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24A V.S.A. § 203-501
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-501. Grand list

§ 203-501. Grand list|The grand list of the ratable estate within said Village, as made out by the listers of the Town of Alburgh shall be the grand list of said Village; and the trustees shall cause a copy of such list to be made and filed in the office of the Clerk of said Village within 10 days, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
24A V.S.A. § 203-502
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-502. Assessment of tax on grand list

§ 203-502. Assessment of tax on grand list|The Village may, at any legal meeting, assess a tax on the grand list of the Village for any of the purposes specified in this act.
24A V.S.A. § 203-601
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-601. Residency not disqualification to serve

§ 203-601. Residency not disqualification to serve|No person being a resident or taxpayer of said corporation shall thereby be deemed disqualified to act as judge, justice, juror, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or, police officer in any matter, cause or proceeding in which said corporation shall be interested.
24A V.S.A. § 203-801
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-801. Authority to construct and maintain infrastructure

§ 203-801. Authority to construct and maintain infrastructure|The Village of Alburgh is authorized and empowered to construct, extend, renew, and maintain a common sewer or sewers in said Village; to build and maintain sidewalks and curbings along the streets and public highways therein; to oil and sprinkle the streets in said Village; and to acquire by purchase or construction a lighting system for the use of such Village or its inhabitants.
24A V.S.A. § 203-802
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-802. Eminent domain authority

§ 203-802. Eminent domain authority|For any of the foregoing purposes said Village may take, use, or occupy the land of individuals and corporations on making compensation therefor, and the trustees in the taking of such land and in the awarding of damages therefor shall proceed in the manner prescribed by law for selectmen in the taking of land for public highways and in the awarding of damages. The trustees shall cause to be recorded in the office of the Village Clerk a certificate of their doings which shall be signed by a majority.
24A V.S.A. § 203-803
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-803. Procedures for eminent domain authority

§ 203-803. Procedures for eminent domain authority|In all proceedings under this act for taking land, rights, or property the trustees shall pass upon the convenience and necessity therefor at hearings held by them after giving notice to each owner or person interested therein of the time, place, and purpose of such hearing. Such notice shall give a description of the land, property, or rights to be taken and used. At such hearing the trustees shall determine the question of convenience and necessity and decide the question of damages and shall pay or tender the amount of such damages to the person or persons entitled to the same, in the same manner as is provided by law for selectmen in taking lands for highways and in awarding damage therefor. A person aggrieved by any act of the trustees in the taking of lands, rights, or property for the foregoing purposes and in the awarding of damages therefor may have the same right of appeal, and in the case of such appeal proceedings shall be had in the same manner as is provided for appeals from acts of selectmen in taking land and awarding damages for highway purposes.
24A V.S.A. § 203-804
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-804. Assessments for sidewalks and curbs

§ 203-804. Assessments for sidewalks and curbs|Said Board of Trustees in making, altering, or repairing sidewalks and curbs shall have power, subject to the ordinances and bylaws of said Village, on giving 12 days' notice to the parties interested, of the time and place of hearing, to assess the owners of lands or buildings benefited thereby, so much of the expense of making, altering, or repairing said sidewalks and curbs as they shall judge such lands or buildings abutting such sidewalks and curbs to be benefited thereby; such assessment not to exceed 50 percent of the cost of such making, altering, or repairing. And when they shall make any assessment, they shall make a report thereof, in writing, setting forth their doings in that respect, and cause said report to be recorded in the Village Clerk's office; and when so recorded the amount so assessed shall be and remain a lien in the nature of a tax upon the land so assessed until the same shall be paid. From such assessment there shall be the right of appeal to the county court as is provided in case of laying out, constructing, or repairing sewers and drains in the charter of said Village, and the final decision of the county court in the matter of such appeal, where the record thereof is recorded as aforesaid, shall be a lien upon the lands so assessed, but such appeal shall not delay the making, altering, or repairing of such sidewalks and curbs.
24A V.S.A. § 203-805
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-805. Recordation and collection of sidewalk and curbing assessments

