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24 V.S.A. § 1304
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1304. First meeting; officers

§ 1304. First meeting; officers|(a) Within 60 days after record of its name and bounds has been made, the voters in such village shall meet in the village. Notice of the day, hour, and place of the meeting, signed by the town clerk, or, upon his or her default, by a selectperson, shall be posted in four public places in the village and published once in each newspaper published therein, at least ten days previous thereto. The meeting may be called to order by the officer signing the notice.(b) At such meeting, or at an adjournment thereof, the corporation shall elect a presiding officer, a clerk, five trustees, a treasurer, and a collector of taxes and may elect a tree warden and chief engineer who shall hold their offices until the first annual meeting and until others are elected and qualified. Any qualified and eligible voter of the town in which such village is situated may be elected as such tax collector, chief engineer, clerk, treasurer, or presiding officer. (Amended 1961, No. 11, eff. March 3, 1961; 2003, No. 90 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
24 V.S.A. § 1305
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1305. Meetings; warnings

§ 1305. Meetings; warnings|After the first election, a meeting of such corporation shall be held in each year at the time and place designated in its bylaws, to elect officers and for the transaction of business specified in the warning of such meeting. Special meetings may be called by the trustees. Warnings shall be signed by the clerk, shall specify the business to be transacted as the trustees direct, shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the village, and shall be posted in two public places in such village, not more than 40 days nor less than 30 days before such meeting. Such warning shall be recorded in the office of the clerk before it is posted. (Amended 1985, No. 196 (Adj. Sess.), § 20.)
24 V.S.A. § 1306
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1306. Oaths and bonds of officers

§ 1306. Oaths and bonds of officers|The clerk, treasurer, and collector of such corporation shall be sworn. The treasurer and collector shall give a bond to the corporation in such sum and with such sureties as are prescribed and approved by the trustees, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties.
24 V.S.A. § 1307
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1307. Duties of clerk; fees

§ 1307. Duties of clerk; fees|The clerk shall keep records of the proceedings of such corporation and give copies of the same when required. He or she shall be paid therefor the same fees as a town clerk.
24 V.S.A. § 1308
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1308. Duties of trustees; vacancies

§ 1308. Duties of trustees; vacancies|The trustees of a village incorporated under general or special law shall see that its bylaws are executed, direct prosecutions for breaches thereof, and generally shall take care of the affairs of such corporation and perform the duties legally enjoined on them by such corporation. In case of the death, removal, absence, or incapacity of the clerk, the trustees may designate one of their number to perform his or her duties, and may fill a temporary vacancy in any office of such corporation, until an election is had. A record of such appointment shall be made in the office of the clerk of the village.
24 V.S.A. § 1309
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1309. Taxes; assessment and collection

§ 1309. Taxes; assessment and collection|At a meeting legally warned for that purpose, corporations formed under this subchapter may vote a tax upon the taxable estate therein or may vote a specific amount to be appropriated for the lawful purposes of the corporation. If a corporation votes a specific amount to be appropriated, the trustees shall, after the grand list book has been computed and lodged, set the tax rate necessary to raise the specific amount voted. The trustees shall make out and deliver to the collector a tax bill, with a warrant for its collection, and the collector shall have the same powers to collect such tax bill as a collector of town taxes. (Amended 2003, No. 90 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)
24 V.S.A. § 1310
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1310. Bylaws

§ 1310. Bylaws|An incorporated village may enact such bylaws and regulations as are expedient, not inconsistent with law, particularly such as relate to streets, sidewalks, lanes, commons, shade and ornamental trees and lights thereon, slaughterhouses and nuisances, police protection, restraint of animals, erection and regulation of buildings and hay scales, the preservation of buildings, with the right of directing alterations in stoves, fireplaces, and causes from which danger from fire may be apprehended, fire engines and other apparatus necessary for the extinguishment of fire, establishment and regulation of fire companies, and to the manufacture and safekeeping of ashes, explosives, and combustibles.
24 V.S.A. § 1311
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1311. Forfeiture for breach of bylaws

§ 1311. Forfeiture for breach of bylaws|An incorporated village may fix the amount of forfeitures for the breach of bylaws, not exceeding $20.00 for any one offense, to be recovered by a civil action on this statute. Such action shall be brought within 90 days from the time the offense is committed, before a Criminal Division of the Superior Court. (Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, operative Feb. 1, 1967; 1973, No. 249 (Adj. Sess.), § 79, eff. April 9, 1974; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238; 2017, No. 74, § 73.)
24 V.S.A. § 1312
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1312. Damages in laying out street; appeal

