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24A V.S.A. § 3-225
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-225. Powers of Board

§ 3-225. Powers of Board|(a) The City Council shall, in addition to the other powers granted to it under this charter, have power to make all necessary repairs, extensions, or improvements to said works, and to provide new supply pipes within the City.(b) The City Council may pledge the credit of the City and incur obligations to be paid in installments over a period of years and only from revenues of the Water Division of the Public Works Department to pay the cost of such improvements and additions to the property and equipment of the Water Division of the Public Works Department as, in the judgment of the City Council, the interests of the City require to be made and, for the purpose of paying such costs, may pledge, assign, or otherwise hypothecate such portion of the net earnings or profits of the Water Division of the Public Works Department from year to year as may be required to pay such installments, and the City Council shall authorize and direct the execution and issuance of such contracts and evidences of indebtedness as may be necessary to so pledge the credit of the City for the payment of such obligations in such installments from the net earnings of the Water Division of the Public Works Department, such contracts and evidences of indebtedness to be in such form and to contain such provisions and to be executed by such officers as the City Council may by resolution provide; provided, however, that all such obligations and all installments thereof shall be payable only from the net earnings or profits of the Water Division of the Public Works Department and shall not constitute an indebtedness of the City or impose an obligation or liability upon the City to pay the same from any funds of the City other than such net earnings or profits, and in case revenue bonds of the City are issued for such obligations, the same shall not be subject to the bonding limit provided by law.(c) The City Council shall also have all the powers and duties of sewage disposal commissioners under the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 101.
24A V.S.A. § 3-226
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-226. Composition; appointment; term

§ 3-226. Composition; appointment; term|The Board of Light Commissioners, which Board may also be properly referred to as the Board of Electric Commissioners, shall consist of five legal voters of said City, who shall be appointed by the City Council with Mayor presiding to serve for the term of three years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, except as herein otherwise provided.
24A V.S.A. § 3-227
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-227. Superintendent/General Manager; duties

§ 3-227. Superintendent/General Manager; duties|The Superintendent/General Manager shall have the special and immediate care and practical supervision of the said electric light plant and City property in connection therewith, but shall at all times be subject in respect thereto, to the authority of the Mayor as Chief Executive Officer and to the orders and ordinances of the City Council. Subject to the foregoing, the Superintendent/General Manager may execute and issue on behalf of the City and the Electric Light Department drafts, checks, and/or other negotiable orders for the payment of the bills and charges of the Department, provided that any such payment shall be made exclusively from the revenues of such Department. (Amended 1999, No. M-7, § 11, eff. May 19, 1999.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-228
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-228. Powers of City

§ 3-228. Powers of City|(a) The City shall have power to purchase, hire, construct, or otherwise acquire, or acquire an interest in, to maintain, operate, and to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of any plant or system, located within or outside the State, for the production, distribution, purchase, or sale of electricity, to extend, enlarge, or improve the same and for that purpose to purchase, hire, construct, or otherwise acquire any real or personal property. These powers may be exercised through a taking by eminent domain in the manner prescribed by law except that the City shall have no power to acquire timberlands or other fuel sources by eminent domain. The City shall also have the power to purchase, sell, and otherwise acquire and dispose of electricity including sale to electric distribution companies, cooperative, municipal, and privately owned, within or without the State and to make all agreements, conveyances, and regulations necessary or convenient in connection therewith; all of the foregoing powers to be in addition to and not in substitution for or in limitation of any other power conferred by law. Such plant or system may include facilities described in No. 298 of the Acts of 1953 as amended.(b) The City Council shall exercise the powers of the City with respect to its electric plant. The City Council may by resolution delegate any of its powers relating to the electric plant, improvements thereto, or electric service to the Board of Light Commissioners.
24A V.S.A. § 3-229
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-229. Authority to create; powers and duties

§ 3-229. Authority to create; powers and duties|The City Council may by ordinance provide for the creation and maintenance of a Harbor Commission or a single Harbor Commissioner, and for the appointment of a Superintendent of Harbors, and define and prescribe their powers and duties in regard to the supervision, control, and regulation, within the jurisdiction of the City, of harbors, public and private wharfs, docks, and piers, and the waterfront within the City on Lake Champlain, under any and all lawful regulations and ordinances that may be made and enacted, and may fix the time of the appointment of such officers and their terms of office, and such officers shall receive such compensation as may be voted them by the City Council. (Amended 2013, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 3, 2015.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-231
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-231. Power and duties

