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24A V.S.A. § 247-605
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-605. Moderator

§ 247-605. Moderator|The Moderator shall be the presiding officer of Village meetings, shall decide questions of order, and make public declarations of votes passed. When a vote declared is immediately questioned by seven voters present, the Moderator shall poll the voters or divide the meeting, unless the Village has provided some other procedure in such cases.The Moderator shall have and exercise the same powers and duties with respect to the Village that moderators have and exercise with respect to towns.
24A V.S.A. § 247-701
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-701. Annual Village meetings

§ 247-701. Annual Village meetings|The annual meeting of said corporation for the election of officers and transaction of any other business specified in the warning of said meeting shall be held within the corporate limits on the fourth Tuesday of May of each year and shall be called by the Clerk, or in case of the Clerk's neglect, by the trustees by publishing and posting a warning therefor in at least four public places within the corporate limits not less than 10 days or more than 20 days before the time set for such annual meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 247-702
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-702. Special Village meetings

§ 247-702. Special Village meetings|Special meetings may at any time be called by the trustees for the transaction of any business specified in the warning of said meeting. The trustees shall call a special meeting upon written application and petition of not less than five percent of the qualified voters of said corporation stating the purpose for which they wish it called. When the office of any one or more of the trustees is vacant, the remaining trustees may call meetings. When there is no trustee who may call meetings, they may be called by the Clerk.
24A V.S.A. § 247-703
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-703. Confirmation of Appropriations

§ 247-703. Confirmation of Appropriations|Whenever a proposal calling for an appropriation in excess of $1,000.00 is made at either an annual or a special meeting, a quorum of 15 percent of the legal voters of the Village shall be confirmed by the Moderator before such proposal can be discussed and/or acted upon in the meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 247-801
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-801. Voters

§ 247-801. Voters|All persons qualified to vote in a Town meeting of the Town of Newbury residing within the corporate limits, hereinbefore described, shall be legal voters of the said corporation.
24A V.S.A. § 247-901
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-901. Fiscal Year

§ 247-901. Fiscal Year|The fiscal year shall commence on the first day of May and close on the last day of April, unless the Village, at its annual meeting shall determine otherwise. If the Village votes another fiscal year, it shall specify the procedure for transition, including the method for financing the transition.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1001
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1001. Adoption authority

§ 247-1001. Adoption authority|The Village shall have all the powers granted to villages and other municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of this State. It may enact ordinances, bylaws, and regulations and impose penalties for the violation thereof. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Village may enact such bylaws and regulations as are expedient, not inconsistent with law particularly such as relate to streets, sidewalks, lanes, commons, shade and ornamental trees and lights thereon, slaughterhouses and nuisances, police protection, restraint of animals, erection and regulation of buildings and hay scales, the preservation of buildings, with the right of directing alterations in stoves, fireplaces, and causes from which danger from fire may be apprehended, fire engines and other apparatus necessary for the extinguishment of fire, establishment and regulation of fire companies, and to the manufacture and safekeeping of ashes, explosives, and combustibles.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1002
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1002. Imposition of fines

§ 247-1002. Imposition of fines|The fine for the breach of Village bylaws and the procedure for the convenience of same shall be in accordance with 24 V.S.A. § 1311 or any amendments thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1101
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1101. Regulatory powers

§ 247-1101. Regulatory powers|For the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, welfare, and convenience, the Village shall have those powers enumerated under 24 V.S.A. § 2291 or any amendments thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1201
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1201. Fire department

§ 247-1201. Fire department|The Village shall have all the rights, powers, and privileges relative to the establishment, maintenance, and operation of a fire department as set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapter 57 or any amendments thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1202
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1202. Police department

§ 247-1202. Police department|The trustees shall have the same powers with regard to the establishment of a police department and appointment of police officers, including temporary police officers, as set forth under the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 55 or any amendments thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1301
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1301. Lighting

