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24 V.S.A. § 3901
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 111 - Monuments, Observances, Service Records, Histories|§ 3901. Soldiers' monuments and records

§ 3901. Soldiers' monuments and records|A town may instruct the selectboard to erect a building or monument to the memory of citizens of such town who were in the military or naval service during any wars in which the United States has been engaged and may appropriate sufficient money for that purpose, and may issue its notes or bonds extending over a period that shall not exceed five years to cover the expense of the same. Such town may also instruct the selectboard to have inscribed upon such monument or upon or within such buildings the names of such persons credited to such town by the State, or federal authorities, who entered the service of the United States during such wars and died while in such service or were honorably discharged.
24 V.S.A. § 3902
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 111 - Monuments, Observances, Service Records, Histories|§ 3902. Rooms for use of veterans' organizations

§ 3902. Rooms for use of veterans' organizations|A town may appropriate the necessary funds to pay the rentals of rooms for the use of organizations of veterans of wars of the United States.
24 V.S.A. § 3903
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 111 - Monuments, Observances, Service Records, Histories|§ 3903. Military records

§ 3903. Military records|A town may appoint a person, who need not be a resident of the town, to prepare a military record at the expense of the town, which shall contain the name of every person in the U.S. Armed Forces furnished by the town during any wars or military enterprises in which the United States has been engaged with the following statistics, so far as applicable to each case: age at the time of enlistment or induction; birthplace; date of enlistment; date of muster into the service of the United States; rank; promotions; reenlistment; date and cause of discharge; date of pension and amount; date and cause of death; date, place, and nature of wounds; bounty received from the town and bounty received from individuals; and any other pertinent information. (Amended 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 269.)
24 V.S.A. § 3904
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 111 - Monuments, Observances, Service Records, Histories|§ 3904. Printing and sale of records

§ 3904. Printing and sale of records|A town may order such records printed and kept for sale at a price not to exceed an advance of 20 percent of the cost of publication.
24 V.S.A. § 3905
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 111 - Monuments, Observances, Service Records, Histories|§ 3905. Certified copy for town clerk's office

§ 3905. Certified copy for town clerk's office|A copy officially certified by the compiler of the record shall be kept in the office of the town clerk. (Amended 2021, No. 53, § 7.)
24 V.S.A. § 3906
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 111 - Monuments, Observances, Service Records, Histories|§ 3906. Town histories

§ 3906. Town histories|At its annual meeting, a town may authorize the selectboard to contract with some person to prepare and publish the history of the town, under such regulations as it prescribes.
24 V.S.A. § 3907
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 111 - Monuments, Observances, Service Records, Histories|§ 3907. Memorial Day and other historic events

§ 3907. Memorial Day and other historic events|A municipality may appropriate such sums of money as it deems necessary for the proper observance of Memorial Day, for the celebration of historic events, and for the erection and dedication of monuments or tablets to commemorate the same.
24 V.S.A. § 4000
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4000. Statutory purposes

§ 4000. Statutory purposes|The statutory purpose of the exemption for housing authorities in section 4020 of this title is to promote, provide, and preserve affordable housing. (Added 2013, No. 200 (Adj. Sess.), § 13.)
24 V.S.A. § 4003
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4003. Housing authority; establishment

§ 4003. Housing authority; establishment|(a) In each municipality there is hereby created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the housing authority; provided, however, that such authority shall not transact any business or exercise its power under this chapter, until or unless the governing body of the municipality by proper resolution shall declare that there is a need for the authority to function in the municipality.(b) The governing body shall adopt a resolution declaring that there is a need for a housing authority in the municipality, if it shall find:  (1) that unsanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the municipality; or (2) that there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in the municipality available to persons of low income or elders of a low income, or both, at rentals they can afford. In determining whether accommodations are unsafe or unsanitary, the governing body may take into consideration the degree of overcrowding, the percentage of land coverage, the light, air, space, and access available to the inhabitants of the accommodations, the size and arrangement of the rooms, the sanitary facilities, and the extent to which conditions exist in the buildings that endanger life or property by fire or other causes. (Added 1961, No. 212, § 4, eff. July 11, 1961; amended 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 158; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 158.)
24 V.S.A. § 4004
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4004. Housing authority, members, powers

