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24 V.S.A. § 3609
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 101 - Sewage Disposal System|§ 3609. Compensation; condemnation

§ 3609. Compensation; condemnation|When an owner of land or rights therein and the board are unable to agree on the amount of compensation therefor or in case the owner is an infant, a person who lacks capacity to protect his or her interests due to a mental condition or psychiatric disability, absent from the State, unknown, or the owner of a contingent or uncertain interest, a Superior judge may, on the application of either party, cause the notice to be given of the application as he or she may prescribe, and after proof thereof, may appoint three disinterested persons to examine the property to be taken, or damaged by the municipal corporation. After being duly sworn, the commissioners shall, upon due notice to all parties in interest, view the premises, hear the parties in respect to the property, and shall assess and award to the owners and persons so interested just damages for any injury sustained and make report in writing to the judge. In determining damages resulting from the taking or use of property under the provisions of this chapter, the added value, if any, to the remaining property or right therein that inures directly to the owner thereof as a result of the taking or use as distinguished from the general public benefit, shall be considered. The judge may thereupon accept the report, unless just cause is shown to the contrary, and order the municipal corporation to pay the same in the time and manner as the judge may prescribe, in full compensation for the property taken, or the injury done by the municipal corporation, or the judge may reject or recommit the report if the ends of justice so require. On compliance with the order, the municipal corporation may proceed with the construction of its work without liability for further claim for damages. In his or her discretion, the judge may award costs in the proceeding. Appeals from the order may be taken to the Supreme Court under 12 V.S.A. chapter 102. (Amended 1963, No. 214, § 7; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 155.)
24 V.S.A. § 3610
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 101 - Sewage Disposal System|§ 3610. Record

§ 3610. Record|Within 60 days after the taking of any property, franchise, easement, or right under the provisions of this chapter, such municipal corporation shall file a description thereof in the office of the clerk wherein land records are required by law to be kept.
24 V.S.A. § 3611
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 101 - Sewage Disposal System|§ 3611. Contract for sewage disposal

§ 3611. Contract for sewage disposal|(a) Such municipal corporation may contract with the State, the federal government, or any appropriate agency thereof, any town, city, or village, any corporation and individuals to make disposal of sewage for such other town, city, village, corporation, or individuals. Such municipal corporation may make sale of sludge or fertilizer byproducts incident to sewage disposal, and the proceeds from sale thereof shall be turned over to the treasury of such sewage disposal district and credited therein as is other income derived under the authority of this chapter.(b) A municipal corporation is authorized to enter into, with any contracting party or parties, contracts, leases, or lease-purchase agreements with respect to the construction, operation, and maintenance of sewage disposal plants. These contracts may be entered into for terms not to exceed 40 years or the useful life of the plant, whichever is less. (Amended 1983, No. 191 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
24 V.S.A. § 3612
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 101 - Sewage Disposal System|§ 3612. Charges; enforcement

§ 3612. Charges; enforcement|(a) The owner of any tenement, house, building, or lot shall be liable for the sewage disposal charge as hereinafter defined. Such sewage disposal charge shall be a lien upon the real estate furnished with such service in the same manner and to the same effect as taxes are a lien upon real estate under 32 V.S.A. § 5061 and shall be an assessment enforceable under the procedures in subsections (b), (c), or (d) of this section, or a combination of these procedures.(b) When an assessment remains unpaid for a period of 30 days, the treasurer of the municipality may issue a warrant for its collection directed to the collector of taxes, who shall have the same power to enforce the collection and shall proceed in the same manner as provided by law for the collection of taxes under 32 V.S.A. chapter 133, subchapter 9.(c) When the ratepayer fails to render payment for a valid bill or charge within 30 days of the postmark on the bill or on the due date, the appointed and elected municipal officials may proceed with collection of the delinquency as provided in chapter 129 of this title.(d) When an assessment remains unpaid for two years, the municipal officials may proceed to enforce the lien as provided in 32 V.S.A. chapter 133, subchapter 8. (Amended 1983, No. 54, § 2; 1987, No. 24, § 2; 1989, No. 45, § 4.)
24 V.S.A. § 3613
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 101 - Sewage Disposal System|§ 3613. Taxes, bonds

