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24A V.S.A. § 13-1303
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1303. City and School District annual meeting warning and budget

§ 13-1303. City and School District annual meeting warning and budget|The proposed budgets of the City and School District shall be made available  to the legal voters of the City and School District at least 20 days before the annual City and School District meeting. Not more than 40 nor less than 30 days prior to the annual City and School District meeting, notice shall be published in a  newspaper having general circulation within the City, informing voters of the date of a public hearing on the budgets and availability of the warnings for the annual City and School District meetings, the proposed City and School District budgets, and the City and School District annual reports. The Council and the Board of School Directors shall hold a public hearing on their respective budgets not more than 10 days before the annual City and School District meetings. (Amended 2007, No. M-14, § 5, eff. Nov. 11, 2007; 2009, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 5, 2010.)
24A V.S.A. § 13-1304
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1304. Amount to be raised by taxation

§ 13-1304. Amount to be raised by taxation|(a) Budgets for the City and the South Burlington School District shall be adopted when approved by the voters. Upon adoption of the budgets for the City and the South Burlington School District, the amounts stated therein as the amount of the budget for the City to be raised by property taxes shall constitute a determination of the amount of the levy for the purposes of the City in the corresponding tax year and the Council shall levy such taxes on the grand list furnished by the Assessor for the corresponding tax year. The amounts stated therein as the amount of the budget for the South Burlington School District shall be used to determine the education property tax rates in accordance with 32 V.S.A. § 5402.(b) If the budget of the City or School District is not approved by the voters at the annual meeting, the City Council or School Board may submit the budget, with or without change, to the voters at a special meeting which shall be held within 30 days of the annual meeting. This special meeting shall be warned in the same manner as that for the annual meeting with the exception that the warning for this meeting shall be filed with the City Clerk and posted not fewer than 15 days before the meeting.(c) If the budget for the City or School District is not approved by the voters at the special meeting provided for in subsection (b) of this section, the City Council or School Board shall diligently pursue voter approval of its budget. Pending voter approval of a City or School District budget, the City and School District shall be authorized to borrow funds and make expenditures that do not exceed the amount of the budget approved by the voters for the preceding year. (Amended 2007, No. M-14, § 6, eff. Nov. 11, 2007; 2007, No. M-16 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 1, 2008; 2011, No. M-9 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 30, 2012.)
24A V.S.A. § 13-1305
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1305. Appropriation

§ 13-1305. Appropriation|From the effective date of the budgets, the several amounts stated therein become appropriated to the several agencies and purposes therein named. (Amended 2007, No. M-14, § 7, eff. Nov. 11, 2007.)
24A V.S.A. § 13-1306
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1306. Departmental budget

§ 13-1306. Departmental budget|The budget for all departments shall include all proposed expenditures, and the Council and Board of School Directors shall make a gross appropriation for each department for the ensuing fiscal year. The gross appropriation for each department of the City and School District shall not be exceeded except for consent of the Council and Board of Directors, respectively.
24A V.S.A. § 13-1307
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1307. Transfers of appropriations

§ 13-1307. Transfers of appropriations|The Manager and School Superintendent, respectively, may at any time transfer an unencumbered appropriation balance or portion thereof between general classifications of expenditures within an office, department, or agency under his or her jurisdiction. At the request of the Manager or School Superintendent and within the last three months of the budget year, the Council and Board of School Directors, respectively, may by resolution transfer any unencumbered appropriation balance or portion thereof within the budgets from one department, office, or agency under their jurisdiction, to another.
24A V.S.A. § 13-1501
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1501. Taxes on real and personal property

§ 13-1501. Taxes on real and personal property|Taxes on real and personal property shall be due and payable in no fewer than three equal installments on such dates of each tax year as shall be determined annually by the City Council. (Amended 1999, No. M-4, § 4, eff. April 27, 1999.)
24A V.S.A. § 13-1502
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1502. Penalty

§ 13-1502. Penalty|A late charge of eight percent will be added to any tax not paid on or before the dates specified in section 1501 of this subchapter. In addition, interest at the rate of one percent per month will be added to any tax not paid on or before its due date, for each month or fraction thereof after the date on which the tax payment was due.
24A V.S.A. § 13-1503
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1503. Waiver of penalty

