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24A V.S.A. § 3-54
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-54. Offenders may be liable in damages

§ 3-54. Offenders may be liable in damages|A person violating any ordinance, regulation, or by-law of said City shall be liable in damages to said City or to the person who shall sustain damage as the direct result of said violation; such damages may be recovered in an action declaring upon such ordinance, regulation, or by-law.
24A V.S.A. § 3-55
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-55. City Council may authorize sale or lease

§ 3-55. City Council may authorize sale or lease|The City Council shall have the exclusive power to authorize sale or lease of any real or personal estate belonging to said City, and all conveyances, grants, or leases of any such real estate shall be signed by the Mayor and sealed with the City seal.
24A V.S.A. § 3-56
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-56. Council to have powers conferred by statute regarding public burial grounds

§ 3-56. Council to have powers conferred by statute regarding public burial grounds|In establishing or enlarging public burial grounds within said City, the City Council shall have the same power as is conferred by the general laws of the State upon selectmen, and shall proceed in the same manner, subject to the same right of appeal from its decision.
24A V.S.A. § 3-57
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-57. Manner of taking land for reservoirs, aqueducts, water pipes, etc.

§ 3-57. Manner of taking land for reservoirs, aqueducts, water pipes, etc.|In taking lands for the purpose of establishing and maintaining reservoirs, aqueducts, water pipes, hydrants, or any other apparatus necessary for such purposes, the City Council shall proceed in the same manner in which selectmen of towns are authorized to proceed in the taking of lands for highways, and in performing all acts and doing all business in taking such lands the Mayor shall preside over said City Council and shall vote as other members thereof. Any person owning or interested in such lands who is dissatisfied with the decision of the City Council taking such lands or in awarding him or her damages therefor, may have the same proceedings in respect thereto which shall be conducted in the same manner and have the same effect, as if such lands were taken by selectmen in any town in the State for the purpose of laying out, altering, or resurveying a highway in said town; but if such proceedings are instituted only in respect to the appraisal of damages for land so taken by the City Council, such proceedings shall not prevent said City from establishing and maintaining reservoirs, aqueducts, water pipes, hydrants, and other apparatus necessary for such purposes upon the lands so taken, as if no such proceedings had been instituted.
24A V.S.A. § 3-58
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-58. Council to issue citation that land is to be taken; service

§ 3-58. Council to issue citation that land is to be taken; service|In giving notice to all persons owning or interested in any lands to be taken for such purposes, the City Council shall issue its citation, signed by the Mayor or its Chief Administrative Officer; said citation shall be served in the same manner, and the several officers shall perform the same duties in respect thereto, as provided in this charter.
24A V.S.A. § 3-59
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-59. Refunding bonds; Council may authorize issuance of bonds

§ 3-59. Refunding bonds; Council may authorize issuance of bonds|The City Council may authorize the issuance by said City of refunding bonds for the purpose of paying any of its bonds issued hereunder at maturity or upon acceleration or redemption.
24A V.S.A. § 3-60
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-60. Same-issuance prior to maturity or redemption; amounts; issuance, maturities, security, rights of owners, and rights, duties, and obligations of City; general laws relating to refunding of municipal bonds and indebtedness inapplicable

§ 3-60. Same-issuance prior to maturity or redemption; amounts; issuance, maturities, security, rights of owners, and rights, duties, and obligations of City; general laws relating to refunding of municipal bonds and indebtedness inapplicable|Any refunding bonds or notes may be issued at such time prior to the maturity or redemption of the refunded bonds or notes as the City Council deems to be in the public interest. The refunding bonds or notes may be issued in sufficient amounts to pay or provide the principal of the bonds or notes being refunded, together with any redemption premium thereon, any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of payment of such bonds or notes, the expenses if issue of the refunding bonds or notes, the expenses of redeeming the bonds or notes being refunded, and such reserves for debt service or other capital or current expenses from the proceeds of such refunding bonds or notes as may be required by a resolution under which bonds are issued. The issue of refunding bonds or notes, the maturities and other details thereof, the security therefor, the rights of the owners thereof and the rights, duties, and obligations of the City with respect thereto shall be governed by the provisions of this City charter relating to the issue of bonds other than refunding bonds insofar as the same may be applicable. None of the provisions of the general laws relating to the refunding of municipal bonds and indebtedness shall apply to such refunding bonds or notes.
24A V.S.A. § 3-61
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-61. Bonds to be signed and contain statement that they conform to applicable provisions