§ 3613. Taxes, bonds|For the purpose of adequately making disposal of sewage within its boundaries, successfully organizing, establishing, and operating its sewage plant, sewage disposal plant, or some form of sewage treatment plant, and making such improvements as may be necessary, a municipal corporation may from time to time: purchase, take, and hold real and personal estate; borrow money; levy, and collect taxes upon the ratable estate of the municipal corporation necessary for the payment of municipal corporation sewage and sewage disposal expenses and indebtedness; issue for the purposes hereof evidences of indebtedness pursuant to chapter 53, subchapter 2 of this title or its negotiable bonds pursuant to chapter 53, subchapter 1 of this title, provided, however, that bonds so issued (1) shall not be considered as indebtedness of such municipal corporation limited by the provisions of section 1762 of this title, (2) may be paid in not more than 30 years from the date of issue notwithstanding the limitation of section 1759 of this title, (3) may be authorized by a majority of all the voters present and voting on the question at a meeting of such municipal corporation held for the purpose pursuant to chapter 53, subchapter 1 of this title notwithstanding any provisions of general or special law which may require a greater vote, and may be so arranged that beginning with the first year in which principal is payable, the amount of principal and interest in any year shall be as nearly equal as is practicable according to the denomination in which such bonds or other evidences of indebtedness are issued notwithstanding other permissible payment schedules authorized by section 1759 of this title. (Amended 1959, No. 207, § 2; 1961, No. 96, eff. May 3, 1961; 1971, No. 166 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 22, 1972.)
24 V.S.A. § 3614
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 101 - Sewage Disposal System|§ 3614. Board of sewage disposal commissioners

§ 3614. Board of sewage disposal commissioners|The selectboard of a town, the trustees of a village, the prudential committee of a fire or lighting district, or the mayor and board of aldermen of a city, shall constitute a board of sewage disposal commissioners.
24 V.S.A. § 3616
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 101 - Sewage Disposal System|§ 3616. Duties; use of proceeds

§ 3616. Duties; use of proceeds|Such sewage disposal commissioners shall have the supervision of such municipal sewage disposal department, and shall make and establish all needful rates for charges, rules, and regulations for its control and operation including the right to require any individual, person, or corporation to connect to such municipal system for the purposes of abating pollution of the waters of the State. Such commissioners may appoint or remove a superintendent at their pleasure. The charges and receipts of such department shall only be used and applied to pay the interest and principal of the sewage disposal bonds of such municipal corporation as well as the expense of maintenance and operation of the sewage disposal department or other expenses of the sewage system. These charges and receipts also may be used to develop a dedicated fund that may be created by the commissioners to finance major rehabilitation, major maintenance, and upgrade costs for the sewer system. This fund may be established by an annual set-aside of up to 15 percent of the normal operations, maintenance, and bond payment costs, except that with respect to subsurface leachfield systems, the annual set-aside may equal up to 100 percent of these costs. The fund shall not exceed the estimated future major rehabilitation, major maintenance, or upgrade costs for the sewer system. Any dedicated fund shall be insured at least to the level provided by FDIC and withdrawals shall be made only for the purposes for which the fund was established. Any such dedicated fund may be established and controlled in accord with section 2804 of this title or may be established by act of the legislative body of the municipality. Funds so established meet the requirements of subdivision 4756(a)(4) of this title. Where the municipal legislative body establishes such a fund, it shall first adopt a municipal ordinance authorizing and controlling such funds. Such ordinance and any local policies governing the funds must conform to the requirements of this section. (Amended 1967, No. 181, § 3, eff. April 17, 1967; 1989, No. 45, § 6; 2003, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 81, eff. Jan. 31, 2005.)
24 V.S.A. § 3617
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 101 - Sewage Disposal System|§ 3617. Ordinances

§ 3617. Ordinances|Such municipal corporation shall have the power to make, establish, alter, amend, or repeal ordinances, regulations, and bylaws relating to the matters contained in this chapter, consistent with law, and to impose penalties for the breach thereof, and enforce the same.
24 V.S.A. § 3618
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 101 - Sewage Disposal System|§ 3618. Meetings; vote

