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24A V.S.A. § 225-177
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 225 - Village of Hyde Park|App § 225-177. Effective date

§ 225-177. Effective date|The charter shall become effective upon approval in accordance with 17 V.S.A. § 2645 and when so approved, two copies shall be maintained in good condition in the Lampher Memorial Library. Further copies shall be made available to the public at cost. (Added 1999, No. M-11 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 9, 2000.)
24A V.S.A. § 225-178
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 225 - Village of Hyde Park|App § 225-178. Definitions

§ 225-178. Definitions|As used in this chapter:  (1) "Trustees" means the duly elected members of the trustees of the Village acting as a group and in their official capacity. (2) A "vacancy" in any office is deemed to exist if the holder of the office resigns, dies, moves from the Village (except the President), or is judicially declared to be mentally incompetent. (3) "Day" means a calendar day. (4) "Voters" means the names included, at any given point in time, on the checklist most recently revised by the Board of Civil Authority for use in a Village meeting or election. (5) From "time to time" means as the need may become realized or apparent. (Added 1999, No. M-11 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 9, 2000.)
24A V.S.A. § 227-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-1. Boundaries

§ 227-1. Boundaries|All that part of the Town of Whitingham as follows:  Beginning at the northeast corner of A. C. Stetson's pasture near the watering trough, thence southeasterly on the southerly side of the highway to the lands of Herbert G. Porter, thence northeasterly on lands of said Porter to lands of Mattie E. Corkins; thence easterly and northerly on said Corkins' land to the Roberts farm, owned by La Fill Dickenson; thence easterly on said Dickenson's southerly line and lands of Sarah M. Goodnow to lands of Hollis Stetson; thence southerly on lands of said Stetson, Hulbert Stetson, C. A. Pike, Perry Hall's estate, Joseph Leonard, E. S. and W. S. Allen, to E. J. Corkins' land; thence westerly on land of E. J. Corkins, Edward Boudry, Charles Mitchell, Eva O. Bell, and A. A. Butterfield to the southwest corner of Jane B. Chase's farm; thence northerly on lands of A. A. Butterfield, Wm. H. H. Packer and O. W. Parks to the Carley farm; thence easterly and northerly on the Carley farm to the place of beginning; together with the ratable estate included within said boundary, is hereby constituted a body corporate to be known as the Village of Jacksonville, Vt.
24A V.S.A. § 227-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-2. Annual and special meetings

§ 227-2. Annual and special meetings|(a) The annual meeting of the Village shall be held on the third Tuesday in June at seven o'clock p. m., or at such other time as shall be prescribed by the bylaws at such places as shall be prescribed by the bylaws.(b) Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk on request of seven legal voters of the Village. All meetings of the Village shall be warned by the Clerk by posting a notice in at least three public places in the Village 10 days before the meeting. Legal voters in Town meeting, who have resided in the Village at least three months, shall be legal voters in Village meetings. (Amended 2005, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. June 20, 2006.)
24A V.S.A. § 227-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-3. Election and duties of officers

§ 227-3. Election and duties of officers|(a) At the annual meeting there shall be elected, by ballot if called for by three voters, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Chief Engineer, First and Second Assistant Engineers, a Collector, and five trustees, who shall serve until their successors are elected. They shall be sworn, and the Clerk shall make a record thereof. The Clerk, Collector, and Treasurer shall give such bonds as shall be required by the trustees. Vacancies may be filled at special meetings called for that purpose.(b) The trustees shall elect one trustee to serve as President.(c) Each of the elected officers shall perform the following duties:  (1) The President shall preside at all meetings and have all the powers of a moderator in town meetings and be an ex-officio member and presiding officer of the Board of Trustees. (2) The Senior Trustee shall act as President if the President is absent at the annual meeting or any meeting of the trustees. (3) The Clerk shall keep a record of the annual meeting and any special meetings that are called in accordance with the charter of the Village and also keep a record of all proceedings at the trustees' meetings. (4) The Treasurer shall be custodian of all money belonging to the Village and shall pay all obligations of the Village that the President and at least two trustees have approved.   (d) The Village shall employ an auditor who shall conduct an annual audit in accordance with Government Accounting Standards and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rules.(e) The trustees shall:  (1) Have general charge of all affairs of the Village and shall meet at least once a month at the time and place as the President may designate for the meetings, and the trustees may hold as many additional meetings in any month as they deem advisable. (2) Shall make all contracts concerning the building of electric light lines and maintenance of the same. (3) Do all things necessary to maintain the electric light system that the Village owns in the Town of Whitingham. (4) Fix the compensation of all employees and officers of the Village. (5) Establish the rates for the electric light service that the Village furnishes, subject to the approval of the Public Utility Commission of the State of Vermont. (Amended 2005, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. June 20, 2006.)
24A V.S.A. § 227-5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-5. Acquisition of land and water courses

