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24A V.S.A. § 207-17
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-17. Police Department

§ 207-17. Police Department|(a) The Board of Trustees, and in its stead, the Village Manager, when appointed pursuant to 24 V.S.A. chapter 37, and as may be amended, may establish and maintain a Police Department. Such Police Department shall consist of one chief of police and subordinate officers as deemed necessary. Such officers, including the chief of police, shall take an oath to faithfully perform their respective duties as such police officer, which instrument shall be recorded by and in the office of the Clerk of said corporation. Such police officers shall have the same powers as sheriffs in criminal matters and the enforcement of the law and in serving criminal process and such special authority as may be provided in any bylaw or ordinance of said corporation enacted under authority of Vermont statutes.(b) The direction and control of the entire Police Department, except as otherwise provided, shall be vested in the chief of police. If the chief of police is absent or disabled, or if the office of chief of police is vacant, the appointing authority may appoint another officer to discharge the duties of the chief of police.
24A V.S.A. § 207-18
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-18. Fire Department

§ 207-18. Fire Department|The Board of Trustees, and in its stead, the Village Manager when appointed pursuant to 24 V.S.A. chapter 37, and as the same may be amended, may establish and maintain a Fire Department for the protection of life and property. Such Fire Department shall consist of one Fire Chief appointed by the Manager and subordinate officers and employees appointed by the Manager, upon the recommendation of the Fire Chief, in accordance with the Bellows Falls Village Corporation Personnel Plan. The trustees shall empower the Fire Chief to provide for such number of firefighters as deemed necessary.
24A V.S.A. § 207-19
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-19. Water Department

§ 207-19. Water Department|Said corporation may maintain a Water Department for the purpose of supplying its inhabitants, and as incident thereto, the inhabitants of adjoining towns and the Town of Rockingham, with water for domestic and other purposes, and may purchase and hold all necessary real and personal estate for that purpose, and may issue its corporate bonds to secure any present or future indebtedness for the establishing, enlarging, and extending of its water works; it may take, hold, and use such land adjacent to and surrounding the pond known as "Minard's Pond," now owned by the corporation, as may be necessary for the protection of the water of said pond from defilement, and may for that purpose enclose said pond or land so taken, by suitable fences, and whenever it shall be deemed necessary by said corporation to increase its supply of water for its Water Department, it may take and hold waters of any additional ponds, springs, or streams of water for that purpose, together with such lands surrounding and adjacent to the same as may be deemed necessary for the use and protection of the water of such ponds, springs, or streams from defilement, and may enclose such ponds, springs, or streams by suitable fences for the purpose of such protection. Said corporation may, by aqueduct, conduct the waters of the ponds, springs, or streams that may be taken in pursuance of this act into the said "Minard's Pond," or the waters of said "Minard's Pond," and such ponds, springs, or streams to the Village of Bellows Falls and through the streets of said Village. And, for that purpose, may enter upon such lands as may be necessary, and may dig, lay, and from time to time repair such aqueducts.
24A V.S.A. § 207-20
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-20. Water rates

§ 207-20. Water rates|For the purpose of the support of said Water Department, and to ensure the payment of the annual principal and interest upon any water bonds issued by said corporation, the Board of Trustees shall establish rates to be charged and paid by the users of said water, at such times and in such manner as shall be determined by the Board of Trustees, and may, from time to time, alter, modify, amend, increase, or diminish such rates, and extend them to any description of property or use, as the Board of Trustees may deem proper. Such rates shall be chargeable to and may be collected of the owners of the property so supplied, unless otherwise agreed upon by the Board of Trustees and said owners, and shall be a lien and charge upon the buildings, lots, and other property so supplied and may be collected in an action at law in the name of the corporation. The Board of Trustees may order water rents to be paid in advance and may make all necessary provisions and orders relating to the supply or stoppage of water as the Board of Trustees may think expedient to ensure such advance payments.
24A V.S.A. § 207-21
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-21. Application of water management

