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24A V.S.A. § 3-22
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-22. Ballots

§ 3-22. Ballots|For all City or ward or City district elections, and also for the election of justices of the peace in the City, the Chief Administrative Officer shall prepare all official ballots, consistent with the requirements of any regulation adopted under section 5 of this chapter, and otherwise in the same manner and subject to all the provisions of the laws of this State providing for and regulating the preparation and distribution of official ballots in towns and cities; provided, however, that the Chief Administrative Officer shall cause to be printed for every ward or City district in the City not less than 60 ballots for every 50 names or fractional part thereof on the voting list prepared and posted in the ward or City district for any such election; and further provided that the Chief Administrative Officer shall deliver to the inspectors of election in each ward on the day of the election and before the hour for opening the polls in said ward, the number of blocks of ballots containing 100 each as shall nearest represent two thirds of the whole number required to be printed for the ward or City district, and shall retain the balance of the ballots for each ward or City district so prepared. For all special elections, the Chief Administrative Officer shall prepare all official ballots at least 45 days prior to the election. (Amended 1997, No. M-18 (Adj. Sess.), § 26, eff. April 23, 1998; 2001, No. M-6, § 2; 2005, No. M-3, eff. May 12, 2005; 2013, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 3, 2015; 2019, No. M-12 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Oct. 8, 2020.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-23
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-23. Retained ballots to be delivered to inspectors on demand

§ 3-23. Retained ballots to be delivered to inspectors on demand|In case the inspectors of election in any ward for any cause shall require the ballots so belonging to such ward or City district and retained by said Chief Administrative Officer, or any part thereof, they shall notify him or her in writing. Said Chief Administrative Officer shall thereupon forthwith transmit to said inspectors of election such part or all of said ballots so retained in his or her possession as said inspectors of election shall specify. (Amended 1997, No. M-18 (Adj. Sess.), § 26, eff. April 23, 1998; 2001, No. M-6, § 2; 2013, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 3, 2015.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-24
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-24. Record of ballots delivered required; receipts

§ 3-24. Record of ballots delivered required; receipts|The Chief Administrative Officer shall keep a record of the whole number of ballots so prepared and delivered; and said inspectors of election shall give to said Chief Administrative Officer, whenever any ballots are received by them, a receipt stating the number of ballots so received.
24A V.S.A. § 3-25
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-25. Requirements generally

§ 3-25. Requirements generally|Special meetings of all the legal voters of said City shall be called by the Mayor upon request by resolution of the City Council or on petition signed by five per cent of the legal voters for any legal purpose beyond the jurisdiction of the City Council, said purpose to be set forth in the warning for said meeting; provided, however, that any petition for the calling of any special meeting for the resubmission, reconsideration, or rescission of any question previously submitted to the legal voters of said City shall be filed not more than 30 days after such previous submission; and provided further, that no question previously submitted to the legal voters of said City shall be more than once resubmitted or presented for reconsideration or rescission except upon request of the City Council by resolution. Each page of a petition filed under this section shall bear the full text of such petition, each signature to such petition shall be witnessed, each signer of such petition shall set after his or her signature his or her legal address within the City, and any part of such petition not conforming to these requirements shall be invalid. At such special meetings those persons only shall be entitled to vote whose names are on the checklist used for the last annual City election, and such persons as were or have become entitled by law to have their names on such checklist and whose names have been added thereto by the Board for Registration of Voters since said City election. The Board for Registration of Voters shall hold a meeting or meetings to make additions and corrections to said checklist.
24A V.S.A. § 3-26
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-26. Questions at special meeting to be decided by ballot

§ 3-26. Questions at special meeting to be decided by ballot|The questions at any such special meeting shall be determined by ballot and the checklist shall be used. There shall be at such meeting a separate polling place, or polling places, for each ward, and as many of the ward officers hereinbefore named as shall be necessary shall act at such meetings, in the same manner as at City or ward or City district elections. For all such meetings, it shall be the duty of the Chief Administrative Officer to prepare suitable ballots in sufficient quantity. (Amended 1997, No. M-18 (Adj. Sess.), § 26, eff. April 23, 1998; 2001, No. M-6, § 2; 2013, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 3, 2015.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-27
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-27. Presiding officer; powers

§ 3-27. Presiding officer; powers|At all meetings of the legal voters of said City, the Mayor shall preside and shall have the powers of a moderator in town meetings.
24A V.S.A. § 3-28
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-28. Warning required; location; voting

