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24A V.S.A. § 901-45
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 901 - Central Vermont Public Safety Authority|App § 901-45. Reconsideration or rescission of vote

§ 901-45. Reconsideration or rescission of vote|(a) A question voted on at any special meeting of the Authority shall not be submitted for reconsideration or rescission except at a subsequent special meeting duly warned for that purpose and called by the Board on its own motion or pursuant to a petition requesting such reconsideration or rescission signed and submitted in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.(b) Where a petition signed by not less than five percent of the qualified voters of the Authority requesting reconsideration or rescission of a question considered or voted on at a previous special meeting is submitted to the Board within 30 days following the date of that meeting, the Board shall provide for a vote by the Authority in accordance with the petition within 60 days of the submission at a special meeting duly warned for that purpose.(c) A vote taken by a special meeting shall remain in effect unless rescinded at a special meeting called and warned in accordance with this section.(d) A question voted on shall not be presented for reconsideration or rescission at more than one subsequent meeting without the approval of the Board. (Added 2013, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)
24A V.S.A. § 901-46
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 901 - Central Vermont Public Safety Authority|App § 901-46. Validation of Authority meetings

§ 901-46. Validation of Authority meetings|(a) When any of the requirements as to notice or warning of a special Authority meeting have been omitted or not complied with, if the meeting and the business transacted is otherwise legal, the omission or noncompliance may be corrected and legalized by vote at a special meeting of the Authority called and duly warned for that purpose.(b) The question to be voted upon shall substantially be: "Shall the action taken at the meeting of the Authority held on (state date), in spite of the fact that (state the error or omission), and any act or action of the Authority officers or agents pursuant thereto be readopted, ratified, or confirmed?"(c)(1) Errors or omissions in the conduct of any prior special meeting which are not the result of an unlawful notice or warning or noncompliance within the scope of the warning may be cured by a resolution of the Board by a vote of at least two-thirds of all the votes entitled to be cast at a regular meeting or a special meeting called for that purpose, stating that a defect was the result of an oversight, inadvertence, or mistake.  (2) When an error or omission has been corrected by resolution, all business within the terms of the action of the qualified voters shall be as valid as if the requirements had been in compliance initially on the condition that the original action by the Board was otherwise in compliance with the legal exercise of its corporate powers. (Added 2013, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)
24A V.S.A. § 901-47
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 901 - Central Vermont Public Safety Authority|App § 901-47. Priority

§ 901-47. Priority|When a special meeting of the Authority is called to act to incur bonded or other indebtedness or to enter into a long-term contract and the meeting procedures in this chapter conflict with the procedures in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 1, the procedures in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 1 shall prevail. (Added 2013, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)
24A V.S.A. § 901-48
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 901 - Central Vermont Public Safety Authority|App § 901-48. Withdrawal of a municipality

§ 901-48. Withdrawal of a municipality|(a)(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, a member may vote to withdraw from this chapter in the same manner as it votes to adopt the chapter if three years have elapsed since the Authority has become a body politic and corporate and if the Authority has not voted to bond for construction and improvements, all in accordance with 24 V.S.A. § 4863(g).  (2) The provisions of 24 V.S.A. § 4863(i) and (j) shall apply so that any vote of withdrawal taken less than one year from the time the Authority has become a body politic and corporate or any vote of withdrawal taken after the Authority has voted to bond for construction and improvements shall be null and void. (3) The membership of a withdrawing member shall terminate as of one year following a valid vote to withdraw or as soon after such one-year period as the financial obligations of the withdrawing member have been paid to the Authority. (4) Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (a), in the event that the General Assembly of the State of Vermont shall specifically approve, a member may vote to withdraw from the Authority at any time.   (b) The financial obligations of a withdrawing member shall include all ongoing costs and assessments of the Authority until the withdrawing member has entered into a written agreement satisfactory to counsel for the Authority obliging the withdrawing municipality as follows:  (1) to continue to pay its share of all debts incurred by the Authority for the remaining terms of all bonds and contracts in existence at the time when the vote to withdraw was taken; (2) to pay its share, based upon its assessment for the year in which it withdraws, of the defense costs and judgment rendered in any legal action brought against the Authority arising or accruing in any year during which it was a member of the Authority; (3) to pay its share, based upon its assessment for the year in which it withdraws, of all unbudgeted costs and expenses of the Authority arising out of the activities of the Authority during the withdrawing member's term of membership, regardless of when such costs and expenses may be discovered; and (4) to pay all of these additional costs either in a lump sum or in installments at such times and in such amounts as required by the Board.   (c)(1) After a member has voted to withdraw, the Board shall give notice to the remaining members of the vote to withdraw and shall hold a meeting to determine if it is in the best interest of the Authority to continue to exist. All interested parties shall be given an opportunity to be heard.  (2) If the Board determines that it would be in the best interests of the Authority to cease operations, the Board may prepare and implement a plan for dissolution of the Authority. (Added 2013, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)
24A V.S.A. § 901-49
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 901 - Central Vermont Public Safety Authority|App § 901-49. Admission of additional municipalities