§ 247-1301. Lighting|Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered under any vote had for that purpose at a meeting duly warned and held, to provide for suitable lighting of the streets and public buildings and ground within its corporate limits and to contract with any individual, corporation or entity for such purposes.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1302
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1302. Parks and commons

§ 247-1302. Parks and commons|Said corporation shall provide for the planting and preservation of shade and other trees, lay out, grade, fence, and otherwise improve all public parks and commons.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1303
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1303. Water commissioners and water works

§ 247-1303. Water commissioners and water works|(a) The Village shall have three water commissioners who may be elected by ballot if the Village has so ordered; otherwise they shall be appointed by the trustees. Of those commissioners first elected or appointed, one shall have a term of one year, one a term of two years, and one a term of three years.(b) The trustees may remove from office a commissioner appointed by them for just cause after due notice and hearing. The trustees may appoint members of their own Board to serve as water commissioners. The Village shall have such powers, and the commissioners shall have such duties, with reference to any waterworks that are in existence or established as set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapter 89, or any amendments thereto.(c) Without limiting the generality of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, commissioners shall have the supervision of the Municipal Water Department and shall make and establish all needful water rates, rules, and regulations for its control and operation.(d) The water commissioners shall hire a person to superintend the physical operation of the water system, provide him or her with written guidelines of the Superintendent's duties, and this Superintendent shall be responsible for the proper and efficient maintenance of the system in accordance with the guidelines.(e) The Superintendent shall report once each month to the water commissioners and once each year shall make a written report to them. The written report shall be included in the water commissioners annual report to the Village.(f) The books and bank accounts of the water system shall be kept separate from the other books and accounts of the Village. The rents and receipts for the use of municipal water shall only be used and applied to pay the interest upon the Water Department bonds, the expense of repairs, improvements, and management of the Water Department, and in payment of the Municipal Water Department bonds. The money received from the operation of the Municipal Water Department shall not be used for any other purposes until all bonds, notes, or other certificates of indebtedness have been paid.(g) Any improvements to the system costing more than $7,000.00 shall require the approval of a majority of the legally qualified voters of the Village present and voting, at either an annual or special meeting called for that purpose.(h) From the income of the system an emergency fund, not to exceed $10,000.00, may be created by the water commissioners. Emergency funds shall be expended only in case of an emergency and the nature of the emergency recorded by the Clerk as declared by the water commissioners.(i) Any extension of the main lines of the system as the lines exist on the effective day of this charter shall require a two-thirds vote of the qualified voters, present and voting, of the Village of Newbury at either an annual or special meeting called for that purpose. (Amended 2007, No. M-6.)
24A V.S.A. § 247-1401
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1401. Incursion of debt

§ 247-1401. Incursion of debt|The Village shall not incur an indebtedness for public improvements which, with its previously contracted indebtedness, shall, in the aggregate exceed 10 times the amount of the last grand list of the corporation or the amounts authorized by the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 1 or any amendments thereto.Debt may be incurred and bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of the above noted subchapter, or any amendments thereto, for any improvements, but no bonds shall be issued for the purpose of providing funds for ordinary expenses of the Village, except as otherwise provided by the provisions of this charter or of the laws applicable to municipal corporations.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1402
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1402. Improvements for which debt may be issued

§ 247-1402. Improvements for which debt may be issued|An improvement shall include, apart from its ordinary meaning, the acquiring of land for municipal purposes, the construction of, extension of, additions to, or remodeling of buildings or other improvements thereto, also furnishings, equipment, or apparatus to be used for or in connection with any existing or new improvements, work, department, or other corporate purposes.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1403
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1403. Level of debt

§ 247-1403. Level of debt|In determining the amount of municipal indebtedness permitted, obligations created for current expenses, for a water supply or for electric lights, and temporary loans created in anticipation of the collection of taxes and necessary for meeting current expenses shall not be taken into account. Sinking funds and other monies set aside for the sole purpose of paying outstanding bonds shall be deducted.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1404
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1404. Temporary debt

