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24A V.S.A. § 245-14
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville|App § 245-14. Residence

§ 245-14. Residence|All persons qualified to vote in a Town meeting of the Town of Morristown who reside within the corporate limits, described in section 2 of this charter, shall be legal voters of the Village of Morrisville. The residents of the Village shall belong to and remain residents of the Town of Morristown.
24A V.S.A. § 245-15
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville|App § 245-15. Fiscal year

§ 245-15. Fiscal year|The fiscal year of the corporation shall commence on the first day of January and close on the last day of December, unless the legal voters of the Village at its annual meeting shall determine otherwise. If the legal voters of the Village vote another fiscal year, it shall specify the procedure for transition, including the method for financing the transition.
24A V.S.A. § 245-16
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville|App § 245-16. Waterworks

§ 245-16. Waterworks|(a) The Village shall have such powers, and the trustees shall have such duties, with reference to any waterworks that are in existence as set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapter 89 or any amendments thereto.(b) Without limiting the generality of subsection (a) of this section, the trustees shall have the supervision of such municipal water department, and shall make and establish all needful water rates, rules, and regulations for its control and operation.
24A V.S.A. § 245-18
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville|App § 245-18. Electric plant; authority to operate, improve, extend, better, and add to existing plant

§ 245-18. Electric plant; authority to operate, improve, extend, better, and add to existing plant|The Village is authorized and empowered to own, maintain, operate, improve, and extend, or otherwise acquire, and to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, in accordance with and in any situation or manner not prohibited by law, its electric plant or plants for the purpose of lighting the streets, walks, public grounds, and buildings of the Village, for the furnishing of electric or gas services within or without the corporate limits of the Village, for public, domestic, commercial, and industrial use, and for production of electric energy or acquisition, production, piped transmission, or piped distribution of gas for sale to electric or gas distribution companies, cooperative, municipal, and privately owned, within or without the State, and for the aforesaid purposes, the Village may hire, lease, purchase, own, hold, and acquire by contract, agreement, or eminent domain proceedings any water power, buildings, land, rights-of-way, and any other property, real or personal, necessary or convenient to the operation of the said electric light and power system, and may use any public highway over which it may be necessary or desirable to pass with the poles and wire of the same, provided that the use of such public highway for the purpose of public travel is not thereby unnecessarily impaired. These powers may be exercised through a taking by eminent domain in the manner prescribed by law. All of the foregoing powers are in addition to and not in substitution for or in limitation of any other powers conferred by law.
24A V.S.A. § 245-19
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville|App § 245-19. Electric plant; regulation

§ 245-19. Electric plant; regulation|The Village's operation of its electric plant, as defined herein, shall take place in accordance with the statutory authority and requirements of 30 V.S.A. chapter 79, relating to municipal electric plants, and 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, relating to municipal indebtedness, with regard to the financing, improvements, expansion, and disposal of the municipal electric plant and its operations. However, the powers conferred by these sections shall be supplemental to, construed in harmony with, and not in restriction of, the powers conferred in this charter. With specific reference to the legislative authorization contained in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 2, sections 1821-1828, entitled  "Indebtedness for Public Utility Purposes," the Village is permitted to issue revenue-backed bonds or general obligation bonds for any capital improvement purpose related to its responsibilities to operate such utilities for the benefit of the people of the Village, provided each such issue of bonds is approved in accordance with law, and any restriction in this charter or the general law regarding the maximum outstanding debt that may be issued in the form of general obligation bonds shall not restrict the issuance of any bonds issued by the Village and payable out of the net revenues from the operation of a public utility project. The activities of the Village in connection with the powers conferred herein shall be subject to regulation only to the extent specifically required by Title 30 and other applicable law, but only to the extent that the Village is engaging in activities that are specifically subject by law to regulation. The Public Utility Commission shall at all times exercise its regulatory powers in such a manner as to permit the Village to fulfill all of its prudently incurred obligations, including its obligations to the holders of the bonds issued by the Village. However, the Public Utility Commission shall not prohibit appropriate cost allocations among departments of the Village.
24A V.S.A. § 245-20
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville|App § 245-20. Energy conservation and management facilities