§ 4004. Housing authority, members, powers|(a) When the governing body of a municipality, other than a town, adopts a resolution pursuant to section 4003 of this chapter, it shall promptly notify the mayor of such adoption. Upon receiving such notice, the mayor shall appoint five persons as commissioners of the authority created for said municipality. When the governing body of the town adopts a resolution, said body shall appoint five persons as commissioners of the authority created for said town. The commissioners who are first appointed shall be designated to serve for terms of one, two, three, four, and five years respectively, from the date of their appointment, but thereafter commissioners shall be appointed for a term of office of five years except that all vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term. No commissioner of any authority may be an officer or an employee of the municipality for which the authority is created. A commissioner shall hold office until his or her successor has been appointed and has qualified. A certificate of the appointment or reappointment of any commissioner shall be filed with the clerk and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the due and proper appointment of such commissioner. A commissioner shall receive no compensation for his or her services, but he or she shall be entitled to the necessary expenses, including travelling expenses, incurred in the discharge of his or her duties.(b) The powers of each authority shall be vested in the commissioners thereof in office from time to time. Three commissioners shall constitute a quorum of authority for the purpose of conducting its business and exercising its powers and for all other purposes. Action may be taken by the authority upon a vote of the majority of the commissioners present, unless in any case the bylaws of the authority should require a larger number. The mayor, or in the case of an authority for a town, the governing body of such town, shall designate which of the commissioners appointed shall be the first chair, but when the office of the chair of the authority thereafter becomes vacant, the authority shall select a chair from among its commissioners. An authority shall select from among its commissioners a vice chair and it may employ a secretary (who shall be executive director), technical experts and such other officers, agents and employees, permanent and temporary, as it may require and shall determine their qualifications, duties and compensation. For such legal services as it may require, an authority may call upon the chief law officer of the municipality or may employ its own counsel and legal staff. An authority may delegate to one or more of its agents or employees such powers or duties as it may deem proper. (Added 1961, No. 212, § 5, eff. July 11, 1961.)
24 V.S.A. § 4006
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4006. Disqualification

§ 4006. Disqualification|(a) During his or her tenure, no commissioner or employee of an authority shall acquire any direct or indirect ownership interest in any housing project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, nor shall he or she acquire any direct or indirect interest in any contract or proposed contract for materials or services to be furnished or used in connection with any housing project, except that the renewal of an existing contract shall be subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section.(b) If any commissioner or employee of an authority, prior to appointment or employment, owns or has a direct or indirect interest in any housing project or any property included or planned to be included in any housing project, or a direct or indirect interest in any contract or proposed contract for materials or services to be furnished or used in connection with any housing project, he or she immediately shall disclose the same in writing to the authority and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the authority. He or she shall not vote on any issue pertaining to any housing project, or any property included or planned to be included in any project or on any contract or proposed contract for materials or services to be furnished or used in connection with any housing project for which he or she owns or controls a direct or indirect interest. Failure so to disclose such interest or refrain from voting shall constitute misconduct in office. (1961, No. 212, § 6, eff. July 11, 1961; amended 1987, No. 250 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. June 13, 1988.)
24 V.S.A. § 4007
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4007. Removal

§ 4007. Removal|For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a commissioner of an authority may be removed by the mayor (or in the case of an authority of a town, by the governing body of said town) or in the case of the State Authority, by the Governor, but a commissioner shall be removed only after he or she shall have been given a copy of the charges at least ten days prior to the hearing thereon and had an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel. In the event of the removal of any commissioner, a record of the proceedings, together with the charges and findings thereon, shall be filed in the office of the clerk, or in the case of the State Authority, in the office of the Secretary of State. (Added 1961, No. 212, § 7, eff. July 11, 1961; amended 1967, No. 332 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 23, 1968.)
24 V.S.A. § 4009
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4009. Rentals