§ 3-61. Bonds to be signed and contain statement that they conform to applicable provisions|Such notes or bonds so authorized shall be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Treasurer of said City, and if interest coupons are attached thereto, they shall be signed by the Treasurer; and such bonds or notes shall contain a statement that they were issued for the purposes mentioned, and in conformity to the provisions of this charter; and such statement shall be conclusive evidence of the same and of the liability of the City to pay any such notes or bonds, in an action by a person who in good faith holds any such notes or bonds.
24A V.S.A. § 3-64
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-64. State law not applicable to section 63

§ 3-64. State law not applicable to section 63|None of the provisions, restrictions, or limitations of chapter 167 of the Vermont Statutes, Revision of 1947, or of amendments and additions thereto, or of the general laws of the State, except the bonding limit prescribed by law, shall in any respect affect or apply to bonds issued under the preceding section. Such bonds shall be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Treasurer of said City; and if interest coupons are attached thereto they shall bear the facsimile signature of the Treasurer; and such bonds, orders, notes, or warrants shall contain a statement that they are issued in conformity to the provisions of this charter and shall specify the purpose for which they are issued; such statements shall have the same effect as provided in the case of bonds or notes issued to refund outstanding bonds or notes.
24A V.S.A. § 3-64a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-64a. Council authorized to erect sewage disposal plant and issue bonds therefore

§ 3-64a. Council authorized to erect sewage disposal plant and issue bonds therefore|The City Council may authorize the erection of a sewage disposal plant for the treatment of sewage emptying directly into Lake Champlain, including buildings and equipment, laboratory equipment and furniture, necessary interceptor sewers, force mains, and pumping station, acquisition of land necessary therefor, and clearing of site, and may authorize the issuance by said City of its bonds to the amount of $741,000.00 bearing interest at not to exceed three percent, for the purpose of paying therefor, which bonds shall not be considered as part of the indebtedness of the City for the purposes of section 3696 of the Vermont Statutes, Revision of 1947. In connection with the erection and operation of said plant, said City Council may also exercise all the powers enumerated by Chapter 180 of the Vermont Statutes, Revision of 1947, as amended by No. 86 of the Acts of 1949, without further vote of the legal voters of said City.
24A V.S.A. § 3-66
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-66. Annual school appropriations

§ 3-66. Annual school appropriations|The City Council shall annually appropriate for the use of schools such sum as shall be recommended by the Board of School Commissioners within the limitations of section 102 of this charter. In addition, the City Council shall also annually appropriate for the use of schools one-half of the cash payments to be received by the City in lieu of taxes from the Electric Light and Water Resources Departments and from any other source. In computing the schools' entitlement under the preceding sentence, only cash payments shall be considered, and any contributions to the City in the form of free services or municipal rate benefits shall not be deducted from the City's one-half share of the cash payments to be received. The school commissioners shall be responsible for allocating annually sufficient funds for the payment of any principal and interest due or coming due on City bonds issued for school purposes. The City may reduce the schools' share of such cash payments in lieu of taxes to the extent necessary to meet payments on bonds issued for school purposes not otherwise provided for by the school commissioners.
24A V.S.A. § 3-67
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-67. Appropriations for park and recreation purposes

§ 3-67. Appropriations for park and recreation purposes|The City Council shall annually appropriate a reasonable amount of money, not less than two cents on each dollar of the grand list, to be expended for the purpose of providing necessary funds for the care and improvement of park property and for the City Recreational Program, and meeting the expenses of the Park and Recreation Department.
24A V.S.A. § 3-68
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-68. Authorized expenditures

§ 3-68. Authorized expenditures|No money shall be paid out of the City Treasury unless an approved budgetary authorization for such expenditure exists, sufficient unexpended funds remain in such budgetary line item, and a properly executed voucher requesting such expenditure is in the possession of the Chief Administrative Officer's Office for the proper spending authority. (Amended 2001, No. M-6, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-69
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-69. Fiscal year; reports required