§ 3-231. Power and duties|The City Council shall have the exclusive general management and control of the work on the City streets, sidewalks, sewers, and bridges and shall see that the same are properly constructed and kept in repair, and shall have the same powers in respect to repairs of streets and highways as road commissioners in towns; the City Council shall, when the public good requires, cause all streets and highways to be worked and graded the entire width thereof and made in such a manner as will in the judgment of the City Council best accommodate the public; and shall be subject in all respects to any limitations or restrictions contained in the ordinances, regulations, and orders of the City Council; but shall have no power to spend any money or incur any debt beyond the amount of the appropriations made by the City Council.
24A V.S.A. § 3-234
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-234. Purposes and powers

§ 3-234. Purposes and powers|The City Council, except as herein otherwise provided, shall have the same power to lay out, alter, resurvey, and discontinue streets and highways as is vested by law in selectmen of towns; and all proceedings in respect to laying out, altering, resurveying, and discontinuing streets and highways in said City shall be had in the same manner as provided by the law of this State in respect to such matters in towns.
24A V.S.A. § 3-235
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-235. Council may lay out certain streets; owners' petition

§ 3-235. Council may lay out certain streets; owners' petition|Streets and highways in said City of less than three rods in width may be laid out, opened, accepted, established, and maintained whenever the City Council shall so provide by resolution or ordinance; provided the owners of a majority of the frontage on such street or highway shall file their petition therefor in writing with the Chief Administrative Officer of said City.
24A V.S.A. § 3-236
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-236. Prior actions regarding streets ratified

§ 3-236. Prior actions regarding streets ratified|All streets or highways in said City of less than three rods in width heretofore deeded or dedicated to said City for public highways and heretofore accepted; and all such streets or highways laid out or opened by it, are hereby declared to be legal streets and highways; and all acts, votes, and resolutions of said City in respect thereto are hereby declared to be legal and valid.
24A V.S.A. § 3-237
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-237. Rights of property owners

§ 3-237. Rights of property owners|If any person owning or interested in lands through which a street or highway in said City is laid out, altered, or resurveyed by said City Council, is dissatisfied with the laying out, altering, or resurveying of said street or highway, or with the compensation awarded for his or her damages, or in case no damages are awarded him or her, he or she may have the same proceedings in respect thereto, as if such street or highway were laid out, altered, or resurveyed in any town in this State; and such proceedings shall be conducted in the same manner and shall have the same effect as provided by law in case a highway is laid out, altered, or resurveyed in any town in this State; except that no person by reason of being a resident or taxpayer in said City shall be disqualified to act in such proceedings as a commissioner appointed by the county court.
24A V.S.A. § 3-238
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-238. Rights of property owners when street discontinued

§ 3-238. Rights of property owners when street discontinued|In case the City Council shall decide to discontinue any street or highway in said City, any person owning or interested in the lands abutting said street who is dissatisfied with such decision may, within 60 days thereafter, institute proceedings which shall have the same effect, be conducted in the same manner, and subject to the same conditions and provisions as if such person were dissatisfied with the laying out, altering, or resurveying of any street or highway in said City.
24A V.S.A. § 3-239
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-239. Power granted

§ 3-239. Power granted|Said City Council in laying out or altering streets and highways shall have power, on giving 12 days' notice of the time and place of hearing to the parties interested, to assess the owners of lands adjoining such street or highway so much of the expense of opening, making, or altering such highway, including land damages as the City Council shall adjudge such lands will be benefited thereby.
24A V.S.A. § 3-240
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-240. Estimation of probable expenses authorized

§ 3-240. Estimation of probable expenses authorized|If the street or highway shall not have been at the time of making such assessment actually opened, made, or altered, as the case may be, the City Council shall estimate the probable expense of such opening, making, or altering, and make the aforesaid assessment upon such estimate.
24A V.S.A. § 3-241
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-241. Decisions regarding assessments to be recorded