§ 203-805. Recordation and collection of sidewalk and curbing assessments|(a) Said Board of Trustees shall, as soon as may be after they have caused said report and assessments to be recorded in the Village Clerk's office of the Village of Alburgh, place a list of said assessments in the hands of the Village Treasurer for collection. The Village Treasurer shall thereupon forthwith notify, in writing, the owner or owners of land or buildings so assessed, their agents, or attorneys, stating therein the amount of such assessment. All such assessments shall be paid to the Village Treasurer within 60 days after the same have been filed for record in the office of the Clerk of the Village of Alburgh, and such assessments and the interest thereon shall be and remain a lien upon the lands and buildings assessed until the same are fully paid.(b) If an owner or owners of any land or buildings assessed under the provisions of this charter shall neglect or refuse to pay any such assessment, with interest, as hereinbefore provided, to the Village Treasurer within the time prescribed for such payment, the Village Treasurer shall issue his or her warrant to the Village Collector of Taxes for the collection of said assessment, which warrant shall be in the form now prescribed by law for collection of town or other taxes, and such Collector shall have authority to sell at public auction so much of said lands as will satisfy such assessments, and the legal fees and shall proceed in the same manner and have the same fees as a collector of taxes in a town in selling land for the payment of taxes.(c) Whenever a description of lands or buildings is required for the purposes of making assessments under the provisions of this charter, reference to the conveyance to the owner, giving date thereof, the name of the person from whom acquired, and the volume and page of the land records in the Town Clerk's office in which the same is recorded, shall be sufficient.
24A V.S.A. § 203-806
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-806. Taxation for infrastructure improvements

§ 203-806. Taxation for infrastructure improvements|The legal voters of the Village of Alburgh, at any annual or special meeting warned for that purpose, may vote a tax upon the grand list of said Village for any of the purposes herein mentioned.
24A V.S.A. § 203-807
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-807. Construction of individual sewer and drain connections

§ 203-807. Construction of individual sewer and drain connections|The owner of property abutting or adjacent to any street or alley in said corporation through which a public sewer has been constructed, shall construct under the direction of the trustees a suitable sewer or drain from the owner's property and properly connect the same with said public sewer. If, after 20 days' notice in writing by the trustees to the owner of such property, of such requirement such owner fails or neglects to construct or connect such sewer the trustees shall enter upon such property and make such connection, assessing therefor the actual cost of so doing against such property and the owner thereof. Said trustees shall file in the office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Alburgh an itemized statement of the costs of constructing and connecting said sewer, and the amount so assessed shall be and remain a lien upon said property and shall be enforced and collected in the same manner as is provided in this act for the enforcement and collection of assessments.
24A V.S.A. § 203-808
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-808. Assessment of sewer service fee

§ 203-808. Assessment of sewer service fee|The trustees of the Village of Alburgh may, on due notice and after hearing, assess against the property connected with the system in such Village a service fee to be used by said Village for the maintenance, upkeep, and repair of the sewage system, which shall not exceed such limit for each owner or tenant occupying the property or any portion thereof as the Village shall from time to time determine by a majority vote at any annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose.
24A V.S.A. § 203-809
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 203 - Village of Alburgh|App § 203-809. Funds for sidewalk and curbing repairs

§ 203-809. Funds for sidewalk and curbing repairs|The selectmen of the Town of Alburgh shall, on or before the first day of November in each and every year, draw their order on the Treasurer of the Town of Alburgh for a sum of money equal to 10 percent of the Village grand list, which shall be used by the Village of Alburgh in building, repairing, and maintaining sidewalks and curbs within said Village. After the passage of this act the Town of Alburgh shall be relieved from any liability or expense for building, repairing, and maintaining sidewalks and curbs within the Village of Alburgh; and thereafter the Village of Alburgh shall assume all such liabilities. But the Town of Alburgh shall not be relieved from such liability except upon the payment of the 10 percent.
24A V.S.A. § 207-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-1. Preface

§ 207-1. Preface|Under authority granted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, the voters of the Bellows Falls Village corporation hereby adopt a charter for the following purposes:  (1) To clarify the structure and organization of local government. (2) To define the duties and responsibilities of Village officers. (3) To provide for the citizens of the Village a unified and convenient reference with respect to the basic laws affecting local government.
24A V.S.A. § 207-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-2. Amendment and repeal

