reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
16 V.S.A. § 323
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 7 - Supervisory Unions|§ 323. Audit by public accountant

§ 323. Audit by public accountant|Annually, the supervisory union board shall employ one or more public accountants to audit the financial statements of the supervisory union and its member districts. The audits shall be conducted in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards, including the issuance of a report of internal controls over financial reporting to be provided to recipients of the financial statements. Any annual report of the supervisory union to member districts shall include notice that the audits have been performed and the time and place where the full report of the public accountant will be available for inspection and for copying at cost. (Added 1966, No. 59 (Sp. Sess.), § 1(c); amended 1987, No. 15, § 2; 2009, No. 44, § 3, eff. May 21, 2009; 2011, No. 129 (Adj. Sess.), § 19, eff. July 1, 2013.)
16 V.S.A. § 324
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 7 - Supervisory Unions|§ 324. Term of office; vacancy

§ 324. Term of office; vacancy|The term of office of a supervisory union treasurer shall be for one year from July 1 through June 30. If the office becomes vacant, the voting members of the supervisory union board shall elect a new supervisory union treasurer to take office on election for the unexpired term. (Added 1966, No. 59 (Sp. Sess.), § 1(d); amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 45, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
16 V.S.A. § 325
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 7 - Supervisory Unions|§ 325. Removal from office

§ 325. Removal from office|A supervisory union treasurer may be removed from office for cause by a majority vote of the members of the supervisory union board present and eligible to vote at a meeting called for that purpose. (Added 1966, No. 59 (Sp. Sess.), § 1(e); amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 46, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
16 V.S.A. § 421
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 421. Town school districts

§ 421. Town school districts|(a) A town shall constitute a school district, except that when a town contains an incorporated school district, the town school district shall consist of that part of the town not embraced within the incorporated school district.(b) It is the policy of the State to support two or more school districts within a supervisory union in establishing a unified union district in accordance with section 722 of this title, if such unified union district would then be large enough to qualify for designation by the State Board as a supervisory district. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 41; amended 1987, No. 228 (Adj. Sess.), § 13.)
16 V.S.A. § 422
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 422. Meetings

§ 422. Meetings|(a) The annual town meeting shall be the annual town school district meeting. However, at any annual or special school district meeting, the electorate may authorize the annual school district meeting to be held on another date so long as the meeting is held after February 1 and before June 15.(b) A warning to change the date for the annual school district meeting shall contain an article in substantially the following form: "Shall the town school district of ..................... hold its annual meeting on ..................... ?"(c) Town school district meetings shall be warned by the school board and shall contain appropriate articles notifying the electorate of the election of its officers and the business to be transacted.(d) A town consisting of one town school district may transact at any regular or special town meeting any and all business lawful to be done at any lawfully warned regular or special town school district meeting. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 42; amended 1975, No. 48, § 16, eff. April 15, 1975; 1977, No. 128 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
16 V.S.A. § 423
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 423. Directors, number, election; term

§ 423. Directors, number, election; term|(a) Each town school district shall have a school board consisting of three directors, one of whom shall be elected by ballot at each annual meeting of the town school district for a term of three years, beginning the day of election or until a successor is elected and qualified, unless a town school district is a member of a unified union district.(b) The electorate may vote at an annual or special town school district meeting to elect not more than two additional directors for terms of either one or two years. When the terms are to be for two years, the warning for the meeting shall so specify. If two additional directors are elected, they shall have terms of the same length, but if the terms are to be for two years, when the additional directors are first elected, one shall be elected for one year and the other director for two years. Terms of these additional directors shall end on annual meeting days. If the additional directors are elected at a special meeting, the term of those elected for one year shall expire on the next annual meeting day and those elected for two years shall expire on the second annual meeting day following their election.(c) The electorate shall continue to elect additional school directors until it votes at a meeting duly warned for the purpose to rescind its previous action under subsection (b) of this section; but the additional directors then in office shall continue in office until the end of the term to which they were elected.(d) A town school district that holds its annual meeting on a day other than annual town meeting day may vote to elect its officers and its representative directors to union school districts on town meeting day. Their terms of office shall commence on the annual school district meeting day unless the district votes to have the terms of office commence on town meeting day. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 43; amended 1983, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), eff. April 13, 1984.)
16 V.S.A. § 424
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 424. Vacancies

