional plan future land use map and prior to December 31, 2026;

(ii) has a confirmed municipal planning process pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 4350;

(iii) has a municipal plan with goals for investment in the center; and

(iv) a portion of the center is listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

(B) Benefits. In addition to the benefits of Step One, a center that reaches Step Two is eligible for the following benefits:

(i) funding priority for bylaws and special-purpose plans, capital plans, and area improvement or reinvestment plans, including priority consideration for the Better Connections Program and other applicable programs identified by Department guidance;

(ii) funding priority for infrastructure project scoping, design, engineering, and construction by the State Program and State Board;

(iii) the authority to create a special taxing district pursuant to chapter 87 of this title for the purpose of financing both capital and operating costs of a project within the boundaries of a center;

(iv) priority consideration for State and federal affordable housing funding;

(v) authority for the municipal legislative body to establish speed limits of less than 25 mph within the center under 23 V.S.A. § 1007(g);

(vi) State wastewater permit fees capped at $50.00 for residential development under 3 V.S.A. § 2822;

(vii) exemption from the land gains tax under 32 V.S.A. § 10002(p); and

(viii) assistance and guidance from the Department for establishing local historic preservation regulations.

(3) Step Three.

(A) Requirements. Step Three is established to create an advanced designation for downtowns throughout the State to create mixed-use centers and join the Vermont Downtown Program. A center reaches Step Three if the Department finds that it meets the following requirements:

(i) Meets the requirements of Step Two, or if it has an existing downtown designated under chapter 76A of this title in effect upon initial approval of the regional future land use map and prior to December 31, 2026.

(ii) Is listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

(iii) Has a downtown improvement plan.

(iv) Has a downtown investment agreement.

(v) Has a capital program adopted under section 4430 of this title that implements the Step Three requirements.

(vi) Has a local downtown organization with an organizational structure necessary to sustain a comprehensive long-term downtown revitalization effort, including a local downtown organization that will collaborate with municipal departments, local businesses, and local nonprofit organizations. The local downtown organization shall work to:

(I) enhance the physical appearance and livability of the area by implementing local policies that promote the use and rehabilitation of historic and existing buildings, by developing pedestrian-oriented design requirements, by encouraging new development and infill that satisfy such design requirements, and by supporting long-term planning that is consistent with the goals set forth in section 4302 of this title;

(II) build consensus and cooperation among the many groups and individuals who have a role in the planning, development, and revitalization process;

(III) market the assets of the area to customers, potential investors, new businesses, local citizens, and visitors;

(IV) strengthen, diversify, and increase the economic activity within the downtown; and

(V) measure annually progress and achievements of the revitalization efforts as required by Department guidelines.

(vii) Has available public water and wastewater service and capacity.

(viii) Has permanent zoning and subdivision bylaws.

(ix) Has adopted historic preservation regulations for the district with a demonstrated commitment to protect and enhance the historic character of the downtown through the adoption of bylaws that adequately meet the historic preservation requirements in subdivisions 4414(1)(E) and (F) of this title, unless recognized by the program as a preexisting designated new town center.

(x) Has adopted design or form-based regulations that adequately regulate the physical form and scale of development with compact lot, building, and unit density, building heights, and complete streets.

(B) Benefits. In addition to the benefits of Steps One and Two, a municipality that reaches Step Three is eligible for the following benefits:

(i) Funding for the local downtown organization and technical assistance from the Vermont Downtown Program for the center.

(ii) A reallocation of receipts related to the tax imposed on sales of construction materials as provided in 32 V.S.A. § 9819.

(iii) Eligibility to receive National Main Street Accreditation from Main Street America through the Vermont Downtown Program.

(iv) Signage options pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 494(13) and (17).

(v) Housing appeal limitations as described in chapter 117 of this title.

(vi) Highest priority for locating proposed State functions by the Commissioner of Buildings and General Services or other State officials, in consultation with the municipality, Department, State Board, the General Assembly committees of jurisdiction for the Capital Budget, and the regional planning commission. When a downtown location is not suitable, the Commissioner shall issue written findings to the consulted parties demonstrating how the suitability of the State function to a downtown location is not feasible.

(vii) Funding for infrastructure project scoping, design, and engineering, including participation in the Downtown Transportation and Related Capital Improvement Fund Program established by section 5808 of this title.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 103 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 133 / Section 103
App. § 133-103. Recall
Status: in_force

Any elected official or official appointed to elective office holding a Town office may be recalled by the following process:

(1) A petition signed by not less than 35 percent of the number of registered voters voting in the last annual Town meeting shall be filed with the Town Clerk.