§ 1312. Damages in laying out street; appeal|The trustees of an incorporated village may lay out a street, lane, or walk within its limits, and may appraise the damages. An appeal may be taken by landowners as provided when land is taken for highways.
24 V.S.A. § 1313
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1313. Village may indemnify officers

§ 1313. Village may indemnify officers|An incorporated village, by vote, may indemnify a duly appointed public or peace officer of the village against legal proceedings for injuries committed by him or her while in the lawful discharge of his or her official duties. If an action is commenced against such officer, upon vote of such village, the trustees may defend such action at its expense.
24 V.S.A. § 1314
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1314. Powers of officers

§ 1314. Powers of officers|Where acts of incorporation or special laws applicable to villages give to any officers of the village powers conferred upon the selectboards of towns by general law, such village officers may exercise such powers within the limits of the village.
24 V.S.A. § 1315
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1315. Appointment of manager

§ 1315. Appointment of manager|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.
24 V.S.A. § 1316
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1316. Annexation of adjacent territory to villages

§ 1316. Annexation of adjacent territory to villages|The trustees of an incorporated village may petition in writing a judge of the Superior Court of the county in which such village is situated, to have commissioners appointed to determine the advisability of enlarging the limits of such village, by including territory of the town in which such village is situated. Thereupon, such judge shall appoint three disinterested freeholders, who shall act as such commissioners.
24 V.S.A. § 1317
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1317. Annexation; procedure

§ 1317. Annexation; procedure|The commissioners shall give notice of the time and place of hearing, hear parties interested, and decide whether such enlargement is advisable. When they decide in favor of the annexation, they shall fix the bounds of the territory to be annexed. If such village is divided into wards, they shall determine in what ward or wards such annexed territory shall be placed, or, if necessary, create additional wards out of the same. They shall cause their report, containing a statement of the bounds fixed for such annexed territory and of the new and altered wards, if any, to be recorded in the office of the town clerk. (Amended 2017, No. 74, § 74.)
24 V.S.A. § 1318
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1318. Annexation; fix time for voting

§ 1318. Annexation; fix time for voting|At the time of making their decision, if they decide in favor of enlargement, the commissioners shall appoint a time and place at which persons residing within the bounds of the territory sought to be annexed, as fixed by the commissioners, shall meet to vote upon the question of annexation. Such commissioners shall give public notice of such meeting in such manner as they see fit. (Amended 2017, No. 74, § 75.)
24 V.S.A. § 1319
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1319. Voting in territory proposed to be annexed

§ 1319. Voting in territory proposed to be annexed|At such meeting, the residents of such territory who are voters in town meeting may vote on the question of annexation. When a majority of such residents in number and amount of grand list vote in favor of such annexation, such vote shall be recorded in the office of the town clerk.
24 V.S.A. § 1320
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1320. Village to vote on question of annexation

§ 1320. Village to vote on question of annexation|Upon the record of such favorable vote, the trustees of such village shall cause a village meeting to be warned. At such meeting, the question of annexation shall be submitted to the voters of such village. When a majority in number of the voters at such meeting vote in favor of such annexation, such vote shall be recorded in the office of the town clerk. From the date of such record, the territory sought to be annexed shall become a part of such village.
24 V.S.A. § 1321
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 39 - Incorporated Villages|§ 1321. Rights of voters in annexed territory

§ 1321. Rights of voters in annexed territory|Persons residing in such annexed territory, who, at the time of such annexation, are voters in village meeting, shall forthwith become legal voters of such village and of the wards in which they reside, subject to the general provisions of its charter. A new or altered ward of such village shall be entitled to the same officers and privileges as other wards thereof.
24 V.S.A. § 1351
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 41 - Unified Towns and Gores in Essex County|§ 1351. Definitions

§ 1351. Definitions|In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:  (1) "Appraisers" means the appraisers for the unified towns and gores in Essex County, designated in section 1355 of this title. (2) "Board of Governors" means the Board of Governors for the unified towns and gores in Essex County, elected in section 1351a of this title. (3) "Gores" means the unified towns and gores in Essex County, or any one of them. (4) "Supervisor" means the supervisor for the unified towns and gores in Essex County, appointed in section 1351b of this title. (Added 1967, No. 331 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1969; amended 1999, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 18, 2000; 2003, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2005, No. 105 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
24 V.S.A. § 1351a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 41 - Unified Towns and Gores in Essex County|§ 1351a. Board of Governors

