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24A V.S.A. § 249-305
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-305. Collector of Taxes to be Chief of Police

§ 249-305. Collector of Taxes to be Chief of Police|The Collector of Taxes shall by virtue of holding said office be the Chief of Police of said the Village of Newfane, and as such shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of those duties and shall cause this officer's oath of office to be recorded by the Clerk. The Chief of Police shall be informing officer and conservator of the peace within the said the Village of Newfane, and may serve any criminal process returnable within said the Village of Newfane, and any mittimus issued by any justice of the peace therein, and shall be proper officer of the court in all causes before justices within said corporation and for all such services shall receive the fees provided by law for constables.
24A V.S.A. § 249-401
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-401. Prosecutions

§ 249-401. Prosecutions|Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this charter or the provisions of any bylaw of the said the Village of Newfane made in pursuance of this Charter may be commenced before any justice of the peace of the County of Windham upon complaint of any grand juror of the Town of Newfane or the State's Attorney of the County of Windham, and all fines and costs imposed for the violations of the provisions of this act, or the bylaws of the said corporation, or the laws of the State within the limits of said corporation shall be paid into the treasury of said corporation, and the costs of prosecution shall be paid out of the same treasury to the persons entitled thereto on the order of the court before which the trial was held.
24A V.S.A. § 249-501
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-501. Water and light

§ 249-501. Water and light|Said corporation is empowered to contract with any water company or any electric light company for water and lights or either for extinguishing fires, for watering the streets, for public drinking places, and for lighting the streets and other public purposes, and may levy and collect a tax to provide funds to meet such contracts.
24A V.S.A. § 249-502
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-502. Sewers

§ 249-502. Sewers|Said corporation is empowered to construct a system of sewers and repair the same, and for that purpose may take such lands as are necessary, and in taking lands for such purposes said corporation and its Board of Trustees shall proceed in the manner prescribed for towns and selectmen in taking lands for highway purposes, and said corporation may borrow such sums of money to defray the expenses of such sewers as it may by vote determine, and for that purpose may issue bonds with coupons attached on such terms and in such manner as said corporation may prescribe. If said Village votes to construct a sewer, it may make and establish bylaws regulating the manner of construction, the raising of the money therefor, and all other matters of detail relating thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 249-503
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-503. Streets and walks

§ 249-503. Streets and walks|The Board of Trustees of said corporation shall have the power to lay out, alter, maintain, or discontinue any street or walk and lane in said Village, and appraise and settle the damage therefor, causing its proceedings to be recorded in the Town Clerk's office in said Town; provided, that the trustees, in laying out, altering, and maintaining, or discontinuing, any such street, walk, or lane, shall be subject to the same regulations, and in all respects shall proceed in same manner, as selectmen of towns in like cases; and any party aggrieved shall be entitled to the same redress to which they would be entitled if the same had been done by the selectmen of the Town of Newfane.
24A V.S.A. § 249-504
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-504. Water pipes

§ 249-504. Water pipes|The trustees, or a majority of them, may lay water pipes, within the limits of said Village, and may, for that purpose enter upon the lands of any land owner in said Village, and lay and maintain water pipes through such land, and repair the same when necessary, upon payment or tender of payment of such compensation as damages therefor as the said trustees shall award to such land owner, and to any tenant or occupant of such land to the amount that  the individual's interests are affected thereby. Any party aggrieved shall be entitled to the same redress as is provided in case of taking of land by selectmen for highway purposes.
24A V.S.A. § 249-601
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-601. Date of annual meeting

§ 249-601. Date of annual meeting|The annual meeting of said corporation for the choice of officers and for the transaction of any business specified in the warning of such meeting, shall be held in the Village of Newfane on the first Wednesday in May.
24A V.S.A. § 249-602
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-602. Elections at special meeting

§ 249-602. Elections at special meeting|If the annual meeting of said Village fails to be held, for want of notice hereinbefore provided for, or for any other cause, the corporation shall not thereby be prejudiced and said several officers may at any time thereafter be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose, as hereinbefore provided for calling annual meetings; but the term of office of any officers so elected at any special meeting shall expire at the same time as if they had been regularly chosen at the annual meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 249-603
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-603. Voting

