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16 V.S.A. § 11-2.5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-2.5. Board of Civil Authority

§ 11-2.5. Board of Civil Authority|The Moderator, Prudential Committee, Clerk-Treasurer, and Justices of the Peace residing in the District shall constitute a Board of Civil Authority in the District. The Board of Civil Authority shall have the same authority and power to abate taxes as the board of civil authority in towns. The Board of Civil Authority shall be responsible for conducting elections and shall decide all questions as to the eligibility of a person to vote in a district meeting. The members of the Board of Civil Authority present and acting at any meeting shall constitute a quorum in which to act.
16 V.S.A. § 11-2.6
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-2.6. Moderator

§ 11-2.6. Moderator|The Moderator shall preside at the District meeting and in his or her absence, a Moderator Pro Tempora may be elected. As the presiding officer at District meetings, the Moderator shall perform the same duties and have the same authority as moderators at town meetings.
16 V.S.A. § 11-2.7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-2.7. Clerk-Treasurer

§ 11-2.7. Clerk-Treasurer|The Clerk-Treasurer of Essex Junction School District shall keep a record of the proceedings of the District and shall have the power to certify the copies of the same and shall perform the duties and have the authority and powers incident to clerks and treasurers of other municipal corporations. All money belonging to the District shall be paid to the Clerk-Treasurer, be safely kept, and paid out by the Clerk-Treasurer only upon orders issued by the Prudential Committee, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
16 V.S.A. § 11-2.8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-2.8. Collector of Taxes

§ 11-2.8. Collector of Taxes|Except as modified by this charter, the Collector of Taxes shall perform the same duties and have the same authority and power in the collection of taxes as those given by law to collectors of taxes and collectors of delinquent taxes in towns.
16 V.S.A. § 11-4.1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-4.1. Annual meeting

§ 11-4.1. Annual meeting|The annual meeting of the District shall be held at an appropriate meeting place within the District on the second Tuesday of May in each year, or at such place or time as the District may vote, but never later than June 15. Annual meetings shall be warned by the Clerk-Treasurer or in case of his or her absence or neglect, by the Prudential Committee.
16 V.S.A. § 11-4.2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-4.2. Special meetings

§ 11-4.2. Special meetings|Special meetings of the District shall be warned by the School District Clerk, or by the Prudential Committee, either upon its own volition or upon application in writing signed by one percent or more of the legal voters of the District.
16 V.S.A. § 11-4.3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-4.3. Warnings

§ 11-4.3. Warnings|A warning for an annual or special District meeting shall be posted in three or more public places in the District not less than 30 and not more than 40 days before the meeting, setting forth the time and place of the meeting and the business to be done.
16 V.S.A. § 11-4.4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-4.4. Parliamentary and voting procedures

§ 11-4.4. Parliamentary and voting procedures|All decisions at District meetings shall be decided by majority vote unless otherwise provided in this chapter. Parliamentary matters shall follow Robert's Rules of Order as it is from time to time revised.
16 V.S.A. § 11-5.1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-5.1. Grand list

§ 11-5.1. Grand list|The grand list of the Town of Essex composed of the taxable property and estate within the limits of the District shall constitute the grand list of the District. The District may at an annual or special meeting legally warned for that purpose vote to lay and assess a tax on its grand list for school purposes, and all taxes so voted, laid, or assessed shall be paid and collected in the same manner as is proved by law or by this chapter for the payment and collection of town taxes, and the Prudential Committee, Clerk-Treasurer, and Collector of Taxes shall perform the same duties and have the same authority in respect thereto as is provided by law for members of selectboards, treasurers, collectors of taxes, and collectors of delinquent taxes in towns, except that the District shall charge a collection fee of eight percent in addition to any interest owing on any and all tax payments, including installment payments, made after expiration of the time established in the notice of taxes due mailed to each taxpayer as required by law.
16 V.S.A. § 11-5.2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-5.2. Borrowing

