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24A V.S.A. § 701-4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 701 - Morristown Corners Water Corporation|App § 701-4. Annual and special meetings

§ 701-4. Annual and special meetings|Annual and special meetings of Morristown Corners Water Corporation shall be held in conformance with the notice, warning, and voting requirements of the adopted bylaws of the Morristown Corners Water Corporation. (Added 2009, No. M-9, § 2, eff. May 18, 2009.)
24A V.S.A. § 701-6
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 701 - Morristown Corners Water Corporation|App § 701-6. Board of Directors

§ 701-6. Board of Directors|The Board of Directors shall be the legislative and administrative body of the municipal corporation and shall be responsible for the control and management of all affairs, property, and interests of the corporation. The Board of Directors may exercise all legal powers of the corporation consistent with this chapter, the bylaws of the corporation, and Vermont law. These powers shall include the execution of contracts, the authority to purchase insurance on behalf of the corporation, the commencement of actions in the name of the corporation, defending actions brought against the corporation, and the settlement of claims on behalf of the corporation. (Added 2009, No. M-9, § 2, eff. May 18, 2009.)
24A V.S.A. § 701-7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 701 - Morristown Corners Water Corporation|App § 701-7. Rates

§ 701-7. Rates|The Board of Directors shall establish rates and fees for the water services, including capital improvements, provided by the corporation, and all rates and fees for water services shall be paid to the Treasurer. (Added 2009, No. M-9, § 2, eff. May 18, 2009.)
24A V.S.A. § 701-8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 701 - Morristown Corners Water Corporation|App § 701-8. Rules

§ 701-8. Rules|The Board of Directors shall adopt rules that govern the administration, operation, and maintenance of the water system. Rules adopted by the Board of Directors shall become effective upon a majority vote of the directors. (Added 2009, No. M-9, § 2, eff. May 18, 2009.)
24A V.S.A. § 701-9
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 701 - Morristown Corners Water Corporation|App § 701-9. Amendment of charter

§ 701-9. Amendment of charter|This charter shall be amended in the same manner as provided in 17 V.S.A. § 2645, except that in lieu of the requirements of 17 V.S.A. § 2645(a)(7), a vote by members of the corporation affirming the amendment of this charter shall be by a voice vote in the form of a yes or no proposition. The corporation shall make all proposed changes to this Charter available to any member of the corporation in amended form, with deleted material in brackets and new matter underlined or in italics. (Added 2009, No. M-9, § 2, eff. May 18, 2009.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-1. Definitions

§ 703-1. Definitions|As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning or intent:  (1) "The District" shall mean the municipality created by section 2 of this chapter pursuant to the provisions set forth in 24 V.S.A. § 3342. The functions of the District when pursued under the authority set forth in this chapter shall be governmental and not proprietary. (2) "Town" shall mean any municipality within the meaning of 1 V.S.A. § 126. (3) "Clerk" shall mean the permanent Clerk of the District. (4) "The Board" shall mean the Board of Water Commissioners of the District. (5) "The Treasurer" shall mean the Treasurer of the District. (6) "Auditor" shall mean an Auditor of the District. (7) "Properties" shall mean the water supply, storage and distribution system or systems of the District, including the plants, works, instrumentalities or part thereof and appurtenances thereto, including lands, easements, rights in land and water rights, rights of-way, contract rights, franchises, approaches, connections, dams, reservoirs, water mains and pipe lines, pumping stations and equipment, or any other property incidental to and included in such system or part thereof, and any improvements, extensions, and betterments thereto, together with any and all property, both real and personal wherever situated, as may be acquired by the District in its own name. (8) "Bonds" shall mean the bonds, notes, and obligations, issued by the District, pursuant to this chapter. (9) "Revenues" shall mean all rents, charges, and other income derived from the operation of the District. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 1.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-2. Champlain Water District created

§ 703-2. Champlain Water District created|There is hereby created a consolidated water district to be known as the "Champlain Water District" which shall embrace the Towns of Colchester, Essex, Shelburne, South Burlington, and Williston, in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont. The District may be enlarged under the provisions of section 17 of this chapter. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-3. Legal status

