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16 V.S.A. § 5-4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated|App § 5-4. New district to provide public schools for grades kindergarten through sixth

§ 5-4. New district to provide public schools for grades kindergarten through sixth|(a) The Bennington School District Incorporated shall provide for the elementary education of students within the territorial limits of the District for grades kindergarten through sixth.(b) Sixth grade. The School Board shall not allow the attendance of sixth graders of the Bennington School District at the Mount Anthony Union School District Middle School until receiving authorization from a majority of the voters of the District by Australian ballot vote at a regular or special meeting. If authorization is given, the authorization shall remain in effect until the provisions of this charter are amended. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 302, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
16 V.S.A. § 5-7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated|App § 5-7. New district to vote a tax on the combined grand list of old districts; fiscal year

§ 5-7. New district to vote a tax on the combined grand list of old districts; fiscal year|(a) The taxable estates within the territorial limits of Bennington School District Incorporated shall be combined into one grand list. The Bennington School District Incorporated may vote a tax upon those taxable estates for the lawful purposes of the district, including the payment of obligations imposed upon the District by sections 4, 5, and 6 of this chapter.(b) The fiscal year of Bennington School District Incorporated shall be from July 1 in any calendar year to June 30 in the following calendar year.
16 V.S.A. § 5-9
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated|App § 5-9. Officers of new district

§ 5-9. Officers of new district|(a) The officers of Bennington School District Incorporated shall be a Moderator, Clerk, Board of School Directors, and Treasurer.(b) The Board of School Directors of Bennington School District Incorporated shall have seven members who shall be elected at large. When Bennington School District Incorporated so votes at an annual or special meeting, the Board of School Directors may be increased or decreased by such number as is voted.(c) All officers of Bennington School District Incorporated elected at an annual meeting shall enter upon their duties immediately following their election and shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified.(d) The terms of office of the members of the Board of School Directors, Moderator, Clerk, and Treasurer shall be three years and of all other officers one year.(e) The Board of School Directors shall annually appoint a certified public accountant to audit the financial records of Bennington School District Incorporated.
16 V.S.A. § 5-11
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated|App § 5-11. Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) directors elected at large

§ 5-11. Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) directors elected at large|The two Directors of Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) elected by Bennington Graded School District, Inc. and the two Directors of the Union District elected by Greater Bennington Schools, Inc. shall be elected as four Directors at large from Bennington School District Incorporated at the first annual meeting of the District and thereafter.
16 V.S.A. § 5-12
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated|App § 5-12. Organization of Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) validated

§ 5-12. Organization of Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) validated|The organization and operation of Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14), consisting of Bennington Graded School District, Inc., Greater Bennington Schools, Inc., North Bennington Graded School District, Inc., Shaftsbury Town School District, Woodford Town School District, and Pownal Town School District as altered and affected by this chapter, is hereby validated.
16 V.S.A. § 7-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District|App § 7-1. Incorporation of district

§ 7-1. Incorporation of district|Such portions of the Town of Bradford as lie within the present limits of School District Number 2 and within the present limits of School District Number 12, and the inhabitants thereof, are hereby incorporated and constituted a school district of the Town of Bradford, by the name of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District; all the property owned by the Districts Numbers 2 and 12 shall be the property of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District; and all debts and liabilities of the District Numbers 2 and 12 shall be assumed and paid by the Bradford Academy and Graded School District; and the Bradford Academy and Graded School District shall have all the powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities that are incident to graded school districts under the general laws of this State.
16 V.S.A. § 7-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District|App § 7-2. District boundaries

§ 7-2. District boundaries|If any other school district or districts in the Town of Bradford shall at any time, by their vote at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, signify their desire to become united with the Bradford Academy and Graded School District, and if the Bradford Academy and Graded School District, at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, shall vote to agree to such union, then the additional district or districts shall become and form a part of Bradford Academy and Graded School District; and such union of districts may be made upon such terms in regard to the school property of each as may be mutually agreed upon by the districts. And by vote of the Town of Bradford, and by consent of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District, at any annual or special meeting of the Town and the District, duly warned for that purpose, territory from adjoining districts may be added to the Bradford Academy and Graded School District; or territory may be taken from the Bradford Academy and Graded School District by vote of the town as aforesaid, and by the consent of two-thirds of the voters in the Bradford Academy and Graded School District present at any meeting legally warned for that purpose.
16 V.S.A. § 7-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District|App § 7-3. Officers and trustees