§ 424. Vacancies|(a) Except as otherwise provided for a school district operating under a charter, within 30 days of the creation of the vacancy, the school board shall, by majority vote of those present and voting, appoint a qualified person to fill a vacancy in the town school board or a vacancy in the position of town school district treasurer in towns in which the town school district treasurer is elected separately from the town treasurer until an election at a special or annual meeting is held. A record thereof shall be made in the office of the town clerk.(b) If there are vacancies in a majority of the members of the town school board at the same time, the vacancies shall be filled by a special school district meeting called for that purpose. The remaining board member or members are authorized to draw orders for payment of continuing obligations and necessary expenses until a majority of the vacancies is filled.(c) If there are no town school board members in office, the Secretary of State shall call a special election to fill any vacancies and for that interim shall appoint and authorize the town school district clerk or other qualified person to draw orders for payment of continuing obligations and necessary expenses until a majority of the vacancies is filled. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 44; amended 1975, No. 171 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2005, No. 32, § 1; 2007, No. 150 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
16 V.S.A. § 425
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 425. Other town school district officers

§ 425. Other town school district officers|Unless otherwise voted, the town clerk shall by virtue of the office perform the same duties for the town school district in addition to other duties assigned by this title. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 45; amended 1979, No. 23, § 2; 2011, No. 129 (Adj. Sess.), § 20, eff. July 1, 2013.)
16 V.S.A. § 426
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 426. Duties of the town school district treasurer

§ 426. Duties of the town school district treasurer|(a) The town treasurer shall be treasurer of the town school district unless, by vote of the town school district, a town school district treasurer is elected. He or she shall keep in a separate bank account all the money appropriated or given for the use of the school district. Within 20 days after the date the school taxes become due and payable or within such other period of time as may be agreed upon in writing by both the selectboard and the board of school directors, he or she shall deposit in the school account payments of the school tax levy received. However, if notification of the amount to be transferred by the Secretary of Education to the school district has not been received within 20 days of the date taxes are due and payable, the transfer shall be effected within 20 days of notification by the Secretary.(b) Within 120 days after the date on which taxes become delinquent, but in no event later than the end of the school year, the treasurer shall deposit the balance of the sum of the gross school tax levy in the school account.(c) The treasurer shall pay out of such money orders drawn by or upon the authority of the board of school directors. If he or she does not pay any such order on demand, the holder thereof may recover the amount from the town school district with interest from the time of such demand. Monies so received by the town school district may be invested and reinvested by the treasurer with the approval of the board of school directors.(d) The town school district treasurer shall keep financial records of cash receipts and disbursements and shall make those records available to the board of school directors or the supervisory union board when requested to do so. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 46; amended 1979, No. 23, § 1; 1981, No. 239 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 1987, No. 127 (Adj. Sess.); 1987, No. 228 (Adj. Sess.), § 11; 1989, No. 4; 1991, No. 103, § 3; 2005, No. 54, § 2; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 47, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
16 V.S.A. § 427
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 427. Grand list

§ 427. Grand list|The grand list of a town or incorporated school district shall consist of one percent of the listed value of the real and personal estate taxable in the town or incorporated school district. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 47; amended 1971, No. 261 (Adj. Sess.), § 1 eff. March 14, 1972; 1993, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 16, 1994; 2005, No. 182 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 59.)
16 V.S.A. § 428
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 428. Budget to be voted

§ 428. Budget to be voted|(a) At each annual town school district meeting, the electorate shall vote such sums of money as it deems necessary for the support of schools. If such sums are not approved or acted upon at the annual meeting, the electorate shall vote such questions at a duly warned special school district meeting. A district may vote money necessary for the support of its schools to the end of the full school year next ensuing.(b) If the electorate of a school district votes for its budget by Australian ballot, it shall do so using ballot language jointly developed by the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of State and adopted by the State Board, by rule. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 48; amended 1985, No. 196 (Adj. Sess.), § 21; 1997, No. 60, § 26, eff. July 1, 1998; 1997, No. 71 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 83, eff. March 11, 1998, § 71, eff. Jan. 1, 1999; 1999, No. 1, § 60c, eff. March 31, 1999; 1999, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), § 166b; 2003, No. 36, § 3; 2003, No. 68, § 1; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 48, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 60.)
16 V.S.A. § 429
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 429. Loans