§ 247-1404. Temporary debt|Temporary loans may be made and temporary notes issued in anticipation of money to be derived from the sale of bonds pursuant to the provisions of the above noted subchapter, or any amendments thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1405
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1405. Revenue anticipation notes

§ 247-1405. Revenue anticipation notes|Pending the receipt of revenue in the form of grants in aid from any source, the trustees may, by resolution or ordinance, issue revenue anticipation notes in anticipation of the grants in aid to be received pursuant to the provisions of the above noted subchapter, or any amendments thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1406
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1406. Public utility financing

§ 247-1406. Public utility financing|The Village may, by action of the Board of Trustees, in lieu of the issuance of bonds of levy of taxes and in addition to any other lawful means or methods of providing for the payment of indebtedness, have the power by and through the Board of Trustees to provide for and secure the payment of all or a part of the cost of any public utility pursuant to the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 2, or as hereafter amended.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1501
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1501. Construction and operation of sewage system

§ 247-1501. Construction and operation of sewage system|The corporation may construct, maintain, operate, and repair a sewage system and take, purchase, and acquire, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, real estate and easements necessary for its purposes, and enter in and upon any land for the purpose of making surveys, and lay pipes and sewers and connect the same as may be necessary to convey sewage and other waters to an outfall or treatment plant.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1502
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1502. Board of Sewage Disposal

§ 247-1502. Board of Sewage Disposal|The trustees of the Village shall constitute a Board of Sewage Disposal System commissioners and they shall have such duties and the Village shall have such powers with reference to any sewage system that may be established as set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapters 97 and 101 or any amendments thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1601
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1601. Effect of charter

§ 247-1601. Effect of charter|Nothing herein contained, except as specifically provided, shall affect or impair the rights or privileges of officers of the Village existing at the time the charter takes effect.All persons holding offices at the time this charter takes effect shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until provision has been made in accordance with the charter for the continued performance or discontinuance of such duties.The powers conferred and the duties imposed on any office shall, if such office is abolished by this charter, or under its authority, be thereafter exercised by the office designated in the charter.All boards and commissions heretofore existing shall continue and shall exercise such powers and duties as were granted therein until such boards or commissions are changed or abolished as provided in this charter.All records, property, and equipment whatsoever of any office, the power and duties of which are reassigned, shall be transferred and delivered to the office to which such powers and duties are so reassigned.All contracts entered into by the Village prior to the effective date of this charter shall continue in full force and effect.The adoption of this charter shall not abate or otherwise affect any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending when it takes full effect, brought by or against the Village or any office or officer thereof.All ordinances, resolutions, and regulations of the Village in force at the time of the effective date of this charter, and not inconsistent with the provisions thereof, are hereby continued in force until the same are duly amended or repealed.This charter or any part or article or section thereof, may be amended in the manner provided by the laws of the State of Vermont.
24A V.S.A. § 247-1701
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-1701. Repeal of previous acts

§ 247-1701. Repeal of previous acts|Those provisions of the charter as amended heretofore existing which are inconsistent with this revised charter shall be supplanted and governed by the provisions of this charter except that this revision shall not be construed to constrict or diminish any right, powers, and privileges previously granted under the terms of the heretofore existing charter.
24A V.S.A. § 249-101
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-101. Village boundaries and legal taxing authority

