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24A V.S.A. § 3-131
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-131. Dual positions prohibited

§ 3-131. Dual positions prohibited|No City councilor may serve as a City employee or as a commissioner of a City department. However, a City councilor may be appointed to serve as a member of a regional board such as the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, the Chittenden Solid Waste Management District, or other similar board. No member of a commission provided for in this charter shall be eligible to serve as a member of any other such commission, except that a planning commissioner may be a member of a Development Review Board. No City employee may be a member of any commission having jurisdiction over the department in which he or she is employed, provided membership on the Retirement Board is permissible, should such employee be elected thereto. The Mayor may not be employed in any other City position, but may serve in all capacities specifically authorized by this charter. Provided further, this section shall not be read to preclude continued service, including reappointment, of any incumbent commissioner. (Amended 1999, No. M-14 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2001, No. M-11 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-132
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-132. Mayor, City Council, and other City officials

§ 3-132. Mayor, City Council, and other City officials|(a)(1) The Mayor shall receive such annual compensation as shall be voted by the City Council, but the same shall not be less than $12,000.00 per year.  (2) Each member of the City Council, beginning on July 1, 2017 and thereafter with the first Monday of April 2018, shall receive the annual sum of $5,000.00. (3) Compensation shall be prorated according to actual months of service.   (b) A member of the City Council shall receive proper reimbursement for any expenses necessarily incurred in fulfilling the duties of the member's office. Regulations for determining eligibility for necessary expense reimbursement may be promulgated by the Board of Finance. The City Council shall fix the compensation of all other City officers, except as herein otherwise provided. (Amended 2017, No. M-9, § 2, eff. May 22, 2017.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-134
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-134. Required of Treasurer and other officers handling City funds

§ 3-134. Required of Treasurer and other officers handling City funds|The Treasurer and all other City officers who receive or disburse any of the funds of the City shall annually, before entering upon the duties of their office, give bonds to the City in amount satisfactory to the City Council for the faithful discharge of their respective duties.
24A V.S.A. § 3-135
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-135. City Council to approve surety company; costs to be paid by City

§ 3-135. City Council to approve surety company; costs to be paid by City|All City officers from whom bonds are required shall furnish bonds of a surety company satisfactory to the City Council. The Chief Administrative Officer shall pay the cost of such bonds from the money appropriated for incidental expenses. (Amended 2001, No. M-6, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-136
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-136. Officer to be removed from neglect to give bond after notice

§ 3-136. Officer to be removed from neglect to give bond after notice|In case of the neglect of any officer to give bonds as above specified after 10 days' notice from the City Council that he or she is required so to do, his or her office shall thereupon become vacant and the vacancy shall be filled as hereinbefore provided.
24A V.S.A. § 3-137
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-137. Form

§ 3-137. Form|All officers of the City shall, before assuming office, take, subscribe, and file with the City Clerk the following oath:"I solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office (duty or trust), of  ______  of the City of Burlington to the best of my judgment and abilities, according to law, so help me God."
24A V.S.A. § 3-139
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-139. Public records to remain in Chief Administrative Officer's office; Council may regulate removal

§ 3-139. Public records to remain in Chief Administrative Officer's office; Council may regulate removal|Such records shall not be taken out of or away from said Chief Administrative Officer's office except upon the order or process of a court of competent jurisdiction; but said City Council may, by ordinance or by-law, regulate the removal from said office of all papers and documents belonging to said city and in the custody of said Chief Administrative Officer as aforesaid.
24A V.S.A. § 3-140
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-140. Certified copies of records to be made

§ 3-140. Certified copies of records to be made|Said Chief Administrative Officer shall, on being tendered therefor the fees allowed town clerks under the law of this State for similar services, and to be accounted for and paid to the Treasury for City purposes, as provided in the second preceding section, make duly certified copies of said records, papers, and documents, and such copies so certified shall be legal evidence, of the same validity and effect as those of town clerks, in all courts and for all purposes.
24A V.S.A. § 3-141
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-141. Certification that notices, ordinances, etc., have been posted required