§ 901-49. Admission of additional municipalities|(a) The Board, by the affirmative vote of directors representing at least two-thirds of all votes entitled to be cast on behalf of all members and comprising at least two-thirds of all possible directors (including vacancies), may authorize the inclusion of additional municipalities in the Authority upon such terms and conditions as it shall deem to be fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of the Authority.(b) The petitioning municipality shall comply thereafter with the approval procedures specified in 24 V.S.A. chapter 121 (intermunicipal cooperation and services). If a majority of the voters of the petitioning municipality present and voting at a meeting of such municipality duly warned for such purpose shall vote to approve the agreement and the terms and conditions for admission, the vote shall be certified by the clerk of that municipality to the Secretary of the Authority, and the municipality shall be a member. (Added 2013, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)
24A V.S.A. § 901-50
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 901 - Central Vermont Public Safety Authority|App § 901-50. Dissolution of the Authority

§ 901-50. Dissolution of the Authority|(a)(1) Upon the affirmative vote of directors representing at least two-thirds of all votes entitled to be cast on behalf of all members and comprising at least two-thirds of the directors present, the Board may prepare a plan of dissolution for submission to the voters of the Authority at a special meeting of the Authority duly warned for such purposes.  (2) If the voters of the Authority present and voting at such special meeting of the Authority vote to dissolve the Authority, the Authority shall cease to conduct its affairs except insofar as may be necessary to complete the plan of dissolution and conclude its affairs. (3) The Board of Directors shall cause a notice of the plan of dissolution to be mailed to each known creditor of the Authority and to the Secretary of State.   (b) The plan of dissolution shall, at a minimum:  (1) identify and value all assets of the Authority; (2) identify all liabilities of the Authority, including contract obligation; (3) determine how the assets of the Authority shall be liquidated and how the liabilities and obligations of the Authority shall be paid, to include assessments against municipalities of the Authority; and (4) specify that any assets remaining after payment of all liabilities shall be apportioned and distributed among the municipalities according to the same basic formula used in apportioning the costs of the Authority to the municipalities.   (c) When the plan of dissolution has been fully implemented, the Board shall certify that fact to the members whereupon this chapter and the Authority shall be terminated. (Added 2013, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)
24A V.S.A. § 901-51
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 901 - Central Vermont Public Safety Authority|App § 901-51. Amendment of the Authority agreement

§ 901-51. Amendment of the Authority agreement|(a)(1) Amendments to this chapter may be proposed by a petition signed by five percent of the voters of the members, or by the Board, by a resolution expressing the intention to amend the chapter.  (2) A copy of such resolution shall be mailed to the legislative bodies of the members and to each director at least ten days prior to the meeting scheduled to act on the proposal of amendment.   (b) Unless a majority of the members request, in writing, on or before the date of the meeting scheduled to act on the amendment, that the Board hold a special meeting of the Authority to vote on the amendment, the Board may adopt the amendment.(c)(1) Within ten days of the adoption of the amendment by the Board or by the voters of the Authority, the Secretary of the Authority shall certify to the Secretary of State each proposal of amendment.  (2) The Secretary of State and the General Assembly shall then proceed as with municipal charter amendments under 17 V.S.A. § 2645.   (d) No amendment shall substantially impair the rights of the holders of any bonds or other notes or other evidence of indebtedness or substantially affect any obligations under long-term contracts of the Authority then outstanding or in effect, or the rights of the Authority to procure the means for payment, continuation, or termination thereof. (Added 2013, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)
24A V.S.A. § 901-52
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 901 - Central Vermont Public Safety Authority|App § 901-52. Seal

§ 901-52. Seal|The Authority shall have a seal designed as the Board requires. (Added 2013, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)
24A V.S.A. § 901-53
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 901 - Central Vermont Public Safety Authority|App § 901-53. Severability

