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16 V.S.A. § 1-10
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College|App § 1-10. Middlebury College; Norwich University

§ 1-10. Middlebury College; Norwich University|The President and fellows of Middlebury College, and Norwich University, or either of them, may hereafter, with the assent and concurrence by vote of a majority of each of the nine Trustees elected, as aforesaid, and their successors, become incorporated and united with the corporation hereby created, by vote of their said corporations, at any meeting legally warned and holden, and by leaving for record, in the Office of the Secretary of State, a true and attested copy of such vote or votes, and of all the proceedings of the meeting or meetings, at which the votes aforesaid were passed, and causing the same to be recorded in the Office.
16 V.S.A. § 1-11
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College|App § 1-11. Vacation of charter

§ 1-11. Vacation of charter|If at any time, the corporation hereby created shall fail substantially to carry out the provisions and requirements of this charter, the Supreme Court of this State may, at any stated session thereof, having first given due notice to this corporation, annul and vacate this charter, and in such case, or in case the corporation shall otherwise be dissolved, the Supreme Court may, on application, order and decree that the income thereafter to be derived from the proceeds of the sale of said land scrip, in the hands of the State Treasurer as aforesaid, together with such amount as may have been paid over by the Treasurer for the purpose of an experimental farm, shall revert to the Vermont Agricultural College, and all the other property and effects which, at the time of the union, belonged to the other institution, shall revert to and be the property of the other institution or institutions which shall have been united and incorporated by, or in pursuance of this charter, and in case more than one such other institution shall have been thus united, such other property shall revert to them separately, such specific property to each, as the Court shall adjudge and decree, having reference in making such decree to what was originally owned or contributed by each; provided, that in respect to any property or funds hereafter acquired by the new corporation, by gift, grant, bequest, or otherwise, the same shall be awarded and distributed to each of the institutions hereby incorporated or hereafter united, in such manner as the Court shall deem just and equitable, having reference to the manner the same was acquired, and to any specific trusts, or expressed intention of any donors, made at the time the same was acquired. And for the purposes aforesaid, as well as for all other purposes, the several corporations, which shall have been united by virtue of this charter, shall be deemed and treated as having continued in life, and the several Trustees which shall have been elected by each at the time they were united, and their successors shall be deemed and treated to have been, since the time of their elections, the Trustees of their respective institutions, as well as Trustees of the united corporation, and, as such Trustees may receive the property and effects which may revert to their respective corporations by such decree of Court, and they and their successors, whom they may thereafter appoint, may continue and manage the affairs of their respective corporations thereafter, in the same manner as the Trustees of each might have done before they were united as aforesaid.
16 V.S.A. § 1-12
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College|App § 1-12. Charter in effect

§ 1-12. Charter in effect|This charter shall take effect, whenever the two corporations hereby united shall, at a meeting duly warned, vote to accept the same, and to surrender and relinquish to the corporation, hereby created, all the property belonging to them, whether real or personal, and all the rents, profits, and income therefrom arising, including said proceeds from the sale of the land scrip, for the purpose, and subject to all the rights, trusts, and conditions as in this charter provided; and it shall be the duty of each of the corporations to cause a copy of the record of such votes, duly certified by the secretaries of their respective corporations, to be left for record and duly recorded in the office of the Secretary of State; whereupon, by virtue of such votes, such property, rents, profits, and income shall become the property of the corporation hereby created, for the purposes and subject to the rights, trusts, and conditions aforesaid, and the property, and the property hereafter acquired by the corporation hereby created, shall be subject to all the conditions, immunities, and exemptions now pertaining to the property now held by the University of Vermont.
16 V.S.A. § 1-13
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College|App § 1-13. Repeal of inconsistent law

§ 1-13. Repeal of inconsistent law|All of an act entitled "An Act to Establish the Vermont Agricultural College," approved November 22, 1864, which is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, is hereby repealed.
16 V.S.A. § 1-14
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College|App § 1-14. Vermont Agricultural College

§ 1-14. Vermont Agricultural College|The divisions of the Vermont Agricultural College set forth in section 4488 of Vermont Statutes, Revision of 1947, shall be continued as divisions of and in the name of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, and all references to Vermont Agricultural College in sections 4489 through 4493 shall be deemed to apply to the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College or the agricultural college of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College as the context may require.
16 V.S.A. § 1-15
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College|App § 1-15. Tax exemption

§ 1-15. Tax exemption|Real and personal property now held or owned or hereafter acquired by the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College for educational purposes shall be exempt from taxation.
16 V.S.A. § 1-15a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College|App § 1-15a. Statutory purposes

§ 1-15a. Statutory purposes|The statutory purpose of the exemption for the University of Vermont in section 1-15 of this chapter is to allow institutions providing higher education to deploy more of their financial resources to their educational missions. (Added 2013, No. 200 (Adj. Sess.), § 10.)
16 V.S.A. § 1-16
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 1 - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College|App § 1-16. Amendment of charter

