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24A V.S.A. § 261-29
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-29. Damages; how fixed

§ 261-29. Damages; how fixed|In any case where damage or compensation to owners of, and other person interested in, the water so taken, or such land as may be used for laying, extending, constructing, and maintaining the aqueduct, and for the reservoirs and appurtenances, is not adjusted by agreement or if the owner thereof be a minor, a person who lacks capacity to protect his or her interests due to a mental condition or psychiatric disability, or out of the State, or otherwise incapacitated to sell and convey, the same shall be fixed by the Board of Trustees after hearing of all parties interested, the hearing being had upon written notice of the time and place thereof, given at least ten days before the hearing, and the Trustees shall, within ten days after the hearing file their award in the town clerk's office in the town or towns where the property is situated, and cause the same to be recorded in the land records of the town or towns. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 29; amended 1933, No. 193, § 2; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 173.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-30
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-30. Proceedings by persons dissatisfied with award of trustees related to water

§ 261-30. Proceedings by persons dissatisfied with award of trustees related to water|When any person shall be dissatisfied with the award of the trustees so made, in any of the cases mentioned in the preceding section, such person may petition the Orleans County Court for a reassessment and award of damages and such proceedings shall be had in said Court on said petition as are provided by law for the assessment of damages for land taken for highways, except that the trustees appointed by said Court shall notify one of the trustees of said Village instead of one of the selectboard members. Said petition shall be served on the Clerk of said Village, within 60 days next after said award shall be filed in the Town Clerk's office as aforesaid, and at least 12 days before the term of Court to which it is made returnable, but nothing in such proceedings shall prevent the trustees from entering on such land and laying and constructing such aqueduct, reservoirs, and appurtenances and using said water after their award shall have been made and the amount thereof tendered by them. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 30; amended 1933, No. 193, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-31
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-31. Bylaws and regulations concerning the Water Department

§ 261-31. Bylaws and regulations concerning the Water Department|Said Village may at any legally warned meeting, enact and adopt such bylaws and regulations concerning the management and use of such aqueduct, reservoirs, and appurtenances, not inconsistent with law, as it may deem expedient, including the fixing and collecting of water rates and the exaction of bonds from the Collector of said rates for the faithful discharge of the Collector's duty, and said trustees are hereby empowered to carry such bylaws and regulations into effect. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 31; amended 1933, No. 193, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-32
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-32. Power of Village to dispose of water rights

§ 261-32. Power of Village to dispose of water rights|Said Village may, at any legally warned meeting, authorize said trustees to lease, dispose of, or sell upon terms fixed by said meeting, to any person, partnership, or body corporate or other company, any part or all of the rights and privileges granted by this charter to said Village, and any property acquired thereunder, to have and to hold the same for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of said Village with water for fire, domestic, and other purposes; and said person, partnership, body corporate, or company, and their assigns upon such lease, disposal, or sale, shall for said purpose only succeed to the rights, privileges, and property so leased, disposed of, or sold, subject to all the conditions herein named, but the Board of Trustees herein provided for shall be continued for carrying out and completing any proceedings under this charter hereafter needed. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 32; amended 1933, No. 193, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-33
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-33. Duties of Village in taking water or land

§ 261-33. Duties of Village in taking water or land|Said Village shall, within 60 days after taking any springs, streams, water sources, or land, under the provisions of this charter and before entering into possession of the same file in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Barton and the town within which the same are taken, a description of the same sufficiently accurate for identification at all times together with the amount of the damages sustained by the owner or owners of the lands, springs, streams, or water sources so taken, which description shall be signed by a majority of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Orleans, and shall within three days from the time said description is filed, and before entering into possession of the same, tender to said owner or owners such sum as said trustees have therein awarded as damages as aforesaid. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 33; amended 1933, No. 193, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-34
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-34. Trustees; general control of water system

§ 261-34. Trustees; general control of water system|The trustees of said Village shall have general control and management of the Village system of waterworks and perform all the duties connected therewith as provided in the charter of said Village. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 34; amended 1933, No. 193, § 3.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-35
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-35. Further duties of the trustees relating to water