§ 11-5.2. Borrowing|The District may borrow money in any year in anticipation of taxes assessed in such year, in an amount not to exceed 90 percent of the taxes assessed in such year. Such notes or orders, however, must mature within one year from the date thereof and be paid from the taxes assessed and collected in such year.
16 V.S.A. § 11-5.3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-5.3. Issuance of negotiable bonds

§ 11-5.3. Issuance of negotiable bonds|The District is hereby authorized and empowered by a vote of a majority of all voters voting at a legally warned meeting held for that purpose to issue its negotiable bonds or negotiable interest-bearing notes pursuant to State statutes.
16 V.S.A. § 13-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4|App § 13-1. Incorporation of district

§ 13-1. Incorporation of district|School District No. 4 in Middlebury, in the County of Addison, a corporation duly established under the laws of this State, is hereby empowered and required to educate the scholars in the District in a grade 1 school or schools; and for that purpose may sell and convey any real estate belonging to the District, purchase, build, lease, and hold as many schoolhouses or school rooms, and establish and keep as many schools, and cause to be taught therein as extended a course of study as the District shall direct.
16 V.S.A. § 13-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4|App § 13-2. Merger of districts

§ 13-2. Merger of districts|In order that a competent number of schools shall be maintained in the Town of Middlebury, for the convenient instruction of youth, School District No. 4 in Middlebury, in the County of Addison, an incorporated school district established by Act No. 89 of the laws of 1866, is empowered to merge with the Town School District of Middlebury, provided a majority of the legal voters of the Town School District of Middlebury present and voting at any meeting legally warned of the Town School District of Middlebury vote to become a part of School District No 4. in Middlebury, and a majority of the legal voters of School District No. 4 in Middlebury present and voting at any meeting legally warned of School District No. 4 in Middlebury vote to accept the merger. If the merger occurs, School District No. 4 in Middlebury shall retain all its present corporate powers and shall continue its corporate existence heretofore granted, and the Town School District of Middlebury shall no longer exist except for the settlement of its own pecuniary affairs and for the purpose only of voting, assessing, and collecting of a special tax annually to pay its indebtedness, if any, which settlement and payment shall be made before the expiration of two years from the date of the vote of School District No. 4 in Middlebury accepting the merger.
16 V.S.A. § 13-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4|App § 13-3. Transfer of real estate

§ 13-3. Transfer of real estate|The Town School District is hereby authorized and empowered when the merger occurs to transfer and assign to School District No. 4 in Middlebury all right title and interest or use in any estate, real or personal, wherever situate, and from whatever source derived appertaining or belonging to the Town School District of Middlebury, provided said present School District of Middlebury so votes by a majority of its legal voters present and voting at a meeting thereof legally warned.
16 V.S.A. § 13-4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4|App § 13-4. Records of Town School District

§ 13-4. Records of Town School District|The records of the Middlebury Town School District shall be deposited with the Town Clerk when said merger occurs.
16 V.S.A. § 13-5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4|App § 13-5. School funds; State aid

§ 13-5. School funds; State aid|If the merger occurs, School District No. 4 in Middlebury shall be entitled to all the public money distributed to Middlebury and to all State aid granted to the town of Middlebury and provisions heretofore granted to the District inconsistent with this section shall be repealed.
16 V.S.A. § 13-6
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4|App § 13-6. Adoption of rules and regulations

§ 13-6. Adoption of rules and regulations|The Incorporated School District may make all such necessary rules and regulations in regard to the attendance of scholars, and the course of instruction in the school or schools, as shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this State.
16 V.S.A. § 13-7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4|App § 13-7. Acceptance of scholars

§ 13-7. Acceptance of scholars|The Prudential Committee of the Incorporated School District may admit scholars coming from outside the District upon such terms as they may prescribe.
16 V.S.A. § 13-8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4|App § 13-8. Officers and Prudential Committee

§ 13-8. Officers and Prudential Committee|The officers of the Incorporated School District shall be a Moderator, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector, and an Auditor, who shall be chosen annually, and a Prudential Committee of seven hereafter to be chosen as follows:At each annual meeting of the Town of Middlebury, there shall be elected a member of the Committee for a term of three years. A vacancy on the Committee shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by a majority of the members of the Committee. All elected officers shall be elected by Australian ballot, chosen from the legally qualified voters of the Town, and shall hold their respective offices until their successors are elected and qualified.
16 V.S.A. § 13-9
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4|App § 13-9. General provisions

