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24A V.S.A. § 261-3
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-3. Territory embraced within; corporation limits constituted a highway district; assessment and collection of highway taxes

§ 261-3. Territory embraced within; corporation limits constituted a highway district; assessment and collection of highway taxes|All the territory embraced within the limits of said Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Barton, and all the highway taxes assessed upon the ratable estate therein shall be paid in money; and the Selectboard of the Town of Barton shall make out a tax bill therefor, and deliver the same seasonably as required by law, with a warrant for its collection, to the Collector of said Village, who shall collect and pay said taxes into the Village treasury, to be expended under the direction of the trustees, in building, sustaining, and repairing of streets, roads, walks, lanes, alleys, and sidewalks in said Village; and no surveyor of highways for said highway district shall be required or chosen by said Town. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 3.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-4. Annual Village meeting; when held

§ 261-4. Annual Village meeting; when held|The annual meeting of said Village shall be holden on the third Tuesday of March each year at such place within said Village and at such house as may be named and fixed in the warning thereof for the purpose of electing the officers of said Village, and for the transaction of any business specified in the warning of such meeting, which warning shall be signed by the Clerk, specifying such other business beside the choice of officers as the trustees, or a majority of them, may direct; which notice, or warning shall be posted in at least three of the most public places in said Village, not less than ten and not more than 15 days next before the time of holding said meeting. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 4; amended 1900, No. 168, § 1.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-5. Special meetings on failure to warn annual meetings

§ 261-5. Special meetings on failure to warn annual meetings|If the annual meeting of said corporation shall fail to be holden for want of the notice hereinbefore provided for, or for any other cause, the corporation shall not be thereby prejudiced; and the said several officers may at any time thereafter be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose as hereinbefore provided for calling annual meetings, but any such officers so elected at any such special meeting shall hold their office only until the next annual meeting of said corporation or until others are chosen in their places; and special meetings may be called at any time to fill any vacancies which may exist in any of said several offices, by death, resignation, or otherwise. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 5.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-6
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-6. Checklist of voters; power of trustees in respect thereto

§ 261-6. Checklist of voters; power of trustees in respect thereto|The trustees may previous to an annual Village meeting, prepare an alphabetical list of the persons qualified to vote at such annual meeting, in the same manner, and subject to the same provisions in respect to corrections and use in all respects, as are enacted by chapter six of the Revised Laws, concerning a checklist of voters for use in freeman's meetings; the Trustees have the same powers and duties in respect thereto as are by said chapter conferred upon the selectboard and the board of civil authority of towns, when so authorized or directed by vote of the Village. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 6.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-7. Qualification of voters in Village meeting

§ 261-7. Qualification of voters in Village meeting|Persons who have resided in the Village one year and who are voters in Town meeting shall be voters in Village meeting. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 7.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-8. Officers, how elected, terms of office

§ 261-8. Officers, how elected, terms of office|The officers of said corporation shall consist of a Moderator, Clerk, three trustees, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, a Chief Engineer, and two assistant engineers, all of whom, with the exception of the trustees, shall be elected annually and shall hold their respective offices for the term of one year and until others are chosen in their places; said trustees shall be elected by ballot, and, except the first two elected, shall hold office for the term of three years, but the term of office for the first two chosen shall be one year for the first and two years for the second. Thereafter one trustee shall be elected annually for the term of three years. Vacancies in the office of trustees shall be filled by ballot at any special meeting of said Village, duly warned and holden, within the space of 30 days from the date of the occurrence of said vacancy for that purpose, and any trustee or trustees so elected shall hold office only until the next annual meeting or until others are chosen in their places, and at the next succeeding annual meeting, trustee or trustees elected to succeed any trustee or trustees who shall not have served for the full term for which they were elected, shall be chosen to fill out the unexpired term of office remaining at the time of such meeting of such trustee or trustees whose offices have become vacated from any other cause than that of limitation of term of office. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 8; amended 1900, No. 168, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-9
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-9. Duties of the Moderator