§ 3-28. Warning required; location; voting|Freemen's meetings for all purposes provided by the laws of the State shall be warned by the Mayor, and one copy of such warning, signed by the Mayor, shall be posted in each ward of the City. Such meetings shall be held in the respective wards at such place or places in each ward as shall be designated in the warning therefor, and each freeman shall vote only in the ward of which he or she is an inhabitant at the time of the completion of the checklist of voters therefor.
24A V.S.A. § 3-29
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-29. Checklists to be prepared and posted

§ 3-29. Checklists to be prepared and posted|Checklists of voters in the respective wards for each freemen's meeting shall be prepared, posted, corrected, and furnished to the inspectors of election therein; and elections at such freemen's meetings shall be conducted in the manner herein provided for City elections. No person whose name is not on such checklist shall be allowed to vote at any freemen's meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 3-30
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-30. General laws applicable; exceptions

§ 3-30. General laws applicable; exceptions|In all respects not inconsistent with this charter, the provisions of the general statutes respecting freemen's meetings shall apply to such meetings in said City, except that a voter's name shall not be required to be checked when his or her ballot is deposited in the ballot box, and except that the number of ballot clerks and assisting clerks to be appointed shall be discretionary with the Board of Civil Authority.
24A V.S.A. § 3-31
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-31. Duties of election inspectors and ward clerks

§ 3-31. Duties of election inspectors and ward clerks|The inspectors of election and ward clerks in the several wards shall perform all and the same duties in regard to certifying the results of elections in their respective wards for State and county officers, county senators, justices of the peace, representatives to Congress, electors of President and Vice President of the United States, and of the votes cast for any or all of such officers, as now devolve by law upon the presiding officers of freemen's meetings and town clerks, respectively, in towns; and in addition thereto they shall certify the same to the Clerk/Treasurer, who shall keep a record thereof.
24A V.S.A. § 3-31a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-31a. Establishment of voting precincts within wards permitted

§ 3-31a. Establishment of voting precincts within wards permitted|(a) The City Council may, by resolution, establish voting precincts within one or more of the several wards of the City, and from time to time amend or alter the boundaries thereof, which said precincts so established shall be designated by number.(b)(1) In the event such precincts are so established, the ward officers previously elected shall, from the remainder of their respective terms, be the precinct officers of the first numbered precincts in their ward, whether or not they reside therein, and the City Council shall appoint additional precinct officers for each additional precinct.  (2) At the annual City meeting following the establishment of such precincts, and at each annual City meeting thereafter, precinct officers shall be chosen by the legal voters of each precinct from among the legal votes thereof. (Amended 2013, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 3, 2015.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-35a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-35a. "Ward" defined

§ 3-35a. "Ward" defined|In all places in sections 6 through 31a, inclusive, and in section 125 of this charter, the word "ward" wherever the same appears shall be construed to include a precinct thereof.
24A V.S.A. § 3-36
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-36. Administration; vested in Mayor and City Council; selection and terms of same

§ 3-36. Administration; vested in Mayor and City Council; selection and terms of same|(a) The administration of all the fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of the City and the government thereof, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be vested in a principal officer to be styled the Mayor and a board of 12 members to be denominated the City Council. The City Council shall elect one of the members President thereof.(b) The Mayor and City Council sitting in their joint capacity shall be called the City Council with Mayor presiding. (Amended 2013, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 3, 2015.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-37
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-37. Manner of convening

§ 3-37. Manner of convening|All meetings of the City Council with Mayor presiding shall, unless otherwise provided, be convened in the same manner as herein provided for calling special meetings of the City Council.
24A V.S.A. § 3-38
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-38. Regular meetings

§ 3-38. Regular meetings|Regular meetings of the City Council shall be held based on a schedule adopted by the City Council for the fiscal year and generally on Mondays once or twice each month. The schedule may be amended by action of the Council. (Amended 2017, No. M-9, § 2, eff. May 22, 2017.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-39
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-39. Special meetings

§ 3-39. Special meetings|Special meetings of the City Council may be called at any time by the Mayor, and shall be called by the Chief Administrative Officer on petition signed by a majority of the City Council then in office and filed with the Chief Administrative Officer. Notice of special meetings shall be provided to the City councilors by any means sufficient to reasonably ensure that all councilors have or should have received notice of the date, time, and purpose of the meeting. Leaving a written notice at the address the Chief Administrative Officer has on file for a councilor or providing notice to the electronic mail address of the councilor or through an electronic scheduling program that sends automatic updates to a councilor shall, among other means, be considered sufficient notice. (Amended 2017, No. M-9, § 2, eff. May 22, 2017.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-40
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-40. Quorum; attendance of certain officers may be required