§ 703-3. Legal status|The District created hereunder shall be a body politic and corporate with the powers incident to a municipal corporation as set forth in 24 V.S.A. § 3342(a), and shall further be for the purposes and charged with the duties and having the powers provided in this chapter. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 3.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-4. Existing District

§ 703-4. Existing District|The District created hereunder shall supersede and substitute the presently existing Champlain Water District. The District shall, initially, have as its officers and commissioners, the officers and commissioners of the present Champlain Water District. The District shall succeed to the title of all properties, and shall assume all assets and liabilities of the present Champlain Water District. This chapter shall be deemed to ratify any and all previous actions taken by the existing Champlain Water District. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 4.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-7. Meetings

§ 703-7. Meetings|(a) Annual meetings shall be held each year on the first Tuesday of April. The fiscal year of the District shall be July 1 through June 30 of the following year.(b) Meetings shall be warned by the Clerk, or in case of his or her inability to act, by a majority of the water commissioners, by posting a notice thereof, specifying the time, place, and business of the meeting, in not less than five public places in the District, including at least one public place in each member town, at least 10 days before the time therein specified and causing the same to be published in a paper circulating in the District, such publication to be not less than 10 days before the date of the meeting, and the warning shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk before being posted.(c) Any meeting called for the purpose of considering a bond issue shall be warned as is provided for in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 1 or any amendment thereof.(d) The water commissioners shall have the same authority and obligation to warn or call meetings of the District as selectmen have to warn or call town meetings. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 7; amended 1983, No. M-16 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-8. Eligibility of voters

§ 703-8. Eligibility of voters|Persons residing within the limits of the District, who are qualified voters in their town meetings, shall be voters in the District meeting. The Moderator, Clerk, and members of the Board of Water Commissioners shall decide all questions as to the eligibility of a person to vote at a District meeting. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 8.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-9
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-9. Checklist

§ 703-9. Checklist|The clerk of each town within the District shall furnish to the Clerk of the District, at the expense of each member town, authenticated copies of the checklists of legal voters within said town as the same appears after revision of such check list before this last town meeting, annual or special, preceding the date of the District meeting, which checklist shall control for the purposes of determining the voters eligible to vote at the District meeting. Whenever a matter, including bond issues, is to be determined by ballot or voting machine, the Board of Water Commissioners may designate polling places in each member town. Each member town shall provide at its expense such polling places together with ballot clerks necessary to supervise the ballots in the same manner that elections are supervised in the towns under the appropriate Vermont statutes. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 9.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-10
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-10. Record of proceedings

§ 703-10. Record of proceedings|The Clerk shall keep a record of the votes and the proceedings of the District meetings and give certified copies thereof when required. A Clerk who neglects to perform his or her duty shall forfeit $20.00 to the District, to be recovered in an action of tort under 24 V.S.A. § 3347. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 10.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-11
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-11. Water rates and revenues

§ 703-11. Water rates and revenues|(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of 24 V.S.A. § 3311, the Board of Water Commissioners of the District shall establish rates for the water and services by meter service, and all firms and corporations, whether private, public or municipal, shall pay to the Treasurer of the District the rates and stand-by charges established by the Board of Water Commissioners. An additional charge may be made by the District in addition to the uniform base rate where water is supplied to a member town through the system of another member town. The determination of any rate except as it may be otherwise provided in this chapter shall be in the discretion of the commissioners. The Board of Water Commissioners may also enter into a contract with member and nonmember municipalities for the supply of water over a period of years. All rates shall be so established as to provide revenue for the following purposes:  (1) To pay current expenses for operating and maintaining the water systems; (2) To provide for the payment of interest and principal on the indebtedness created by the District; (3) If any surplus remains at the end of the year, it may be turned into a sinking fund or used to pay the cost of improvements to the water system.   (b) The money set aside for the sinking fund and any increment thereon shall be devoted to the retirement of obligations of the District or invested in such securities as savings banks or fiduciaries or trustees are now or hereafter allowed to hold. The balance of the revenue, if any, required to meet said expenses shall be apportioned among and collected from member towns as herein provided. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 11; amended 1971, No. 266 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-13
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-13. Special tax assessment for payment of execution