§ 1351a. Board of Governors|(a) The Board of Governors shall be composed of three individuals residing in the gores. At each annual meeting, the residents of the gores shall elect a member, who shall serve for a term of three years, for each expired term. A vacancy on the Board shall be filled at the next annual meeting in a manner to retain staggered terms.(b) The residents of the gores may vote at an annual or special meeting to elect not more than two additional members of the Board of Governors for terms of two years each. When the additional members are first elected, one shall be elected for one year and the other member shall be elected for two years. Terms of these additional members shall end on annual meeting days. If the additional members are elected at a special meeting, the term of those elected for one year shall expire on the next annual meeting day and the term of those elected for two years shall expire on the second annual meeting day following their election. A vote establishing additional members of the Board of Governors shall remain in effect until the residents of the gores vote to discontinue the positions at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose. (Added 1999, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 18, 2000; amended 2003, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)
24 V.S.A. § 1351b
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 41 - Unified Towns and Gores in Essex County|§ 1351b. Functions and duties of Board of Governors

§ 1351b. Functions and duties of Board of Governors|(a) The Board of Governors shall hire, direct, or fire one or more supervisors for the gores who shall reside in Essex County, and who shall not be a current member of the Board of Governors. The Board of Governors shall oversee the Supervisor or supervisors in the execution of the Supervisor's functions and duties.(b) The Board of Governors shall appoint the appraisers. Each of the appraisers shall be a resident of Essex County.(c)(1) The Board of Governors shall perform the same functions and duties for the gores that a selectboard, school board, and board of civil authority perform for their municipality.  (2) Except as otherwise specifically provided, the Board of Governors shall enjoy the same powers, privileges and immunities, and fees, and shall be subject to the same obligations, limitation, liabilities, and penalties in respect to the gores, as a selectboard, school board, and board of civil authority enjoy and are subject to in respect to their municipality. (3) The unified towns and gores of Essex County shall be a "municipal corporation" under subsection 1751(a) of this title and shall have the authority to incur debt, issue bonds, and borrow money in accordance with the provisions of chapter 53 of this title. (Added 1999, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 18, 2000; amended 2003, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 2007, No. 4, § 1; 2017, No. 98 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 11, 2018.)
24 V.S.A. § 1353
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 41 - Unified Towns and Gores in Essex County|§ 1353. Functions and duties of supervisor

§ 1353. Functions and duties of supervisor|(a) The supervisor or supervisors shall perform the same functions and duties for the gores that the truant officer, constable, treasurer, collector of taxes, and town clerk perform for their municipality.(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided, the supervisor or supervisors shall enjoy the same powers, privileges, immunities, and fees, and shall be subject to the same obligations, limitations, liabilities, and penalties in respect to the gores, as the truant officer, constable, treasurer, collector of taxes, and town clerk enjoy and are subject to in respect to their municipality. (Added 1967, No. 331 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1969; amended 1999, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 18, 2000; 2003, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)
24 V.S.A. § 1354
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 41 - Unified Towns and Gores in Essex County|§ 1354. Accounts; annual report

§ 1354. Accounts; annual report|The supervisor or supervisors shall maintain an account showing in detail the revenue raised and the expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of the supervisor's duties. The supervisor or supervisors shall prepare an annual fiscal report on or before July 1 which shall conform to procedural and substantive requirements to be established by the Board of Governors and which, upon approval by the Board of Governors, shall be distributed to the residents of the gores. (Added 1967, No. 331 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1969; amended 1969, No. 219 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 27, 1970; 1977, No. 146 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 1999, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 18, 2000; 2003, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2013, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 37; 2015, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 27.)
24 V.S.A. § 1355
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 41 - Unified Towns and Gores in Essex County|§ 1355. Appraisers