§ 207-2. Amendment and repeal|The present officers of said corporation shall hold their respective offices until the next annual meeting thereof, as provided in its bylaws. And its bylaws now in force, insofar as they do not conflict with the provisions of this charter, shall continue in force until others are adopted in their stead. And, subject to this provision, all acts and parts of acts heretofore passed relating to said corporation are hereby repealed.
24A V.S.A. § 207-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-3. Boundaries and general powers

§ 207-3. Boundaries and general powers|The inhabitants within the bounds of the original first school district in the Town of Rockingham in the County of Windham, and their successors forever, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the "Bellows Falls Village Corporation" and by that name may sue and be sued; may have a common seal and alter the same at pleasure; and shall have power to purchase, hold, and convey real estate for the use of said corporation, and its departments, and shall have the power to purchase, hold, and convey personal estate through its Board of Trustees, and may tax themselves and levy and collect such taxes for the purposes aforesaid or to carry into effect any legal vote or bylaw of said corporation, providing that no tax shall be laid or collected without the consent of the majority of the legal voters of said Village present at a meeting duly warned and agreeable to the provisions of this charter.
24A V.S.A. § 207-5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-5. Elected officers' terms and vacancies

§ 207-5. Elected officers' terms and vacancies|(a) The officers of said corporation shall be a Moderator, a President, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, four Trustees, and three Auditors of Accounts. No person shall hold office of Treasurer and Auditor of Accounts simultaneously.(b) All officers of said Village shall be residents and elected at the annual meeting of said Village, except Collector of Taxes, who shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees.(c) All officers of said Village, except the Trustees, shall hold office for one year and until their successors shall be elected and qualified.(d) At each annual meeting of said Village, there shall be elected two Trustees who shall hold office for the term of two years and until their successors shall be elected and qualified.(e) When a vacancy occurs in any of the offices by reason of nonacceptance, death, removal, refusal to act, moved from Village, inability to perform duties due to a mental condition or psychiatric disability, or from any other cause, the corporation may fill the vacancy by a new election, for the unexpired term at any legal meeting. The Board of Trustees may, by temporary appointment, fill any vacancy, and the persons so appointed shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. A record of the appointment shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the corporation. (Amended 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 167.)
24A V.S.A. § 207-6
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-6. Board of Trustees' duties

§ 207-6. Board of Trustees' duties|(a) The Board of Trustees shall have charge of all prudential affairs of said corporation and perform the duties enjoined upon it by said corporation.(b) Said Board shall direct the expenditure of all moneys belonging to said corporation, and no money shall be expended in any department of said corporation except upon the order of said Board of Trustees. Said Board of Trustees shall enforce the bylaws and regulations of said corporation and direct prosecutions for the breach thereof. The trustees shall have power to regulate the excavating of streets and the laying of pipes therein and they may issue licenses therefor.(c) In case of the illness or absence of the Clerk, it shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees to warn meetings of said corporation.(d) No member of the Board of Trustees shall hold the position of Superintendent of Sewerage and Water, Chief of Police, Fire Chief, or Manager.(e) It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees to annually make a list of the names of such persons resident within the limits of said corporation as are legal voters at Town meeting of the Town of Rockingham, at least 15 days before the annual meeting of said corporation, and shall immediately cause copies thereof to be posted in two or more public places in said corporation, and a copy to be filed with the Clerk thereof and said list shall be revised by the Board of Trustees in the same manner as is now provided by law for the revision of check lists of voters in town meeting. The Clerk, or in the Clerk's absence, one of the trustees of the Board of said corporation, shall have such list present at any meeting of said corporation, and the same shall be used in the same manner as provided by law for the use of town check lists. And no person whose name is not on such list shall vote at any meeting of such corporation in which such list is used; and the vote of no person whose name is on such list shall be rejected if a resident of said corporation on the day on which such meeting is held.
24A V.S.A. § 207-7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-7. President's duties

§ 207-7. President's duties|By virtue of the office, the President shall be a member of the Board of Trustees and shall preside over meetings of the Board of Trustees. In the absence of the President, the Trustees shall elect a Chairman from among their number.
24A V.S.A. § 207-8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-8. Clerk's duties