§ 3618. Meetings; vote|Any action taken by such municipal corporation under the provisions of this chapter or relating to the matters therein set forth, may be taken by vote of the legislative body of such municipal corporation, excepting the issuance of bonds and, in municipalities wherein such body is not otherwise given the power to levy taxes, the levying of a tax under section 3613 of this title; provided, however, that no action shall be taken hereunder unless the construction of a sewage disposal plant shall have first been authorized by majority vote of the legal voters of such municipal corporation attending a meeting duly warned and holden.
24 V.S.A. § 3631
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 102 - On-Site Sewage Systems|§ 3631. Definition

§ 3631. Definition|As used in this chapter:  (1) "Sewage system" means an on-site sewage disposal system. (2) "Proper performance" means a sewage system which operates so as to:  (A) prevent surfacing of sewage and the creation of a health hazard; and (B) prevent the pollution and contamination of drinking water supplies, groundwater, and surface water; and (C) maintain sanitary and healthful conditions during operation. (Added 1983, No. 117 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
24 V.S.A. § 3632
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 102 - On-Site Sewage Systems|§ 3632. Standards for ordinances

§ 3632. Standards for ordinances|(a) The Secretary of Natural Resources shall adopt by rule minimum standards for municipal ordinances regulating sewage systems.(b) The purpose of these standards shall be to achieve the proper performance of sewage systems.(c) The rules may contain recommended procedures for municipalities to use in considering applications for permits.(d) The rules shall contain standards and procedures for approving innovative sewage systems. (Added 1983, No. 117 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
24 V.S.A. § 3633
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 102 - On-Site Sewage Systems|§ 3633. Ordinance

§ 3633. Ordinance|(a) A municipality may adopt an ordinance under chapter 59 of this title relating to sewage systems.(b) The ordinance shall not take effect until it is approved by the Department of Environmental Conservation as being at least as stringent as the minimum standards under section 3632 of this title.(c) The ordinance shall describe the officer or officers, which may include the local health officer, responsible for its enforcement.(d) Municipal ordinances relating to sewage systems that were approved before July 1984 under 18 V.S.A. § 613 by the Board of Health shall remain in effect and shall be deemed to have been adopted and approved under this section. Municipal ordinances relating to sewage systems that were approved before July 1984 by the Commissioner of Health shall remain in effect until either the ordinance has been approved pursuant to this chapter or July 1, 2002, whichever occurs first. (Added 1983, No. 117 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1987, No. 76, § 18; 1993, No. 180 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 1997, No. 51, § 4; 1997, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 19a; 1999, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 6.)
24 V.S.A. § 3634
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 102 - On-Site Sewage Systems|§ 3634. Permit

§ 3634. Permit|An ordinance under this chapter shall require a permit for the installation or replacement of sewage systems. (Added 1983, No. 117 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
24 V.S.A. § 3635
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 102 - On-Site Sewage Systems|§ 3635. Limitation

§ 3635. Limitation|Nothing in this chapter or in any ordinance relieves any person of obligations under the law for the proper performance of a sewage system. (Added 1983, No. 117 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
24 V.S.A. § 3671
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 105 - Consolidated Sewer Districts|§ 3671. Policy

§ 3671. Policy|It is the policy of the State to authorize two or more contiguous towns or other municipal corporations to join together to establish a consolidated sewer district for the purpose of developing, acquiring, or improving a sewage system for the purpose of disposing of the sewage from the district. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 1a, eff. March 22, 1968.)
24 V.S.A. § 3672
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 105 - Consolidated Sewer Districts|§ 3672. Definitions