§ 703-13. Special tax assessment for payment of execution|When a demand is made upon the District for the payment of an execution issued against it and the District has no available funds to pay the same, the Board of Water Commissioners shall compute the shares of each member town in such execution, with costs, interest, and other charges, to be paid by it in accordance with the formula established in subsection 12(b) of this chapter and shall give notice of the amount thereof to the legislative branch of each member town, or to the legislative branch of the containing Town in the case of contained municipalities. The gallonage shares shall be computed for this purpose on the basis of the calendar year on account of which the liability arose or, if such year is then in process, on the basis of the next preceding calendar year. Each member town through its proper officers shall forthwith pay to the Treasurer of the District its shares, and the shares of its contained municipalities, of such execution and any charges. To the extent that any such shares of the same shall not already have been raised by taxation in accordance with this act, the legislative branch shall forthwith assess and have collected taxes in the applicable taxing districts sufficient to pay the same in the manner its other taxes are assessed and collected. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 13; amended 1971, No. 266 (Adj. Sess.), § 6.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-14
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-14. Debts and liabilities of member towns

§ 703-14. Debts and liabilities of member towns|No debt or liabilities of a town which is a member of the District shall accrue against the District. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 14.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-15
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-15. Tax exemption

§ 703-15. Tax exemption|Property of the District shall be exempt from all taxation by any town. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 15.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-16
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-16. Indebtedness

§ 703-16. Indebtedness|(a)(1) The District may incur indebtedness for public improvements and other purposes as provided by 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 1. The limits on indebtedness in chapter 53 or otherwise shall not apply to indebtedness incurred or assumed by the District.  (2) Obligations incurred under subchapter 1 or as otherwise authorized in this act by the District, except obligations incurred under 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 2, shall be the joint and several obligations of the District and the member towns composing it. However, as among such member towns, their respective shares of such obligation shall be apportioned and paid in the manner provided in this chapter. Any joint or several liability incurred by a member town under the provisions of this act shall not be considered in determining its debt limit for its own separate purposes. Bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of the District may be authorized for public improvements by a majority of the voters present and voting on the question at a District meeting, may be paid in not more than 40 years from their date of issue, may be made callable at the option of the District with or without premium and the serial maturities of such bonds or evidences of indebtedness may be so arranged that beginning with the first year in which principal is payable, the amount of principal and interest payable in any year shall be as nearly equal as is practicable according to the denominations in which such bonds or other evidences of indebtedness are issued. Interest up to and for not more than one year after commencement of regular operation of public improvements may be paid from obligations issued to finance such public improvements.   (b) The District may also issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness pursuant to 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 2, and any amendment thereof or addition thereto, and bonds payable solely from revenues may be issued while the District has outstanding other bonds or evidences of indebtedness for which the District and the member towns are jointly and severally liable as hereinbefore provided. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 16; amended 1971, No. 266 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-17
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-17. Changes in membership; inclusion of additional towns

§ 703-17. Changes in membership; inclusion of additional towns|(a) When a majority of voters of a Town present and voting at a meeting duly warned for that purpose shall vote to apply to the District for admission as a member of the District, such vote shall thereupon be certified by the clerk of the town to the Clerk of the District and to the Secretary of State. Such vote and certification, if accepted by the District within two years after the date of said vote shall be binding on said town without the subsequent vote in the town contemplated in subsection (c) of this section.(b) When it appears to the Board of Water Commissioners that the boundaries of the District should be changed to include another town, they may insert an article fully describing the proposed change in the warning for a regular or special meeting of the District, which proposed change shall state the number of additional members to be added to the Board of Water Commissioners if such change is approved.(c) When a majority of the voters voting at such meeting vote to include an additional town within the boundaries of the District as a member thereof, the Board of Water Commissioners shall notify the legislative body of such additional town of such vote. Thereupon the legislative body of the additional town proposed to be included shall duly warn a meeting thereof, setting forth in such warning the vote of the District and the proposed change in its boundaries. If a majority of the voters voting at the meeting of the additional town vote to be included within the District, the result of such vote and the result of the vote already taken by the District shall be certified to the Secretary of State. A certificate of such record shall immediately be filed by the Secretary of State in the office of the Clerk of the District and of any additional Town to be included therein as a member thereof, which filing shall be notice to all parties of such addition to the District.(d) The District as so enlarged shall thereupon have all the powers and responsibilities given it by this chapter. Any vacancy on the Board of Water Commissioners created as a result of the increase in the number thereof shall be filled as provided in 24 V.S.A. § 3343. The additional member town shall share in all existing expenses, including bonded indebtedness, in the proportion provided in this chapter for other members. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 17.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-18
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-18. Withdrawal from the District

