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24A V.S.A. § 162-20
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-20. Notice of vacancy during an expired/unexpired term

§ 162-20. Notice of vacancy during an expired/unexpired term|(a) In order to inform citizens of the Town and to afford them the opportunity to participate or serve in Town government, public notice shall be given of municipal vacancies resulting from an expired term, resignation, death, disability, or change of residence from the Town of a Town officer on any board, commission, or committee or in other public office whether elected or appointed. Such notice shall:  (1) be made by posting the vacancy in the Town Clerk's office and two other public places in the Town at least 10 days prior to the meeting at which the appointing authority intends to fill the vacancy; and (2) provide for the right of any interested citizen to submit a written application to the appointing authority regarding such vacancy and to be personally interviewed by the appointing authority, if requested by the applicant, prior to the filling of said vacancy as provided by law.   (b) As lawfully approved by Vermont State statute to do so, a nonresident may serve in office. For example, a nonresident may not lawfully serve as a Town Clerk or as a Selectboard or ZBA member. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-21
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-21. Newspaper publication

§ 162-21. Newspaper publication|The Selectboard may publish notices of vacancies in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-22
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-22. Separability

§ 162-22. Separability|If any provision of this charter is held invalid, the other provisions of the charter shall not be affected thereby. If the application of the charter or any of its provisions to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the application of this charter and its provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-23
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-23. Amendment

§ 162-23. Amendment|This charter may be amended as set forth by State law under 17 V.S.A. § 2645. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-24
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-24. Ordinances; adoption by Selectboard

§ 162-24. Ordinances; adoption by Selectboard|(a) If the Selectboard desires to adopt an ordinance, it shall cause the ordinance to be entered in the official record kept of the Board's proceedings, and, thereafter, the Board shall adopt the ordinance subject to final approval after the public hearing as hereafter set forth. The ordinance shall then be published in a newspaper of general circulation of the Town together with a notice of the time and place of a public hearing to consider the ordinance for final passage, such publication to be on a day at least one week and not more than two weeks prior to the date of the hearing.(b) At the public hearing or at any time and place to which the hearing may from time to time be adjourned, the ordinance shall be read in full, unless the Selectboard elects to read the ordinance by title, and after such reading, all persons interested shall be given an opportunity to be heard.(c) After the public hearing, the Selectboard may finally adopt the ordinance, with or without amendment. If the Board amends the ordinance prior to passage, it shall cause the amended ordinance to be entered into the official record of Board proceedings and shall also cause the amended sections of the ordinance, as finally passed, to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town on a day not more than 14 days after adoption. Any published notice shall explain citizens' rights to petition for a vote on the ordinance at an annual or special meeting pursuant to Title 24 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated.(d) Every ordinance shall become effective upon passage unless otherwise stated. If a referendum petition is filed within 40 days of adoption, the ordinance shall not become effective until after the question of repeal is voted.(e) The Town Clerk shall prepare and keep in the Town Clerk's office a book of ordinances which shall contain each Town ordinance, together with a complete index of the ordinances according to subject matter. Failure to comply with this provision shall not invalidate a Town ordinance lawfully passed.(f) A Town ordinance may provide:  (1) that any professional fees or costs incurred by the Town in the enforcement of any ordinance shall be charged to the violator; those charges shall constitute a lien against real property or a levy against personal property and shall be enforced within the time and in the manner provided for the collection of taxes or personal property; and (2) that the Selectboard may authorize the Town Attorney to bring action in the name of the Town of Woodford for any relief which the Selectboard may deem appropriate for the enforcement of any Town ordinance. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-25
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-25. Referendum

§ 162-25. Referendum|All Town ordinances, except as specified, may be repealed by vote of the Town as follows: A petition signed by not less than five percent of the registered voters shall be filed with the Town Clerk requesting a vote on a question of repealing the ordinance. The Selectboard shall call a special Town meeting to be held within 60 days of the date of filing the petition to vote on whether the ordinance shall be repealed. The ordinance shall be repealed only if 15 percent of the registered voters vote and a majority of that number vote for repeal. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-26
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-26. Initiative