§ 901-53. Severability|Should any court of competent jurisdiction judge any term, phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this chapter to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, such judgment shall not affect the validity, legality, or enforceability of the chapter as a whole or any other part of this chapter. (Added 2013, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)
24A V.S.A. § 901-54
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 901 - Central Vermont Public Safety Authority|App § 901-54. Ratification

§ 901-54. Ratification|(a) This chapter shall take effect upon the approval by the voters of each member, at its annual meeting; enactment of the chapter by the General Assembly; and subsequent to the enactment, ratification of the chapter by each of the legislative bodies of the members.(b) The legislative bodies of the members shall have authority to ratify ceding of authority over different services, as the Authority evolves. The Authority shall make formal separate requests of the legislative bodies for dispatch, police, fire, and emergency services, as the Authority is ready to begin administering those services, and the legislative bodies of each member shall then vote on ceding such authority to the Authority. (Added 2013, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 20, 2014.)
25 V.S.A. § 82
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 1 - Operation of Vessels|§ 82. Lake Champlain

§ 82. Lake Champlain|Steamboats, sloops, schooners, rafts, vessels, and other watercraft, navigating in the nighttime on Lake Champlain, within this State, or on a bay, harbor, river, or creek, the waters of which are common to such Lake, and when lying at anchor or at rest in the said waters shall carry and show such lights as are required by the applicable provisions of 33 U.S.C. §§ 172-180 and 46 U.S.C. § 526(b), United States Code, as amended. If found without such lights, the captain, owner, master, or other person having charge, shall be fined not more than $50.00 nor less than $10.00.
25 V.S.A. § 141
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 3 - General Provisions Relating to Rivers and Streams|§ 141. Public easement

§ 141. Public easement|A public easement in a stream shall not be lost or abridged by prescription or adverse possession.
25 V.S.A. § 145
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 3 - General Provisions Relating to Rivers and Streams|§ 145. Remedy of person aggrieved by action of the selectboard

§ 145. Remedy of person aggrieved by action of the selectboard|When a person considers himself or herself injured by the action of the selectboard, he or she may apply to the Superior Court of the county for relief. (Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974)
25 V.S.A. § 146
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 3 - General Provisions Relating to Rivers and Streams|§ 146. Removal of trees and bushes from land prior to flowage

§ 146. Removal of trees and bushes from land prior to flowage|(a) All land which may be flowed by damming, taking, storing, or diverting, or raising the level or increasing the area of the volume of the waters of any stream, river, lake, or pond, by a corporation or association existing under any charter or authority of the State, or holding or acquiring control of any stream, river, lake, or pond by virtue of any charter or authority of the State, shall, prior to such flowing, be cleared of all trees and bushes which shall be removed or burned, and shall be further cleared to the low water mark of such stream, pond, or reservoir, by cutting close to the ground all trees, bushes, and stumps.(b) This section shall not be construed so as to prevent constructions and developments specifically authorized by a charter granted by the General Assembly, nor so as to prevent or interfere with such usage of the waters of any stream, river, lake, and pond, or such use of constructions and developments, as may be necessary for the proper enjoyment of rights and powers specifically authorized by such charter nor so as to prevent or interfere with the performance of any duties imposed by such charter.
25 V.S.A. § 201
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 5 - Floating Lumber|§ 201. Boom for logs

§ 201. Boom for logs|When it becomes necessary for a person rightfully engaged in running logs down a river or stream in this State to anchor a boom for such logs on land bounding upon such river or stream, and he or she is unable to agree with the owner or occupant of such land with reference thereto, such person may call upon the selectboard of the town wherein such land lies to act in the premises, by giving at least 48 hours' notice in writing thereof to such owner or occupant. Thereupon the selectboard shall investigate and decide as to the necessity and location of such boom, the time during which it shall remain, and the amount of damage, if any. The decision of the selectboard shall be in writing and be final. When such person has paid or tendered to the selectboard his or her fees in the matter and to the owner or occupant of such land the damages awarded, the boom may be anchored in accordance with the findings of the selectmen.
25 V.S.A. § 202
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 5 - Floating Lumber|§ 202. Retention of lodged lumber for damages

§ 202. Retention of lodged lumber for damages|When lumber, such as spars, masts, square timber, logs, or sawed lumber, put into a stream in or adjoining the State, and lodged upon lands adjoining the same, or dams crossing such streams, in this State, is not taken away by the owner on or before May 1, annually, the owner of the lands or dams may detain in his or her possession such lumber, until the owner thereof pays the damages sustained by reason of its lying upon such lands or dams.
25 V.S.A. § 203
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 5 - Floating Lumber|§ 203. Removal of lumber

