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24A V.S.A. § 413-211
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-211. Rules of procedures

§ 413-211. Rules of procedures|Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, Robert's Rules of Order shall govern at all meetings.
24A V.S.A. § 413-212
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-212. Compensation of members of Board of Supervisors

§ 413-212. Compensation of members of Board of Supervisors|Each member municipality shall pay to its representatives to the Board of Supervisors such reimbursement of expenses as it shall determine reasonable.
24A V.S.A. § 413-301
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-301. Officers

§ 413-301. Officers|The officers of the District shall be the Chair and the Vice Chair of the Board of Supervisors, the Clerk of the District, and the Treasurer of the District.
24A V.S.A. § 413-302
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-302. Bond

§ 413-302. Bond|Prior to assuming their offices, all officers shall post bond in such amounts as shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Supervisors. The cost of such bond shall be borne by the District.
24A V.S.A. § 413-303
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-303. Chair

§ 413-303. Chair|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.
24A V.S.A. § 413-304
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-304. Vice Chair

§ 413-304. Vice Chair|During the absence of or inability of the Chair to render or perform his or her duties or exercise his or her powers, the same shall be performed and exercised by the Vice Chair and when so acting, the Vice Chair shall have all the powers and be subject to all the responsibilities hereby given to or imposed upon the Chair.
24A V.S.A. § 413-305
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-305. Vacancy

§ 413-305. Vacancy|During the absence or inability of the Vice Chair to render or perform his or her duties or exercise his or her powers, the Board of Supervisors shall elect from among its membership an acting Vice Chair who shall have the powers and be subject to all the responsibilities hereby given or imposed upon the Vice Chair.
24A V.S.A. § 413-306
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-306. Clerk

§ 413-306. Clerk|The Clerk of the District shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors, shall not be a member of the Board, and shall serve at its pleasure. The Clerk shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the public records of the District and the Seal of the District. The Clerk shall record all votes and proceedings of the District, including meetings of the District and meetings of the Board of Supervisors, and shall cause to be posted and published all warnings of meetings of the District. The Clerk shall prepare all warnings of meetings of the District as required by subchapter 5 of this chapter. Following approval by the Board of Supervisors, the Clerk shall cause the annual report to be distributed to the legislative branches of its member municipalities. The Clerk shall prepare and distribute any other reports required by laws of the State of Vermont and resolutions or regulations of the Board of Supervisors. The Clerk shall perform all of the duties and functions incident to the office of secretary or clerk of a body corporate.
24A V.S.A. § 413-307
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-307. Treasurer

§ 413-307. Treasurer|The Treasurer of the District shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors, shall not be a member of the Board, and shall serve at its pleasure. The Treasurer shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the funds of the District and shall be the disbursing officer of the District. When authorized by the Board of Supervisors, the Treasurer may sign, make, or endorse in the name of the District all checks and orders for the payment of money and pay out and disburse the same and receipt therefor. The Treasurer shall keep a record of every note or bond issued by the District and of every payment thereon of principal and interest and, if coupons are taken up, shall cancel and preserve them. The Treasurer shall keep correct books of account of all the business and transactions of the District and such other books and accounts as the Board of Supervisors may require. The Treasurer shall render a statement of the condition of the finances of the District at each regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors and at such other times as shall be required of the Treasurer. The Treasurer shall prepare the annual financial statement and the budget of the District for distribution, upon approval of the Board of Supervisors, to the legislative bodies of the member municipalities. The Treasurer shall do and perform all of the duties appertaining to the office of treasurer of a body politic and corporate. The treasurer shall settle with the auditors within 60 days of the end of the fiscal year, at such other times as the Board of Supervisors may require, and upon retirement from office. Upon retirement from office, the Treasurer shall immediately pay over to his or her successor all of the funds belonging to the District and at the same time deliver to his or her successor all official books and papers.
24A V.S.A. § 413-308
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-308. Records

§ 413-308. Records|The conduct of all meetings and public access thereto, and the maintaining of all records, books, and accounts of the district shall be governed by the laws of this State relating to open meetings and accessibility of public records.
24A V.S.A. § 413-309
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-309. Audit

§ 413-309. Audit|The Board of Supervisors shall cause an audit to be performed annually by an independent professional accounting firm or a certified public accountant.
24A V.S.A. § 413-310
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-310. Executive Board

§ 413-310. Executive Board|The Board of Supervisors shall have the authority to establish an Executive Board and grant such powers as it may deem necessary.
24A V.S.A. § 413-311
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-311. Committees

§ 413-311. Committees|The Board of Supervisors shall have the authority to establish any and all committees as it may deem necessary.
24A V.S.A. § 413-312
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-312. Compensation of officers