§ 245-20. Energy conservation and management facilities|The Village is authorized and empowered to provide or finance energy conservation and management facilities within the customer service territory of its electric plant. The term "energy conservation and management facilities" includes facilities or improvements to facilities (whether owned by the Village or by others) for load management, load displacement (including customer-specific generation or co-generation), or the conservation or storage, in any form of electric or other energy. Such facilities or improvements may be owned or operated by the Village as part of its electric plant or may be owned or operated by others, and may be leased or licensed by the Village to others or may be financed by loans by the Village to others. Such facilities or improvements may be treated as part of the electric plant, and financed under this article or other enabling law. Loans to others for the purposes of this section may also be financed under this article in the same manner as improvements to the electric plant, and receipts from such loans may be pledged under this article as revenues. A lending program initiated under the authority of this section shall be managed in accordance with the provisions of this charter relating to the management of the electric plant.
24A V.S.A. § 245-21
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville|App § 245-21. Communications plant; authority to acquire, construct, operate, improve, extend, and better

§ 245-21. Communications plant; authority to acquire, construct, operate, improve, extend, and better|(a) The Village is authorized and empowered to own, maintain, operate, improve, and extend, or otherwise acquire, and to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, in accordance with and in any situation or manner not prohibited by law, its communications plant or plants for the furnishing of communications services within or without the corporate limits of the Village, for public, domestic, commercial, and industrial use, and for the provision of communications service. For the aforesaid purposes, the Village may hire, lease, purchase, own, hold, and acquire by contract, agreement, or eminent domain proceedings any buildings, land, rights-of-way, and any other property, real or personal, necessary or convenient to the operation of said communications plant, and may use any public highway over which it may be necessary or desirable to pass with the poles and wire of the same, provided that the use of such public highway for the purpose of public travel is not thereby unnecessarily impaired. These powers may be exercised through a taking by eminent domain in the manner prescribed by law, except that the Village shall have no power under 30 V.S.A. chapter 79 to take by eminent domain telecommunications or cable television property. All of the foregoing powers are in addition to and not in substitution for or in limitation of any other powers conferred by law.(b) Before the Village may sell any communications service over which the Public Utility Commission has jurisdiction and for which a certificate of public good is required, it shall obtain a certificate of public good for such service.
24A V.S.A. § 245-23
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville|App § 245-23. Construction of subchapter

§ 245-23. Construction of subchapter|This section is remedial in nature, and the powers hereby granted shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes hereof, and to this end the Village shall have power to do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes hereof in addition to the powers expressly conferred in this subchapter. Any proceedings heretofore taken by the Village relating to the subject matters of this subchapter, whether or not commenced under any other law, may, at the option of the Village trustees, be discontinued, and new proceedings instituted under this subchapter. It is hereby declared that the sections, clauses, sentences, and parts of this subchapter are severable, are not matters of mutual essential inducement, and any of them shall be deemed individually excised if this subchapter would otherwise be unconstitutional or ineffective. It is the intention to confer upon the Village the whole or any part of the powers in this subchapter provided for, and if any one or more sections, clauses, sentences, and parts of this subchapter shall for any reason be questioned in any court or administrative tribunal, and shall be adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remaining provisions thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the specific provision or provisions so held unconstitutional or invalid, and the inapplicability or invalidity of any section, clause, sentence, or part of this subchapter in any one or more instances shall not be taken to affect or prejudice in any way its applicability or validity in any other instance.
24A V.S.A. § 245-26
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville|App § 245-26. Authority to form subsidiaries and enter ventures with other parties

§ 245-26. Authority to form subsidiaries and enter ventures with other parties|In addition to the authority granted under otherwise applicable law, the Village has the power and is authorized to create a corporate subsidiary or subsidiaries wholly owned by the Village, or to establish a joint venture or ventures between the Village or a subsidiary of the Village and any other business relationship with one or more third parties, in order to provide communications services within or without the corporate limits of the Village, or to provide customer-specific electric generation or cogeneration to customers within the Village's electric service territory; provided that, before any such subsidiary, joint venture, or business relationship may provide communications or customer-specific generation or cogeneration services, it shall obtain whatever regulatory approvals may be necessary under applicable law.
24A V.S.A. § 245-27
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville|App § 245-27. Transitional provisions