§ 3-241. Decisions regarding assessments to be recorded|In making assessments as aforesaid, the City Council shall set forth in its decision touching the laying out, altering, or resurveying of any street or highway in said City a full description of all assessments by it made and of the lands so assessed, and shall cause such decision to be recorded in full by the Chief Administrative Officer in the records of streets and highways in the Chief Administrative Officer's office; when said decision is so recorded, the amount so assessed shall be and remain a lien in the nature of a tax upon the lands assessed, until the same shall be paid, or said lien is otherwise discharged by operation of law.
24A V.S.A. § 3-242
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-242. Proceedings for objections to assessment

§ 3-242. Proceedings for objections to assessment|In case the City Council shall assess any lands through which a street or highway shall be by it laid out, altered, or resurveyed as provided in the preceding sections, any person owning or interested in such lands who is dissatisfied with the amount of assessment so made against said lands, may have the same proceedings for relief in respect to such assessment as if such person were dissatisfied with an award of damages in the case of laying out, altering, or resurveying a street or highway in said City.
24A V.S.A. § 3-243
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-243. Assessment lien suspended until final determination

§ 3-243. Assessment lien suspended until final determination|The pendency of such proceedings shall not vacate the lien created upon the lands assessed as aforesaid by City Council, but shall suspend the same until the final determination of such proceedings.
24A V.S.A. § 3-244
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-244. Petition for relief not to delay opening or altering of street

§ 3-244. Petition for relief not to delay opening or altering of street|When the petition in such proceedings shall only pray for relief in the matter of such assessment, the opening, making, or altering of any street or highway shall not be thereby delayed.
24A V.S.A. § 3-245
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-245. Copy of final determination to be recorded; assessment to become lien

§ 3-245. Copy of final determination to be recorded; assessment to become lien|When the proceedings instituted as aforesaid by any person dissatisfied with such assessment shall be finally determined, a duly certified copy thereof shall be duly recorded by the Chief Administrative Officer in the records of streets and highways in said Chief Administrative Officer's office, within 20 days after the final determination of such proceedings. The amount assessed in such proceedings shall be and remain a lien in the nature of a tax upon the lands so assessed until such assessments are fully paid to the Chief Administrative Officer of said City. In case no assessment shall be made in such proceedings, such records shall discharge said lands from all liens created by the assessments thereon made by the City Council as aforesaid.
24A V.S.A. § 3-246
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-246. Warrant to be issued upon failure to pay assessment; collection

§ 3-246. Warrant to be issued upon failure to pay assessment; collection|If the owner of any lands assessed as hereinbefore provided shall neglect to pay to the Chief Administrative Officer the amount of any such assessment for 90 days after the final record in the matter of making such assessment shall have been made in the records of said streets and highways in the Chief Administrative Officer's office, the Chief Administrative Officer shall issue his or her warrant to the Constable of said City for the collection thereof; and said Constable shall have power on such warrant to distrain and sell at public auction so much of the goods and chattels of such owner, and for want thereof so much of said lands so assessed as will satisfy said assessment and all legal fees and shall be entitled to the same fees on such warrant as collectors of town taxes on tax warrants; and the Chief Administrative Officer shall proceed in the same manner as collectors of town taxes are required by law to proceed in selling goods and chattels or real estate at auction for the collection of taxes, except that the Chief Administrative Officer shall have no right on such warrant for want of goods and chattels of such owner to arrest the owner and commit him or her to jail.
24A V.S.A. § 3-247
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-247. Court to have jurisdiction to determine questioned assessments

§ 3-247. Court to have jurisdiction to determine questioned assessments|In all cases in which proceedings are instituted in the county court within and for the County of Chittenden by any person who is dissatisfied with the laying out, altering, or resurveying of any street or highway in said City, the question of assessment upon the owners of adjoining lands shall also pass to the county court, and shall be referred to and reported upon, by the commissioners thereby appointed; and said question of assessment shall be determined by said court.
24A V.S.A. § 3-248
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-248. Establishment and maintenance authorized; assessments