§ 13-1503. Waiver of penalty|(a) The City Manager may waive the penalty incurred by any taxpayer because of the late payment of the installment of real and personal property taxes, but only when all of the following requirements have been met:  (1) The total amount of such installment was paid in full within 30 days from its due date; and (2) The taxpayer specifically requests in writing the waiver of such penalty, stating the reason for the request; and (3) The City Manager finds that the taxpayer was unable to make payment of said taxes by the due date because of circumstances beyond his or her control.   (b) If the City Manager waives the penalty for any taxpayer, such fact and the reasons therefore shall be forthwith reported to the Council.(c) The City Manager shall also waive the penalty and interest incurred by a taxpayer because of the mathematical error of the City Tax Department in computing this tax, and such waiver shall be forthwith reported to the Council.
24A V.S.A. § 13-1504
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1504. Business inventory and business personal property

§ 13-1504. Business inventory and business personal property|(a) The City shall exempt business inventory as defined in 32 V.S.A. § 3848 from the property tax.(b) Business personal property as defined in 32 V.S.A. § 3618(c) shall be appraised in accordance with the provisions of 32 V.S.A. § 3618, as such provision is from time to time amended.(c) Subsection (b) of this section notwithstanding, all business personal property first located in the City after April 1, 1996, shall be exempt from property tax.(d) Subsection (b) of this section notwithstanding, the listed value of business personal property included in the City grand list for FY 1996, shall be reduced by 20% for FY 1997, and each year thereafter, or the maximum amount authorized under the provision of 32 V.S.A. § 3618(a), whichever is greater, and deleted from the grand list when reduced to zero listed value.
24A V.S.A. § 13-1505
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1505. Tax stabilization agreements

§ 13-1505. Tax stabilization agreements|Notwithstanding any other provisions of this charter or the requirements of the general law of the State of Vermont, the City Council is authorized and empowered to negotiate and execute agreements between the City and taxpayers regarding assessment and taxation of taxable commercial and industrial property located within the City, subject only to requirements of the Vermont Constitution and the limitation that no agreement shall be for a term longer than 10 years. Any agreement entered into under this provision shall require approval by four members of the City Council.
24A V.S.A. § 13-1506
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1506. Sales, rooms, meals, and alcoholic beverages tax

§ 13-1506. Sales, rooms, meals, and alcoholic beverages tax|(a) The City Council may impose a tax on those transactions in the City involving sales, rooms, meals, and alcoholic beverages which are subject to taxation by the State of Vermont. The authority of the City Council to impose a tax on these transactions was approved by the voters on November 7, 2006. Imposition of any tax by the City Council under this section shall be at the rate or rates specified in 24 V.S.A. § 138, and shall be imposed in accordance with the requirements of 24 V.S.A. § 138(a)(2), (c), and (d).(b) The City Council shall impose a tax authorized by this section by adopting an ordinance in the manner provided by sections 106-109 of this chapter.(c) Sales tax revenue received by the City shall be used to reduce the municipal property tax collected on the City grand list and shall not be used to increase total City revenues.(d) Rooms, meals, and alcoholic beverage tax revenues received by the City may, at the sole discretion of the City Council, be used in any of the following ways:  (1) to deposit in a reserve fund established by the City Council to fund the purchase of land or for construction or reconstruction of City buildings and infrastructure; (2) to reduce the municipal property tax collected on the City grand list without increasing total City revenues; or (3) any combination of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection. (Added 2007, No. M-13, § 2; eff. May 8, 2007.)
24A V.S.A. § 13-1701
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1701. Appointment and removal

§ 13-1701. Appointment and removal|(a) All City employees not elected by the voters shall be appointed, supervised, and removed by the City Manager unless otherwise specified in this charter. There shall be no discrimination in employment on account of race, religion, or political affiliation. Appointments, layoffs, suspensions, promotions, demotions, and removals shall be made solely on the basis of training, experience, fitness, and performance of duties of the individual, in such manner as to ensure that the responsible administrative officer may secure efficient service.(b) Each employee shall have a three to 12 month period of probation, as specified in the Personnel Rules and Regulations as established under section 1702 of this subchapter, during which time he or she may be freely discharged. After this period he or she must be notified in writing of his or her suspension, demotion, layoff, or removal, and of the reason for such action. Within 10 days of such notice, he or she may request a public or executive hearing before the Council, who must hold such hearing not less that 10 days or more than 20 days after such request. The Council may support the action of the City Manager or may modify it.
24A V.S.A. § 13-1702
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1702. Personnel rules and regulations