§ 4009. Rentals|It is hereby declared to be the policy of this State that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with providing decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling accommodations and that no housing authority shall construct or operate any such project for profit, or as a source of revenue to the State or municipality. To this end an authority shall fix the rental for dwellings in its projects at no higher rate than it shall find to be necessary in order to produce revenue which, together with all other available moneys, revenues, income and receipts of the authority from whatever source derived, will be sufficient:  (1) to pay as the same become due, the principal and interest on the bond of the authority; (2) to meet the cost of and to provide for maintaining and operating the projects, including the cost of any insurance, and the administrative expenses of the authority; and (3) to create, during not less than six years immediately succeeding its issuance of any bonds, a reserve sufficient to meet the largest principal and interest payments that will be due on such bonds in any one year thereafter and to maintain such reserve. (1961, No. 212, § 9, eff. July 11, 1961; amended 1967, No. 332 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. March 23, 1968.)
24 V.S.A. § 4010
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4010. Duties

§ 4010. Duties|(a) In the operation of or management of housing projects an authority shall at all times observe the following duties with respect to rentals and tenant selection:  (1) It may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations therein only to persons of low income or elders who are of low income, or both. (2) It may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations therein only at rentals within the financial reach of such persons as indicated of low income. (3) It may rent or lease to a tenant dwelling accommodations consisting of the number of rooms (but no greater number) that it deems necessary to provide safe and sanitary accommodations to the proposed occupants thereof, without overcrowding. (4) It shall not accept any person as a tenant in any housing project if the person or persons who would occupy the dwelling accommodations have an annual net income in excess of five times the annual rental of the quarters to be furnished such person or persons, except that in the case of families of three or more minor dependents, such ratio shall not exceed six to one; in computing the rental for this purpose of selecting tenants, there shall be included in the rental the average annual cost (as determined by the authority) to the occupants, of heat, water, electricity, gas, cooking range, and other necessary services or facilities, whether or not the charge for such services and facilities is in fact included in the rental. (5) It shall prohibit subletting by tenants.   (b) Nothing contained in this section or section 4009 of this chapter shall be construed as limiting the power of an authority to vest in an obligee the right, in the event of a default by an authority, to take possession of a housing project or cause the appointment of a receiver thereof, or acquire title thereto through foreclosure proceedings, free from all the restrictions imposed by this section or section 4009 of this chapter.(c) The director of any housing authority may obtain from the Vermont Crime Information Center the record of convictions of any person applying for residence in any housing project administered by the housing authority. (Added 1961, No. 212, § 10, eff. July 11, 1961; amended 1995, No. 51, § 3; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 160.)
24 V.S.A. § 4011
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4011. Joint action

§ 4011. Joint action|Any two or more authorities may join or cooperate with one another in the exercise of any or all of the powers conferred by this chapter for the purpose of financing, planning, undertaking, constructing, or operating a housing project or projects located within the area of operation of any one or more of said authorities. (1961, No. 212, § 11, eff. July 11, 1961.)
24 V.S.A. § 4012
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4012. Eminent domain; exemption of property from execution