§ 227-5. Acquisition of land and water courses|The Village may purchase, lease, or take by right of eminent domain, hold and convey real and personal estate, springs, water courses, and existing aqueducts, construct and maintain such aqueducts, and build and lay pipes and conduits as may be required for the purpose of furnishing the Village with suitable protection from fire and sewer purposes and sprinkling streets, for furnishing the inhabitants of the Village with water for household, culinary, and other purposes; may erect and maintain buildings and hydrants, purchase and hold fire apparatus and other property necessary for such purposes, and in acquiring any property other than by purchase or lease may proceed in the same manner and the same proceedings had as provided in taking land for sewers, as hereinbefore stated.
24A V.S.A. § 227-6
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-6. Lighting

§ 227-6. Lighting|The Village may light its streets in such way as it may determine, and construct, own, and maintain gas or electric plants for lighting them or furnishing its inhabitants and the inhabitants of the Towns of Whitingham and Halifax with lights, heating, and power and for this purpose may purchase, take, and hold such real estate, water powers, and water rights and such other real and personal estate as may be necessary and may contract with such person or corporation as it sees fit for supplying light, heat, and power for the purposes aforesaid, and make all necessary regulations in relation thereto, and to the control and management of the same. (Amended 1925, No. 182, § 1.)
24A V.S.A. § 227-7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-7. Police officers

§ 227-7. Police officers|(a) The trustees of the Village shall have power to and may appoint the number of police officers within the Village as the trustees may judge necessary for the interests of the inhabitants thereof, by writing under their hands, which shall be recorded by the Village Clerk, and the appointments may in the same way be revoked at any time.(b) The trustees may specify their duties as watchmen and patrols, and agree with them for their compensation, which shall be paid by the Village. Each of the police shall be sworn, and shall have the same powers within the limits of the Village as constables in serving criminal process and in criminal matters, and when on duty shall wear conspicuously a badge of office, and shall hold their office one year unless sooner discharged as aforesaid. The police officers may serve warrants beyond the limits of the Village for offenses committed therein, and shall be a complaining officer for all offenses committed within the limits of the Village in violation of any provision of this charter or the bylaws and lawful orders of the Village and its officers.
24A V.S.A. § 227-8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-8. Bylaws; penalty for violations

§ 227-8. Bylaws; penalty for violations|The Village may impose a fine or forfeiture not exceeding $100.00 for a violation of any bylaw or ordinance. The penalty may be recovered in an action on the case upon this statute in the name of the Village, in which action it shall be sufficient to declare generally that the defendant is guilty of a violation of a certain bylaw, naming it generally, and under the declaration the special matter may be given in evidence. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as to prevent the Village from having such other and further relief as it may be entitled by law to compel a compliance with the bylaws and ordinances of the Village.
24A V.S.A. § 227-9
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-9. Fire district

§ 227-9. Fire district|The Village is hereby constituted a fire district for the purpose of preventing the destructive consequences of fires, and the trustees shall have all the powers, and be subject to the same restrictions as prudential committees in fire districts, in making contracts and expenditures for the preservation of property in the Village from loss or damage by fire.
24A V.S.A. § 227-10
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-10. Designation of real estate in Village by listers

§ 227-10. Designation of real estate in Village by listers|It shall hereafter be the duty of the listers of the Town of Whitingham in making the lists of the Town to designate therein such of the ratable estate real and personal, as shall belong within the limits of the Village, and the same shall constitute the grand list of the Village.
24A V.S.A. § 227-11
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-11. Tax assessment

§ 227-11. Tax assessment|The Village may, at its annual meeting called for that purpose, assess a tax on the grand list of the Village for any of the purposes mentioned in this act, and shall have all the powers and may collect the tax in such manner as is provided by law for the collection of town taxes in towns, and the trustees of the Village are to have the powers, and perform the duties herein required, of the selectboard in towns, and the Collector the same powers as the collector and constable in collecting taxes so assessed.
24A V.S.A. § 227-12
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-12. Board of Abatement

§ 227-12. Board of Abatement|The trustees and Clerk of the Village shall constitute a Board for the Abatement of Village Taxes, and shall have the same powers and proceed in the same manner as the board for abatement of taxes in towns.
24A V.S.A. § 227-13
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-13. Maintenance of library