§ 162-26. Initiative|Any lawful ordinance may be enacted by vote of the Town as follows: A petition signed by not less than five percent of the registered voters shall be filed with the Town Clerk requesting enactment of the ordinance and accompanied by the text thereof. The Selectboard shall call a special Town meeting to be held within 60 days of the date the petition is filed unless, prior to such meeting, the Selectboard shall have enacted the ordinance. The warning for the meeting shall include the text of the proposed ordinance and shall provide for a "yes" or "no" vote to its enactment. The ordinance shall be adopted if at least 15 percent of the registered voters vote and a majority of that number vote for adoption. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-27
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-27. Compensation of Selectboard members; appointees

§ 162-27. Compensation of Selectboard members; appointees|(a) Compensation to the Selectboard members shall be set by the voters at the annual meeting, with a minimum of $1,000.00 a year each. Selectboard members' salaries (stipends) must be set forth as a separate item in the annual budget presented at the meeting.(b) The Selectboard shall fix the compensation of all officers and employees except as otherwise provided in this charter. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-28
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-28. Nonapplicability to zoning and subdivision

§ 162-28. Nonapplicability to zoning and subdivision|(a) The provisions of this charter shall not apply to the enactment, amendment, or repeal of any zoning ordinance or zoning bylaw; any land subdivision ordinance or land subdivision bylaw; the enactment, amendment, or repeal of any municipal plan or comprehensive municipal plan; the enactment, amendment, or repeal of any regional municipal plan or comprehensive regional plan; the enactment, amendment, or repeal of such ordinances, bylaws, and plans being specifically controlled by 24 V.S.A. chapter 117; or by such other statutes regulating zoning, subdivision, and municipal and regional plans as may be enforced from time to time.(b) The adoption, amendment, or repeal of all other ordinances shall be in conformity with this charter. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-29
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-29. Bonding of officers

§ 162-29. Bonding of officers|All officers of the Town required to be bonded by State law shall be bonded. The amount of bonding insurance shall be determined by the Selectboard. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-30
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-30. Application of general law

§ 162-30. Application of general law|Provisions of the laws of the State of Vermont relating to voter qualification, warning, method of voting, the duties of town officers at town meetings and elections, and all other particulars relating to preparation for conducting and managing town meetings and elections shall, so far as they may be applicable, govern all municipal elections and all annual and special town meetings, except as otherwise provided in this charter. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-31
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-31. Fiscal year

§ 162-31. Fiscal year|The fiscal year shall commence on the first day of January and end on the last day of December unless the Town at its annual meeting shall determine otherwise. If the Town votes another fiscal year, it shall specify the procedure for transition, including the method for financing the transition. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-32
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-32. Amount to be raised by taxation

§ 162-32. Amount to be raised by taxation|Upon passage of the budget by the Annual Town meeting, the amount stated therein as the amount to be raised by property taxes shall constitute a determination of the amount of the levy for the purposes of the Town in the corresponding tax year, and the Selectboard shall levy such taxes on the grand list furnished by the listers of the corresponding year. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 162-33
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 162 - Town of Woodford|App § 162-33. Budget limitations; borrowing

§ 162-33. Budget limitations; borrowing|(a) The incurring of bonded indebtedness, the issuing of bonds, the making of temporary loans in anticipation of bond sales, and all other matters pertaining to bonded indebtedness shall be controlled by 24 V.S.A. chapter 53 or such statutes as are applicable.(b) The Town, through the Selectboard, may borrow money in anticipation of taxes. The total amount so borrowed shall not exceed 90 percent of the taxes assessed for such year, and notes or orders issued therefore shall mature not later than the end of the fiscal year of the Town.(c) The Town, by vote at any annual or special meeting, may borrow money under such terms and conditions and for such lawful municipal purposes as the Town shall vote.(d)(1) In cases of emergency, the Selectboard may appropriate funds or borrow money in the name of the Town. The total combined emergency appropriations and borrowing in any year shall not exceed five percent of the amount voted at the annual meeting as the Town budget or, if the appropriation or borrowing is prior to the annual meeting, then five percent of the amount voted at the prior annual meeting as the Town budget.  (2) Notes or orders for such emergency borrowing shall mature not more than one year from the date of issuance and shall not thereafter be renewed unless the Town so votes. (3) Any federally or State-declared emergency that requires borrowing or appropriation in excess of five percent shall require a duly warned special meeting, and a majority of Trustees of Public Funds must approve such expenditures. (4) Any emergency borrowing or approval shall be reported at the next Town meeting.   (e) The Selectboard, in the name of the Town, may borrow funds in anticipation of federal and State funds which have been approved and committed, until such time as such funds are available. Any debt so incurred for a project shall be repaid from the first federal or State funds received for that project.(f) Any appropriations beyond the amount in the Town budget, except as specified in subsection (d) of this section, and all borrowing, except as specified in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of this section, shall be by vote of the Town and upon such terms and conditions as the Town shall vote.(g) An annual budget shall be adopted at Town meeting by the vote of a majority of those eligible to vote present at the meeting. If, after the total budget has been appropriated, the Selectboard finds additional appropriations necessary, the appropriations shall be made and reported at the next town meeting as a specified item. The appropriations shall only be made in special circumstances or situations of an emergency nature. No specific explanation need be given for any normal annual operating expense which may be increased over the budget amount by an amount not more than 10 percent of the specified budget. (Added 2013, No. M-8, § 2, eff. May 23, 2013.)
24A V.S.A. § 203-201
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-201. Annual and special meetings