(2) The petition shall request a special Town meeting for the purpose of recalling a specific person or persons and shall state the office that they hold.

(3) The Selectboard shall act upon the petition within seven days by warning a special Town meeting.

(4) The Town meeting shall be held not less than 30 days and not more than 40 days from the date of the receipt of the petition.

(5) The special Town meeting shall be warned as provided by the general law of this State.

(6) At least four days but not more than 15 days prior to the voting, an informational meeting shall be held at which time both the elected official and the proponents for the recall shall have the opportunity to discuss the issue of recall. The informational meeting shall be warned in conjunction with the warning for the special Town meeting.

(7) Voting on the issue of recall shall be by Australian ballot. A majority of the legal votes cast shall be needed to effect a recall of that official.
24 V.S.A. § 216 — VT Code / Title 24 / Chapter 5 / Section 216
§ 216. Lands in unorganized towns and gores; rents
Status: in_force

(a) The treasurer may lease the lands described in section 214 of this subchapter in such manner as he or she judges beneficial, reserving rents for the same, which shall annually be paid into the treasury of the county, until the town or gore in which the lands lie is organized. Thereafter the rents shall be paid into the treasury of the town in which the lands lie.

(b) Lands granted to the first settled minister shall not be leased at any one time for a longer period than five years, or until a minister is settled who is entitled to the same.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 14 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 14
App. § 403-14. Quorum
Status: in_force

For the purpose of transacting business, the presence of members whose accumulated votes represent more than 50 percent of the total number of accumulated votes of all members who have at that time appointed representatives to the Board of Supervisors and the presence of more than 50 percent of the membership of the Board of Supervisors shall constitute a quorum. However, a smaller number may adjourn to another date. Any action adopted by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the Board of Supervisors at which a quorum is present shall be the action of the Board of Supervisors, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 702 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 117 / Section 702
App. § 117-702. Preparation and submission
Status: in_force

(a) The Town Manager, at least 50 days before annual Town meeting, or at such previous time as the Town Manager may be directed by the Selectboard, shall submit to the Selectboard a budget containing:

(1) An estimate of the financial condition of the Town as of the end of the fiscal year.

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

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

(4) A capital budget for the next five fiscal years, showing anticipated capital expenditures, financing, and tax requirements.

(5) Such other information as may be required by the Selectboard.

(b) The budget shall be published not later than two weeks after its preliminary adoption by the Selectboard. The board shall fix the time and place for holding a public hearing for the budget, and shall give a public notice of such hearing. The board shall then review the budget and recommend it, with or without change, to the annual Town meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 5 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 505 / Section 5
App. § 505-5. Meetings
Status: in_force

(a) The annual meeting shall be held on the second Monday in January or at such other time as the District at any regular or special meeting may determine. Special meetings shall be called by the Prudential Committee when necessary, pursuant to 17 V.S.A. chapter 55. It shall be the duty of the Clerk/Treasurer to notify and warn the voters of any annual or special meeting by posting notices in at least three public places in the District not less than 30 days nor more than 40 days before the day of the meeting.

(b) Conduct of meetings and duties of the Moderator shall be as provided by 17 V.S.A. chapter 55.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 38 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 403 / Section 38
App. § 403-38. Indebtedness
Status: in_force

(a) Short-term borrowing. The Board of Supervisors may borrow money through the issuance of notes of the District for the purpose of paying current expenses of the District. Such notes must mature within one year. The Board of Supervisors may also borrow money in anticipation of assessment to each member municipality in an amount not to exceed 90 percent of the amount assessed for that year, and may issue notes of the District, which must mature within one year. The Board of Supervisors may also borrow money in anticipation of grants-in-aid from any source and any revenues other than assessments through the issuance of notes of the District. Such notes must mature within one year, but may be renewed as provided by general law. The Board of Supervisors may also borrow money in anticipation of 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) Bonded indebtedness and long-term contracts.

(1) Submission to voters. On a petition signed by at least five percent of the voters of the District, the proposition of incurring a bonded debt or other indebtedness to pay for public improvements or of authorizing a long-term contract in lieu of incurring indebtedness shall be submitted by the Board of Supervisors to the qualified voters thereof at a special meeting to be held for that purpose. In the alternative, when the Board of Supervisors, at a regular or special meeting of the Board of Supervisors called for such purpose, shall determine by resolution passed by a vote of a majority of members present and voting that the public interest on necessity demands improvements or a long-term contract, and that the costs of the same will be too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual income and revenue, it shall order the submission of the proposition of incurring indebtedness or of authorizing a long-term contract to the qualified voters of the District at a meeting to be held for that purpose. A “long-term contract” means a contract in which the District incurs obligations over a term of more than three years for which the costs are too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual income and revenues of the District, in the judgment of the Board of Supervisors. The term “public improvements” includes improvements as defined in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, whether or not publicly owned or operated. 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 District is organized. The Board of Supervisors 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.