§ 1-16. Amendment of charter|This charter may be amended from time to time by the General Assembly to provide for the more perfect and effective accomplishment of its objects.
16 V.S.A. § 2-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 2 - Barre Town School District|App § 2-1. Meetings and elections

§ 2-1. Meetings and elections|(a) The first Tuesday in March shall be the date for the annual election of School District officers and for voting upon all questions to be decided by Australian ballot. Polls shall be open no less than nine consecutive hours. The School Board may designate one or more polling places within the District for voting and may provide for the use of any mechanical or computer type devices for voting or counting votes, consistent with the requirements of law. However, the voters at any annual election may designate a different date, time, or place for subsequent annual elections.(b)(1) Special School District meetings or elections:   (A) may be called by a majority of the School Board; or (B) shall be called by the School District Clerk upon receipt by him or her of a petition signed by at least ten percent of the voters, specifying the business to be transacted at such meeting.  (2) The meeting shall be held within 60 days from the date the petition is filed with the Clerk.   (c) Budget preparation process:  (1) At such time as may be prescribed by the School Board, the School Superintendent shall submit a line itemized estimate of the income and expenditures required for the operation of the School District for the next ensuing fiscal year. (2) The School Board, with a committee of not less than five voters appointed by them, shall review the proposed school budget publicly and prepare it for presentation to the voters at the annual School District election. Sufficient copies shall be available to the voters not less than ten days prior to the election, at the five public places required by subsection 2(a) of this chapter and the warning shall state the availability of the proposed budget.   (d) Budget adoption process: The budget proposal shall be submitted to the electorate at the annual election. If this proposal fails, the School Board shall warn another election at which a revised budget shall be submitted to the voters and decided by Australian ballot. If the School Board's second or subsequent budget proposals fail, the Board shall continue to warn special elections and submit revised budget proposals to the voters until a budget is adopted by the voters by Australian ballot.
16 V.S.A. § 2-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 2 - Barre Town School District|App § 2-2. Warnings

§ 2-2. Warnings|(a) Public notice of every annual or special School District meeting or election shall be given by a warning posted in at least five public places in the District at least 12 days prior to the meeting; and published two times, on the same day of the week for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper having general circulation in the district. The first such publication shall be at least ten days prior to the date of the meeting.(b) The warning shall:  (1) state the date, time, and place of the annual meeting as well as the date, time, and place of any informational hearing required to be held by virtue of the use of the Australian ballot system of voting; (2) be signed by a majority of the School Board; (3) specifically indicate by separate articles what business is to be transacted at the meeting; (4) contain any article approved by the School Board; (5) contain any article requested by petition signed by at least ten percent of the voters and filed with the School District Clerk at least 45 days prior to the day of the meeting; and (6) state that copies of the School Board's proposed budget shall be available as required by subsection 1(d) of this chapter.
16 V.S.A. § 2-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 2 - Barre Town School District|App § 2-3. Reconsideration of actions taken on the budget

§ 2-3. Reconsideration of actions taken on the budget|Reconsideration of actions, as applied to the budgetary process, shall not be permitted.
16 V.S.A. § 3-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District|App § 3-1. Incorporation of district

§ 3-1. Incorporation of district|Such portions of the Town of Barton as lie within the present limits of School District Number One and the inhabitants thereof are hereby incorporated and constituted a school district of the Town of Barton, by the name of the Barton Academy and Graded School District; and the schoolhouse and all other property of School District Number One, of whatever character, shall become the general property of the Barton Academy and Graded School District; and all debts and liabilities of the District shall be assumed and paid by the Barton Academy and Graded School District, and the Barton 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 school districts established under the Revised Laws of Vermont and the laws in addition thereto, or in amendment thereof.
16 V.S.A. § 3-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District|App § 3-2. Districts may merge

§ 3-2. Districts may merge|If any other school district or districts in the Town of Barton shall at any time, by their vote at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, signify their desire to become united with the Barton Academy and Graded School District, and if the Barton 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 the Barton Academy and Graded School District; and such union of the 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 Barton and consent by vote of the 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 Graded School District by vote of the Town as aforesaid, and by the consent of two-thirds of the voters in the Graded School District present at any meeting legally warned for that purpose.
16 V.S.A. § 3-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District|App § 3-3. Transfer of property; assumption of debts; rent payments

§ 3-3. Transfer of property; assumption of debts; rent payments|All property of whatever character, belonging to the Barton Academy, an institution incorporated by the Legislature by act approved November 14, 1854, shall become the property of the Barton Academy and Graded School District whenever the Barton Academy shall vote, at a meeting legally called for that purpose, to accept the provisions of this act and all debts and liabilities of the Barton Academy shall be assumed and paid by the corporation hereby created. The Selectboard of the Town of Barton shall annually pay over the rents and profits arising from the grammar school lands in the town to the Trustees of the Barton Academy and Graded School District together with all sums arising from that source now in their hands and unappropriated.
16 V.S.A. § 3-4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District|App § 3-4. Officers and trustees

