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24A V.S.A. § 7-14
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-14. City Treasurer

§ 7-14. City Treasurer|The City Treasurer shall have the same powers and be subject to the same liabilities as are prescribed by law for town treasurers. The City Clerk shall be eligible to hold the office of City Treasurer. It shall be the duty of said Treasurer, upon the receipt of any rate bill as hereinafter provided for, to post notices in at least three public places in said City, and to publish the same for one week in a newspaper published in said City, calling upon the taxpayers to pay their respective taxes within 90 days from the date of said notice. There shall be deducted from the taxes paid during the 90 days specified, four per cent of the amount thereof. At the expiration of said 90 days the said Treasurer shall issue his or her warrant against the delinquent taxpayers to the amount of their taxes, returnable in 60 days from the date thereof, and deliver the same to the Collector of Taxes of said City, but if the City Council direct, the issuing of said warrant shall be delayed 60 days from the expiration of said 90 day period. There shall be allowed said Treasurer the sum of five cents for each name on the warrant issued by him or her, which shall be taxed against the delinquent taxpayer. Upon the return of any warrant so issued by the City Treasurer, if any taxes included in such warrant remain uncollected, the City Treasurer may reissue such warrant to the Collector for the collection of such unpaid taxes, returnable in 60 days from the date of such reissue. In reissuing said warrant, it shall only be necessary for the City Treasurer to write upon the same "Reissued to the Collector, returnable in 60 days from this date," dating and signing the same, and the reissue of such warrant shall in no manner affect any act or proceeding of the Collector made on such warrant previous to its reissue. It shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to collect all water rates that may be or shall hereafter become due to said City for the use of the City water under such regulations and ordinances as shall be prescribed by the City Council, but no compensation shall be allowed said Treasurer for the performance of this duty. The City Treasurer shall keep a separate account of all moneys appropriated for the use of schools, which moneys shall consist of the income of all school funds of whatsoever nature, the income of any money or other property donated by any person to said City for the use of schools, and all money appropriated by the City Council for that purpose. The City Treasurer shall pay out of any moneys mentioned in this paragraph, all warrants drawn by the school trustees for the use of schools.
24A V.S.A. § 7-14a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-14a. Collector of Taxes

§ 7-14a. Collector of Taxes|The Collector of Taxes shall have the same powers and be subject to the same liabilities in and for the City as collectors of town taxes in the State have by law and are subject to, and shall proceed in the performances of his or her duties as such collectors of town taxes are required to proceed. It shall be the duty of the Collector of Taxes of said City to execute such warrants as shall be issued by the City Treasurer under the provisions of section 14 of this act, and return the same to said Treasurer and the amount thereon collected, with the return of his or her doing thereon within the time, therein named; provided, however, that if the said Treasurer shall make an affidavit that any person, whose name appears on the rate-bill as a taxpayer, is about to remove or abscond from the State, and shall file the same with the City Council, the Treasurer may thereupon issue a warrant against such taxpayer for the amount of his or her tax, although the 90 days hereinbefore mentioned shall not have then expired, and it shall be the duty of the said Collector to execute the warrant. The City Council may award said Tax Collector such compensation as they may determine to be appropriate.
24A V.S.A. § 7-15
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-15. Constable

§ 7-15. Constable|The Constable shall have the same powers and be under the same duties and liabilities as are prescribed by law for the constables of towns, except for the collection of taxes, and said Constable and all special police officers shall have the same powers as sheriffs in suppressing riots and all unlawful assemblages, and of arresting without warrant all persons disturbing the peace, and may bring them before any competent court forthwith. The City Constable shall be Collector of Taxes and shall have the same powers and be subject to the same liabilities in and for the City as collectors of town taxes in the State have by law and are subject to, and shall proceed in the performance of his or her duties as such collectors of town taxes are required to proceed. It shall be the duty of the Collector of Taxes of said City to execute such warrant as shall be issued by the City Treasurer under the provisions of section 14 of this act, and return the same to the said Treasurer and the amount thereon collected, with the return of his or her doings thereon within the time therein named; provided, however, that if the said Treasurer shall make an affidavit that any person, whose name appears on the rate-bill as a taxpayer, is about to remove or abscond from the State, and shall file the same with the City Council, the Treasurer may thereupon issue a warrant against such taxpayer for the amount of his or her tax, although the 90 days hereinbefore mentioned shall not have then expired, and it shall be the duty of the said Collector to execute the warrant. The City Council may award such Tax Collector additional compensation for the collection of taxes beyond that now fixed by statute.
24A V.S.A. § 7-16
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-16. Department of Assessment