§ 207-8. Clerk's duties|It shall be the duty of the Clerk to warn all meetings of said corporation, both annual and special, agreeable to the direction of the Board of Trustees, and to keep accurate records of the proceedings of said corporation, to furnish certified copies of the same when required, and the Clerk shall receive compensation as determined by the trustees. The Clerk shall also be ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees.
24A V.S.A. § 207-9
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-9. Moderator

§ 207-9. Moderator|It shall be the duty of the Moderator to preside at all annual and special meetings of said corporation, and he or she shall have the same powers as a moderator of town meetings. In the absence of the Moderator, the meeting shall be called to order by a member of the Board of Trustees and the meeting shall elect a Moderator Pro Tempore.
24A V.S.A. § 207-10
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-10. Treasurer's and Collector's duties

§ 207-10. Treasurer's and Collector's duties|The Treasurer and Collector shall perform the same duties for said corporation as by law is required of a town treasurer and a collector of town taxes respectively; and shall have the same powers, proceed in the same manner, and be subject to the same liabilities; and shall give bonds to said corporation, conditioned for the faithful performance of their respective duties, with such sureties and in such sums as the Board of Trustees shall direct. And a failure or neglect on the part of either of said officers for more than 20 days after election or appointment to furnish satisfactory bonds, shall create a vacancy in such office.
24A V.S.A. § 207-11
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-11. Auditors' duties

§ 207-11. Auditors' duties|It shall be the duty of the auditors of accounts to audit the accounts of the Collector and Treasurer of said corporation; they shall carefully examine the vouchers of the Treasurer and all other records of public funds prior to each annual meeting, and shall have access to the books and records of all corporation officers, and shall make a written report of their doings, with criticisms and recommendations as they deem best, to said corporation at its annual meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 207-12
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-12. Disqualifications

§ 207-12. Disqualifications|A person being a resident or taxpayer of said corporation shall thereby not be disqualified, solely on that basis, to act as judge, justice, juror, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or police officer, in any matter or proceeding in which said corporation shall be a party to or have an interest in.
24A V.S.A. § 207-13
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-13. Bylaws and regulations

§ 207-13. Bylaws and regulations|(a) Said corporation may enact such bylaws and regulations as are expedient, including such as relate to vehicle traffic and parking of motor and other vehicles on the streets of said Village; to streets, sidewalks, lanes, and commons, and shade and ornamental trees thereon; to nuisances; to lighting the streets of said Village; and to restraining animals from running at large.(b) Said corporation shall have the authority to prosecute ordinances through its Village Attorney.
24A V.S.A. § 207-14
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-14. Penalties; charter and bylaws

§ 207-14. Penalties; charter and bylaws|Fines, forfeitures, and penalties, imposed for violations of any of the provisions of this charter, or of the bylaws of said corporation may be prosecuted for and recovered in and by an action founded on this section in the Vermont District Court or the Windham Superior Court. The allegation that the acts constituting the offense charged are contrary to the form of this charter or bylaws, in such case made and provided, shall be sufficient reference thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 207-15
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-15. Taxes

§ 207-15. Taxes|Said corporation may, at any annual or special meeting called in whole or in part for that purpose, lay a tax on the grand list of the Town of Rockingham; and the Board of Trustees shall make out a rate bill of all taxes voted by the Bellows Falls Village corporation, in making the list of said Town, to designate therein such of the rateable estate thereof as shall be within the limits of said corporation.
24A V.S.A. § 207-16
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-16. Tax abatement

§ 207-16. Tax abatement|The Board for the Abatement of Taxes shall consist of the Board of Trustees, President, Clerk, and Treasurer thereof, and justice of the peace and listers residing therein. The act of a majority of a quorum at a meeting shall be treated as the act of the Board. The above requirement in respect to a quorum need not be met if the President, Clerk, Treasurer, and a majority of the trustees are present at the meeting. Said Board shall have the power to abate taxes assessed by vote of said corporation, and the power of said Board to abate taxes shall be subject to the same limitations, and may be exercised for the causes, as stated in 24 V.S.A. § 1535.