§ 3-141. Certification that notices, ordinances, etc., have been posted required|Whenever any notice signed by the Mayor, City Council, or any City officer or officers, or any advertisement, ordinance, resolution, or by-law shall have been published in some newspaper or newspapers or publicly posted under the provisions of the general law, this charter, or the ordinances thereby authorized, the Chief Administrative Officer shall examine and ascertain whether such notice, advertisement, or ordinance has been duly published or posted, and if such be the fact Chief Administrative Officer shall so certify upon the proper City record; and such record or a duly certified copy thereof shall be treated as prima facie evidence of the facts so certified.
24A V.S.A. § 3-142
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-142. Assistants

§ 3-142. Assistants|An assistant may be designated by the Chief Administrative Officer to make duly certified copies of any records, papers, or documents in the same manner as the Chief Administrative Officer, without regard to the absence or disability of the Chief Administrative Officer, and such copies, so certified, shall be legal evidence, of the same validity and effect as those of town clerks, in all courts and for all purposes.
24A V.S.A. § 3-144
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-144. Chief Administrative Officer to keep record of notes and bonds issued

§ 3-144. Chief Administrative Officer to keep record of notes and bonds issued|The Chief Administrative Officer shall keep a record of every note or bond issued under the provisions of this charter, therein stating the number and the denomination of each note or bond, when and where payable, to whom issued, and the rate of interest thereon; and shall also keep a record of payments thereon of principal and interest; and if coupons are taken up, shall cancel and preserve the same.
24A V.S.A. § 3-145
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-145. Record of school bonds to be kept

§ 3-145. Record of school bonds to be kept|The Chief Administrative Officer shall keep a record of all school bonds, the issuance, payment, and discharge thereof, as hereinbefore provided for other bonds issued by said City.
24A V.S.A. § 3-146
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-146. Redeemed bonds, notes, and interest coupons to be kept

§ 3-146. Redeemed bonds, notes, and interest coupons to be kept|When old notes or bonds and any interest coupons are taken up by payment thereof, by exchange or by sale of the new notes or bonds, the Chief Administrative Officer shall keep a record of the same and such old notes or bonds and interest coupons shall be cancelled and kept on file in the Chief Administrative Officer's office for a period of 14 years from the date when the note or bond is taken up and cancelled and after such period of 14 years such cancelled notes or bonds and interest coupons thereof may be destroyed.
24A V.S.A. § 3-147
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-147. Chief Administrative Officer to keep separate account of school appropriations

§ 3-147. Chief Administrative Officer to keep separate account of school appropriations|The Chief Administrative Officer shall keep a separate account of all moneys appropriated for the use of schools, which money shall consist of the income accruing in every legal way for the use and maintenance of schools in said City, and of all money appropriated by the City Council for that purpose; and the Chief Administrative Officer shall pay out of any moneys mentioned in this section all warrants drawn by the Board of School Commissioners for the use of schools.
24A V.S.A. § 3-148
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-148. Duties

§ 3-148. Duties|The City Attorney shall be corporation counsel and shall prosecute and defend in behalf of said City all suits in which said City is interested and shall prosecute all violations of the City ordinances and by-laws except when absent from City or disqualified or unable to serve. The assistant City attorneys shall have all the powers and perform all of the duties of the City Attorney as may by the City Attorney be delegated to them and shall receive for the performance of their duties such compensation as the City Council may vote.
24A V.S.A. § 3-149
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-149. Subject to same penalties as State's Attorneys

§ 3-149. Subject to same penalties as State's Attorneys|The City Attorney and assistant City attorney shall be subject to all and the same penalties imposed by the law of this State upon State's Attorneys for any neglect or violation of official duty.
24A V.S.A. § 3-150
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-150. Duties; liabilities; etc.

§ 3-150. Duties; liabilities; etc.|The Board of Assessors shall have the same powers, discharge the same duties, proceed in the discharge thereof in the same manner, and be subject to the same liabilities as are prescribed for listers, except as herein otherwise provided. They shall also be members of the Board for the Abatement of Taxes. The City Assessor shall be a member of and serve as Chair of the Board of Assessors and may also appoint, and remove, at his/her pleasure a Deputy Assessor, who may serve as an assessor in the absence, inability to serve, or disqualification of the City Assessor, and who shall, in addition, have such clerical and administrative duties as said City Assessor shall assign.
24A V.S.A. § 3-151
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-151. Powers; duties; liabilities; etc.