§ 7-3. Officers and trustees|Instead of a prudential committee now required by law to be elected, the Bradford Academy and Graded School District at its first annual meeting shall elect three Trustees, as follows:  one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years; and at all subsequent annual meetings, vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of office of Trustees shall be filled by the election of Trustees for the term of three years each; and all vacancies caused by resignation, death, removal from the District, or other cause, shall be filled at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose, for the unexpired term of such Trustees only. Such Trustees shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of a prudential committee, and shall choose one of their number to be President, and shall appoint a Secretary of the Board of Trustees, who shall hold office for the term of one year and until their successors are chosen and appointed. All other officers of the District shall be elected in the manner prescribed by law.
16 V.S.A. § 7-4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District|App § 7-4. Annual meeting

§ 7-4. Annual meeting|The time for holding the annual meetings and elections shall be the same as now is or hereafter shall be fixed by law for all school districts in the State; and the first annual meeting under this charter shall be holden on the last Tuesday of March A.D. 1893.
16 V.S.A. § 7-5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District|App § 7-5. Transfer of property

§ 7-5. Transfer of property|The Trustees of the Bradford Academy, an institution located at Bradford, in the county of Orange, established by an act of the Legislature of November 2, 1820, are hereby authorized to transfer by deed the Academy building and all the property appertaining thereto, and to deliver any and all funds in their hands belonging to the institution, to the Bradford Academy and Graded School District, which deed shall become operative and binding whenever the District shall vote to accept the same.
16 V.S.A. § 7-6
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District|App § 7-6. Library and Library Committee

§ 7-6. Library and Library Committee|Within ten days after the first annual meeting of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District the Trustees shall appoint a Library Committee of three persons, one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years, to hold their offices until their successors are appointed. And within ten days after each annual meeting after the first, the Trustees shall appoint one committee to fill the place of the committee whose term has expired, and such committee shall hold his or her place for the term of three years. And the Trustees may fill all vacancies occasioned by death, removal, or resignation. The Committee shall take charge of the Merrill Library and apparatus and such other books and apparatus as shall come into the possession of the District, and shall select and purchase books and apparatus for the library, and shall make such rules and regulations for the care and use of the same as may seem to them best. And it is hereby made the duty of the Trustees to pay for such books and apparatus so selected by the Library Committee to an amount not exceeding the annual income of the Merrill Library fund of $2,500.00. They shall also provide a room or rooms for the library and apparatus whenever the District shall build a new schoolhouse.
16 V.S.A. § 7-7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District|App § 7-7. Transfer deed

§ 7-7. Transfer deed|The deed referred to in section 5 of this charter may, on the part and in behalf of the Trustees of the Bradford Academy, be executed by one of their number who may be authorized so to do by a vote of a majority or the Board of Trustees.
16 V.S.A. § 7-8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District|App § 7-8. Receipt of county and State funds; maintenance of school and curriculum

§ 7-8. Receipt of county and State funds; maintenance of school and curriculum|Upon the transfer and acceptance of the Academy buildings and property, the powers and duties of the Trustees of the Bradford Academy shall cease and the Bradford Academy and Graded School District shall be entitled to such equal share of the income of the grammar school lands of Orange County, as the aforesaid Bradford Academy was entitled to receive before the passage of this chapter, and also those funds granted in common with other academies and grammar schools in this State, so long as the School District shall maintain, in connection with their schools, a good English high school, not less than 30 weeks each year, and shall in addition thereto, teach therein ancient and modern languages and higher mathematics and sciences to the extent necessary to prepare students entering at the beginning of the regular course in common American colleges, and shall employ as the principal thereof a teacher who is a graduate of some college of good reputation.
16 V.S.A. § 7-9
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District|App § 7-9. Adoption of rules and bylaws; acceptance of scholars