§ 4012. Eminent domain; exemption of property from execution|(a) An authority shall have the right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property that it may deem necessary for its purposes under this chapter after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the real property described therein is necessary for such purposes. An authority may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided for the condemnation of land or rights therein as set forth in 19 V.S.A. §§ 500-514 and 519 and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired, provided that no real property belonging to the city, county, State, or any political subdivision thereof may be acquired without its consent.(b) Where it appears to the satisfaction of the court at any stage of the proceedings, upon the petition of the authority that the public interest will be prejudiced by delay, the court may, after such notice to the parties in interest as it may prescribe, which notice, however, shall not be less than eight days and may be by posting upon the property or by publication in such paper or papers at such time as the court may require, order that the authority be permitted to enter immediately upon the real property described in the petition, or any part thereof and to demolish any structures located thereon and to proceed with the construction of the project thereon, upon depositing with the court a sum of money or in lieu thereof, bonds or obligations of the United States of equivalent or greater value, not less than the last assessed valuation of the property, that the court shall find to be sufficient for the protection of the persons who may be entitled to the award. Such deposit or proceeds thereof shall be applied so far as it may be necessary for that purpose, to the payment of any award that may be made, with interest thereon, costs and expenses and the residue, if any, shall be returned to the authority; in the event of a deficiency in the sum deposited, the authority shall pay the balance to make up the award in accordance with the judgment.(c) All real property of any housing authority, created pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against the same nor shall any judgment against such authority be a charge or lien upon its real property; provided however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to or limit the right of obligees to foreclose or otherwise enforce any mortgage of such an authority or the right of obligees to pursue any remedy for the enforcement of any pledge or liens given by such an authority on its rents, fees, or revenues. (Added 1961, No. 212, § 12, eff. July 11, 1961; amended 2011, No. 126 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
24 V.S.A. § 4013
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4013. Zoning

§ 4013. Zoning|All housing projects of an authority shall be subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary, and building laws, ordinances, and regulations applicable to the locality in which the housing project is situated. In the planning and location of any housing project, an authority shall take into consideration the relationship of the project to any larger plan or long range program for the development of the area in which the housing authority functions. (1961, No. 212, § 13, eff. July 11, 1961.)
24 V.S.A. § 4014
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4014. Bonds, issuance of

§ 4014. Bonds, issuance of|(a) An authority shall have power to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. An authority shall also have power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds issued previously by it.(b) Neither the commissioners of an authority nor any person executing the bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof. The bonds and other obligations of an authority, and such bonds and obligations shall so state on their face, shall not be a debt of the municipality, the State, or any political subdivision thereof and neither the municipality, nor the State or any political subdivision thereof shall be liable thereon. Nor in any event shall such bonds or obligations be payable out of any funds or properties other than those of said authority. Bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any debt limitation or any restriction. Bonds of an authority are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose and to be public instrumentalities and together with interest thereon and income therefrom, shall be exempt from taxes. (1961, No. 212, § 14, eff. July 11, 1961.)
24 V.S.A. § 4015
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 113 - Housing Authorities|§ 4015. Bonds authorized; conversion privileges

§ 4015. Bonds authorized; conversion privileges|(a) Bonds of an authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such conversion or registration privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium as such resolution, its trust indenture, or mortgage may provide.(b) The bonds may be sold at not less than par at public sale held after notice published once at least five days prior to such sale in a newspaper having a general circulation in the municipality and in a financial newspaper published in the city of Boston, Massachusetts or in the city of New York, New York, except that in the case of bonds of the State Authority, such notice shall be published only in a financial newspaper as described in this subsection. All bonds may be sold at not less than par to the federal government at private sale without any public advertisement.(c) In case any of the commissioners or officers of the authority whose signatures appear on the bonds or coupons shall cease to be such commissioners or officers before the delivery of such bonds such signature shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if they had remained in office until such delivery. Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be fully negotiable.(d) In any suit, action, or proceedings involving the validity or enforceability of any bond of an authority or the security thereof, any such bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the authority to aid in financing a housing project to provide dwelling accommodations for persons of low income shall be conclusively deemed to have been issued for a housing project of such character and said project shall be conclusively deemed to be planned, located, and constructed in accordance with the provisions and purposes of this chapter. (1961, No. 212, § 15, eff. July 11, 1961; amended 1967, No. 332 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. March 23, 1968; 1969, No. 285 (Adj. Sess.), § 11, eff. April 9, 1970.)