§ 207-21. Application of water management|The rents and receipts of said corporation for the use of water shall first be applied to pay the annual principal and interest as it becomes due upon water bonds issued by said corporation, and whenever such rents and receipts shall exceed the amount required to pay such principal and interest, and the interest of any other water bonds of said corporation, it shall be the duty of said corporation to pay such excess, in the necessary repairs, management, and addition to said water works; and the balance of such excess, if any, shall be applied to Water Department operations for ensuing years. Any deficit shall also be applied to Water Department operations for ensuing years.
24A V.S.A. § 207-22
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-22. Minard's Pond

§ 207-22. Minard's Pond|It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person or persons to go upon or into the waters of Minard's Pond or other ponds, streams, or springs from which said corporation derives its supply of water; or to remove fish from said Minard's Pond; or to enter upon the land adjacent to and bordering upon said pond for the purpose of fishing, swimming, camping, hunting, skating, snowmobiling, ATV riding, or cutting wood. Pet owners shall be responsible for properly restraining their pets from entering upon or into the waters of Minard's Pond. This area shall be closed to unauthorized motor vehicles between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than $25.00, nor more than $500.00, and/or restitution for damages resulting from such violations. The Board of Trustees of said corporation or any police officer thereof may make complaint and prosecute such offenders in the name of said corporation as is provided for the prosecution of other offenses.
24A V.S.A. § 207-23
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-23. Streets and sidewalks

§ 207-23. Streets and sidewalks|(a) Lighting and the regulation of the highways, streets, and sidewalks located within the corporate limits of said corporation shall be within the control of the Board of Trustees and the corporation shall have the right to use said highways, streets, and sidewalks for sewer and water purposes and for other municipal purposes, all as provided elsewhere in this charter and as may be amended from time to time.(b) The trustees shall have no power to control or direct the expenditure of funds for the purpose of maintaining the highways, bridges, and culverts located within the corporate limits. The trustees may, on behalf of the corporation, petition the selectmen of the Town of Rockingham to make repairs to highways, bridges, and culverts within the corporate limits, or to lay out, alter, or discontinue highways within said limits. Upon receipt of such a petition, the selectmen shall take appropriate action thereon as if the petition had been submitted in accordance with Title 19, chapter 7 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated and the trustees may appeal the actions of the selectmen and exercise any other rights of an interested person with respect to said petition.(c) The Board of Trustees of said corporation shall have the power to regulate, improve, beautify, light, repair, or sustain the parks and commons of said corporation. Said Board of Trustees may cause to be trimmed or removed any tree, obstruction, or vegetation in any street, sidewalk, or right-of-way in said corporation when said trustees shall deem the same to be necessary to the free use and occupancy of the streets and sidewalks, or to the proper lighting of the same.
24A V.S.A. § 207-24
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-24. Sewerage Department

§ 207-24. Sewerage Department|Said corporation may maintain a Sewerage Department for the purposes of providing its inhabitants, and as incident thereto, the inhabitants of adjoining towns and the Town of Rockingham, with sewerage systems for domestic and other purposes, and may purchase and hold all necessary real and personal estate for that purpose, and may issue its corporate bonds to secure any present or future indebtedness for the establishing, enlarging, and extending of its sewerage.
24A V.S.A. § 207-25
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-25. Sewerage rates

§ 207-25. Sewerage rates|For the purpose of the support of said Sewerage Department and to ensure the payment of the annual principal and interest upon any sewerage bonds issued by said corporation, the Board of Trustees shall establish rates to be charged and paid by the users of said sewer system, at such times and in such manner as shall be determined by the Board of Trustees, and may, from time to time, alter, modify, amend, increase, or diminish such rates, and extend them to any description of property or use, as the Board of Trustees may deem proper. Such rates shall be chargeable to, and may be collected of, the owners of the property so provided, unless otherwise agreed upon by the Board of Trustees and said owners, and shall be a lien and charge upon the buildings, lots, and other property so provided and may be collected in an action at law in the name of the corporation. The Board of Trustees may order sewerage rents to be paid in advance and may make all necessary provisions and orders relating to said sewerage as the Board of Trustees may think expedient to ensure such advance payments.
24A V.S.A. § 207-26
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-26. Application of sewerage management