§ 245-27. Transitional provisions|(a) Nothing herein contained, except as specifically provided, shall affect or impair the rights or privileges of officers of the Village existing at the time this charter takes effect.(b) All contracts entered into by the Village prior to the effective date of this charter shall continue in full force and effect.(c) The adoption of this charter shall not abate or otherwise affect any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending when it takes effect, brought by or against the Village or any office or officer thereof.(d) All ordinances, resolutions, and regulations of the Village in effect at the time of the effective date of this charter, and not inconsistent with the provisions hereof, are hereby continued in force until the same are duly amended or repealed.(e) This charter, or any part or article or section thereof, may be amended in the manner provided by the laws of the State of Vermont.(f) This charter supersedes the previous charter and all amendments thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 247-201
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-201. Corporate existence of the Village

§ 247-201. Corporate existence of the Village|All those persons residing in that part of the Town of Newbury lying within the corporate limits of School District #3 and School District #4 in the Town of Newbury as said districts existed and were bounded on March 31, 1893, shall continue to be a municipal corporation by the name of Newbury Village and by that name have perpetual succession and be capable of suing and being sued and have a common seal and alter the same at pleasure.The corporation shall be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying real and personal estate for the use of the corporation. The corporation shall have the power to own and operate any public utility, to construct and install all facilities that are reasonably needed, and to lease or purchase any existing utility properties used or useful for public service. The Village may also furnish service to adjacent and nearby territories that may be conveniently and economically served by a municipally owned and operated utility.
24A V.S.A. § 247-301
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-301. Imposition of tax

§ 247-301. Imposition of tax|At a meeting legally warned for that purpose, the Village may vote a tax upon the taxable estate within the corporate limits for the lawful purposes of the corporation.
24A V.S.A. § 247-302
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-302. Grand list

§ 247-302. Grand list|The grand list of the Town of Newbury, within the Village corporate limits, shall be the grand list of the Village. The trustees shall make out and deliver to the Treasurer a tax bill, with a warrant for its collection. The Treasurer shall compile a tax roll from the Town of Newbury grand list for those areas of the Town lying within the Village's corporate limits.
24A V.S.A. § 247-401
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-401. Election of officers

§ 247-401. Election of officers|The officers of the corporation shall consist of a Moderator, three trustees, a Clerk, a Treasurer, and three auditors. The officers shall be elected at the annual meeting of the corporation for the term of one year and until their successors are elected, except that trustees shall hold office for three years. One trustee shall be elected at each annual meeting. (Amended 2007, No. M-6.)
24A V.S.A. § 247-402
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-402. Incompatible officers

§ 247-402. Incompatible officers|The provisions of 17 V.S.A. § 2647, or any amendments thereto, relating to incompatible offices shall apply to the persons holding Village offices.
24A V.S.A. § 247-403
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-403. Vacancy

§ 247-403. Vacancy|When a vacancy occurs in any Village office, the trustees forthwith, by appointment in writing, shall fill such vacancy until an election is had; except that in the event of more than one vacancy on the Board of Trustees at the same time, such vacancies shall be filled by a special Village meeting called for that purpose. Any appointment shall be filed by the trustees in the office of the Clerk and duly recorded by the Clerk in the book of Village records.A person appointed to a vacant office shall serve until the next annual meeting. A person elected to fill a vacant office at either a special or annual meeting shall serve for the unexpired term of his or her predecessor.
24A V.S.A. § 247-404
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-404. Compensation of Village officers

§ 247-404. Compensation of Village officers|The Village may vote to compensate any or all Village officers for their official services. The Village at its annual meeting may fix the compensation of such officers and of Village employees.Claims for personal services, except where compensation is fixed by law or by vote of the Village, shall not be allowed to a Village officer, but the Auditor shall report claims and the nature and extent of the services at an annual or special meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 247-501
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-501. Powers and duties of the Board

