Source: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/fullchapter/24/091
Timestamp: 2018-01-17 17:57:40
Document Index: 208484085

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 3344', '§ 4', '§ 3345', '§ 5', '§ 3346', '§ 6', '§ 3347', '§ 7', '§ 3350', '§ 10', '§ 3351', '§ 11', '§ 3352', '§ 12', '§ 5']

Chapter 091: CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICTS
§ 3344. Warnings of meetings
(a) Meetings shall be warned by the clerk, or in case of his or her inability to act, by a majority of the water commissioners, by posting a notice thereof, specifying the time, place and business of the meeting, in not less than five public places in the district, including at least one public place in each member town, at least 10 days before the time therein specified and causing the same to be published in a paper circulating in the district, such publication to be not less than 10 days before the date of the meeting, and the warning shall be recorded in the office of the clerk before being posted.
(b) Any meeting called for the purpose of considering a bond issue shall be warned as is provided for in subchapter 1 of chapter 53 of this title.
(c) The water commissioners shall have the same authority and obligation to warn or call meetings of the district as selectmen have to warn or call town meetings. (Added 1964, No. 20 (Sp. Sess.), § 4, eff. March 10, 1964.)
§ 3345. Eligibility of voters
Persons residing within the limits of the district, who are qualified voters in their town meetings, shall be voters in the district meeting. The moderator, clerk and members of the board of water commissioners shall decide all questions as to the eligibility of a person to vote at a district meeting. (1964, No. 20 (Sp. Sess.), § 5, eff. March 10, 1964.)
§ 3346. Check list
The clerk of each town within a consolidated water district shall furnish to the clerk of the district, at the expense of the district, authenticated copies of the check lists of legal voters within said town as the same appears after revision of such check list before the last town meeting, annual or special, preceding the date of the district meeting, which check list shall control for the purposes of determining the voters eligible to vote at the district meeting. Whenever a matter, including bond issues under subchapter 1 of chapter 53 of this title, is to be determined by ballot or voting machine, the board of water commissioners may designate polling places not to exceed one in each member town. (1964, No. 20 (Sp. Sess.), § 6, eff. March 10, 1964.)
§ 3347. Record of proceedings
The clerk shall keep a record of the votes and the proceedings of the district meetings and give certified copies thereof when required. A clerk who neglects to perform this duty shall forfeit $20.00 to the district, to be recovered in a civil action on this statute. (1964, No. 20 (Sp. Sess.), § 7, eff. March 10, 1964.)
§ 3350. Special tax assessment for payment of execution
When a demand is made upon the district for the payment of an execution issued against it and the district has no available funds to pay the same, the board of water commissioners shall compute the share of each member town in such execution, with costs, interest, and other charges, to be paid by it in accordance with the agreement among the member towns or the formula established in section 3349 of this title, and shall give notice of the amount thereof to the legislative branch of each member town. Such member town through its proper officer shall forthwith pay to the treasurer of the district its share of such execution and any charges. If the member town has insufficient funds to pay its said share, its legislative branch shall forthwith assess and have collected a tax sufficient to pay the same in the manner its other taxes are assessed and collected. (1964, No. 20 (Sp. Sess.), § 10, eff. March 10, 1964.)
§ 3351. Debts and liabilities of member towns
No debt or liabilities of a town which is a member of the district shall accrue against the district. (1964, No. 20 (Sp. Sess.), § 11, eff. March 10, 1964.)
§ 3352. Tax exemption
Property of a consolidated water district shall be exempt from all taxation by any town within the district. (1964, No. 20 (Sp. Sess.), § 12, eff. March 10, 1964; amended 1967, No. 209, § 5, eff. April 17, 1967.)