§ 3-40. Quorum; attendance of certain officers may be required|A majority of the City Council elect shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and enforce such penalties for nonattendance as may by ordinance be prescribed. Any other City officer may be required to attend a meeting of the City Council or City Council with Mayor presiding in the same manner as a member of the City Council.
24A V.S.A. § 3-41
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-41. Meetings to be public; except

§ 3-41. Meetings to be public; except|All meetings of the City Council and all meetings of the City Council with Mayor presiding are declared to be public meetings open to the public at all times. Provided, that executive sessions of such bodies shall be permitted in accordance with the provisions of 1 V.S.A. chapter 5, as amended.
24A V.S.A. § 3-42
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-42. Composition; meetings

§ 3-42. Composition; meetings|The Mayor, City Council, and assessors shall constitute a Board for the Abatement of Taxes and also for the Abatement of Special Assessments, or any part thereof, for sewers and street improvements, whenever the same are illegal or in the judgment of the Board cannot be collected or are manifestly unjust. Meetings of such Board shall be convened in the manner herein prescribed for calling special meetings of the City Council; and notice thereof signed by the Mayor or Chief Administrative Officer, shall be given to all taxpayers by the publication of such notice for two days in all the daily newspapers printed in said City, the first of which publications shall be not more than 10 days, and the last not less than three days prior to said meeting. Whenever any special assessment, or any part thereof, for sewers or street improvements is abated, the Chief Administrative Officer shall make a minute of such abatement on the original assessment on file in his or her office on the margin of the record thereof.
24A V.S.A. § 3-43
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-43. Composition; Board for Registration of Voters; duties; appointments; offices

§ 3-43. Composition; Board for Registration of Voters; duties; appointments; offices|(a)(1) The City Council with Mayor presiding shall constitute the Board of Civil Authority for the City, except that all duties with respect to preparing checklists of voters and making additions thereto or alterations or corrections thereon imposed upon the Council by this charter or the provisions of the general statutes relating thereto shall be performed by a board of 12 members, to be known as the Board for Registration of Voters.  (2) Not more than six members of the Board shall at any one time be from the same political party.   (b)(1) All members of the Board shall be legal voters of the City and shall serve a term of five years.  (2) Terms shall be staggered so that in June in each year the City Council with Mayor presiding shall appoint no more than three members of the Board depending upon the expiration of terms to serve for a term of five years from the July first next succeeding or until his or her or their successor(s) is or are duly appointed and qualified. (3) Vacancies in the Board for any cause shall be filled by appointment by the City Council with Mayor presiding for the balance of the unexpired term.   (c)(1) The records of the Board shall be maintained in an office in the City Hall of the City or another location determined by the Chief Administrative Officer that is open for business during the regular business hours of the City.  (2) The Board shall advise any petitioner whose application to vote has been rejected or whose name has been removed from the checklist of his or her statutory right to seek judicial review of such decision pursuant to 17 V.S.A. § 2148. (3) The Board shall also appoint a Clerk, who need not be a member thereof, who shall have such duties as the Board may assign. (4) Records of the taking of voter's oaths heretofore kept by the City Clerk shall be transferred to the Clerk of the Board. (Amended 1997, No. M-18 (Adj. Sess.), § 26, eff. April 23, 1998; 2001, No. M-6, § 2; 2013, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 3, 2015; 2017, No. M-9, § 2, eff. May 22, 2017.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-44
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-44. Authorized

§ 3-44. Authorized|At all meetings of the Board of Civil Authority, the Board for the Abatement of Taxes, and also of the City Council for the appointment of officers or for the removal of such officers, except for the meeting for the appointment of those officers identified in Article 38, and in all proceedings by the City Council for the purpose of taking lands or other property for public purposes, the Mayor shall preside and shall vote as other members thereof. (Amended 2017, No. M-9, § 2, eff. May 22, 2017.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-45
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-45. Mayor not to participate in enactment of ordinances; approval by Mayor of Council actions required