§ 227-13. Maintenance of library|The Village may establish, keep, and maintain a free public library for the improvement of its inhabitants, and to that end may purchase, hold, and dispose of real and personal property to preserve, improve, enlarge, and continue the library and erect such building as may be necessary for its safe and convenient keeping and receive such donations of books, maps, charts, or other property as may be donated to the Village or the library.
24A V.S.A. § 227-14
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-14. Power to borrow money

§ 227-14. Power to borrow money|The Village at an annual or a special meeting called for that purpose is hereby authorized and empowered to vote to borrow money for any of the purposes herein mentioned, and to issue its notes and bonds therefor; and such notes or bonds shall be signed by the trustees and countersigned by the Treasurer of the Village, and if interest coupons are attached they shall be signed by the Treasurer, and the bonds or notes shall contain a statement that they are issued for the purposes mentioned, and in conformity with the provisions of this charter, and such statement shall be conclusive evidence of the same, and of the liability of the Village to pay such notes or bonds in an action by a person who in good faith holds such notes or bonds. The Village Treasurer shall keep a record of every note or bond under the provisions of this charter, therein stating the number and denomination of such note or bond, when and where payable, to whom issued, and the rate of interest thereon; and also shall keep a record of payments, interest, and principal; and if any coupons are taken off shall deface the same.
24A V.S.A. § 227-15
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 227 - Village of Jacksonville|App § 227-15. Bylaws

§ 227-15. Bylaws|The Village, at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose, may make, alter, and repeal bylaws of the following subject matter, viz.:(1) Relating to their streets, sidewalks, alleys, public highways, commons, parks, and public grounds, the cleaning, repairing, and improving the same; to prevent the encumbering the same with fire wood, coal, ashes, lumber, carriages, boxes, and other things, and to compel persons to remove from the sidewalks and gutters adjacent to the premises owned or occupied by them snow, dirt, and garbage and to keep the sidewalks and gutters clean.(2) Relating to policing and lighting the streets.(3) Relating to nuisances generally and to compel the owner or occupants of an unwholesome, dangerous, or offensive house or place to remove or cleanse the same from time to time, as may be necessary for the health, comfort, and protection of the inhabitants of the Village.(4) Relating to sewers.(5) Relating to water supply for the protection of the Village and the inhabitants thereof, and for other purposes, and to regulate the use of the same.(6) To restrain animals from running at large in the Village.(7) To suppress disorderly and gambling houses and all descriptions of gaming, and for the destruction of instruments used for that purpose.(8) To prevent immoderate driving in the streets and cruelty to animals.(9) To regulate the manufacture or keeping of gunpowder and all combustibles or dangerous materials.(10) To regulate the making, altering, and repairing of stovepipes, furnaces, fire places, depositories for ashes, and other things from which loss or damage from fire may be apprehended, and in general to provide for the preservation of buildings from fire, precautionary measures and inspections.(11) To establish and regulate a fire department and fire hose and hook and ladder companies.(12) To regulate and restrain the sale and use of rockets, squibs, firecrackers, toy pistols, or other fireworks within the Village; also guns, cannons, and explosives.(13) To license inn-keeping and victualing, peddlers, itinerant vendors, and auctioneers; to license and suppress billiard and pool tables, bowling alleys, skating rinks, and other places of amusement.(14) To regulate the length, width, and grade of streets and sidewalks, and the construction of and protect the same.(15) To prohibit and punish wilful injury to trees planted for shade, ornament, convenience, or use, public or private, and to prevent and punish trespass or wilful injury to or upon public buildings, squares, commons, cemeteries, or other property within the Village, and the corporation may establish other or repeal other bylaws and ordinances which it may deem necessary for the well-being of the Village, and for the proper regulation of the officers thereof, not repugnant to the laws of the State. (Amended 2005, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. June 20, 2006.)
24A V.S.A. § 235-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 235 - Village of Ludlow|App § 235-1. Boundaries