§ 207-26. Application of sewerage management|The rents and receipts of said corporation for the use of sewerage shall first be applied to pay the annual principal and interest as it becomes due upon sewerage bonds issued by said corporation, and whenever such rents and receipts shall exceed the amount required to pay such principal and interest, and the interest of any other sewerage bonds of said corporation to pay such excess, in the necessary repairs, management, and addition to said sewerage; and the balance of such excess, if any, shall be applied to Sewerage Department operations for ensuing years. Any deficit shall also be applied to Sewerage Department operations for ensuing years.
24A V.S.A. § 207-27
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-27. Drains and sewers

§ 207-27. Drains and sewers|The Board of Trustees of said corporation may lay out, grade, alter, maintain, and discontinue any sewers or drains in said corporation, and may appraise and settle the damages therefor, causing their proceedings to be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Town of Rockingham, provided that any person or persons aggrieved by the appraisal of said Board shall have the like opportunity for applying to the Superior Court for the County of Windham to obtain redress, as is or may be allowed by the law to those aggrieved with the proceedings of selectmen in similar cases.
24A V.S.A. § 207-28
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-28. Refuse disposal

§ 207-28. Refuse disposal|Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered by and with the consent of the majority of the legal voters of said Village at a meeting legally warned and held for the purpose, to establish, maintain, and operate a dumping ground for the reception and disposal of leaves, trees, and like materials and to take by lease or purchase and hold such property, either real or personal or both, as may be necessary for such purposes, within or without the limits of said corporation; and said corporation shall have authority, by and with the consent of the majority of the legal voters of the Village at a meeting legally warned and held for the purpose, to borrow and appropriate money, to raise taxes, and to issue its corporate bonds for the purpose of purchasing, establishing, constructing, extending, enlarging, and maintaining said dump or refuse disposal plant.
24A V.S.A. § 207-29
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-29. Electric utility authorization

§ 207-29. Electric utility authorization|Said corporation is authorized and empowered by and with the consent of a majority of the legal voters of said Village, at a meeting legally warned and held for that purpose to purchase or establish an electric light plant, and for such purpose may purchase, have, hold, and convey personal and real estate within or without the limits of said Village corporation for the purpose of lighting the highways and streets of said Village, and furnishing electric lights, electric heat, and electric motive power to persons and parties within the corporate limits of said Village, on such terms and subject to such rules and regulations as may be agreed upon between said corporation and said persons and parties, and for the purposes aforesaid, may run electric lines along, over, or under highways, streets, or public grounds, within or without the corporate limits, provided public travel shall not be unnecessarily affected or impeded thereby, and subject to all lawful ordinances and regulations, as to the use of highways and streets; and said Village corporation shall have authority to hire and appropriate money, raise taxes, and issue its corporate bonds for the purchasing, establishing, constructing, extending, enlarging, and maintaining of its electric light plant.
24A V.S.A. § 207-30
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls|App § 207-30. Public parks and playgrounds

§ 207-30. Public parks and playgrounds|Said Bellows Falls Village corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by gift or purchase land within or without the corporate limits of said Village corporation to be held by it and used as a public park and public playground. Said corporation for the purpose of purchasing land for the objects aforesaid and to pay for the same and for the improvement and maintenance thereof, is hereby authorized to levy and collect, from year to year, such taxes upon the rateable estate of said corporation as may be necessary, to borrow money, to pay such purchase price, and to issue its bonds or notes for such purpose, provided that all taxes laid and all loans authorized shall be only by virtue of a majority vote of the voters of said corporation present and voting at a meeting duly warned and held for that purpose.
24A V.S.A. § 213-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge|App § 213-1. Boundaries