§ 3-45. Mayor not to participate in enactment of ordinances; approval by Mayor of Council actions required|For the enactment of all ordinances and by-laws and the transaction of any other business by the City Council, except such as is designated in the preceding section of this charter, the Mayor shall not preside over or sit with the City Council, and the action of the City Council shall require the approval of the Mayor, except as herein otherwise provided.
24A V.S.A. § 3-46
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-46. Approval or veto of ordinances by Mayor; reconsideration; item veto on appropriations

§ 3-46. Approval or veto of ordinances by Mayor; reconsideration; item veto on appropriations|If the Mayor shall approve any ordinance, or by-law, or any resolution or vote of the City Council in respect to the business above referred to, the Mayor shall sign the same. If the Mayor does approve the same, the Mayor shall return it, with his or her objections in writing, to the City Council at the next meeting thereof after it shall have been presented to the Mayor, provided that the Mayor shall have not less than two weeks to consider such ordinance, by-law, resolution, or vote, as aforesaid. The City Council shall thereupon proceed to reconsider such ordinance, by-law, resolution, or vote, and if, upon such reconsideration, two-thirds of the whole number of City councilors shall vote in favor of the same, it shall be valid and take effect, notwithstanding the objection of the Mayor. In the event that any ordinance, by-law, resolution, or vote of the City Council shall contain more than one appropriation, or establish more than one salary, the Mayor shall have the power to veto with respect to each such appropriation or salary, and no item of appropriation or salary so vetoed shall be effective unless adopted by the City Council upon reconsideration, by two-thirds vote of the whole number as hereinabove provided.
24A V.S.A. § 3-47
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-47. Ordinances to become valid at expiration of certain period if not returned

§ 3-47. Ordinances to become valid at expiration of certain period if not returned|If any such ordinance, by-law, resolution, or vote shall not be returned by the Mayor of the City Council at the next meeting of said City Council after the expiration of two weeks from the time the Mayor received it, the same shall be valid and take effect without the Mayor's approval.
24A V.S.A. § 3-49
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-49. Authority to enact

§ 3-49. Authority to enact|The City Council may make, alter, amend, or repeal any resolutions, by-laws, regulations, and ordinances which it may deem necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers or for the well-being of said City, and which shall not be repugnant to the Constitution or the laws of the State; and to provide penalties for the breach thereof; all of which by-laws, regulations, and ordinances shall be duly published in one or more newspapers in said City to be prescribed by the City Council, at least 20 days before they shall take effect. In the event the City Council shall pass a comprehensive revision to any chapter or chapters of its Code of Ordinances it shall be sufficient if a concise summary of the principal provisions of such revision is published as aforesaid rather than the entire text thereof. Copies of the entire text of such revisions shall be made available upon request at the office of the Chief Administrative Officer. The City of Burlington is hereby authorized and empowered to maintain actions in Chittenden Superior Court to restrain actual or threatened violations of any ordinance of said City.
24A V.S.A. § 3-50
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-50. City Council to establish penalty

§ 3-50. City Council to establish penalty|The City Council may provide a penalty for the violation of any ordinance, regulation, or by-law not to exceed $500.00. Each day the violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. If no penalty shall be fixed for the violation of any ordinance, regulation, or by-law, the Court before which such action is heard shall impose a fine not to exceed $500.00 for each offense.
24A V.S.A. § 3-51
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-51. Ordinance enforcement

§ 3-51. Ordinance enforcement|(a) The violation of an ordinance, regulation, or by-law adopted by the City, including zoning and subdivision by-laws adopted pursuant to 24 V.S.A. chapter 117, as the same may be amended from time to time, may be prosecuted as a criminal or civil action.(b) All penalties collected for the violation of an ordinance, regulation, or by-law shall be paid over to the City except for a surcharge that shall be set and retained by the Court.(c) A Superior or District Court judge shall have the jurisdiction to enjoin the violation of an ordinance or rule but the election of the City to proceed under this subsection shall not prevent its proceeding under subsection (a) of this section. (Amended 1999, No. M-7, § 3, eff. May 19, 1999.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-52
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-52. Court authorized to order abatement

§ 3-52. Court authorized to order abatement|In any prosecution for a nuisance arising under this charter or under any lawful ordinance, regulation, or by-law resulting in a judgment or conviction, the Court before which said judgment or conviction shall be had shall order the nuisance or offense complained of to be removed or abated, and shall determine the expense of removing or abating the same and tax such expense as part of the costs of prosecution.