§ 261-9. Duties of the Moderator|It shall be the duty of the Moderator to preside at all meetings of said Village, and the Moderator shall have the same power as the moderator of town meetings now has by law and in case of the Moderator's absence a Moderator Pro Temp may be appointed. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 9.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-10
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-10. Duties of the Clerk

§ 261-10. Duties of the Clerk|It shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep fair and accurate records of all of the proceedings of said corporation, and the Clerk shall give copies of the same when required, and shall have power to certify to the same, for which copies so certified the Clerk shall have the same fees as town clerks for similar services; and the Clerk shall also make out such tax bills as the trustees shall from time to time direct, for which the Clerk shall have reasonable compensation, or such sum as may be agreed upon between the Clerk and the trustees. It shall also be the Clerk's duty to warn special meetings agreeably to the direction of the trustees or a majority of them, or upon petition of five or more legal voters of said Village; and shall also duly warn all annual meetings; special meetings of said corporation shall be warned in the same way and upon the same time hereinbefore provided for calling annual meetings, and the warning thereof shall contain a statement of the business to be transacted. The Clerk shall also have the usual powers and duties incident to Clerks of such corporations. Any business may be transacted at an adjourned meeting which, under warning, might have been transacted at the original meeting. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 10.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-11
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-11. Special meetings; how called

§ 261-11. Special meetings; how called|On request of five legal voters of the Village, the Clerk, and upon the Clerk's neglect or refusal, the trustees, may call a special meeting of said Village, giving notice of the same as in case of the annual meeting, and specifying in the notice the objects of the meeting. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 11.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-12
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-12. General powers and duties of trustees

§ 261-12. General powers and duties of trustees|The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of said Village; shall assess all taxes and make out a rate-bill accordingly; shall direct the expenditure of all moneys belonging to said Village, 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 auditors at least 10 days before the annual meeting of each year. Said trustees shall have power to abate taxes laid or assessed by virtue of this Charter; to remit fines imposed for the violation of this charter or the bylaws of said corporation, and to discharge offenders from imprisonment for the same. The power of said trustees to abate taxes shall be subject to the same limitations and may be exercised for the same causes as stated and mentioned in section 2,736 of the Revised Laws. The trustees shall fill a vacancy in a Village office, and a person so appointed shall serve for the unexpired time, unless superseded; but the Village may, at any time before the expiration of such term, supersede such an appointment by a new election at a special meeting, for the remainder of the term. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 12.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-13
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-13. Duties of Treasurer and Collector

§ 261-13. Duties of Treasurer and Collector|The Treasurer and Collector shall perform the same duties for said corporation as by law required of a town treasurer and a collector of town taxes respectively; and shall have the same powers, proceed in the same manner, be subject to the same liabilities, and shall give bonds to said corporation conditioned for the faithful performance of their respective duties with such sureties and in such sum as the trustees or a majority of them shall direct. And a failure or neglect on the part of either of said officers for more than 10 days after request in writing by the trustees to furnish the satisfactory bonds shall create a vacancy in such office. (Added 1892, No 114, § 13.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-14
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-14. Duties of Auditors

§ 261-14. Duties of Auditors|The auditors shall, previous to each annual Village meeting, examine and adjust the accounts of Village officers, and report the accounts so adjusted, with the items thereof, and also the state of the treasury, to the Village at its annual meeting, which report when adopted shall be recorded by the Clerk. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 14.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-15
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-15. Further duties of auditor; police officers, how appointed and removed; their powers and duties