§ 249-603. Voting|Every person who resides within the limits of said Village and is a legal voter in Town meeting of the Town of Newfane shall be entitled to vote at any Village meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 249-701
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-701. Powers of the Village

§ 249-701. Powers of the Village|Said corporation shall have power to make, amend or repeal by-laws not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States, for the following purposes:  1. To establish and regulate a market. 2. To suppress and restrain disorderly and gaming houses, billiard and pool tables, and all descriptions of gaming, and for the destruction of all instruments and devices used for that purpose. 3. To regulate exhibitions of common show persons, and of shows of every kind not interdicted by law. 4. To abate and remove all public and private nuisances. 5. To compel the owner or occupant of any unwholesome, noisesome, or offensive house or place to remove or cleanse the same from time to time, as may be necessary for the health and comfort of the inhabitants of said Village. 6. To direct the location and management of all slaughter houses, meat markets, steam mills, blacksmith shops, and sewers. 7. To prevent immoderate riding or driving in the streets, and cruelty to animals, and may enforce the statutes of the State relating to use of automobiles. 8. To regulate the erection of buildings, and to regulate entrances and exits to public halls and theatres until proper exits are provided, to prevent the encumbering of the streets, sidewalks, and public alleys with fire-wood, lumber, carriages, boxes, and other things, and provide for the care, preservation, and improvement of public grounds. 9. To restrain all cattle, horses, sheep, swine, and fowls from running at large in the streets of said Village. 10. To provide a supply of water for the protection of the Village against fire, and for other purposes, and to regulate the use of the same. 11. To compel all persons to remove from the sidewalks and gutters adjacent to the premises owned or occupied by them all snow, ice, dirt, and garbage, and to keep such sidewalks and gutters clean. 12. To license inn-keepers, keepers of saloons or victualing houses, peddlers, itinerant vendors, and auctioneers, under such regulations and for such sums of money as shall be prescribed therefor. 13. To restrain the use of rockets, squibs, firecrackers, or other fireworks in the streets or commons, and to prevent the practicing therein of any amusements having a tendency to injure or annoy persons passing thereon or to endanger the security of property. 14. To regulate the grade of streets and the grade and width of sidewalks and the construction thereof and protect the same. 15. To provide for lighting the Village. 16. To prohibit and punish willful injury to trees, regulate  the posting of notices and advertisements, and to prevent and punish trespasses or willful injuries to or upon the common, public buildings, and other property. 17. To establish and maintain a public library and reading room.
24A V.S.A. § 249-801
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-801. Recordation and certification

§ 249-801. Recordation and certification|The bylaws of said corporation shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk, and the Clerk's certificate that such bylaws were adopted at annual meeting of said corporation or at a special meeting thereof, called for that purpose, shall be prima facie evidence of such fact in any court in this State; and certified copies of said bylaws and the Clerk's certificates shall also be received as evidence in all the courts of the State.
24A V.S.A. § 249-802
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-802. Fines

§ 249-802. Fines|A fine not exceeding $20.00 with costs of prosecution may be imposed by said corporation for the breach of any of its bylaws with the alternative sentence to the house of correction in case said fine and costs are not paid as is provided by law in other criminal cases.
24A V.S.A. § 249-901
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-901. Competency to act as legal or public safety officer

§ 249-901. Competency to act as legal or public safety officer|No person being a resident or taxpayer of said corporation shall thereby be deemed incompetent 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. § 251-101
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-101. Corporate existence

§ 251-101. Corporate existence|The geographical area as described in subchapter 14 of this chapter shall hereafter be known by the name of the Village of North Bennington, and by that name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, prosecute, and defend in any court, may have a common seal and alter it at pleasure, may purchase, take, hold, and convey real and personal estate for the use or benefit of said Village, and generally shall have, exercise, and enjoy all the rights, immunities, and privileges, and shall be subject to the duties, liabilities, and obligations that are incident to public corporations in this State. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-201
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-201. Authorization for the assessment and collection of property taxes