§ 7-16. Department of Assessment|There shall be a Department of Assessment, which shall consist of a Chief Assessor and such assistants as are deemed to be necessary by the City Council. The Chief Assessor and assistants shall be appointed and may be removed by the City Council. The Department of Assessment shall have the same powers, discharge the same duties, proceed in the discharge thereof in the same manner, and be subject to the same liabilities as are prescribed for listers or the board of listers under the laws of this State, except as herein otherwise provided. At least every five years the Department shall review, or cause to be reviewed, their appraisals of all real property in the City which is subject to taxation and conduct a reappraisal of all such properties when necessary to conform their appraisals to the standards for appraising established by the laws of this State.
24A V.S.A. § 7-17
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-17. Auditors

§ 7-17. Auditors|The auditors shall examine and adjust the accounts of the Treasurer and all other City officers, and report the accounts so settled with the items thereof, and also the state of the Treasury; and the reports shall be printed, together with those of the other City officers, under the direction of the City Council, at the expense of said City, and circulated among the taxpayers thereof at least 15 days prior to the annual meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 7-18
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-18. City grand jurors

§ 7-18. City grand jurors|The City grand jurors shall be complaining officers and shall have the same powers and be subject to the same liabilities in said City as are conferred and imposed by law upon grand jurors.
24A V.S.A. § 7-19
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-19. Overseer of the Poor

§ 7-19. Overseer of the Poor|[This section, originally enacted as § 19 of No. 273 of the Laws of 1917, established the Office of Overseer of the Poor which the General Assembly abolished in every municipality as of October 1, 1968 pursuant to the provisions of § 37 of No. 147 of 1967. Based on the 1967 statute, the original reference to the appointment of an Overseer of the Poor in section 8 (Officers appointed by City Council) and in section 41 (City Council election of City officer) has been deleted.]
24A V.S.A. § 7-20
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-20. Superintendent of Streets

§ 7-20. Superintendent of Streets|The Superintendent of Streets, under the direction of the City Council, shall have the superintendence of all roads, streets, side-walks, sewers, and electric wires, conduits, and appliances used for lighting purposes and owned by the City, in said City, and the construction and repair of the same, and shall have the general supervision of the entire water works belonging to the City of Newport, and shall keep the same in repair.
24A V.S.A. § 7-21
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-21. City Attorney

§ 7-21. City Attorney|It shall be the duty of the City Attorney to prosecute and defend all suits by or against the City or in which the City is interested, to prosecute for all violations of the City ordinances, and to advise the Mayor or Council when requested by them upon any legal questions arising relative to the affairs of the City, and to perform all the duties imposed by law upon town agents.
24A V.S.A. § 7-22
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-22. Board of Fire Wardens