§ 3-4. Officers and trustees|Instead of the prudential committee required by law to be elected, the 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; provided, however, that when the voters thereof so vote at any annual meeting, wherein the warning contains an appropriate article relating thereto, two additional Trustees may be elected thereat for a term of one year each. Such vote so taken shall remain in effect until such time as the voters of the Barton Academy and Graded School District rescind the same by a majority vote of the legal voters present and voting at an annual or special meeting duly warned and including such purpose. All vacancies caused by death, resignation, removal from the District, or other cause shall be filled at an annual or special meeting, warned for the purpose, for the unexpired term of such Trustees only; provided, however, that the Trustees may fill one vacancy occurring on the Board of Trustees or in any other office, during the year, until an election is had at the next annual meeting, or a special meeting called for that purpose. The Trustees shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of a prudential committee and board of school directors, or either, and shall choose one of their members to be President, and may appoint a Secretary of the Board; each of whom shall hold office for the term of one year and until their successors are chosen and appointed. The other officers of the Barton Academy and Graded School District shall be the same as now or may hereafter be provided for all school districts in the State; shall be elected in the same manner and be subject to the same duties and liabilities as now or hereafter prescribed by law.
16 V.S.A. § 3-5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District|App § 3-5. Annual meeting

§ 3-5. Annual meeting|The time of holding the annual meeting in the Graded School District shall be the same as now is or hereafter shall be fixed by law for all school districts in the State; and in accordance therewith the first meeting for the election of Trustees as hereinbefore provided shall be held on the last Tuesday of March, A. D. 1887.
16 V.S.A. § 3-6
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District|App § 3-6. Adoption of bylaws and rules

§ 3-6. Adoption of bylaws and rules|The Barton Academy and Graded School District may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, and may provide for the establishment and maintenance of such number of schools, of such length, and of such grade or grades, and for teaching such branches therein as it may deem expedient; and may in its option give instruction in the studies usually taught in higher academic schools and which are requisite to prepare scholars for entering college. The Academy and Graded School shall not be required to teach gratuitously drawing, music, or the languages, other than English, but may at its option. All residents of the District between the ages of five and 20 years may attend the academy and graded school free of tuition for all branches except those mentioned herein, tuition to be charged upon the branches excepted at the option of the District.
16 V.S.A. § 3-7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District|App § 3-7. Courses of study; acceptance of scholars

§ 3-7. Courses of study; acceptance of scholars|The Trustees may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations, for the gradation, 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 the 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 at the close of each term thereof if thought best, 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 students or the good of the school may seem to require it. The Trustees shall, unless otherwise directed by a vote of the District at any annual meeting thereof, allow scholars from other districts in the Town of Barton or from other towns to attend the Academy and Graded School with equal advantages of resident scholars, at rates of tuition corresponding as nearly as may be to the usual 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. § 3-8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District|App § 3-8. Acceptance of endowments and legacies

§ 3-8. Acceptance of endowments and legacies|The Academy and Graded School district is hereby empowered to receive any endowment fund or legacy in fee or in trust, that may be donated 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 such Academy and Graded School shall be the custodians of such fund and of the income of the same, subject to 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. § 3-9
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 3 - Barton Academy and Graded School District|App § 3-9. Distribution of public moneys

§ 3-9. Distribution of public moneys|In the distribution of the public moneys, that portion which may be divided among the several school districts, irrespective of the number of scholars or the attendance at school, shall be so divided as to give the Barton Academy and Graded School District the share of the original district of which it is composed, and the Barton Academy and Graded School District shall have all the rights, privileges, and benefits now enjoyed by Barton Academy by School District Number One in Barton.
16 V.S.A. § 5-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated|App § 5-1. Districts authorized to dissolve and merge

§ 5-1. Districts authorized to dissolve and merge|Bennington Graded School District, Inc., incorporated by No. 121 of the Acts of 1870, and Greater Bennington Schools, Inc., incorporated by Nos. 240 and 241 of the Acts of 1935, are hereby authorized and enabled to surrender their respective charters, dissolve, and thereby merge into and form a municipal corporation to be called Bennington School District Incorporated, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
16 V.S.A. § 5-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated|App § 5-2. Merger to constitute incorporation of new district

§ 5-2. Merger to constitute incorporation of new district|If Bennington Graded School District, Inc. and Greater Bennington School, Inc. vote to surrender their respective charters and dissolve and thereby merge, this chapter shall constitute the incorporating charter of Bennington School District Incorporated the territorial limits of which shall be all of the Town of Bennington exclusive of the portion of the Town which is within the North Bennington Graded School District, Inc.
16 V.S.A. § 5-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements|Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated|App § 5-3. New district to own all property of old districts

§ 5-3. New district to own all property of old districts|All real estate and other property and all assets of Bennington Graded School District, Inc. and Greater Bennington Schools, Inc. shall become the property of Bennington School District Incorporated on July 1 in the year following the calendar year in which it is voted to dissolve the old districts and to create the new district pursuant to subsection 8(a) of this chapter, subject, however, to any agreements with respect thereto made by Bennington Graded School District, Inc., or Greater Bennington Schools, Inc., before July 1 in such year.