§ 251-201. Authorization for the assessment and collection of property taxes|The Village may, at an annual or special meeting warned for that purpose as provided in section 202 of this chapter, lay a tax upon the ratable estate within the same, whether of residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes set forth in this chapter, and the Board of Trustees shall make out a rate bill accordingly and deliver the same to the Treasurer, who shall have the same power to collect such tax as a town treasurer has to collect like taxes in the towns and may in like manner levy on and sell property to satisfy the same. It shall be the duty of the listers of the Town of Bennington in making the grand list of the Town to designate therein such of the ratable estate thereof as shall be within the limits of the Village. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-202
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-202. Warning of annual and special meetings

§ 251-202. Warning of annual and special meetings|(a)(1) The annual meeting of the legal voters of the Village shall be held therein on the third Tuesday of March of each year at seven-thirty o'clock in the afternoon at the Village hall or at such place as the Board of Trustees shall hereafter appoint.  (2) The meeting shall be warned by posting in three public places in the Village, at least 12 days prior to the meeting, a notice calling the meeting and containing a statement of business to be transacted thereat. The notice shall be signed by the Clerk of the Village, or in case of his or her failure or neglect, by the Trustees. (3) If the annual meeting is not held, for want of the notice set forth in subdivision (2) of this subsection, or for any other cause, the Village shall not thereby be prejudiced.   (b) In addition, whenever 10 legal voters of the Village shall so petition in writing, the Clerk, or upon the Clerk's neglect or refusal, the Trustees, shall call a special meeting of the Village and give notice of the same as provided for annual meetings.(c) Any business may be transacted at an adjourned meeting, which under the warning might have been transacted at the original meeting.(d) In all meetings of the Village, none but the residents thereof qualified by law to vote in Village meetings shall be entitled to vote. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-203
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-203. Elections at annual meetings

§ 251-203. Elections at annual meetings|(a) The Village shall, at every annual meeting elect a Moderator, Clerk, Treasurer, three auditors, and the number of trustees as are necessary to fill vacancies where terms of office have expired or a member has resigned, died, or been removed in order to make a full board of five trustees.(b) The trustees shall be elected by ballot, and any of the other officers shall also be elected by ballot provided a writing demand therefor is filed with the Clerk before the meeting signed by not less than five legal voters therein.(c) Any person who receives the highest number of votes cast for a given office shall be elected thereto. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-204
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-204. Moderator Pro Tem

§ 251-204. Moderator Pro Tem|In case the Moderator shall be absent from any meeting, that member of the Board of Trustees present at such meeting whose name shall have precedence on the list of trustees as recorded in the minutes of election of the then existing Board of Trustees, shall act as a Moderator Pro Tem.
24A V.S.A. § 251-301
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-301. Terms of office

§ 251-301. Terms of office|The term of office for all trustees shall be three years, staggered so that at least one trustee is elected at any annual meeting. The Moderator, Clerk, Treasurer, and auditors shall all serve a one-year term. The term of office of all the Village officers shall commence on the day following their election, unless otherwise provided in this chapter, and continue until their successors are chosen and qualified. The term of the Treasurer shall coincide with the Village's fiscal year (July-June). (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-302
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-302. Compensation of officers

§ 251-302. Compensation of officers|The compensation of the Clerk and Treasurer shall be fixed by the Village; the compensation of all other officers, servants, and employees of the Village shall be fixed by the Board of Trustees, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-303
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-303. Board of Trustees; general authority

§ 251-303. Board of Trustees; general authority|(a) The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of the Village; shall assess all taxes and make out a rate bill accordingly; shall direct the expenditure of all monies belonging to the Village, and draw orders upon the Treasurer and generally perform all the duties legally enjoined upon them by the Village, and shall submit their accounts and vouchers to the auditors at least three days before the annual meeting of each year.(b) The Board shall have power to abate taxes laid or assessed by virtue of this chapter, and also all highway taxes assessed against taxpayers of the Village, and to remit fines imposed for the violation of the bylaws or regulations of the Village. The power of the Board to abate taxes shall be subject to the same limitations and may be exercised for the causes provided in general Vermont law.(c) The Board may create commissions and committees not now existing and appoint the members thereof. It may inquire into the conduct of any officer, commission, or department and investigate any and all municipal affairs.(d) The Board may fill any vacancy in any elective Village office, and a person so appointed shall serve until a successor is elected, but the Village may, at any time, at a meeting duly called for that purpose, fill such vacancy for the unexpired term. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-304
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-304. Clerk