§ 703-18. Withdrawal from the District|(a) A town which is a member of the District may vote to withdraw from the District if one year has elapsed since it joined said District provided that during that time the District has not voted to bond itself for construction or improvements.(b) When a majority of the voters of a member town present and voting at a town meeting duly warned for that purpose shall vote to withdraw from the District, such vote shall thereupon be certified by the clerk of the town to the Secretary of State who shall thereupon record such certificate in his or her office and the membership of the withdrawing town in the District to be at an end as of December 31 immediately following or as soon thereafter as the obligations of said withdrawing town as incurred under this chapter have been paid to the District. Any withdrawing town shall also reimburse the District for all expenses incurred by the District in planning, engineering, and administrative services rendered for the purpose of delivering water to said town. No withdrawal shall be final until payment has been made for all services so rendered.(c) A vote of withdrawal taken after the District has become a body politic and corporate as provided in section 4 of this chapter but less than one year after said date shall be null and void. A vote of withdrawal from the District taken after the District has voted to bond itself for construction or improvements shall be null and void. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 18; amended 1971, No. 266 (Adj. Sess.), § 8.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-19
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-19. Amendments

§ 703-19. Amendments|This chapter may be amended in accordance with the terms and provisions of 17 V.S.A. § 2645 for the amendment of municipal charters. For this purpose, the word "municipality" in such statute shall be construed to mean "District," and "legal voters" as used in such statute shall be defined in accordance with section 8 of this chapter. No amendment shall be made which substantially adversely affects the rights of the holders of obligations of the District. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 19; amended 1971, No. 266 (Adj. Sess.), § 9.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-20
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-20. Separability of provisions

§ 703-20. Separability of provisions|(a) If any section, clause, or provision of this chapter shall be held unconstitutional, or be ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or ineffective, it shall be valid and effective and no other section, clause, or provision shall, on account thereof, be deemed invalid or ineffective.(b) Where any specific section, clause, or provision of this chapter conflicts with any general provision of the statutory laws of this State, laws other than Constitution, such section, clause, or provision of this chapter shall prevail unless the intent of such general statutory provision to amend this chapter is clear. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 20.)
24A V.S.A. § 703-21
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 703 - Champlain Water District|App § 703-21. Ratification and validation

§ 703-21. Ratification and validation|The ratification of No. 135 of the Acts of 1971 by the District and all proceedings taken thereunder are validated and confirmed in all respects. Any action heretofore authorized by the District under No. 135 of the Acts of 1971 or under prior law, including the bond vote of May 21, 1970, shall hereafter be implemented in accordance with the charter of the District as amended by this act. (Added 1971, No. 266 (Adj. Sess.), § 10.)
24A V.S.A. § 705-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 705 - Edward Farrar Utility District|App § 705-1. Establishment

§ 705-1. Establishment|There is hereby established a body politic and corporate known as the Edward Farrar Utility District (District) whose inhabitants shall be those of the Village of Waterbury. (Added 2017, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
24A V.S.A. § 705-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 705 - Edward Farrar Utility District|App § 705-2. Purpose

§ 705-2. Purpose|The District is established for the purpose of providing water and sewer services as provided by 24 V.S.A. chapters 89 (waterworks), 97 (sewage system), and 101 (sewage disposal system); and holding, maintaining, and administering any property, assets, and liabilities that it shall acquire from the Village of Waterbury. (Added 2017, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
24A V.S.A. § 705-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 705 - Edward Farrar Utility District|App § 705-3. Boundaries

§ 705-3. Boundaries|The boundaries of the District are coextensive with the current boundaries of the Village of Waterbury. (Added 2017, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)