§ 261-35. Further duties of the trustees relating to water|It shall be the duty of the trustees under the direction of the corporation, to have the care and management of the Water Department; they shall make all necessary rules and regulations for the government and operation of the waterworks belonging to said corporation; they shall appoint a Superintendent and may remove the Superintendent at pleasure; and shall assess all water rates or taxes, and under the direction of the corporation, provide for the collection of the same, and shall examine all bills and claims connected with the Water Department, and if they find them to be just, shall certify on such bills their approval of the same. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 35; amended 1933, No. 193, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-36
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-36. Power of trustees in lighting streets

§ 261-36. Power of trustees in lighting streets|Said Village may through its Board of Trustees, contract for the lighting of the streets of said Village for a term of years not exceeding 10 at a time with such number of lights as said Village may require. And said Village is authorized to purchase an electric light plant and to contract for power to run the same, and sell electric current within the limits of said Village for lights, power, and heat, and also may sell such current for such purposes in the Towns of Barton, Irasburg, Coventry, and Brownington, outside the limits of said Village in surrounding territory, not now supplied by such electric current, but in no way to enter into competition with any individual or corporation now furnishing electric current in any of such towns. Such Village shall have the same right to set poles and string wires without said limits of Village of Orleans as any individual or other corporation now has with the same liabilities. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 36; amended 1933, No. 193, § 1.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-37
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-37. Village may issue bonds for purpose of lighting streets; duties of Village Treasurer in respect thereto

§ 261-37. Village may issue bonds for purpose of lighting streets; duties of Village Treasurer in respect thereto|Said Village is hereby authorized to issue bonds not exceeding the aggregate amount of $40,000.00, on such terms as said Village shall prescribe, for carrying into effect the foregoing provisions. And in case said Village neglects to make reasonable provision for the payment of the interest and principal of said bonded indebtedness as the same become due and payable, the Treasurer of said Village shall seasonably make out and deliver to the Collector of said Village a tax bill on the grand list of said Village and the Treasurer shall therewith issue to said Collector the Treasurer's warrant in manner and form substantially as is now provided by law for the collection of other taxes, directing the collection and payment of such tax to said Treasurer within 60 days from the time of such delivery, in an amount sufficient to promptly pay the interest or principal then past due and unpaid; and the money so collected shall be specially held and used for the payment of such interest and principal and for no other purpose, except the incidental expense of assessing and collecting such tax. The Treasurer of said Village shall provide for and promptly pay the interest and principal of such bonded indebtedness as the same shall become due and payable without any vote thereupon by said Village and without an order therefor by the trustees of said Village; and such tax bill shall have the same force and authority as a tax bill for a tax voted at a regular meeting of said Village. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 37; amended 1902, No. 218, § 1; 1912, No. 325, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-38
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-38. Corporation may purchase franchise, property, and privileges of Barton Landing Water Company

§ 261-38. Corporation may purchase franchise, property, and privileges of Barton Landing Water Company|Said corporation shall have power to purchase from the Barton Landing Water Company their franchise, property, and privileges upon such terms as may be agreed upon; and all contracts hitherto made by said Orleans Village corporation with said Barton Landing Water Company, are hereby confirmed. Said Orleans Village corporation may issue their corporation bonds to said water company for the purchase of said franchise, property, and privileges, and may make the same negotiable, and may secure said bonds by mortgage or otherwise. It is hereby enacted that upon the completion of said purchase of said water company, that all enactments and laws then in force, relating to said Barton Landing Water Company, shall inure to the Orleans Village corporation, and remain operative and valid and all actions, suits, and recoveries thereon, may be had in the name of said corporation. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 38; 1908, No. 256, § 1.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-39
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-39. Village may establish water rents and regulate the mode of payment