§ 13-1702. Personnel rules and regulations|(a) The City Manager or his or her appointee shall be the Personnel Director. He or she shall prepare personnel rules and regulations protecting the interests of the City and of the employees. These rules and regulations must be approved by the Council and shall include the procedure for amending them and for placing them into practice. Each employee shall receive a copy of these rules and regulations when he or she is hired.(b) The rules and regulations may deal with the following subjects or with other similar matters of personnel administration: job classification, jobs to be filled, tenure, retirement, pensions, leaves of absence, vacations, holidays, hours and days of work, group insurance, salary plans, rules governing hiring, temporary appointment, layoff, reinstatement, promotion, transfer, demotion, settlement of disputes, dismissal, probationary periods, permanent or continuing status, in-service training, injury, employee records, and further regulations concerning the hearing of appeals.
24A V.S.A. § 13-1703
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1703. Ethical guideline

§ 13-1703. Ethical guideline|The City Council shall further define business conduct and ethics in an approved guideline document to include at least the following:  (1) No person in the service of the City shall either directly or indirectly give, render, pay, or receive any service or other valuable thing for or on account of or in connection with any appointment, proposed appointment, promotion, or proposed promotion. (2) No person appointed in the administrative service of the City, under the City Manager, shall continue in that position after becoming a candidate for nomination or election to any South Burlington public office, nor shall he or she make any contribution to the campaign funds on behalf of any candidate for City office. He or she may not take any part in the management of any political party, except by the ordinary exercise of his or her right as a citizen to belong to a political party, to express his or her opinions, and to vote.
24A V.S.A. § 13-1901
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1901. Department of Assessment

§ 13-1901. Department of Assessment|There shall be a Department of Assessment, which shall consist of the position of Chief Assessor and such assistants as are deemed to be necessary by the City Manager and approved by the City Council. The Chief Assessor and assistants will be appointed, and may be removed, by the City Manager in accordance with subchapter 17 of this charter.
24A V.S.A. § 13-1902
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1902. Powers and duties

§ 13-1902. Powers and duties|The Department of Assessment 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 or the board of listers under the law of this State, except as herein otherwise provided. The elective Office of Lister shall be abolished.
24A V.S.A. § 13-1904
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-1904. Appraisal of unimproved land approved for commercial or industrial development

§ 13-1904. Appraisal of unimproved land approved for commercial or industrial development|(a) The requirements of general law notwithstanding, the Assessor shall not take into consideration the effect of any local or State approval authorizing commercial or industrial development of unimproved land when determining the appraisal value of such land, except as provided in subsection (c) of this section.(b) The requirements of general law notwithstanding, the Assessor shall not consider roadway, drainage, or utility improvements constructed on unimproved land pursuant to an approval granted to develop such land for commercial or industrial purposes, except as provided in subsection (c) of this section.(c) As of April 1 next following the date of issuance of a zoning permit under the City of South Burlington Land Development Regulations authorizing construction of a building or buildings for commercial or industrial purposes, the Assessor shall determine the appraisal value of the land benefitted by said permit, taking into account all factors required under general law, including any permit or approval or any improvements not previously considered pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section. If the permit holder has not taken action to initiate the authorized construction within six months of the date of issuance of the zoning permit and the zoning permit has expired, or if the zoning permit has been appealed to the Vermont Environmental Court, the Assessor shall not consider the land to be benefited by the permit.(d) "Unimproved land" means land, together with any improvements thereon, which is not devoted to a commercial or industrial use.
24A V.S.A. § 13-2001
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-2001. Continuation of prior law

§ 13-2001. Continuation of prior law|The City of South Burlington may operate a Water Department in accordance with the general laws of the State of Vermont. (Amended 1997, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)
24A V.S.A. § 13-2002
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-2002. Operations