§ 429. Loans|Notwithstanding subsection 4029(b) of this title, a school board may draw orders for loans without interest to the town's general fund, and the town selectboard may draw orders for loans without interest to the school district fund, the loans to be secured by a note signed by both the selectboard and the school board that stipulates mutually agreeable terms and conditions. A note shall be payable not more than 90 days after its issuance and shall be payable on demand anytime within the 90-day term. The school board shall report all loans to the Agency pursuant to subsection 4029(f) of this title. For purposes of this section, "town" and "selectboard" shall have the same meaning as they have in 1 V.S.A. § 139. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 49; amended 2011, No. 129 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. May 11, 2012.)
16 V.S.A. § 471
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 471. Application of other laws

§ 471. Application of other laws|(a) The provisions of this title relating to the administration and maintenance of public schools; to school meetings and voting; to grand lists; to the raising and expending of school monies; to monies apportioned by the State Board; to sharing in other State aid; to the election, appointment, powers, duties, and liabilities of school officers; to elementary and higher instruction; to transportation, board, and attendance of students; to truancy and truant officers; to furnishing of textbooks and appliances; and to all other matters pertaining to schools in a town district, unless otherwise provided, and if not inconsistent with the rights granted by their charters, shall apply to schools maintained, similar school officers, and all matters pertaining to schools in incorporated school districts.(b) An incorporated school district, if it is so voted at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose, may elect to be governed by any one or more provisions of this title in lieu of any inconsistent provisions of special legislation relating to such district. Provisions of this title adopted by a district shall continue to apply unless the vote is rescinded at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 49, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 61.)
16 V.S.A. § 472
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 472. Meetings; warnings

§ 472. Meetings; warnings|(a) A district may, if it so votes at its annual meeting on the first Tuesday in March, fix a different date for holding its annual meetings, provided the date is not earlier than March 15 nor later than June 30. A notice of the proposed change shall be inserted in the warning of the annual meeting upon the written request of five percent of the voters of the district. Special meetings shall be warned on the application of five percent of the voters of the district.(b) Meetings shall be warned by the clerk or, in case of his or her inability to act, by the prudential committee, by posting a notice specifying the time, place, and business of the meeting in two public places in the district at least seven days before the date of the meeting, and warnings shall be recorded before being posted.(c) When a person whose duty it is to warn a school meeting neglects to do so for ten days, after application made as provided in this section, he or she shall forfeit to the district $20.00 for each ten days' neglect, to be recovered in an action on this statute. (Amended 1975, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.); 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 50, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 62.)
16 V.S.A. § 473
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 473. Eligibility of voters

§ 473. Eligibility of voters|The moderator, clerk, and members of the prudential committee shall decide all questions as to the eligibility of a person to vote in a school meeting.
16 V.S.A. § 474
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 474. Records

§ 474. Records|The clerk shall keep a record of the votes and proceedings of the school district meetings and give certified copies thereof when required. A clerk who neglects to perform this duty shall forfeit $20.00 to the district, to be recovered in an action on this statute.
16 V.S.A. § 475
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 475. Statistical information

§ 475. Statistical information|Annually, on or before August 15, the prudential committee shall return to the Secretary answers to the statistical inquiries that he or she may address to them. (Amended 1975, No. 48, § 4, eff. April 15, 1975; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 51, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
16 V.S.A. § 477
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 477. Merger of town and incorporated school districts

§ 477. Merger of town and incorporated school districts|(a) An incorporated school district, by a majority vote of the legal voters present and voting at any meeting legally warned, may surrender its charter as a corporation for the maintenance of public schools or such part of its charter as pertains to the maintenance of public schools. Such surrender shall take effect not later than July 1 following the vote so taken, and such school corporation shall cease to exist, and it shall become thereby a part of the town school district. In the event of any such merger notwithstanding the provisions of section 423 of this title, the directors of the incorporated school district holding office at the time of the merger shall become members of the board of school directors of the town school district and shall continue in that office until the expiration of the terms for which they were elected by the incorporated school district.(b) By a majority vote of the legal voters present and voting at any meeting legally warned, a town district may become a part of an incorporated district, provided the incorporated district, at a meeting legally warned, votes to accept such merger. Such merger shall take effect July 1 following the vote so taken. When such a merger has occurred, the incorporated district shall be considered a town district in all respects pertaining to the maintenance and administration of its public schools.(c) In case of a union of an incorporated district and a town district under either subsection (a) or (b) of this section, each district shall settle its own business affairs and pay all its indebtedness, except for repairs and new buildings, shall deposit its records with the town clerk, and shall no longer exist except for the settlement of its own pecuniary affairs. In effecting such settlement, a district may remain in existence for not more than five years for the purpose only of voting, assessing, and collecting a special tax annually to pay such indebtedness. (Amended 1964, No. 7 (Sp. Sess.), eff. March 4, 1964.)
16 V.S.A. § 478
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 478. Prudential committee; vacancies