§ 7-9. Adoption of rules and bylaws; acceptance of scholars|The Trustees of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations for the graduation, instruction, and management of the Academy and graded school, and for the care of the property of the District, as they may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of this State; they shall establish a course or courses of study in each of the schools, and shall, in conjunction with the teachers of the schools, arrange and hold a public examination of all the schools during each school year thereof and assign each scholar to the particular grade or department which each shall be found qualified to enter; shall assign each student to the proper  grade upon admission to the school, and may change students from one grade to another during term time, whenever the interest of the student or the good of the school seems to require it. The Trustees shall, unless otherwise directed by vote of the District at an annual meeting thereof, allow scholars from outside the District to attend the Academy and Graded School with equal advantages of resident scholars, at rates for the same instruction in schools of like character in the State. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 302, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
16 V.S.A. § 7-10
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District|App § 7-10. Acceptance of endowments or legacies

§ 7-10. Acceptance of endowments or legacies|The Bradford Academy and Graded School District is hereby empowered to receive any endowment, fund, or legacy in fee or in trust that may be devoted as an endowment toward the support or for the use of the Academy and Graded School on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the donor or legator, not inconsistent with the laws of this State; and the trustees of the Academy and Graded School shall be the custodians of such fund and of the income of the same, subject to the instructions of the District in regard to the use of the fund or income, unless otherwise provided by the terms of the endowment, donation, or legacy.
16 V.S.A. § 7-11
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District|App § 7-11. Public acts; first meeting

§ 7-11. Public acts; first meeting|This chapter shall be under the control of future legislatures to alter or amend as the public good may require, and shall take effect on March 1 next. The first annual meeting of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District shall be held at the Bradford Academy and shall be warned by the Clerk of the School District Number 12 by posting a notice in due form of law on the outside door of the Academy at least seven days before the time for holding the meeting.
16 V.S.A. § 11-1.1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-1.1. Consolidation

§ 11-1.1. Consolidation|No. 113 of the Acts of 1872, entitled "An act to establish the Essex Junction Graded School District" (which shall hereafter be called the Essex Junction school district) and all amendments and additions thereto, is hereby amended and consolidated so as to read as follows.
16 V.S.A. § 11-1.2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-1.2. Incorporation of district

§ 11-1.2. Incorporation of district|All that portion of the Town of Essex now embraced within the limits of the Essex Junction School District as incorporated by No. 113 of the Acts of 1872, and as has been amended and added thereto and which is also embraced within the limits of the incorporated Village of Essex Junction together with the inhabitants therein is hereby incorporated and made a body politic and corporate and shall hereafter be known by the name of the Essex Junction School District and by that name may use and be used, prosecute and defend in any court, may have a corporate seal and alter it at pleasure, may take, hold, and convey real and personal property and estate, may levy and collect taxes, and generally shall have the rights and liabilities incident to municipal corporations.
16 V.S.A. § 11-1.3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-1.3. Disposition of property

§ 11-1.3. Disposition of property|All property, assets, and liabilities now belonging to the Essex Junction Graded School District shall at the time of the taking effect of this chapter vest in and become property, asset, liability or both, of the Essex Junction School District as incorporated by this chapter.
16 V.S.A. § 11-1.4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-1.4. Definition of district

§ 11-1.4. Definition of district|Wherever the "District" hereafter appears in this chapter, it shall mean the Essex Junction School District.
16 V.S.A. § 11-1.5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-1.5. Exemption from taxation

§ 11-1.5. Exemption from taxation|The District shall be exempt from all local taxation in the Town of Essex.
16 V.S.A. § 11-1.6
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-1.6. District voter

§ 11-1.6. District voter|A citizen of voting age, as defined by State and federal law, whose name is on the voting list taken in the Village of Essex Junction at the annual assessment next preceding a District meeting or who has attained voting age subsequent to such assessment, shall while residing in the District be a voter in such District.
16 V.S.A. § 11-1.7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-1.7. Inconsistency with general law