§ 13-9. General provisions|The general provisions of law pertaining to schools not inconsistent with the provisions of law pertaining to this charter and with the rights heretofore granted School District No. 4 by special legislation shall apply to school District No. 4 when the merger occurs.
16 V.S.A. § 15-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 15 - North Bennington Graded School District|App § 15-1. Establishment of District

§ 15-1. Establishment of District|All of the Town of Bennington which is included within the limits of the incorporated Village of North Bennington is hereby constituted a school district in the Town by the name of the North Bennington Graded School District and the Graded School District shall have all the powers and privileges and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities that are incident to school districts as established under the laws of this State.
16 V.S.A. § 15-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 15 - North Bennington Graded School District|App § 15-2. Prudential Committee

§ 15-2. Prudential Committee|The Prudential Committee shall consist of five persons, and at the annual meeting of the District, vacancies occasioned by the expiration of the term of office of members of the Committee shall be filled by the election of members for the term of three years each; and all vacancies on the Committee caused by resignation, death, removal from the District, or other cause shall be filled at an annual or special meeting warned for that purpose for the unexpired term of such members only.
16 V.S.A. § 15-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 15 - North Bennington Graded School District|App § 15-3. Authority to make rules and establish schools

§ 15-3. Authority to make rules and establish schools|The Graded School District may make bylaws, rules, and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, and may provide for the establishment and maintenance of such number of schools and of such grade or grades and for teaching therein such branches of knowledge as it may deem expedient.
16 V.S.A. § 15-4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 15 - North Bennington Graded School District|App § 15-4. Distribution of public funds

§ 15-4. Distribution of public funds|In the distribution of public moneys, that portion which may be divided among the several districts, irrespective of the number of scholars or their attendance at school, shall be so divided as to give the Graded School District the shares of the several original districts of which it is or shall be composed.
16 V.S.A. § 15-5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 15 - North Bennington Graded School District|App § 15-5. Additional districts

§ 15-5. Additional districts|If any other school district or districts in the Town of Bennington or in the adjoining Town of Shaftsbury shall at any time, by their vote at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, signify their desire to become united with the Graded School District, and if the Graded School District at a meeting duly warned for that purpose shall vote to agree to the union, the additional District shall to all intents and purposes become and form a part of the North Bennington Graded School District, and the union of the districts may be made upon the terms in regard to the school property of each as may be mutually agreed upon by the districts.
16 V.S.A. § 17-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 17 - Orleans School District|App § 17-1. Incorporation; boundaries

§ 17-1. Incorporation; boundaries|Such portions of the Town of Barton as were included within the limits of School District Number Seven, prior to the enactment of an act, entitled "An act relating to public instruction," approved November 12, 1892, and bounded as the District was then bounded and the inhabitants thereof are hereby incorporated and constituted a school district of the Town of Barton by the name of the Orleans School District, and the school house and all other property of whatever character in the District shall become the general property of the Orleans School District; and the Graded School District shall have all the powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities of such districts under the laws of this State, and the laws in addition thereto or in amendment thereof.
16 V.S.A. § 17-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 17 - Orleans School District|App § 17-2. Officers; trustees

§ 17-2. Officers; trustees|The School District at its first annual meeting shall elect three Trustees as follows: One for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years; and at all subsequent annual meetings vacancies by the expiration of the terms of office of Trustee shall be filled by the election of Trustees for the term of three years each; and all vacancies caused by death, registration, removal from the District, or other cause shall be filled at an annual or special meeting warned for the purpose, for the unexpired term of such Trustees only. The Trustees shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of a Prudential Committee of a school district, and shall choose one of their number to be President, and may appoint a Secretary of the Board, each of whom shall hold office for the term of one year and until their successors are chosen and appointed. There shall also be elected a Collector, Treasurer, and three Auditors at each annual meeting of the District for the term of one year each, and vacancies in either of the offices may be filled at any special meeting called for that purpose, and they shall serve in their respective offices until their successors are elected. The President of the Board of Trustees shall serve as Moderator at all meetings of the District, and the Secretary of the Board of Trustees who shall not be a member of the Board shall serve as Clerk of the District and shall be invested with the same powers and subject to the same duties and liabilities of clerks of school districts under the school district system.
16 V.S.A. § 17-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 17 - Orleans School District|App § 17-3. Annual meeting