§ 3-248. Establishment and maintenance authorized; assessments|The City Council is authorized, to establish, construct, and maintain public sewers in said City; and it may assess the owners of land or buildings adjoining or abutting said streets or any portion thereof, in which such sewers may be established, so much of the expense of constructing such sewers as it shall adjudge such land or buildings to be benefited thereby; but in no case shall the expense of construction of any such sewer be assessed against the abutting owner on either side of any such street or any portion thereof in excess of one-fourth of such expense and the City shall pay one-half of such expense; provided that all sewer assessments heretofore made shall remain in full force and effect until paid or abated.
24A V.S.A. § 3-249
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-249. Establishment and construction through private lands authorized

§ 3-249. Establishment and construction through private lands authorized|The City Council is also authorized and empowered to establish, construct, and maintain public sewers in and through the lands of individuals and corporations, on making compensation for lands taken therefor, in the same manner as provided by law in the laying out and establishing of highways.
24A V.S.A. § 3-250
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-250. Assessment of landowners authorized

§ 3-250. Assessment of landowners authorized|The City Council may assess the owners of lands through which such sewers may be established and constructed, in the same manner and to the same extent as hereinbefore provided in respect to public sewers established and constructed in the streets of said City. (Amended 2001, No. M-6, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 3-251
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-251. Assessment proceedings and rights

§ 3-251. Assessment proceedings and rights|The same proceedings shall be had in respect to such assessments, and the same rights shall exist, as in case of the laying out and establishing of streets and highways; and the same lien shall attach and be enforced in the same manner as provided in this charter in respect to assessments upon adjoining landowners in case of laying out or making streets and highways.
24A V.S.A. § 3-252
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-252. Required; contents

§ 3-252. Required; contents|Whenever, under the provisions of this charter, the City Council is required to give notice of the time and place of any examination or hearing before it, touching the laying out, altering, or discontinuing of any street or public highway in said City, or the award of any damages or the making of any assessment therefor, and in all cases of assessments for sewers, curbing, and sidewalks in said City, a citation shall be issued, signed by the City Council and containing the names of all persons to whom notice is to be given.
24A V.S.A. § 3-253
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-253. When given

§ 3-253. When given|Such citation shall be made at least 12 days prior to the time appointed for such examination or hearing, except when otherwise specially provided in this charter.
24A V.S.A. § 3-254
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-254. Acceptance of service

§ 3-254. Acceptance of service|Service of such citation may be accepted by any or all persons therein named, by endorsing their acceptance in writing thereon.
24A V.S.A. § 3-255
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-255. Manner of serving

§ 3-255. Manner of serving|Such citation may be served by any sheriff or constable in this State upon any person therein named residing or being in this State, in the same manner as an ordinary writ of summons.
24A V.S.A. § 3-256
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-256. Service on nonresidents

§ 3-256. Service on nonresidents|Such citation may be served by such sheriff or constable upon a person not an inhabitant of this State by leaving a true and attested copy of said citation with his or her return thereon endorsed, with, or at the residence of, his or her known agent or attorney, if he or she has one in this State; and if not, with, or at the residence of, the occupant of the land to which such hearing may appertain. If there is no such occupant, then such copy of said citation shall be by said sheriff or constable left at the office of the Chief Administrative Officer of said City for such persons so owning or interested in such land.
24A V.S.A. § 3-257
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-257. Chief Administrative Officer to mail copy of citation to last known address of nonresident

§ 3-257. Chief Administrative Officer to mail copy of citation to last known address of nonresident|Said Chief Administrative Officer shall mail to the last known post office address of such person, in a registered package, a true and attested transcript of such copy so left with him or her, which shall be certified by him or her under the Seal of said City. Said Chief Administrative Officer shall certify under the Seal of said City all the Chief Administrative Officer's doings touching said copy so left with the Chief Administrative Officer by said sheriff or constable and shall attach to said certificate all registry receipts pertaining to such copy received by the Chief Administrative Officer.
24A V.S.A. § 3-258
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 3 - City of Burlington|App § 3-258. Return of citation prima facie evidence of service

§ 3-258. Return of citation prima facie evidence of service|The return of such sheriff or constable upon the original citation, and the certificate of such Chief Administrative Officer and said receipts, shall be prima facie evidence of the service of said citation as herein provided. Said citation and return thereon, with said certificate of said Chief Administrative Officer and said receipts, shall be made a part of the record of said proceedings and shall be filed in the office of said Chief Administrative Officer.