(2) Warnings of meeting. The warning calling the special meeting of the District to incur bonded debt or other indebtedness or to authorize a long-term contract shall state the object and purpose for which the indebtedness or long-term contract is proposed to be incurred or authorized, the estimated cost of the improvements or service, the amount of bonds or other evidence of indebtedness proposed to be authorized, a summary of the terms of any contract proposed to be authorized, and means of raising or apportioning costs entailed thereby for debt service or payments under a long-term contract. The warning shall fix the places where and the date on which the meeting shall be held and the hours of opening and closing the polls. The Board of Supervisors, in cooperation with the board of civil authority of each member municipality, shall determine the number and location of polling places; provided, however, there shall be at least one polling place in each member municipality.

(3) Notice of meeting. The Clerk of the District shall cause notice of such special meeting to be published in a newspaper of known circulation in the District 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. Notice of such meeting shall also be posted in at least five public places within each member municipality at least 30 and not more than 40 days before the meeting and be filed with the Clerk of each member municipality and the clerk of the District prior to posting.

(4) Authorization. When a majority of all the voters present and voting on the question from all the member municipalities at such special meeting vote to authorize the issuance of bonds or other evidence of indebtedness or to authorize a long-term contract, the District shall be authorized to issue the bonds or other evidence of indebtedness as provided in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53 or other applicable statutes, or to enter into the long-term contract. The ballots cast in each member municipality shall be commingled and counted by members of the Board of Supervisors together with the town or city clerk from each member municipality, or the clerk's designee. Sections 48 (Australian ballot), 49 (qualifications and registration of voters), 50 (conduct of meetings), 51 (reconsideration or rescission of vote), and 52 (validation of District meetings) of this chapter shall apply to any District meeting called to incur long-term debt or to authorize a long-term contract.

(5) Assessment. The cost of debt service or of payments under a long-term contract shall be included in the annual budget of the District, and shall be allocated among the member municipalities as provided in subsection 35(c) of this chapter unless otherwise provided by applicable law and in the vote authorizing the same. The applicable provision of 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, 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 District, and for that purpose, the District shall be deemed a “municipal corporation,” the Board of Supervisors shall be deemed a “legislative branch,” and the District Treasurer shall be deemed a “municipal treasurer” within the purview of that chapter. Bonds or other evidence of indebtedness and long-term contracts shall be signed by the Treasurer and Chair of the Board of Supervisors of the District.

(6) Special limitation. The Board of Supervisors shall not submit to the legal voters of the District any proposition to issue bonds or other long-term indebtedness or to authorize a long-term contract less than 18 months after the District has become a body politic and corporate.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 508 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 409 / Section 508
App. § 409-508. Qualifications and registration of voters
Status: in_force

All legal voters of the member municipalities shall be legal voters of the District. The municipality shall post and revise checklists in the same manner as for municipal meetings prior to any District meeting.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 107 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 235 / Section 107
App. § 235-107. Assessment as lien
Status: in_force

The amount of such assessment or assessments, as fixed by the final decision, either of the County Court or of the said trustees, shall, when the record thereof is duly recorded in the said Village Clerk's office, be a lien upon the land or lands so assessed, and, if the owner or owners of such land or lands shall neglect, for the space of six months after the final decision of said trustees, or of the County Court, to pay to the Treasurer of said Village the amount of such assessment or assessments, the trustees shall make out a rate-bill of the same, giving therein a general description of the lands so assessed, and shall seasonably deliver such rate-bill to the Collector of Taxes for said Village, with a warrant thereto attached, signed by a justice of the peace in and for the County of Windsor, for the collection of said assessment or assessments, which warrant shall be in the same form and shall be enforced in the same manner now prescribed by law for the collection of town and other taxes; and the Collector shall receive like fees as in the collection of taxes.
24APPENDIX V.S.A. § 27 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 173 / Section 27
App. § 173-27. Meetings; open government
Status: in_force

It shall be the policy of the Town of Windsor to afford to all 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 of the Town of Windsor 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. § 19.02 — VT Code / Title 24APPENDIX / Chapter 9 / Section 19.02
App. § 9-19.2. Duties of the Director of Emergency Management
Status: in_force

The Emergency Management Director is responsible for coordinating and supervising public and private informational programs to familiarize the public with emergency management activities.