§ 11-1.7. Inconsistency with general law|This chapter shall control whenever any general act or law is inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
16 V.S.A. § 11-1.8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-1.8. Effect of prior law

§ 11-1.8. Effect of prior law|All acts, parts of acts, and bylaws, inconsistent with this chapter, except as herein otherwise provided, are hereby repealed. By the provisions of this chapter, so far as they are the same as those acts hereby amended, shall be construed as a continuation and consolidation of such acts, and not as new enactments.
16 V.S.A. § 11-1.9
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-1.9. Implementation of charter

§ 11-1.9. Implementation of charter|This chapter shall not become operative or effective until approved, ratified, and adopted by a majority of the legal voters of the Essex Junction School District voting at a duly warned meeting. If this chapter is voted favorably by a majority of the District, that vote shall be certified to the Secretary of State pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 702 and shall become effective pursuant to the provisions thereof.
16 V.S.A. § 11-2.1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-2.1. Officers

§ 11-2.1. Officers|The officers shall be a Moderator, five Prudential Committee members composing the Prudential Committee, a Clerk-Treasurer who shall be the same person, and a Collector of Taxes. All officers shall be chosen from legally qualified voters in the District.
16 V.S.A. § 11-2.2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-2.2. Election and terms of officers

§ 11-2.2. Election and terms of officers|The Moderator and the five Prudential Committee members shall be elected at the annual meeting or on the day following. A Moderator shall be elected every year and shall serve a term of one year. The Moderator's term of office shall commence on July 1 following his or her election, and shall terminate at midnight, June 30, following election of a successor. One or more persons shall be elected to the Prudential Committee each year. Effective as of the 1994 annual meeting, one of the two seats scheduled that year for election to the Prudential Committee shall be for a term of two years. Effective as of the 1995 annual meeting, one of the two seats scheduled that year for election to the Prudential Committee shall be for a term of two years. All other newly elected Prudential Committee members shall hold office for three year terms. Prudential committee members shall be elected by Australian ballot on the day following the annual meeting as set forth in Vermont law. All officers, excepting the Moderator, the Clerk-Treasurer, and the Collector of Taxes, shall hold office for terms commencing upon their election and terminating upon the election of their successor. The Clerk-Treasurer and the Collector of Taxes shall each be appointed by the Prudential Committee for a term of one year. The appointment shall be made following elections every year and before July 1st. The Clerk-Treasurer and the Collector of Taxes shall each be appointed for a term commencing July 1 following appointment and terminating at midnight on June 30 following the appointment of a successor.
16 V.S.A. § 11-2.3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-2.3. Vacancies

§ 11-2.3. Vacancies|When an officer resigns, dies, becomes incapacitated, or removes residency from the District, such office shall be considered vacant. When a vacancy occurs in any office, other than the office of Moderator, Clerk-Treasurer, and Collector of Taxes, the Prudential Committee shall forthwith, by appointment, in writing, fill such a vacancy until the election of a successor at the annual meeting next thereafter. At such annual meeting, the voters of the School District shall fill the vacancy in any elected office, other than the office of Moderator, for the remainder of the term. When the office of the Moderator, Clerk-Treasurer, or Collector of Taxes becomes vacant, the Prudential Committee shall forthwith by appointment, in writing, appoint a Moderator, Clerk-Treasurer, or Collector of Taxes to fill such vacancy until midnight of June 30 following election of a successor, in the case of the Moderator's office, or appointment of a successor, in the case of the Clerk-Treasurer's office or the Collector of Taxes' office. All appointments under this section shall be filed and recorded in the office of the Clerk-Treasurer. No person shall be appointed to fill a vacancy in office who would not be eligible for election to such office.
16 V.S.A. § 11-2.4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District|App § 11-2.4. Bonding of officers

§ 11-2.4. Bonding of officers|A Prudential Committee member shall not be a Clerk-Treasurer or Collector of Taxes. Before entering upon their duties, the Collector of Taxes and Clerk-Treasurer shall give a bond to the District conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties in such sums as may be required. When the Collector or Clerk-Treasurer for ten days neglects to give a bond as required, the office shall be vacant.