§ 3-151. Powers; duties; liabilities; etc.|The City Grand Juror shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and incur the same liabilities as grand jurors in towns, and shall be entitled to such salary as the City Council may vote, and as the City Attorney may request, a City Grand Juror may prosecute before the applicable Vermont courts violations of the ordinances, regulations, and by-laws of said City. The Second City Grand Juror in case the City Grand Juror is absent from the City or is disqualified or unable to serve shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and incur the same liabilities as the City Grand Juror, and shall receive for his or her services such compensation as the City Council may provide.
24A V.S.A. § 3-152
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-152. Powers and duties

§ 3-152. Powers and duties|The City Constable shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and be under the same liabilities as are prescribed by the laws of this State for constables of towns, and the said Constable shall have the same powers as sheriffs in suppressing riots and all unlawful assemblages and of arresting without warrant all persons disturbing the peace and may forthwith bring them before the Chittenden Municipal Court, or a justice of the peace, or detain them in custody until such court can be held. The Second, Third, and Fourth Constables, in case such are appointed, shall have the same powers and perform the same duties and be under the same liabilities as the City Constable except that neither the Second, Third, nor Fourth Constable shall have the power or perform the duties of collector of taxes.
24A V.S.A. § 3-153
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-153. Duties

§ 3-153. Duties|The City Engineer and Surveyor shall be assigned to the Public Works Department. He or she shall make all public surveys of the streets and public grounds of said City, and shall perform such other services as may be required by the Director of Public Works.
24A V.S.A. § 3-154
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-154. Composition

§ 3-154. Composition|The Board of Finance shall be constituted as follows: The Mayor shall, ex officio, be Chairman of said Board and together with the President of the City Council, and three additional members of the City Council who shall be elected at the first meeting of the City Council in April of each year and who shall serve a term of one year from the date of their election shall constitute said Board of Finance. In addition, the Chief Administrative Officer shall serve as a nonvoting member of said Board. All of the additional three members elected from the City Council may not be members of the same political party. The members of said Board shall be trustees of public moneys for the City and shall have the powers and perform all the duties of similar officers in towns of this State; provided, however, that they shall make no investment or reinvestment of any of the cemetery endowment funds of the City without first obtaining the written approval thereof by a majority of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners. The Clerk/Treasurer's Office shall provide staff assistance for said Board. In the absence or disability of the Mayor, the Chief Administrative Officer  shall sit as a voting member. (Amended 2011, No. M-4, § 2, eff. April 4, 2011.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-155
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-155. Board to act as board of audit; uniform system to be adopted

§ 3-155. Board to act as board of audit; uniform system to be adopted|The Board of Finance shall act as a board of audit. They shall establish, and each department shall adopt, such systems of accounting and auditing for each department of the City government, as will give uniform and reliable methods for transacting the business of the City.
24A V.S.A. § 3-156
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-156. Monthly reports; annual audit

§ 3-156. Monthly reports; annual audit|The Board of Finance shall provide for regular monthly reports to be made by each department to the City Council; they shall also provide for the annual auditing of the books of each department, by a competent professional auditor, and may also provide for such further auditing as shall to said Board seem advisable.
24A V.S.A. § 3-157
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-157. Preparation and submission of budget

§ 3-157. Preparation and submission of budget|The Mayor shall, with the assistance of the other members of the Board of Finance, annually prepare an estimate of the necessary appropriations to cover the expenses of each department and branch of the City government for the next fiscal year, to be known as the "budget," and shall submit said "budget" to the City Council for its guidance and action in making the annual appropriations and the tax levy for such next fiscal year. The Mayor shall submit the "budget" to the City Council on or before June 15 of each year and the City Council shall make the annual appropriations and the tax levy no later than June 30 of each year. The City Council may reduce the items of such budget, but shall not increase them except by two-thirds vote of said City Council. Wherever any appropriation, annual or otherwise, shall be made to any department or branch of the City government, for any specified purpose, no part of such appropriation shall be expended for any purpose other than the one specified, unless authorized by resolution of the City Council or by written permission of the Board of Finance. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Board of Finance to transfer any appropriation, or any part of any appropriation, from one department or branch of the City government to another.
24A V.S.A. § 3-158
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-158. Sinking Fund abolished