§ 478. Prudential committee; vacancies|Unless the incorporated district has a provision in its charter to the contrary, when a vacancy occurs on a prudential committee, the remaining members shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy until the next annual or special meeting. The members shall choose the new member by majority vote of those present and voting. (Added 2003, No. 112 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
16 V.S.A. § 491
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 491. Election; notice to clerk

§ 491. Election; notice to clerk|At each annual meeting, an incorporated school district shall elect from among the legal voters of such district a moderator, collector, and treasurer and may elect a clerk. All school officers shall enter upon their duties on July 1, following their election or appointment. If a clerk is elected or appointed, then the clerk shall notify the town clerk within ten days of the election or appointment. (Amended 2011, No. 129 (Adj. Sess.), § 21, eff. July 1, 2013.)
16 V.S.A. § 492
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 492. Powers, duties, and liabilities; bonds

§ 492. Powers, duties, and liabilities; bonds|(a) The powers, duties, and liabilities of the collector, treasurer, prudential committee, and clerk shall be like those of a town collector, treasurer, board of school directors, and the school board clerk, respectively.(b) Before entering upon their duties, the collector and treasurer shall give a bond to the district conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties, in such sum as may be required. When a collector or treasurer for ten days neglects to give a bond as required, his or her office shall be vacant. (Amended 2011, No. 129 (Adj. Sess.), § 22, eff. July 1, 2013; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 52, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
16 V.S.A. § 493
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 493. Moderator

§ 493. Moderator|The moderator shall preside at such district meetings; and, in his or her absence, a moderator pro tempore shall be chosen to preside. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 53, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
16 V.S.A. § 494
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 494. Collector of taxes

§ 494. Collector of taxes|The district may elect the collector of town taxes to be collector of taxes for the district, although he or she is not an inhabitant of that district. When a collector accepts the office, he or she shall do so in writing, and the acceptance shall be recorded by the clerk. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 54, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
16 V.S.A. § 495
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 495. Vacancies

§ 495. Vacancies|(a) When a vacancy occurs in the office of a district officer, the district shall fill the vacancy at a special meeting.(b) A vacancy occurring in the office of clerk of an incorporated school district caused by death, resignation, or otherwise shall be filled by the prudential committee within ten days after such vacancy occurs.
16 V.S.A. § 496
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 496. Books and papers to be turned over to successor

§ 496. Books and papers to be turned over to successor|When a district office becomes vacant by expiration of the term of office of the incumbent or otherwise, and a successor is elected or appointed, the successor shall, on demand, be entitled to receive the books and papers of the office from the last incumbent or anyone having the books and papers in his or her possession. A person having books or papers in his or her possession who refuses for ten days, after demand, to surrender them to the successor shall be fined $10.00. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 55, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
16 V.S.A. § 511
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 16 - Education|Chapter 9 - School Districts|§ 511. Budget

§ 511. Budget|(a) At a meeting legally warned for that purpose, the electorate within an incorporated school district shall vote such sums of money as it deems necessary for the support of schools. If the sums are not approved or acted upon at the annual meeting, the electorate shall vote the questions at a duly warned special school district meeting. A district may vote money necessary for the support of schools to the end of the full school year next ensuing.(b) If the electorate of an incorporated school district votes for its budget by Australian ballot, it shall do so using ballot language jointly developed by the Secretary of Education and Secretary of State and adopted by the State Board by rule. (Amended 1981, No. 133 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 2, 1982; 1997, No. 60, § 27, eff. July 1, 1998; 1997, No. 71 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 2, 84, eff. March 11, 1998, § 72, eff. Jan. 1, 1999; 1999, No. 1, § 60d, eff. March 31, 1999; 1999, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), § 166b; 2003, No. 36, § 4; 2003, No. 68, § 2; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 56, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)