§ 203-201. Annual and special meetings|The annual meeting of said corporation shall be held on the first Tuesday in May of each year at such hour as the notice hereinafter mentioned shall state, in the Town Hall in said Village or at such other time and place as said corporation shall hereafter appoint, of which a notice shall be posted in three public places in said Village at least 10 days previous to said meeting, which notice shall be signed by the Clerk of said corporation, and in case of his or her failure, by the trustees, and for want of such trustees by a majority of the justices of the peace residing in the Village; and whenever five legal voters of said corporation shall so request in writing, the Clerk, and upon his or her neglect or refusal, the trustees, may call a special meeting of said corporation, giving notice of the same in like manner, and specifying in said notice the object of such meeting. At such meeting none but inhabitants qualified by law to vote in Town meetings in said Town, and who have resided for one year within the bounds hereinbefore described and established for such Village, shall be entitled to vote.
24A V.S.A. § 203-301
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-301. Election of officers

§ 203-301. Election of officers|At each annual meeting of said Village there shall be elected the following officers: one trustee, a Clerk, Treasurer, Collector, and one auditor. Such elections shall be by ballot if called for, the terms of office of officers elected at the annual meeting shall commence at the time of their election and continue for one year, and until their successors are chosen and qualified, except for the term of office of trustee whose term will be five years and the term of office of auditor whose term will be three years. (Amended 2001, No. M-10 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 203-302
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-302. Terms of officers

§ 203-302. Terms of officers|The term of office of officers elected at the annual meeting shall commence at the time of their election and continue for one year, and until their successors are chosen and qualified, provided the term of office of trustees shall be five years except as provided in the preceding section.
24A V.S.A. § 203-303
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-303. Vacancies

§ 203-303. Vacancies|The trustees shall fill a vacancy occurring in a Village office, and such person so appointed shall serve for the unexpired term unless superseded. But the Village may, at any time before the expiration of such term, supersede such appointment by a new election at a special meeting, duly warned for such purpose, for the remainder of the term.
24A V.S.A. § 203-304
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-304. Presiding officer

§ 203-304. Presiding officer|The senior member of the Board of Trustees shall preside at Village meetings. The presiding officer in a Village meeting shall have the same power and duties as a moderator in town meetings. (Amended 2001, No. M-10 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
24A V.S.A. § 203-305
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-305. Board of Trustees

§ 203-305. Board of Trustees|The Board of Trustees shall have the management of the affairs of the Village and the necessary powers for that purpose.
24A V.S.A. § 203-306
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-306. Clerk

§ 203-306. Clerk|The Clerk shall keep a record of the proceedings of said corporation, and shall have power to certify copies of the same. The Clerk shall also have the usual powers and duties incident to clerks of such corporation.
24A V.S.A. § 203-307
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-307. Treasurer and Collector

§ 203-307. Treasurer and Collector|The Treasurer and Collector shall have similar powers and duties to those of town treasurers and town collectors. They shall each give bonds to the Village conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices in such sums and with such sureties as the trustees may prescribe. If a Treasurer or Collector does not give such bonds within 10 days after election or appointment, the office shall be vacant.
24A V.S.A. § 203-308
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-308. Auditors