§ 261-39. Village may establish water rents and regulate the mode of payment|For the purpose of the support of said Water Department, and to insure the payment of the annual interest on said water bonds, and to provide for their final payment, said corporation shall establish rates of annual rents to be charged and paid by the users of said water, at such times and in such manner as shall be determined by said corporation; 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 said corporation may deem proper. Such rates or rents shall be chargeable to, and may be collected of the owners of the property so supplied, unless otherwise agreed upon by said corporation and said owners, and shall be a lien and charge upon the buildings, lots, and other property so supplied, and may be collected in the same manner as any corporation tax. Said corporation 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 said corporation may think expedient to ensure such advance payments. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 39.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-40
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-40. Application of water rents

§ 261-40. Application of water rents|The rents and receipts of said corporation for the use of water shall first be applied to pay the annual interest as it becomes due, upon the bonds issued by said corporation to the Barton Landing Water Company for the purchase price of its property and privileges, and whenever such rents and receipts shall exceed the amount required to pay such 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 additions to said waterworks; and the balance of such excess, if any, shall be invested by the Treasurer of said corporation, with the approval of the trustees, in the name of said corporation, and the same shall be set apart as a sinking fund, and be applied solely for the payment or purchase of said water bonds or other bonds of said corporation until the full amount of said bonds shall be paid. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 40.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-41
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-41. Trustees to make list of water rents; list, how composed

§ 261-41. Trustees to make list of water rents; list, how composed|(a) The trustees of said Village shall between the 20th day of July and the first day of August each year make out a list of the water rents due said Village, with five percent thereof added thereto, in which list they shall set down in three separate columns, according to the best information in their power.  (1) In the first column, the name of the owner of the real estate chargeable with water rents under the provisions of this charter. (2) In the second column, the name of the street or avenue and the number or some other brief description of the tenement, building, or lots chargeable with water rents as aforesaid. (3) In the third column, the amount of water rent due for water used or to be used in such tenement, building or lot.   (b) And the trustees or a majority of them, shall certify that the same is a true list of the water rents due said Village at the date thereof, and shall attach thereto a warrant for the collection of said water rents, signed by a justice of the peace in and for the County of Orleans, which shall be in the same form as is now prescribed by statute for warrants for the collection of town and other taxes, and shall be directed to the Collector of Taxes for said Village and the trustees shall deliver such list of water rents, with the warrant for the collection of the same thereto attached, to such Collector of Taxes, who shall collect the same as provided in this charter. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 41; amended 1933, No. 193, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-42
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-42. Disposition of water rents

§ 261-42. Disposition of water rents|All moneys collected by the Collector of Taxes for said Village upon the list of water rents, as delivered by said Collector for collection by the trustees of said Village, and all water rents received by said trustees shall be paid by them to the Treasurer of said Village. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 42; amended 1933, No. 193, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-43
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-43. Injuries to water rights; penalties

§ 261-43. Injuries to water rights; penalties|A person who diverts any part of the water from the sources taken by the Village pursuant to the preceding sections, without the written consent of the trustees, or who maliciously destroys or injures a dam, reservoir, aqueduct, pipe, hydrant, or any similar property, or property appurtenant thereto or breaks down or tears away any property placed to protect the same, which is held, owned, or used by said Village, or wantonly or maliciously diverts any part of the water from an aqueduct belonging to said Village, or corrupts such water or renders it impure, either within such reservoir or reservoirs, or in such sources as lead thereto, or obstructs its flow by unnecessarily depositing any foreign substances therein, or wantonly or maliciously interferes with the distribution and flow of the water of said aqueduct by altering, opening, or shutting a stop cock, gate, hydrant or gage in or attached to said aqueduct, or shall maliciously interfere with or injure said electric light wires, lamps, connections, or appurtenances, shall be fined not more than $50.00 or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both, in the discretion of the court, and shall forfeit to the Village the damages occasioned by such malicious act, to be recovered with costs in an action on the case founded in this statute. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 43; amended 1933, No. 193, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-44
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-44. Power of Village in acquiring land for public parks