§ 17-3. Annual meeting|All annual meetings of the School District shall be held on the second Tuesday of March in each year, at such time of day and place as shall be designated by the Clerk of the District and the notice thereof shall not be less than six nor more than ten days from the date of such notice or warning, and special meetings may be called at any time under the direction of the Trustees or on petition of any five or more legal voters in the District, and the notice for such meetings shall be the same as that herein provided for annual meetings and the notices for all annual and special meetings shall be posted in three or more public places in the District.
16 V.S.A. § 17-4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 17 - Orleans School District|App § 17-4. Powers of officers

§ 17-4. Powers of officers|All persons elected to the office of Collector, Treasurer, and Auditors shall be invested with the same powers and privileges and subject to the same duties and liabilities of such officers of school districts under the school district system under the laws of this State prior to the adoption of the town system of schools.
16 V.S.A. § 17-5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 17 - Orleans School District|App § 17-5. Bylaws, rules, and regulations; District

§ 17-5. Bylaws, rules, and regulations; District|The Orleans School District may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, and may provide for the establishment and maintenance of such number of schools, of such length, and of such grade or grades, and for teaching such branches of study therein as it may deem expedient; and may at its option afford and provide for the studies taught in higher academic schools and which are requisite to prepare scholars for admission to colleges. The graded school shall not be required to afford instruction gratuitously in drawing, music, or the languages other than English or the higher mathematics, but may do so at its option; all residents of the District between the ages of five and 20 years may attend the graded school free of tuition for all branches of study, except those above mentioned, tuition to be charged upon the branches excepted at the option of the District.
16 V.S.A. § 17-6
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 17 - Orleans School District|App § 17-6. Bylaws, rules, and regulations; Trustees

§ 17-6. Bylaws, rules, and regulations; Trustees|The Trustees may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations for the graduation, instruction, and management of the school, and for the care of the property of the District as they may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of the State; they shall establish a course or courses of study in each of the schools or departments of the school, and shall in conjunction with the teachers of the several schools or departments arrange and hold a public examination of all the scholars at the close of each term thereof, if thought best, and assign each scholar to the particular grade or department which each shall be found qualified to enter; shall assign each student to the proper grade upon admission to the school and may change students from one grade to another during term time, whenever the interest of the student or the welfare and good of the school may seem to require it. The Trustees, shall, unless otherwise directed by a vote of the District at any annual meeting thereof, allow and make provision for the attendance and instruction of students from other parts or portions of the Town of Barton or from other towns in the graded school with equal advantages of resident students, at rates of tuition corresponding as nearly as may be to the usual rates for the same instruction in schools of like character in the State. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 302, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
16 V.S.A. § 17-7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 17 - Orleans School District|App § 17-7. Gifts, benefactions, legacies, and endowments

§ 17-7. Gifts, benefactions, legacies, and endowments|The School District is hereby empowered to receive any gift, benefaction, legacy, or endowment fund in fee or in trust, that may be donated, devised, given, or bestowed, for the support and use of the Graded School on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed and limited by any donor or legator not inconsistent with the laws of this State; and the Trustees of such Graded School shall be the custodians of such gifts, benefactions, legacies, or endowment funds and of the income of the same, subject to the order and direction of the District in relation to the same, unless otherwise provided by the terms of such gift, benefaction, legacy, or endowment fund.
16 V.S.A. § 17-8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 17 - Orleans School District|App § 17-8. Public money

§ 17-8. Public money|In the distribution of the public moneys for the support of schools, the school district shall be entitled to such a share thereof, as Graded School Districts shall receive by virtue of the laws of this State.