§ 7-22. Board of Fire Wardens|The Board of Fire Wardens, or any one of them who may be present at a fire, shall have power at such fire to suppress all tumults and riots by force if necessary, to direct the labor of all persons present during the continuance of such fire, to remove goods and effects endangered by such fire and protect the same from waste and depredation, and to pull down, remove, or destroy any house, store, or other building when they or any of them present at such fire shall deem it necessary for the better preservation of any property. Said Board of Fire Wardens may inspect the manner of manufacturing and keeping gun powder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, fire works, or combustibles, and the construction and repairs of fireplaces, stoves, flues, and chimneys in said City. Said Board of Fire Wardens may, by vote of a majority thereof, direct all persons manufacturing or keeping such gunpowder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, fireworks, combustibles, kerosene oil, petroleum, naptha, gasoline, oils, or burning fluid, in what manner and quantities to manufacture and keep the same, and the owners or occupants of buildings with such fire places, stoves, flues, or chimneys, how to repair the same. Every person refusing or neglecting to obey such order shall forfeit and pay to the use of said City a fine not exceeding $25.00 for each period of 20 days after notice of such order that such person shall neglect or refuse to obey the same. Such order shall not be inconsistent with any ordinance or by-law of the City. The Board of Fire Wardens shall have full power to regulate their own proceedings and to form new hose or hook and ladder companies, subject to the approval of the City Council, and to organize and govern the Fire Department, and, subject to the approval of the City Council, to purchase necessary fire apparatus and have the general care and custody of the property pertaining to the Fire Department.
24A V.S.A. § 7-24
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-24. Fines

§ 7-24. Fines|No fine shall be imposed for the violation of any City ordinance or by-law exceeding $100, provided, that when it may be necessary to abate a nuisance the expense of such abatement may be imposed upon the delinquent in addition to said fine. A person who violates any City ordinance or by-law may, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the house of correction, at hard labor, for a term not exceeding six months in addition to or in lieu of said fine, in the discretion of the court. A person convicted for violation of any City ordinance or by-law, who shall neglect to pay such fine and costs as the court in its discretion shall adjudge, subject to the limitations herein contained, within 24 hours from the rendition of such judgment, shall be committed to said house of correction under the same regulations and in the same manner as provided by the laws of this State. In addition to such fine for a violation of any such ordinance or by-law, the City may have and maintain an action of tort founded on this statute against any person willfully and maliciously damaging or destroying any of the property of said City, or injuring or corrupting any of the water supply or water works of said City, and may recover treble damages and costs against such person.
24A V.S.A. § 7-25
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-25. Streets and sidewalks

§ 7-25. Streets and sidewalks|The City Council shall have power to regulate, establish, and alter the grade of streets and width of sidewalks, and the construction thereof, and to prescribe the material to be used therein, and also to provide, order, and direct that the sidewalks upon such streets as the City Council shall designate, shall together with the curbing therefor, be constructed in part at the expense of the owner or owners of the lands or buildings adjacent thereto, and in proportion to the benefit conferred, not to exceed one-half, and to assess the lands or buildings of such owner or owners adjacent to or abutting on any such sidewalk so constructed in compliance with such order, such proportion of the cost or expense thereof, such assessment to be apportioned among the owners of such lands or buildings fronting as aforesaid according to their frontage on such sidewalk, and the benefit to be conferred to be made in the manner and in accordance with provisions respecting highways. When such Council shall have made any such assessment, it shall make a report thereof, setting forth its doings in that respect, which report shall be recorded in the City 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. Said Council shall have power to assess abutting land owners for a portion of the expense of sprinkling streets, not to exceed one-half, and in proportion to the benefit conferred. Such assessment when made and filed as hereinbefore specified shall be and remain a lien in the nature of a tax upon the land so assessed until the same shall be paid.
24A V.S.A. § 7-26
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-26. Water system

§ 7-26. Water system|The City Council shall have all the powers over and in any way appertaining to the water system owned by the present Village of Newport that are now conferred on the water commissioners, provided for in No. 201 of the Acts of 1878, entitled "An act defining the power of the Village of Newport," and all amendments thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 7-27
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-27. Sale or lease of City owned property

§ 7-27. Sale or lease of City owned property|The City Council may authorize the sale of real or personal estate belonging to the City when the same shall not exceed in value $1,000.00, or may lease the same for a term not exceeding one year, and all conveyances, grants, or leases of any such real estate shall be signed by the Mayor and sealed with the City Seal.
24A V.S.A. § 7-28
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-28. City expenditures

§ 7-28. City expenditures|Except as herein otherwise provided, no money shall be paid out of the City Treasury except upon warrant, signed by the Mayor and approved by the Board of Aldermen, such approval to be authenticated by the City Clerk. A full record of all expenditures shall be kept, and a clear statement of all receipts and disbursements of City moneys, and of the affairs of the City generally, shall be annually published under the direction of the City Council, at least two weeks before the annual City election. No City official shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract with the City.
24A V.S.A. § 7-29
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-29. Assessment of taxes on grand list