§ 251-304. Clerk|It shall be the duty of the Clerk to warn Village meetings and keep a record of all the proceedings of said Village; the Clerk shall also ex-officio be Clerk of the Board of Trustees and keep a record of its proceedings so far as the same are proper matter for record; the Clerk shall have power to certify copies of all records kept by the Clerk for which the Clerk shall receive the same fees as town clerks for like services, and shall perform all other duties required by this act and such as are usually performed by clerks of villages.
24A V.S.A. § 251-305
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-305. Treasurer

§ 251-305. Treasurer|The Treasurer shall perform for the Village the same duties required by law respectively of a town treasurer and collector of town taxes and shall have the same powers, proceed in the same manner, be subject to the same liabilities, and give such bonds to the Village as the Board of Trustees may direct. A failure to give such bond within 10 days from their election or appointment will render such office vacant. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-306
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-306. Auditors

§ 251-306. Auditors|The auditors shall, previous to each annual Village meeting, examine and audit the accounts of the Village officers, but no account shall be allowed by such auditors without the production of proper vouchers therefor, and shall report to the Village at its annual meeting the condition of the treasury thereof, including the assets and the outstanding liabilities of the Village.
24A V.S.A. § 251-401
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-401. Election of Chair and appointments

§ 251-401. Election of Chair and appointments|The Board of Trustees shall annually, at its first regular meeting, elect from its number a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson. It shall also appoint a Chief and two assistant engineers of the Fire Department, and may appoint a Highway Superintendent and a Sewer Commissioner. All officers appointed by the Board shall be under its direction and control and may be removed at its discretion. The Board shall cause a certificate of such appointment or removal to be recorded in the office of the Village Clerk. Any vacancy in an appointive office may be filled by the Board at any time. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-402
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-402. Meetings

§ 251-402. Meetings|The Board of Trustees shall hold their first regular meeting within three days after the annual Village meeting; and shall hold such other regular meetings as the bylaws may provide.
24A V.S.A. § 251-501
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-501. Fire Chief and firefighters

§ 251-501. Fire Chief and firefighters|(a) The Chief of the Fire Department, or in the absence of the Chief, the assistant engineer next in authority shall have power at fires to suppress tumults and riots, by force if necessary, to remove all effects endangered by such fire and protect the same from waste and depredation, to pull down or remove any building when the Chief deems it necessary to prevent the spreading of such fire, and for such acts the Fire Chief and those acting under the Chief's authority shall not be held personally responsible.(b) It shall be the Chief's duty, under the direction of the Board of Trustees, to inspect the manufacture or keeping of gun powder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, gasoline, fireworks, and other combustibles, and the construction and repairs of fireplaces, chimneys, and stoves within the Village, and if the Chief deems the same dangerous to the safety of the inhabitants, the Chief shall by order in writing approved by the Board of Trustees and recorded by the Clerk and delivered to the person so conducting such manufacturing, keeping, construction, or repairs direct in what way to construct the same, and any person neglecting or refusing to obey any such order so made, recorded, and delivered shall be punished by a fine as established by ordinance or bylaw with costs of prosecution.(c) The duties of the Chief may also include ex-officio Fire Warden and Emergency Management Director. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-502
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-502. Firefighting apparatus

§ 251-502. Firefighting apparatus|All apparatus for the extinguishment of fires and the rooms for storing the same, owned or leased by the Village, and all fire companies organized under the authority of said Village, shall be under the direction and control of the Chief of the Fire Department; and the Chief shall make a detailed report to the Board of Trustees before each annual meeting of the condition of the Fire Department.