§ 203. Removal of lumber|When such lumber is not removed by the owner on or before November 1, annually, the owner of the lands or dams may take and convert it to his or her own use. The owner of the lumber, by paying the damages and costs, may remove the same from the lands or dams between November 1 and May 1 following.
25 V.S.A. § 204
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 5 - Floating Lumber|§ 204. Advertisement

§ 204. Advertisement|The lumber shall not be forfeited unless the owner of lands or dams upon which such lumber is lodged shall advertise the same at a public place in the town where the lumber is lodged, giving in the advertisement a description of the lumber, the owner's marks, if any, and also cause the advertisement to be recorded in the town clerk's office, in the month of September, in the same year.
25 V.S.A. § 205
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 5 - Floating Lumber|§ 205. Fees

§ 205. Fees|The person advertising the lumber shall be entitled to receive $0.34 for the copy of the advertisement left with the town clerk, and $0.06 a mile travel to advertise the same. Such fees shall be paid by the owner of the lumber at the time the damage is paid to the owner of the land or dam, when the lumber does not become forfeited. When the lumber is forfeited, the fees shall be paid by the party advertising. (Amended 1971, No. 84, § 13.)
25 V.S.A. § 206
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 5 - Floating Lumber|§ 206. Adjustment of damages

§ 206. Adjustment of damages|When the owner of such lumber and the owner of the lands or dams do not agree upon the damages, the selectboard of the town where the lands or dams are situated, not being interested therein, shall adjust the same. If such selectboard members are interested, a superior judge not interested, shall adjust the damages. Such adjudication shall be final between the parties. (Amended 1973, No. 249 (Adj. Sess.), § 82, eff. April 9, 1974.)
25 V.S.A. § 207
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 5 - Floating Lumber|§ 207. Treble damages for stopping or conversion of floating lumber

§ 207. Treble damages for stopping or conversion of floating lumber|When a person stops masts, spars, square timber, logs, or sawed lumber and confines it in a place in this State, so as to prevent it from floating down a stream in or adjoining this State, such lumber being marked with the owner's name or mark, or destroys, makes use of, or disposes of the same, except such as becomes forfeit, he or she shall be liable to the owner for three times the value of the lumber, if it is found on trial that the same was done in bad faith, otherwise the judgment shall be for the actual damages.
25 V.S.A. § 241
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 5 - Floating Lumber|§ 241. Application of provisions

§ 241. Application of provisions|This subchapter shall apply to every person, partnership, unincorporated association, or corporation that shall drive or float lumber in any stream. The use of any such stream for such purpose shall constitute an election on the part of such person, partnership, unincorporated association, or corporation to be subject to the provisions of this subchapter and to be bound thereby. This subchapter shall apply to every owner of the land adjoining any stream so used for the purpose of driving or floating lumber, unless, within 60 days after an alleged injury, the owner notifies, in writing, the Public Utility Commission that the provisions of this subchapter are not intended to apply. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961.)
25 V.S.A. § 242
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 5 - Floating Lumber|§ 242. Petition to Public Utility Commission

§ 242. Petition to Public Utility Commission|When damage is done to such owner by such lumber in the driving or floating of the same and such owner and the owner of the lumber do not agree upon the damages, either party may prefer a petition to the Public Utility Commission setting forth the injury alleged to be sustained and praying for the redress provided for by this subchapter. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961.)
25 V.S.A. § 243
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 5 - Floating Lumber|§ 243. Notice and hearing; decision

§ 243. Notice and hearing; decision|Upon due notice to all parties in interest, the Public Utility Commission shall hear and determine the cause of such injury to the land or other property adjoining such stream. When the Commission determines that such injury was caused by the driving or floating of lumber, it shall fix the compensation to be paid therefor, including expense for witnesses and a reasonable attorney fee, and render decision accordingly, which decision shall be final and a bar to any other action brought for such damages. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961.)
25 V.S.A. § 244
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 25 - Navigation and Waters|Chapter 5 - Floating Lumber|§ 244. Judgment on decision

§ 244. Judgment on decision|A party in interest may file in the Superior Court for the county in which the inquiry was held a certified copy of the decision of the Commission awarding compensation, whereupon such court shall render judgment in accordance therewith and notify the parties thereof. Such judgment shall have the same effect, and all proceedings in relation thereto shall thereafter be the same as though such judgment had been rendered in an action duly heard and determined by such court, and there shall be no appeal therefrom. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974.)