§ 213-1. Boundaries|The inhabitants of all that part of the Town of Cambridge bounded and described as follows:All that portion of the Town of Cambridge, in the County of Lamoille, known as the Village of Cambridge and enclosed in the following boundaries, to wit: the northern boundary of the Village shall be the southern bank of the Lamoille River, beginning at a point on the highway leading through Cambridge Village at northwest corner of the covered bridge over the Lamoille River and following the highway to the boundary line between the lands of Charles E. Ellenwood and the estate of O.W. Reynolds, Sidney Leach, and Saphronia Cady, meaning to include all property between the highway and the Lamoille River; thence following the southwest boundary of the Ellenwood's farm to lands by E. J. Gates, and following the boundary of the Gates' property to a point on the highway leading from Cambridge Village to Pleasant Valley near the Rogers Bridge; thence following the highway to the southern bounds of land owned by Mrs. W.H. Parker, and following the boundary of the lot to the highway known as the Hill road to Pleasant Valley; thence following the highway to a point which marks the boundary of the farm known as the Cutting place; thence along the boundary to the Lamoille River, meaning to include all that district on the west bank of the river between the Cutting farm and the point of beginning at the river bridge over the river, are hereby incorporated and made a body politic, and shall be hereafter called the Village of Cambridge.
24A V.S.A. § 213-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge|App § 213-2. Powers of  corporation

§ 213-2. Powers of  corporation|The Village by that name may have perpetual succession and may sue and may be sued, may have a common seal and the same alter at pleasure, and shall be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying real and personal estate for the use of the Village corporation, and at any annual or special meeting of the legal voters of  the corporation legally warned and holden for that purpose may lay a tax upon the grand list of the Village of Cambridge for any of the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
24A V.S.A. § 213-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge|App § 213-3. Assessment of taxes

§ 213-3. Assessment of taxes|All taxes voted by the corporation shall be assessed by the Board of Trustees which shall make rate bills thereof and deliver the same to the Collector of Taxes with proper warrants for the collection thereof.
24A V.S.A. § 5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge|App § 5. Voters

§ 5. Voters|Every person who resides within the limits of the Village and is a legal voter in Town meeting of the Town of Cambridge shall be entitled to vote at any Village meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 213-21
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge|App § 213-21. Officers

§ 213-21. Officers|(a) The officers of the corporation shall be a Board of three Trustees, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, an Auditor, and a Fire Marshal, all of which officers shall be chosen by ballot at each annual meeting of the legal voters of the corporation or at a special meeting as hereafter provided.(b) The term of office of the officers shall be one year and until their successors are elected. Any vacancy in a Village office may be filled by the Board of Trustees by appointment in writing, recorded by the Clerk.
24A V.S.A. § 213-22
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge|App § 213-22. Powers of trustees; general

§ 213-22. Powers of trustees; general|The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of the corporation, shall draw orders upon the Treasurer for and direct the expenditure of all moneys belonging to the corporation, and generally perform all duties legally enjoined upon it by the corporation. The Board of Trustees shall have power to abate taxes imposed by the corporation subject to the same limitations, and for the same causes provided in section 3069 of the Vermont Statutes. All powers vested in the board may be exercised by a majority of its members.
24A V.S.A. § 213-23
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge|App § 213-23. Duty of Clerk

§ 213-23. Duty of Clerk|The Clerk shall keep a record of all meetings and proceedings of the corporation and of the Board of Trustees; and give copies of the same when required upon payment of reasonable fees. The Clerk shall warn all meetings of the legal voters of the corporation, by posting notices thereof containing a statement of the business proposed to be transacted, in three or more public places within the limits of the corporation at least six days before the time of meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 213-24
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge|App § 213-24. Duties of Treasurer and Collector

§ 213-24. Duties of Treasurer and Collector|The powers and duties of the Treasurer and Collector of Taxes shall be the same with respect to the corporation as are the powers and duties of town treasurers and town collectors of taxes with respect to towns. Each shall give a bond to the corporation, conditioned for the faithful performance of duties, in such sum and with such sureties as the Board of Trustees shall prescribe. If a Treasurer or Collector of Taxes does not give such bond within 10 days after election or appointment, the office shall be vacant.
24A V.S.A. § 213-25
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge|App § 213-25. Auditor

§ 213-25. Auditor|The Auditor shall at least once each year, and whenever the Auditor sees fit examine and adjust and state the accounts of all corporation officers and of the corporation and shall report all such accounts and the items thereof and the state of the treasury to the corporation at each annual meeting, and shall cause the Auditor's report to be printed and a copy thereof to be delivered to each taxpayer of the corporation at least five days before the day of the annual meeting.