§ 3-69. Fiscal year; reports required|(a)(1) The fiscal year of the City shall begin on the first day of July in one year and end on the 30th day of June in the next year. A full record of the revenues and expenditures of all City departments shall be kept; and a clear statement of the affairs of the City generally, including all receipts and disbursements of City monies shall be published online and be available for inspection upon request.  (2) The name and amount of salary paid to every City employee shall be published in the City's annual report. The name and amount of compensation paid to any other individual to the extent required to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service on a 1099 form or otherwise shall be published online and available for inspection upon request prior to the annual meeting. (3) The annual audit of the City's financial records shall be finalized at least 30 days before the annual meeting or as the City Council may by resolution prescribe. The annual report of the City shall include a summary of the audit and a copy of the management letter, and full copies of each annual audit shall be published online and available upon request.   (b) Each City Department that has a commission shall consult with and seek the recommendation of its commission prior to submission of its annual budget to the Mayor. (Amended 1997, No. M-18 (Adj. Sess.), § 26, eff. April 23, 1998; 1999, No. M-7, § 5, eff. May 19, 1999; 2001, No. M-6, § 2; 2015, No. M-18 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 17, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-70
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-70. Excess expenditures prohibited; assessments for street improvements credited to Streets Division of the Public Works Department

§ 3-70. Excess expenditures prohibited; assessments for street improvements credited to Streets Division of the Public Works Department|(a) No superintendent, board, or commission member or corresponding executive officer of any City department, with the exception of the Health, Police, and Fire Departments, and then only in case of an emergency, shall expend any money or incur any obligation, unless there is an available appropriation from which the same may be paid and to which it may be charged, and shall not at any time expend any money or incur any obligation in excess of such appropriation. In case any such superintendent, board, or commission member or corresponding executive officer of any City department violates this provision, the City Chief Administrative Officer shall report such occurrence to the Mayor and to the City Council. The Mayor shall advise the City Council as to whether there was appropriate justification for such violation and if the Mayor and City Council agree that such violation was unjustified, the Mayor may recommend and the City Council may determine that the office shall thereupon become vacant and shall be forthwith filled for the unexpired term by the officials authorized to make the original appointment in such case. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the City Council to remove a duly-elected school commissioner or the Superintendent of Schools.(b) Except as otherwise provided by resolution of the City Council, all assessments for street improvements shall be credited to the Streets Division of the Public Works Department and be available to said Division as an appropriation for its use only when and as collected and paid to the Chief Administrative Officer. (Amended 1999, No. M-7, § 6, eff. May 19, 1999.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-71
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-71. Approval of property owners required

§ 3-71. Approval of property owners required|The established name of any street in the City shall not be changed by the City Council except upon the approval in writing of the owners of the greater part of all property fronting on such street.
24A V.S.A. § 3-81
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-81. Tax classification; repeal of inventory tax

§ 3-81. Tax classification; repeal of inventory tax|(a) Except for the property of utilities subject to the provisions of 30 V.S.A. chapter 3, all personal and real property set out in the grand list that is not used as residential property, farmland, and vacant land zoned "recreation, conservation and open space (RCO)", shall be classified as nonresidential property and shall be assessed at 120 percent of fair market value; and further provided that inventories and personal property belonging to an owner whose total personal property does not exceed the fair market value of $45,000.00 shall no longer be set out in the grand list of the City as taxable personal estate. Additionally, every owner whose total personal property does exceed the fair market value of $45,000.00 shall be taxed only on the amount of that property that exceeds $45,000.00. The amount of the exemption may be increased by the City Council prior to approval of the next fiscal year's budget. Properties upon which in-lieu-of-tax payments are made shall be likewise classified and assessed for the purposes of such payments. The tax on nonresidential personal property shall be eliminated effective July 1, 2026, or sooner by resolution of the City Council.(b) For the purposes of this section, "residential property" is hereby defined to include all property used for dwelling purposes including accessory property which is subordinate to or customarily incidental to the main residential use such as garages and outbuildings. Where a property is used for both residential and nonresidential purposes, then it shall be apportioned according to such uses and then classified and assessed as herein provided. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the sole purpose of calculating the educational grand list and for the assessment of property taxes for education purposes under Act 60, so-called, as the same may be amended from time to time, all nonresidential properties as above defined shall be assessed at 100 percent of fair market value. (Amended 1999, No. M-9, § 2, eff. June 1, 1999; 2011, No. M-12 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 3, 2012; 2019, No. M-6, § 2, eff. May 23, 2019.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-84
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-84. Composition of books