§ 13-2002. Operations|The City Manager shall manage, and be responsible for, the administrative operation of the Water Department, including maintenance, repair, replacement, and expansion of the water system and purchasing. He/she shall generally perform the management and other duties vested in the superintendent of the water department under the general laws of the State, subject to the supervision and authority of the water commissioners. (Amended 1997, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.)
24A V.S.A. § 13-2003
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-2003. Accounts

§ 13-2003. Accounts|The City Manager shall be responsible for the accounting and billing to the Water Department, subject to the supervision and authority of the water commissioners.
24A V.S.A. § 13-2004
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-2004. Board of Water Commissioners

§ 13-2004. Board of Water Commissioners|The City Council shall constitute the Board of Water Commissioners, with authority to exercise all powers granted to water commissions under the general laws of the State. (Amended 1997, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 6.)
24A V.S.A. § 13-2101
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 13 - City of South Burlington|App § 13-2101. Authority to amend

§ 13-2101. Authority to amend|This charter may be amended in the manner provided by the laws of the State of Vermont for the amendment of municipal charters.
24A V.S.A. § 15-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 15 - City of Vergennes|App § 15-1. City; how constituted

§ 15-1. City; how constituted|That all the freemen of this State, inhabitants of said New Haven, Panton, and Ferrisburgh dwelling and inhabiting within the following bounds, viz: beginning on the line between Ferrisburgh and New Haven at the southeast corner of the town plot in said Ferrisburgh, from thence running north, 320 rods, to a stake and stones; from thence west, 400 rods, to a stake and stones; from thence south across Otter Creek 480 rods, to a stake and stones standing in Panton; from thence east across Otter Creek, 400 rods to a stake and stones standing in New Haven; from thence north, 160 rods, to the bounds first mentioned, including the waters of said Otter Creek within the preceding limits be, and the same is hereby ordained, constituted, and declared to be, from time to time, and forever hereafter one body politic and corporate in fact and in name, by the name of the City of Vergennes, and that by that name they and their successors forever shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, in all suits of what nature soever; and also to purchase, hold, and convey any estate real or personal, and may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at a pleasure, and shall be freemen of said City.
24A V.S.A. § 15-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 15 - City of Vergennes|App § 15-2. Voters in City meetings

§ 15-2. Voters in City meetings|(a) A male or female citizen, 21 years of age, who has taken the freeman's oath and whose list is taken in a Town at the annual assessment preceding a Town meeting, and whose flood tax due such Town, was paid prior to the 15th day of February preceding such Town meeting, or who has attained the age of 21 years subsequent to the last annual assessment, or who is exempt from taxation for any cause, shall, while residing in such Town, be a voter in a Town meeting.(b) A person qualified to vote in Town meeting under the provisions of this charter shall be qualified to vote in all other municipal meetings.
24A V.S.A. § 15-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 15 - City of Vergennes|App § 15-3. City meetings

§ 15-3. City meetings|(a) On the 10th day of April, A.D. 1893, and annually thereafter on the first Tuesday of March, a meeting of the legal voters of said City shall be held at a place to be appointed by the City Council of said City, of which notice shall be posted in at least 3 public places within the limits of said City, and at least 12 days previous thereto, which notices shall be signed by the City Clerk and in case of his or her failure by the City Council, provided that if the annual meeting shall fail to be holden for want of notice herein before mentioned, or for any other cause, the corporation shall not thereby be prejudiced, and the several officers hereafter mentioned may at any time thereafter be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose as herein before provided.(b) The Clerk of said City shall at any time when directed by the City Council or when requested in writing by 12 legal voters of said City, call a special meeting of the citizens of said City in the same manner as is provided for the annual meeting; in case of the failure of the Clerk to call the meeting as aforesaid, that duty shall be performed by the City Council or a majority of them.
24A V.S.A. § 15-4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 15 - City of Vergennes|App § 15-4. Election of officers

§ 15-4. Election of officers|On the first Tuesday in March 1973, and biennially thereafter, the legal voters of said corporation shall elect from among their number a Mayor, who shall hold office for two years, and until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified. On the same date, and annually thereafter, they shall elect three aldermen for two years, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified, to succeed the aldermen whose term expires; a Lister for the term of three years to take the place of the Lister whose term expires; one Auditor for the term of three years; a City Grand Juror.