§ 1355. Appraisers|Subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Property Valuation and Review, the supervisor shall appoint for the year 1973: one appraiser for a term of three years; one appraiser for a term of two years; and one appraiser for a term of one year. For each year thereafter, the Board of Governors shall annually appoint one appraiser for a term of three years. The Board of Governors may revoke any appointment made under this section and shall, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Property Valuation and Review, fill any vacancy in the Board of Appraisers. (Added 1967, No. 331 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1969; amended 1973, No. 58, § 2, eff. April 1, 1973; 1977, No. 105, § 14(b); 1999, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 18, 2000.)
24 V.S.A. § 1356
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 41 - Unified Towns and Gores in Essex County|§ 1356. Functions and duties of Board of Appraisers

§ 1356. Functions and duties of Board of Appraisers|(a) The Board of Appraisers shall perform the same functions and duties for the unified towns and gores of Essex County that listers perform for their municipality.(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided, the appraisers shall enjoy the same powers, privileges, immunities, and remuneration and shall be subject to the same obligations, limitations, liabilities, and penalties in respect to the unified towns and gores of Essex County as listers enjoy and are subject to in respect to their municipality. (Added 1967, No. 331 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1969; amended 1999, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 18, 2000; 2017, No. 74, § 76.)
24 V.S.A. § 1401
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 43 - Unorganized Towns and Gores|§ 1401. Appraisers; appointment

§ 1401. Appraisers; appointment|Subject to the approval of the Governor, the Director of the Division of Property Valuation and Review shall appoint biennially on the first Tuesday of March a board of three appraisers for the unorganized towns and gores in each county, with power to revoke any such appointment and to fill any vacancy in such board. (Amended 1977, No. 105, § 14(b).)
24 V.S.A. § 1402
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 43 - Unorganized Towns and Gores|§ 1402. Appraisers; oath; file

§ 1402. Appraisers; oath; file|Each appraiser shall take and subscribe to an oath in form and substance as required of listers in towns and file the same in the office of the county clerk where he or she is to exercise the duties of his or her office. (Amended 2017, No. 74, § 77; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 156.)
24 V.S.A. § 1403
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 43 - Unorganized Towns and Gores|§ 1403. Supervisors; appointment

§ 1403. Supervisors; appointment|Biennially, on February 1, to hold office for two years therefrom, the Governor shall appoint and commission one supervisor for the unorganized towns and gores in each county who shall give a bond to the State. Such supervisor shall not be an appraiser.
24 V.S.A. § 1404
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 43 - Unorganized Towns and Gores|§ 1404. Supervisors; commission and oath; record

§ 1404. Supervisors; commission and oath; record|The commission and oath of each supervisor shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk where such towns and gores are situated. (Amended 2017, No. 74, § 78.)
24 V.S.A. § 1405
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 43 - Unorganized Towns and Gores|§ 1405. Supervisor not liable for mistakes

§ 1405. Supervisor not liable for mistakes|A supervisor shall not be liable to an action which may accrue in consequence of any illegality in the assessment or apportionment of a tax, or any mistake, mischarge, or overcharge in any tax bill, or any illegality or informality in any tax bill, warrant, or other precept furnished him or her for the collection of a tax.
24 V.S.A. § 1406
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 43 - Unorganized Towns and Gores|§ 1406. Taxes expended; how

§ 1406. Taxes expended; how|Upon allowance of the accounts of supervisors and appraisers for unorganized towns and gores, the Commissioner of Finance and Management shall certify forthwith the amount as allowed to the State Treasurer and the balance, if any, of the monies received from any supervisor, after deducting the amount of the county tax and regional planning costs, if any. The amount of such supervisors' and appraisers' accounts, so certified, shall be used for the laying out, construction, and maintenance of highways and bridges in the unorganized towns and gores for which the supervisor is appointed, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of Transportation, in the same manner as State transportation appropriations. The portion of the money which remains unexpended for more than one year may be carried forward in the supervisors' accounts for like purposes. (Amended 1959, No. 328 (Adj. Sess.), § 8(c); 1971, No. 78, § 1, eff. April 16, 1971; 1987, No. 243 (Adj. Sess.), § 29, eff. June 13, 1988; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 30; 2009, No. 50, § 92.)
24 V.S.A. § 1407
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 43 - Unorganized Towns and Gores|§ 1407. Abatement of taxes

§ 1407. Abatement of taxes|Appraisers for unorganized towns and gores shall have the same power to abate a tax in the hands of a supervisor that the board for the abatement of town taxes has to abate town taxes, and shall certify such abatement to the State Treasurer.