§ 203-308. Auditors|The auditors shall, previous to each annual Village meeting, examine and adjust the accounts of the Village officers, and report the amounts so adjusted with the items thereof, and also the state of the treasury, to said annual meeting. The auditors shall cause their report to be printed at the expense of the Village and circulated among the taxpayers thereof at least 10 days previous to such annual meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 203-309
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-309. Claims and accounts of Village officers

§ 203-309. Claims and accounts of Village officers|The auditors shall not allow a claim or account for the personal service of a Village officer except when compensation for such service is fixed by law or by a vote of the Village. The auditors shall include in their report to the Village a statement of the amount of such claims presented and disallowed, with the nature and extent of the services rendered for which such compensation was claimed.
24A V.S.A. § 203-401
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-401. Authority to adopt bylaws

§ 203-401. Authority to adopt bylaws|Said Village may establish, alter, and repeal bylaws on the following subject matters:  First. Relating to its streets, sidewalks, parks, and public grounds; the cleaning, repairing, and improving of the same, and to compel persons to remove from the sidewalks and gutters adjacent to the premises owned by them, snow, ice, dirt, and garbage and other obstructions, and to keep such sidewalks and gutters clean. Second. Relating to a watch and lighting of the streets. Third. Relating to slaughterhouses and nuisances generally, and to compel the owner or occupant of an unwholesome, noisome, or offensive house or place to cleanse the same from time to time as may be necessary for the health or comfort of the inhabitants of said Village. Fourth. Relating to sewers. Fifth. Relating to a water supply for the protection of the Village against fire and for other purposes. Sixth. To restrain animals from running at large in said Village. Seventh. To establish and regulate markets. Eighth. To erect and regulate location of hay scales. Ninth. To suppress disorderly and gaming houses of all description of gaming, and for the destruction of instruments and devices used for that purpose. Tenth. To prevent immoderate driving in the streets, and cruelty to animals. Eleventh. To regulate the erection of buildings and to regulate the use of buildings in crowded localities for hazardous purposes. Twelfth. To regulate the making, alteration, and repair of stovepipes, fireplaces, and other things from which damage by fire may be apprehended, and in general to provide for the preservation of buildings from fire by precautionary measures and inspections. Thirteenth. To regulate the manufacture and keeping of gunpowder and all other combustibles and dangerous materials. Fourteenth. To regulate and restrain the use and sale of rockets, squibs, firecrackers, toy pistols, or other fireworks within the Village. Fifteenth. To establish and regulate a fire department and fire and hook and ladder company or companies when necessary. Sixteenth. To regulate the exhibitions of shows not interdicted by law. Seventeenth. To license innkeepers and victualers, keepers of billiard and other saloons; peddlers, itinerant vendors, and auctioneers under regulations prescribed by the Village. Moneys received for such licenses shall be paid into the Village treasury. Eighteenth. To prohibit and punish wilful injury to trees planted for shade or ornament, convenience, or use, public or private, and to prevent and punish trespassers or wilful injuries to or upon public buildings, squares, commons,  cemeteries, or other property or properties. And such Village may establish, alter, or repeal other bylaws which it may deem necessary for the well-being of said Village, and for the proper regulation of the officers thereof, and not repugnant to the laws of the State.
24A V.S.A. § 203-402
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-402. Imposition of forfeitures

§ 203-402. Imposition of forfeitures|The Village may impose a forfeiture of not exceeding $25 for violation of any bylaw. Such forfeiture may be recovered in an action of tort founded on this charter, brought in the name of the Village; and in any such action a general complaint counting on the bylaws shall be sufficient.
24A V.S.A. § 203-403
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-403. Violations

§ 203-403. Violations|In an action for violation of a bylaw, the process may issue against the body of the defendant and if he or she is found guilty, and it appears to the court before whom the action is tried that the cause of action arose from wilful or malicious act or neglect of the defendant it shall so adjudge, and shall further adjudge that the defendant ought to be confined in close jail, and may issue execution against the body of such defendant with a certificate of such finding indorsed thereon; and such execution with such certificate thereon shall have the same effect as an execution issued on a judgment founded upon tort with a like certificate indorsed thereon.