§ 413-312. Compensation of officers|Officers of the District shall be paid such compensation or reimbursement of expenses, or both, as shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors.
24A V.S.A. § 413-313
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-313. Recall of officers

§ 413-313. Recall of officers|An officer may be removed by a two-thirds vote of the Board of Supervisors whenever, in its judgment, the best interest of the District will be served.
24A V.S.A. § 413-401
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-401. Fiscal year

§ 413-401. Fiscal year|The fiscal year of the District shall commence on July 1 and end on June 30 of the following year.
24A V.S.A. § 413-402
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-402. Budget appropriation and assessment

§ 413-402. Budget appropriation and assessment|(a) Proposed budget. Annually, on or before December 1, the Board of Supervisors shall approve and cause to be distributed to the legislative branch of each member municipality for review and comment an annual report of its activities, including a financial statement, and a proposed budget of the District for the next fiscal year. This proposed budget shall include reasonably detailed estimates of:  (1) Deficits or surpluses, or both, from prior fiscal years; (2) Anticipated expenditures for the administration of the District; (3) Anticipated expenditures for the operation and maintenance of any District solid waste facilities; (4) Costs of debt service; (5) Payments due on long-term contracts; (6) Payments due to any sinking funds for the retirement of debts; (7) Payments due to any capital reserve funds; (8) Anticipated revenues from sources other than assessments to member municipalities; (9) The necessary appropriations to operate and carry out the District's functions for the next fiscal year; (10) The proposed assessment to each member municipality; and (11) Such other estimates as the Board of Supervisors shall deem necessary to propose.   (b) Public hearing. The Board of Supervisors shall hold a public hearing on or before November 1 of each year to receive comments from the legislative bodies of member municipalities and hear all other interested persons regarding the proposed budget. Notice of such hearing shall be the same as that specified under subchapter 5 of this chapter. The Board of Supervisors shall give consideration to all comments received and make such changes to the proposed budget as it deems advisable.(c) Budget adoption, appropriations, and assessment. Annually, on or before December 1, the Board of Supervisors shall adopt the budget, appropriate the sums which it deems necessary to operate and carry out the District's functions for the next ensuing fiscal year, assess each member municipality for its proportionate share of the sums so appropriated, and adopt a schedule designating when such assessments are due and payable by the member municipalities.(d) Apportionment of assessments. Assessments shall be apportioned among the member municipalities on a per capita basis or upon such other basis as the Board of Supervisors determines from time to time will be reasonable.
24A V.S.A. § 413-403
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-403. Collection

§ 413-403. Collection|Annually, on or before January 1, the Treasurer of the District shall issue and present a warrant to the legislative branch of each member municipality requiring that 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 branch of each member municipality shall draw an order on the municipal treasury for the amount of such assessment, if any, to be paid to him or her 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, it shall incur the maximum penalty allowed by law plus interest at the maximum rate allowed by law. Such penalty and 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.
24A V.S.A. § 413-404
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-404. Limitations of appropriations

§ 413-404. Limitations of appropriations|Actions or resolutions of the Board of Supervisors for the annual appropriations of any year shall not cease to be operative at the end of the fiscal year for which they were adopted, except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Vermont. Appropriations made by the Board of Supervisors for the various estimates of the budget as defined in subsection 402(a) of this subchapter shall be expended only for such estimates, but by majority vote of the Board of Supervisors, the budget may be amended from time to time to transfer funds between or among such estimates, except as otherwise limited herein. Any balance left or unencumbered in any such budget estimate, or the amount of any deficit at the end of the fiscal year, shall be included in and paid out of the operating budget and appropriations in the next fiscal year.
24A V.S.A. § 413-406
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-406. Sinking fund

§ 413-406. Sinking fund|The Board of Supervisors may establish and provide for a sinking Fund, however denominated, for the retirement of bond issue or other debt, or to provide security for the payment thereof. When so established, it shall be kept intact and separate from other monies at the disposal of the District, and shall be accounted for as a pledged asset for the purpose of retiring or securing such obligations. The cost of payments to any sinking fund shall be included in the annual budget of the District.
24A V.S.A. § 413-407
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-407. Capital reserve fund

§ 413-407. Capital reserve fund|The Board of Supervisors shall establish and provide for a capital reserve fund to pay for public improvements, replacement of worn-out buildings and equipment, and planned and unplanned major repairs of a disposal facility, in furtherance of the purpose for which the District was created. Any such capital reserve fund shall be kept in a separate account and invested as are other public funds and shall be expended for such purposes for which established. The cost of payments to any capital reserve fund shall be included in the annual budget of the District.
24A V.S.A. § 413-408
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-408. Disposal fees