§ 261-15. Further duties of auditor; police officers, how appointed and removed; their powers and duties|The auditors shall not allow a claim or account for the personal service of a Village officer except when compensation for such service is fixed by law, or by a vote of the Village. The auditors shall include in their report to the Village a statement of the amount of such claims presented and disallowed, with the nature and extent of the services rendered for which such compensation was claimed. The said trustees shall have power to appoint police officers not exceeding five in number, by an instrument in writing under their hands, who shall be qualified by taking an oath that they shall faithfully perform their respective duties as such police officers, which instrument of appointment shall be recorded by and in the office of the Clerk of said Village; but such appointment may be revoked by a majority of said trustees in their discretion, which revocation shall also be in writing and recorded by said Clerk. Such police officers shall by virtue of said appointment be informing officers, constables, and conservators of the peace within said Village, may serve any criminal process returnable within said Village, and upon view of any violation of this charter, the provisions thereof, or of any bylaw of said corporation within the limits of said Village, may arrest the offender forthwith and without warrant for that purpose, and carry such offender before any justice of the peace to answer complaint therefor, and may make complaint on oath in the name of such corporation against such offender, and upon the trial of such complaint shall be a competent witness; provided that if any such police officer shall so arrest any such offender, the police officer may commit the offender to the Village lockup or otherwise detain the offender in safe custody not exceeding 24 hours, at the end of which time the offender shall be discharged, unless previously taken before some justice of the peace to answer to the offence for which the offender was arrested; provided further, however, that if such arrest shall be made between sunset of Saturday and sunrise of the following morning such offender may be retained in safe custody until the next following Monday morning; and for such arrest and the services connected therewith, such police officer shall receive the same fees as sheriffs or constables are entitled to for the same or similar services. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 15.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-16
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-16. Powers and duties of the Board of Fire Wardens

§ 261-16. Powers and duties of the Board of Fire Wardens|The Chief Engineer, first and second assistant engineers shall constitute a Board of Fire Wardens. The Board of Fire Wardens or any of them who may be present at a fire, shall have power at such fire to suppress all tumults and riots by force if necessary, to direct the labor of all persons present during the continuance of such fire and remove goods and effects endangered by such fire and protect the same from waste and depredation, to pull down, remove, or destroy any house, store, or other building when they, or any of them present at such fire shall deem it necessary for the better preservation of any property. Said Board of Fire Wardens may inspect the manner of manufacturing and keeping gunpowder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, fireworks, or combustibles, and the construction and repairs of fireplaces, stoves, flues, and chimneys in said corporation. And said Board of Fire Wardens may by vote of a majority thereof direct all persons manufacturing or keeping gunpowder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, fireworks, or combustibles, kerosene oil, petroleum, naphtha, oils, or burning fluid, in what manner and quantities to manufacture and keep the same, and owners or occupiers of buildings with such fireplaces, stoves, flues, or chimneys, how to repair the same, and every person refusing or neglecting to obey such order, shall forfeit and pay to use of said corporation a fine not exceeding $25.00 for each period of 20 days after notice of such order, that such persons shall neglect or refuse to obey the same. The Board of Fire Wardens shall have full power to regulate their own proceedings and to form new hose or hook and ladder companies, and to organize and govern the Fire Department, and subject to the approval of the trustees to purchase necessary fire apparatus and to have the general care and custody of the property pertaining to the Fire Department. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 16.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-18
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-18. Bylaws, rules, and ordinances, when recorded to be the prima facie evidence

§ 261-18. Bylaws, rules, and ordinances, when recorded to be the prima facie evidence|The bylaws, rules, and ordinances of said Village shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of said Village, and the Clerk's certificate that such bylaws, rules, and ordinances were adopted at an annual meeting of said Village or at a special meeting thereof, called for that purpose, shall be a prima facie evidence of such fact in any court in this State: and certified copies of said bylaws, rules, ordinances and Clerk's certificates shall also be received as evidence in all courts in this State. (Added 1892, No. 114,§ 18.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-21
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-21. Assessment and collection of taxes

§ 261-21. Assessment and collection of taxes|Said corporation may at any annual or special meeting called in whole or in part for that purpose, as herein provided, lay a tax on the grand list of said Town of Barton, of the inhabitants of said Village, and upon the ratable estate within the same belonging to nonresidents; and the trustees shall make out a rate bill accordingly and deliver the same to the Collector, who shall have the same power to collect such tax as the collector of town taxes, and shall proceed in like manner and in like manner may distrain and sell property to satisfy the same, and may for want thereof commit persons against whom the Collector has such tax to jail in the same way and manner and by the same proceedings provided for the arrest and commitment of a delinquent taxpayer by a collector of town taxes, and it shall hereafter be the duty of the listers of the Town of Barton, in making the list of said Town of Barton to designate therein such of a ratable estate thereof as shall be within the limits of said Village. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 21.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-22
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-22. Power of trustees in granting licenses