§ 3-84. Composition of books|The books provided for such property grand list shall contain in addition to the columns necessary to contain the particulars mentioned in the preceding section, two other columns, which shall be designated in said books by the words "Corrected Valuation" at the head thereof. One of said columns marked "Corrected Valuation" shall follow the column in which the value of each separate piece or parcel of real estate not exempt from taxation shall appear in said grand list; the second of said columns so designated shall follow the column in which the valuation of all taxable personal estate shall appear in said grand list. No columns other than those required by this and the preceding section shall be required in such books.
24A V.S.A. § 3-85
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-85. Arrangement of information in books

§ 3-85. Arrangement of information in books|The assessors shall arrange in alphabetical order in the books provided and to be used for such property grand list and containing the two columns marked "Corrected Valuation" as hereinbefore provided, the names of all taxpayers of said City; the street and residence number or business address of each taxpayer, if known; a description and the appraisal of each separate piece or parcel of real estate not exempt and the taxable value of the taxable personal estate in said City of each person, partnership, and corporation. The appraisal of each of the above named classes of property shall first be set in the columns marked "Valuation," and if corrected, shall then be set in the columns marked "Corrected Valuation."
24A V.S.A. § 3-86
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-86. Summary of assessed valuations to be made and constitute an abstract

§ 3-86. Summary of assessed valuations to be made and constitute an abstract|The assessors shall endorse on each individual list, a summary of the assessed valuation of the real estate and of the assessed valuation of the personal property specified in the list, after appraising all additions to such list and making all deductions therefrom required by law, and a statement of the total amount at which all of such property, after appraising all additions and making all deductions, will be placed in the property grand list. Such summary and real estate valuation record shall constitute and serve as an abstract of that list and no other or further abstract or abstracts of individual lists shall be required. Upon the completion of all such abstracts, said assessors shall make and sign and place on file, in their office, a certificate that according to their best information and belief, all real estate situate in said City and not exempt from taxation has been set down in the individual lists of taxpayers; that they have appraised all additions thereto and made all deductions therefrom required by law; that according to their best information and belief, the amount of all taxable personal estate of each person, partnership, or corporation named in the individual lists has been set down therein and that said assessors have completed the abstracts of individual lists and filed the same in their office.
24A V.S.A. § 3-87
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-87. Notice that abstract completed to be given; meetings of assessors

§ 3-87. Notice that abstract completed to be given; meetings of assessors|Said assessors shall, at the same time, sign and file in their office, a notice that the abstracts of individual lists are completed and filed in their office and that the property grand list of said City and of each person, partnership, and corporation named in the individual lists on file in their office, will be made from said individual lists and said abstracts will become final, unless cause to the contrary is shown to said assessors on or before the 25th day of May in said year and that said assessors will meet at their office in said City from day to day from the 20th day of May to the 25th day of May, inclusive, to hear all grievances and make corrections in said lists and abstracts and that no hearing will be had before them later than said 25th day of May.
24A V.S.A. § 3-88
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-88. Abstracts and certificate to be completed by May fifth

§ 3-88. Abstracts and certificate to be completed by May fifth|Said abstracts of individual lists and said certificate and notice shall be completed and lodged in the office of said assessors on or before the fifth day of May in each year.
24A V.S.A. § 3-89
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-89. Notice of changes and that abstracts and lists are open for inspection to be filed

§ 3-89. Notice of changes and that abstracts and lists are open for inspection to be filed|Notice signed by said assessors shall be posted in one public place in each ward in said City on or before the fifth day of May in each year and published three times in one or more daily newspapers in said City, stating that said abstracts shall be open for inspection by any taxpayer in said assessors' office from the 20th day to the 25th day of May, inclusive, and that during that time said assessors will hear all persons aggrieved who desire to be heard by them and make all necessary changes in said abstracts. Additionally, personal notice meeting the requirements of 32 V.S.A. § 4111(e) as the same may be amended from time to time shall be mailed to all persons listed as property owners in the grand list book of any change in the appraised value of such property. It shall be presumed, in the case of any controversy, that the personal notices were mailed as required without using registered or certified mail or obtaining an official certificate of mailing from the post office, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in 32 V.S.A. § 4111(e). The notice shall also inform such persons of the amount of such change and of the time and place fixed for hearing persons aggrieved.