§ 235-1. Boundaries|All that part of the Town of Ludlow in the County of Windsor, bounded and described as follows: Commencing at a post on the south side of the highway leading from Ludlow Village to Proctorsville at the northeast corner of land of Freeman H. Fuller, thence running north 22 degrees and 30 minutes east, 84 rods to a stone wall between land of S. L. Valentine and land of William L. Lawrence; thence continuing on the same course 110 rods to a post set for a corner; thence running north, 67 degrees and 30 minutes west, 187 and one-half rods to a post on the east side of North Hill road, opposite the northeast corner of land of Delia C. King; thence running north, 79 degrees west, along a stone wall 96 rods to the west end of said stone wall; thence in the same course 50 rods to a stake on the east side of a road leading to back lots; thence in same course 63 rods to a post on the west side of the Dug-way road; thence in same course across Black River to a post on the west side of the stage road to Plymouth; thence in the same course, 22 rods, to the west line of the Rutland Railroad; thence southerly along the west line of said railroad 224 rods to a post on the north side of the West Hill road; thence south, 22 degrees and 30 minutes west, 26 rods to a post on the north side of the line fence between lands of Richard M. Bates and Wallace E. Hemmenway; thence in the same course 111 rods to a post on the north side of the highway leading to said Richard M. Bates' dwelling house; thence in the same course 29 rods to a post set as a corner near a large yellow birch tree; thence north 86 degrees and 20 minutes east, 394 rods to a post set as a corner near a railroad mile post marked "93" on the south side of the railroad aforesaid; thence north, 22 degrees and 30 minutes east, 63 rods to the place of beginning is hereby incorporated and made a body politic and corporate, and shall hereafter be known by the name of the Village of Ludlow, and by that name may have perpetual succession, and be capable of suing and being sued, may have a common seal and the same alter at pleasure, and shall be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying personal and real estate for the use of said Village, and at any annual or special meeting, warned for that purpose as herein provided, lay a tax upon the real estate within the same, whether of residents or non-residents, for any of the purposes herein mentioned; and the trustees shall assess all taxes and make out a rate-bill accordingly, and deliver the same to the Collector. And it shall hereafter be the duty of the listers of Ludlow in making the list of the said Town of Ludlow to designate therein such of the ratable estate thereof as shall be within the limits of said Village.
24A V.S.A. § 235-21
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 235 - Village of Ludlow|App § 235-21. Officers and boards

§ 235-21. Officers and boards|The officers of said Village shall consist of three trustees who shall constitute the Board of Trustees, three water commissioners who shall constitute the Board of Water Commissioners, three electric light commissioners who shall constitute the Board of Electric Light Commissioners, a Chief Engineer, and First and Second Assistant Engineers, a Clerk, Treasurer, Collector, and an Auditor, all of which officers shall be chosen by ballot; except the Assistant Engineers, who shall be appointed by the Chief Engineer. Said officers shall be elected for the term of one year, except the members of the Board of Trustees, the Board of Water Commissioners, and the Board of Electric Light Commissioners, who shall be elected for the term of three years, and until their successors are elected.
24A V.S.A. § 235-22
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 235 - Village of Ludlow|App § 235-22. Board of Trustees; duties

§ 235-22. Board of Trustees; duties|The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of said Village; shall direct the expenditure of all moneys belonging to said Village, draw orders upon the Treasurer, and generally perform all the duties legally enjoined upon them by said corporation, and shall submit their accounts and vouchers to the Auditor at least twenty days before the annual meeting of each year. Said trustees shall have power to abate taxes laid or assessed by virtue of this act; but the power of said trustees to abate taxes shall be subject to the same limitations and may be exercised for the same causes as mentioned in section 2736 of the Revised Laws. The trustees shall have the powers and duties of selectmen specified in sections 3939 through 3946 of the Public Laws of 1906 related to the diversion of streams and the establishment of drains ditches and water courses. The trustees shall fill a vacancy in a Village office, and a person so appointed shall serve for the unexpired time; but the Village may, at any time before the expiration of such term, supersede such an appointment by a new election at a special meeting, for the remainder of the term. All power vested in said trustees may be exercised by a majority of them.
24A V.S.A. § 235-23
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 235 - Village of Ludlow|App § 235-23. Clerk

§ 235-23. Clerk|It shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep a record of all proceedings of said corporation, and of the meetings of the trustees, and he or she shall give copies of the same when required, upon payment of reasonable fees. It shall be his or her duty to warn special meetings of said corporation, by the direction of a majority of the trustees, or by the written request of five voters of said corporation, and all annual meetings, by posting notice thereof in three different public places in said Village, at least six days before the time of meeting, together with a statement of the business to be transacted. Any business may be transacted at an adjourned meeting, which under the warning might have been transacted at the original meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 235-24
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 235 - Village of Ludlow|App § 235-24. Treasurer and Collector

§ 235-24. Treasurer and Collector|The Treasurer and Collector shall have similar powers and duties to those of town treasurers and town collectors. They shall each give bonds to the Village, conditional to the faithful performance of the duties of their office, in such sums and with such sureties as the trustees may prescribe. If a Treasurer or Collector does not give such bonds within 10 days after his or her election or appointment, his or her office shall be vacant.