§ 261-22. Power of trustees in granting licenses|The trustees of said Village shall have the sole power of granting licenses and vacating the same, within the limits of said Village, agreeably to the  bylaws, rules, and ordinances thereof that the selectboard has by chapter 95 and by section 22 of chapter 119 of the general statutes; and all moneys received for such licenses shall belong to the Village treasury and be paid into the same. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 22.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-23
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-23. Grand list, how composed

§ 261-23. Grand list, how composed|The grand list of the ratable estate within said Village, as made out by the listers of the Town of Barton, shall be the grand list of said Village, and the trustees shall cause a copy of said list to be made and filed in the office of the Clerk of said Village within 10 days after the same shall be completed in said Town Clerk's office. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 23.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-24
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-24. Residents of Village not incompetent to hold Town offices

§ 261-24. Residents of Village not incompetent to hold Town offices|The inhabitants of said Village shall belong to and remain inhabitants of the Town of Barton, and no member of such Village corporation shall be deemed incompetent to act as sheriff, constable, or witness in any cause or proceeding in which said corporation shall be interested. And any justice of the peace resident of said Village shall not be incompetent to take jurisdiction of any cause brought under this charter. (Added 1892, No. 114 § 24.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-25
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-25. Corporation empowered to borrow money and issue bonds and notes therefor

§ 261-25. Corporation empowered to borrow money and issue bonds and notes therefor|Said Village, at an annual meeting, or any special meeting called for that purpose, is hereby authorized and empowered to vote to borrow money for any of the purposes herein mentioned and to issue its notes and bonds therefor, which bonds and notes shall be signed by the trustees and countersigned by the Treasurer of said Village, and payable at such time or times as said Village may direct; provided, however, that no vote to borrow money or for the issue of notes or bonds, shall be taken at any meeting for which the call or warrant does not specify that purpose. Before said notes and bonds shall issue a record thereof shall be made in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the Treasurer of said Village. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 25.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-26
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-26. Duties of listers of Town of Barton respecting real estate within Village limits

§ 261-26. Duties of listers of Town of Barton respecting real estate within Village limits|It shall be the duty of the listers of the Town of Barton in making their assessments of real estate in said Town to designate in the list by them made, the real estate situated within the Village of Orleans; and in case any piece or parcel of real estate is situated partly within and partly without the limits of said Village, said listers shall designate in said list the appraised value of the real estate which lies within said limits. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 26; amended 1908, No. 256, § 1.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-27
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-27. Powers of trustees respecting water

§ 261-27. Powers of trustees respecting water|Said Village is hereby authorized and empowered through its trustees to be elected as hereinafter provided, to take the waters of any fountains, springs, ponds, rivers, streams, or lakes in the Towns of Barton, Westmore, Brownington, and Irasburg for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of said Village with water for fire, domestic, and other purposes. Provided that if water pipes be laid to Willoughby Lake, the water taken therefrom shall be passed through a filter; and provided further that this charter shall not authorize the taking of water needed for farm or domestic purposes. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 27; amended 1912, No. 325, § 1; 1933, No. 193, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-28
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-28. Further powers of trustees respecting water

§ 261-28. Further powers of trustees respecting water|Said Village is hereby authorized and empowered, through said trustees, to construct and complete an aqueduct, with all necessary reservoirs and appurtenances, to conduct said water to and distribute the same through said Village, and for this purpose may enter upon and use any land over or through which it may be necessary or desirable for said aqueduct to pass, and may thereon lay and construct such pipes, reservoirs, and appurtenances as may be necessary for the complete construction and repairing of the same, and it may also, for the purposes aforesaid, dig up or occupy any common, highway, street, or bridge for the purpose of laying constructing or repairing such aqueduct and the appurtenances thereof. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 28; amended 1933, No. 193, § 8.)