§ 3-158. Sinking Fund abolished|The General Sinking Fund of the City, so-called, is hereby abolished and all moneys or funds currently deposited in such Sinking Fund shall be appropriated in accordance with the requirements of sections 65 and 157 of this charter.
24A V.S.A. § 3-159
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-159. Selection of official depositary

§ 3-159. Selection of official depositary|The Board of Finance shall, in the month of June 1994, and not less frequently than once every three years thereafter, procure from chartered banks of known reliability and sufficient capital their offers to act as depositary for the City moneys, or for specified portions thereof, and the terms upon which they will receive such moneys, and also the terms upon which they will furnish money upon such temporary and emergency loans to the City, or specified portions thereof, as the City Council from time to time may authorize. They shall by vote determine which of said offers, if any, they accept, and appoint such bank or banks whose offer or offers are accepted, as depositary or depositaries of such moneys, or any portion thereof, to which any offer relates, as to them shall appear to be for the best interests of the City.
24A V.S.A. § 3-160
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-160. Care and control of public buildings

§ 3-160. Care and control of public buildings|The Board of Finance shall also have the care and control of all public buildings not specifically in charge of any other department of the City under this chapter or ordinance or resolution of the City Council. They shall appoint or employ such persons as may be required for the proper care of the buildings, and may prescribe their salaries and fix their duties.
24A V.S.A. § 3-161
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-161. Repairs to public buildings

§ 3-161. Repairs to public buildings|The Board of Finance may cause such repairs or enlargements to be made to said buildings from time to time as the interests of the City may require; provided, however, that when the estimated cost of any such repairs or enlargements exceeds the amount of money appropriated by the City Council to the public buildings account in any fiscal year, they shall make report thereon to the City Council for their approval before any expenditure shall be made for such purpose, and shall in April and October of each year report the condition of said buildings to the City Council.
24A V.S.A. § 3-162
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-162. Board authorized to rent portions of public buildings

§ 3-162. Board authorized to rent portions of public buildings|The Board of Finance may rent such portion of the public buildings to such public officers or private persons as to them shall seem for the best interests of the City; provided, however, that rentals for a period of more than one week shall require the approval of the City Council.
24A V.S.A. § 3-163
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-163. Composition

§ 3-163. Composition|(a) The Board of School Commissioners of said City shall be composed of 12 school commissioners. One commissioner from Ward One through Eight inclusive and one commissioner from each of the four districts shall be elected as hereinbefore and hereinafter provided.(b) Anything contained herein or in the general statutes to the contrary notwithstanding, all candidates for the Board of School Commissioners shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis. No reference shall be made on an election ballot to a candidate's political affiliation or to the endorsement of any such candidate by political party or parties. (Amended 2013, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 3, 2015.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-164
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-164. Terms; elections

§ 3-164. Terms; elections|(a) On the first Tuesday in March 2015 and biennially thereafter, the legal voters of each of the South, Central, East, and North City districts shall, from among the legal voters of their respective districts, elect a school commissioner for a two-year term.(b)(1) On the first Tuesday in March 2015, the legal voters from each of Wards One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, and Eight shall, from among the legal voters of their respective ward, elect a school commissioner for a three-year term.  (2) On the first Tuesday in March 2018 and biennially thereafter, the legal voters of each ward shall elect a school commissioner for a two-year term.   (c) The term of each school commissioner shall begin on the first Monday in April following his or her election. (Amended 2013, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 3, 2015.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-165
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-165. Manner of filling vacancies

§ 3-165. Manner of filling vacancies|In case of a vacancy in the office of school commissioner, occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the ward, or as a result of such school commissioner no longer residing in such ward as a result of reapportionment or other causes, the same shall be filled by a new election in the proper ward; and in case there shall arise an occasion for any such new election, for any of the above mentioned causes, the same shall be held within 90 days of the date of such vacancy, provided such vacancy shall occur before the first day in October in any year; otherwise it shall be filled at the next annual City election. In the case of reapportionment, such election shall be held at the next ensuing annual City meeting and the term of the school commissioner who no longer resides in the ward as a result of reapportionment shall continue until the newly elected school commissioner assumes office on the first Monday in April.