§ 7-29. Assessment of taxes on grand list|The City Council shall assess and lay all taxes upon the grand list of said City, and in addition to such tax as may be necessary for the payment of all such State, county, and highway taxes as are or may be required by law, and in addition thereto such tax as the Board of School Trustees shall recommend to said Council for the support of schools, not exceeding 100 cents on the dollar of the grand list of said City unless authorized by a vote of the City. They shall have power annually to lay and assess upon said grand list such tax, which shall not exceed 100 cents on the dollar thereof, unless by vote of the City, as in their judgment may be required for the payment of the current expenses of the City and for carrying out any of the provisions of this act; and in addition they shall annually assess a tax of not less than 20 cents nor more than 60 cents on the dollar of said grand list, the proceeds of which shall be used in retiring the floating and funded indebtedness of said City or in creating a sinking find for the future redemption of such indebtedness. All of the aforesaid taxes may be included in one rate bill, and such tax bills, with a warrant signed by the Mayor of the City or any justice of the peace within the county, shall be delivered to the Treasurer, to whom all taxes shall be paid in money.
24A V.S.A. § 7-30
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-30. Revenues credit and appropriations

§ 7-30. Revenues credit and appropriations|(a) The current revenues of the City shall consist of money raised by taxation, from fines and other lawful sources, and such revenues shall constitute the entire sum from which appropriations and payments are to be made, according to law, by or under the authority of the City Council. The credit of the City, other than by temporary loans, not exceeding $3.50 on the dollar of the grand list of the City for the time being shall not be pledged except by authority of the legal voters of the City. Such temporary loans and all debts incurred by the City Council shall be deemed expenditures and shall be paid by the City Council during the fiscal year in which they are contracted.(b) All appropriations for specific purposes made at any annual or special meeting in said City shall, unless otherwise directed by the voters, be paid out of current revenues for that year, and shall be deemed as expenditures by the City Council.(c) The City Council shall not exceed in expenditures except by express authority of the legal voters of the City, said current revenues of the City during any year. If it should happen that said current revenues of the City shall have been expended before the end of any fiscal year, and there remain necessary or desirable expenditures to be met, the City Council shall call a special meeting of the legal voters of the City to consider what shall be done.(d) The Mayor and Board of Aldermen, without special direction of the voters of said City, shall not draw, sign, or approve warrants to pay expenditures or appropriations in excess of current revenues. The City Treasurer, without special direction of the voters of said City, shall not honor or pay warrants in excess of current revenues. Any official violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to refund to the City the full amount of all warrants so drawn, signed or approved or so honored or paid.
24A V.S.A. § 7-32
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-32. Bonds of City officers

§ 7-32. Bonds of City officers|The Treasurer, Clerk, Constable, Tax Collector, and Superintendent of Streets and Waterworks shall annually give bonds to the City to the satisfaction of the City Council for the faithful discharge of their respective duties, and any other City officer may be required by the City Council to give similar bonds. In case any officer neglects to give bonds as above specified, after 10 days' notice from the City Council that he or she is required to do so, his or her office shall thereupon become vacant and the vacancy shall be filled as hereinbefore provided.
24A V.S.A. § 7-34
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 7 - City of Newport|App § 7-34. Pledge of credit

§ 7-34. Pledge of credit|Whenever the legal voters of the City shall give authority to the Council thereof to pledge the credit of the City for any purpose, the City shall have power and authority to issue its negotiable orders, warrants, notes or bonds, and to prescribe whether such bonds shall be registered or have interest coupons attached, to the amount, not to exceed the limit prescribed by law, for which the legal voters aforesaid shall have given authority to so pledge the credit of the City. Such notes or bonds shall be payable at such time and at such a rate of interest as shall be established by said voters, or, if no time or rate of interest is fixed thereby, the same shall be established by resolution of said Council.