§ 247-501. Powers and duties of the Board|The members of the Board of Trustees shall constitute the legislative body of the Village of Newbury for all purposes required by statute and, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall have all powers and authority given to, and perform all duties required of incorporated villages or boards of trustees under the laws of the State of Vermont.The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of said corporation, shall direct the expenditure of all monies belonging to said corporation, 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 20 days before the annual meeting.Trustees shall prepare a budget for the oncoming year and hold a public hearing on it at least 10 days before the annual meeting. Notice of such hearing shall be posted in four public places not less than five days before the date set for the hearing.The trustees shall have power to abate taxes laid and assessed by virtue of this charter for the same causes and subject to the same limitation as boards of civil authority have in the matter of town taxes.The trustees may by resolution create, change, and abolish boards and commissions as in their judgment are required or necessary and convenient to, or as are now or hereinafter provided by law, and may grant to them such power and duties as are consistent with the provisions of this charter. The trustees shall be ex officio members of all boards and commissions.All powers vested in said trustees shall be exercised by a majority of them.Forthwith after an election and qualification, the trustees shall organize and elect a Chair and shall file a certificate of such election for record in the office of the Village Clerk.
24A V.S.A. § 247-502
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-502. Meeting of the Board

§ 247-502. Meeting of the Board|As soon as possible after an election of a Chair, the Board of Trustees shall fix the time and place of its regular meetings and such meetings shall be held at least once a month. The Clerk shall attend all meetings of the Board of Trustees and shall keep minutes of the meetings on file. The Board shall determine its own rules and order of business.If the minutes of the regularly scheduled meetings of the Board of Trustees show that a member has not attended 50 percent of its meetings during a fiscal year the Clerk shall declare the office vacant, and the trustees shall call a special meeting forthwith, duly warned for the purpose of electing a replacement to serve the unexpired term.All meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be open to the public, unless by an affirmative vote of the majority present, the Board shall vote that any particular session shall be an executive session in accordance with 1 V.S.A. § 313, or any amendments thereto.
24A V.S.A. § 247-503
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-503. Compensation of the Board

§ 247-503. Compensation of the Board|Compensation paid to trustees, if any, shall be set by the voters of the Village at an annual meeting. Trustee compensation must be set forth as a separate item in the annual budget prepared by the trustees.
24A V.S.A. § 247-601
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-601. Bonds of officers

§ 247-601. Bonds of officers|The Clerk and Treasurer shall each give a bond to the corporation conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties in such sums and with such sureties as the trustees may prescribe. If a Treasurer does not give such bond within 10 days after his or her election or appointment the office shall be vacant.
24A V.S.A. § 247-602
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-602. Auditor

§ 247-602. Auditor|The elected auditors shall compile and prepare a report of their examination of the accounts and vouchers of the officers of the corporation, which report shall be printed each year in the annual report of the Village of Newbury. (Amended 2007, No. M-6.)
24A V.S.A. § 247-603
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-603. Treasurer

§ 247-603. Treasurer|The Treasurer shall perform the duties required by State statute or provided by this charter. The Treasurer shall: (1) Promptly deposit funds coming into his or her hands in such depositories as may be designated by the trustees. (2) Invest funds as directed by trustees, in savings accounts or certificate of deposit. (3)  Keep such books and accounts as may be required by the trustees. (4)  Make deposits monthly or at such other times as may be required by the trustees, showing the state of the corporation's finances and perform such other duties with respect to the Village finances as the trustees may require.The Treasurer shall have and exercise the same powers and duties with respect to the Village that treasurers have and exercise with respect to towns.
24A V.S.A. § 247-604
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury|App § 247-604. Clerk

§ 247-604. Clerk|The Clerk shall keep an official record of the proceedings of the Board of Trustees. Such records shall be kept in the office of the Village Clerk and shall be open for public inspection. The Clerk shall keep official record of the proceedings of all special and annual village meetings.The minutes of each meeting shall be approved by the Board at its next meeting and the official copy authenticated by the signature of the Clerk. The Clerk shall keep two  copies of annual reports on file in the office of the Clerk and be responsible for depositing two copies in the Tenney Memorial Library.The Clerk shall have and exercise the same powers and duties with respect to the Village that clerks have and exercise with respect to towns.