§ 413-408. Disposal fees|The Board of Supervisors may from time to time establish and adjust a disposal fee structure (tipping fee) or such other user based fees as it deems appropriate 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.
24A V.S.A. § 413-501
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-501. Special meetings

§ 413-501. Special meetings|The Board of Supervisors may call a special meeting of the District when it deems it necessary or prudent to do so and shall call a special meeting of the District when action by the voters of the District is necessary under this agreement or under any applicable law. In addition, the Board of Supervisors shall call a special meeting of the District if petitioned to do so by not less than five percent of the legal voters of the District. The Board of Supervisors may rescind the call of a special meeting called by them but not a special meeting called on application of five percent of the legal voters of the District. The Board of Supervisors shall endeavor to have the time of such special meetings coincide with the time of annual municipal meetings, primary elections, general elections, or similar meetings when the electorate within the member municipalities will be voting on other matters.
24A V.S.A. § 413-502
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-502. Places of meetings

§ 413-502. Places of meetings|At any special meeting of the District, voters of each member municipality shall cast their ballots at such polling places within the municipality of their residence as shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors of the District in cooperation with the board of civil authority of each member municipality.
24A V.S.A. § 413-503
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-503. Public hearings

§ 413-503. Public hearings|Not less than three nor more than 14 days prior to any special meeting called by the Board of Supervisors, at least one public hearing shall be held by the Board of Supervisors at which time the issues under consideration shall be presented and comments received. Notice of such public hearing shall include the publication of a warning in a newspaper of general circulation in the District at least once a week, on the same day of the week, for three consecutive weeks, the last publication not less than five nor more than 10 days before the public hearing.
24A V.S.A. § 413-504
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-504. Warnings required

§ 413-504. Warnings required|The Board of Supervisors of the District shall warn a special meeting of the District by filing a notice with the clerk of each member municipality and by posting a notice in at least five public places in each municipality in the District not less than 30 nor more than 40 days before the meeting. In addition, the warning shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the District once a week on the same day of the week for three consecutive weeks before the meeting, the last publication to be not less than five nor more than 10 days before the meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 413-505
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-505. Signing of warning

§ 413-505. Signing of warning|The original warning of any special meeting of the District shall be signed by a number of the Board of Supervisors equal to a majority of the total votes entitled to be cast and shall be filed with the District Clerk before being posted.
24A V.S.A. § 413-506
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-506. Warning contents

§ 413-506. Warning contents|The posted notification shall include the date, time, place, and nature of the meeting. It shall, by separate articles, specifically indicate the business to be transacted and the questions to be voted upon. The warning also shall contain any article requested by petition signed by five percent of the voters of the District and filed with the District Clerk not less than 40 days before the date of any District meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 413-507
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-507. Australian ballot

§ 413-507. Australian ballot|The Australian ballot system shall be used at all special meetings of the District when voting is to take place.
24A V.S.A. § 413-508
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-508. Qualifications and registration of voters

§ 413-508. Qualifications and registration of voters|All legal voters of the member municipalities shall be legal voters of the District. The member municipalities shall post and revise checklists in the same manner as for municipal meetings prior to any District meeting at which there will be voting.
24A V.S.A. § 413-509
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-509. Conduct of meetings

§ 413-509. Conduct of meetings|At all special meetings of the District, the provisions of 17 V.S.A. chapter 51 regarding election officials (subchapter 1), voting machines (subchapter 3), polling places (subchapter 4), absent voters (subchapter 6), process of voting (subchapter 7), count and return of votes (subchapter 8), recounts and contest of elections (subchapter 9), and jurisdiction of courts (subchapter 10) shall apply except where clearly inapplicable. The District Clerk shall perform the functions assigned to the Secretary of State under that chapter. The Franklin Superior Court shall have jurisdiction over petitions for recounts. Election expenses shall be borne by the District.
24A V.S.A. § 413-510
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 413 - Northwest Vermont Solid Waste Management District|App § 413-510. Reconsideration or rescission of vote

§ 413-510. Reconsideration or rescission of vote|(a) A question voted on at any special meeting of the District shall not be submitted to the voters for reconsideration or rescission, except at a subsequent special meeting duly warned for that purpose, and called by the Board of Supervisors on its own motion or pursuant to a petition requesting such reconsideration or rescission signed and submitted in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.(b) Where a petition signed by not less than five percent of the qualified voters of the District requesting reconsideration or rescission of a question considered or voted on at a previous special meeting is submitted to the Board of Supervisors of the District within 30 days following the date of that meeting, the Board of Supervisors shall provide for a vote by the District in accordance with the petition within 60 days of the submission at a special meeting duly warned for that purpose.(c) A vote taken at 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 or considered shall not be presented for reconsideration or rescission at more than one subsequent meeting except with the approval of the Board of Supervisors.