§ 249-101. Village boundaries and legal taxing authority|The inhabitants of all that part of the Town of Newfane, in the County of Windham, known as the Village of Newfane, and enclosed in the following boundaries, to wit:Beginning at a point on the highway leading from said Village to Townshend at the northern boundary of L.H. Whitney's land; then easterly along said northern boundary of said Whitney's land to the western boundary of the West River Railroad; thence southerly along the westerly boundary of said railroad to the southeast corner of land owned by Stella Micott; thence westerly along the southern boundary of said Micott's land across the highway leading from said Village to Brattleboro; thence southerly along the western boundary of said highway to the southern boundary of land owned by Rodney S. Willard; thence westerly along the southern boundary of said Willard's land to said Willard's western boundary; then northerly along the westerly boundary of said Willard's land; thence to the western boundary of land, at Smith's Brook, owned by E.C. Benedict, and along his western boundary, at Smith's Brook, to his northern boundary; thence easterly along said Benedict's northern boundary to and across Smith Brook, so-called, to land of Laura S. Rice; thence southerly on said Rice's land to land of Sarah M. Fish; thence easterly along said Fish's land to and across the highway; thence northerly along the east side of the highway leading from said Village to Wardsboro, to the boundary line between land of said Fish and land of F.L. Hamlin; thence easterly along said boundary line to the eastern boundary of said Fish's land; thence to the northern boundary of land of A.G. Warren; thence along said Warren's northern boundary to land of Lewis H. Higgins; thence easterly along boundary line between Warren and Higgins's to land owned by Walter Park, and thence along the boundary line between Higgins and Park to the highway; thence southerly along the western boundary of said highway to a point opposite the place of beginning; thence easterly across said highway to the place of beginning, are hereby incorporated and made a party politic, and shall hereafter be called the Village of Newfane and by that name may have perpetual succession and may sue and be sued, may have a common seal and the same alter at pleasure, and shall be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying real and personal estate for the use of said Village corporation, and at any annual meeting of the legal voters of said corporation legally warned and holden for that purpose may lay a tax upon the grand list of said Village of Newfane for any of the purposes hereinafter mentioned. All taxes voted by said corporation shall be assessed by the Board of Trustees which shall make rate bills thereof and deliver the same to the Collector of Taxes with proper warrants for the collection thereof.
24A V.S.A. § 249-201
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-201. Elections and terms of officers

§ 249-201. Elections and terms of officers|The officers of said corporation shall be a Board of three trustees, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, an Auditor, and a Fire Marshal, all of which officers shall be chosen by ballot at each annual meeting of the legal voters of the said corporation or at a special meeting as hereafter provided. The term of office of said officers shall be one year and until their successors are elected. Any vacancy in a Village office may be filled by the Board of Trustees by appointment in writing, recorded by the Clerk.
24A V.S.A. § 249-301
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-301. Powers of the Board of Trustees

§ 249-301. Powers of the Board of Trustees|The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of said corporation, shall draw orders upon the Treasurer for and direct the expenditure of all moneys belonging to said corporation, and generally perform all duties legally enjoined upon it by said corporation. Said Board of Trustees shall have power to abate taxes imposed by said corporation subject to the same limitations, and for the same causes provided in section 3069 of the Vermont Statutes. All powers vested in the Board may be exercised by a majority of its members.
24A V.S.A. § 249-302
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-302. Clerk

§ 249-302. Clerk|The Clerk shall keep a record of all meetings and proceedings of the corporation and of the Board of Trustees and give copies of the same when required upon payment of reasonable fees. The Clerk shall warn all meetings of the legal voters of said corporation by posting notices thereof containing a statement of the business proposed to be transacted in three or more public places within the limits of the said corporation at least six days before the time of meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 249-303
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-303. Treasurer and Collector of Taxes

§ 249-303. Treasurer and Collector of Taxes|The powers and duties of the Treasurer and Collector of Taxes shall be the same with respect to said corporation as are the powers and duties of town treasurers and town collectors of taxes with respect to towns. Each shall give a bond to the corporation, conditioned for the faithful performance of each office's duties, in such sum and with such sureties as the board of trustees shall prescribe. If a Treasurer or Collector of Taxes does not give such bond within 10 days after election or appointment, the office shall be vacant.
24A V.S.A. § 249-304
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane|App § 249-304. Auditor

§ 249-304. Auditor|The Auditor shall at least once each year, and whenever  the Auditor sees fit to examine and adjust and state the accounts of all corporation officers and of the corporation and shall report all such accounts and the items thereof and the state of the treasury to the corporation at each annual meeting, and shall cause  the report to be printed and a copy thereof to be delivered to each taxpayer of the corporation at least five days before the day of said annual meeting.