§ 261-44. Power of Village in acquiring land for public parks|(a) Said Village may take, purchase, hold, and use any lands for the purpose of public parks and commons within said Village, on making compensation for the land so taken, and the trustees shall proceed in the same manner as is by law prescribed for selectboards in taking lands for public highways, and in awarding damages therefor, and the said trustees shall make a return of their doings to the office of the Clerk of said Village who shall record the same. When any person shall be dissatisfied with the decision of said trustees in the award for damages of land taken as aforesaid he or she may proceed in the manner provided in section 20 of this charter, when land is taken for a sewer or drain.(b) Said Village may lay out, grade, and otherwise improve or ornament said public parks or common, and may make such bylaws and negotiations concerning the same as may be necessary and proper; and may in providing for the payment of the expenses of the same lay a tax as provided in section 20 of this charter, and may also vote to borrow money for the same and issue its notes or bonds in the manner provided in sections 25 and 37 of this charter. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 44.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-45
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-45. Duties of trustees respecting moneys received and disbursed

§ 261-45. Duties of trustees respecting moneys received and disbursed|No money shall be expended by any person for or in behalf of said Village, except the trustees, and no money shall be paid out of the Village treasury except upon orders signed by the trustees or a majority of them. The trustees shall keep a full and true record and account of all orders drawn and expenditures made by them, and the trustees shall also keep a correct account of all Village moneys received and disbursed by them, and all of said officers shall make report thereof at each annual meeting of said Village, or such other time or times as said Village shall direct. And said Village may make all needful bylaws, rules, and regulations in reference thereto, and for the government of said officers. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 45; amended 1933, No. 193, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-46
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-46. Abatement of highway and Village taxes

§ 261-46. Abatement of highway and Village taxes|The officers of the Village corporation, excepting the Collector of Taxes, are hereby constituted a Board for the Abatement of highway and Village taxes, and shall have the same powers in relation thereto as is now provided by law for the board of civil authority in relation to the abatement of town taxes. A majority of such offices shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the trustees when requested thereto by the Collector of Taxes shall call a meeting of said Board within 30 days of the time for the annual meeting of said Village corporation by posting notices thereof in two public places in said Village at least three days before the meeting of said Board. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 46.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-48
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-48. Present Village officers to hold office until their successors are chosen

§ 261-48. Present Village officers to hold office until their successors are chosen|[Excluded transitional provision related to Village officers elected on the first Tuesday of January of 1892]  (Added 1892, No. 114, § 48.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-49
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-49. Subject to future legislation; when to take effect

§ 261-49. Subject to future legislation; when to take effect|This charter shall be subject to future Legislature to alter, amend, or repeal; and shall take effect when accepted by a majority of the legal voters of said corporation at a special meeting to be called by the trustees for that purpose. Such meeting to be called and notified in the manner now provided by the bylaws of said corporation for calling special meetings thereof. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 49.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-50
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-50. Authority of Village to buy and sell electric current

§ 261-50. Authority of Village to buy and sell electric current|The Village of Orleans is hereby authorized to buy and sell electric current for domestic use and for mechanical purposes. It may make such regulations or bylaws relating to the conduct of such business as it deems expedient. The provisions of this charter relating to the collection of water rates or rents so far as applicable thereto are hereby extended and made applicable to the collection of rates or rents for the use of electric current and such rates or rents for the use of electric current and such rates for electric current when unpaid shall be a lien in the nature of a tax on property supplied therewith and may be collected in the same manner as a tax assessed by such Village. (Added 1919,  No. 260, § 1.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-51
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-51. Licensing and activities of itinerant street vendors and peddlers

§ 261-51. Licensing and activities of itinerant street vendors and peddlers|(a) No person shall engage in the business of an itinerant street vendor or peddler within the corporate limits of the Village of Orleans without first applying for and receiving a license so to do. Such license fee shall be fixed by the trustees of such Village, but in the case of persons required to pay a peddler's license tax to the State, such fee shall not exceed $2.00 per year. The provisions of this section shall not apply to person engaged in selling meats, poultry, eggs, butter, fruits, or vegetables which are raised or produced by them.(b) Any person who shall engage in the business of an itinerant street vendor or peddler, either as principal or agent, within the corporate limits of the Village of Orleans, without first obtaining the license required in this charter, shall be fined not more than $25.00 nor less than $5.00 for each day that the person shall engage in such business without such license. (Added 1935, No. 256, § 1.)