§ 3672. Definitions|(a) As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates another or different meaning or intent:  (1) "Town" means any municipality within the meaning of 1 V.S.A. § 126. (2) "Sewage system" includes such equipment, pipeline systems, and facilities as are needed for and appurtenant to the treatment or disposal of sewage and waters, including sewage treatment plants and separate pipelines and structural or nonstructural facilities as are needed for and appurtenant to the treatment or disposal of storm, surface, and subsurface waters, and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the sewer commission for the operation thereof. (3) "Sewage" means the used water supply of a community, including such groundwater, surface, and stormwater as may or may not be mixed with liquid wastes from the community. (4) "Stormwater" means the excess water from rainfall. (5) "Surface water" means water other than stormwater flowing or standing on or over the surface of the ground. (6) "Groundwater" means water existing beneath the surface of the ground. (7) "Improvements" means such repairs, replacements, additions, extensions, and betterments of and to a sewage system as are deemed necessary by the sewer commissioners to place or maintain such system in proper condition for its safe, efficient, and economic operation or to meet requirements for service in such areas which may be served by the district and for which no existing service is being rendered. (8) "Costs" as applied to a sewage system include the purchase price of any such system, the cost of construction, the cost of all labor, materials, machinery, and equipment, the cost of improvements, the cost of all lands, property, rights, easements, and franchises acquired, financing charges, interest prior to and during construction and, if deemed advisable by the sewer commissioners for one year after completion of construction, cost of plans and specifications, surveys, and estimates of cost and of revenues, cost of engineering and legal services, and all other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of such construction.   (b) A consolidated sewer district shall be deemed to be a municipality within the meaning of 1 V.S.A. § 126. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 1b, eff. March 22, 1968; amended 2001, No. 109 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. May 16, 2002.)
24 V.S.A. § 3673
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 105 - Consolidated Sewer Districts|§ 3673. Organization and operation- Establishment of consolidated sewer district

§ 3673. Organization and operation- Establishment of consolidated sewer district|(a) When a majority of the voters of each town of a proposed consolidated sewer district present and voting in each case by Australian ballot at a town meeting duly warned for that purpose for the same day and during the same hours that shall be at least eight consecutive hours shall vote to join with one or more neighboring towns as specified in the warning for the purpose of forming a consolidated sewer district as provided under this chapter, vote shall thereupon be certified by the clerk of each town to the Secretary of State; and when all towns proposed as members of the consolidated sewer district as specified in such vote shall have so affirmatively voted and the results thereon shall have been certified to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State shall thereupon file the same in his or her office and shall send a written notice to the clerk of each town to be included in the consolidated sewer district that the requirements of this section have been met by each town in the said district. Upon the filing of such records in the Office of the Secretary of State, such consolidated sewer district shall become a body politic and corporate with the powers incident to a public corporation and such records shall be notice to all parties of the establishment of such consolidated sewer district with all the powers incident to such a district as herein provided; and such filing shall be prima facie evidence that the requirements for the creation of a consolidated sewer district as herein set forth have been fully complied with. A consolidated sewer district may sue and be sued and may hold and convey real estate and personal estate for the use of the district and shall have and may exercise the powers and be subject to the duties and obligations of a municipal corporation provided for in 10 V.S.A. chapter 55 and chapters 97 and 101 of this title so far as the same may be applicable and except as otherwise provided in this chapter.(b) A consolidated sewer district may enter into agreements with the State or federal government or any agency of either or any corporation, commission or board authorized by the State or federal government to grant or loan money to or otherwise assist in the financing of projects that a consolidated sewer district is authorized to carry out, and to accept grants and borrow money from any such agency, corporation, commission, or board, as may be necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 22, 1968; amended 1971, No. 97, § 1, eff. April 22, 1971.)
24 V.S.A. § 3675
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 105 - Consolidated Sewer Districts|§ 3675. Warnings of meeting

§ 3675. Warnings of meeting|(a) Meetings shall be warned by the clerk, or in case of his or her inability to act, by a majority of the sewer commissioners, by posting a notice thereof, specifying the time, place, and business of the meeting, in not less than five public places in the district, including at least one public place in each member town, at least 10 days before the time therein specified and by causing the same to be published in a paper circulating in the district, the publication to be not less than 10 days before the date of the meeting, and the warning shall be recorded in the office of the clerk before being posted.(b) Any meeting called for the purpose of considering a bond issue shall be warned as provided for in chapter 53, subchapter 1 of this title.(c) The sewer commissioners shall have the same authority and obligation to warn or call meetings of the district as the selectboard members have to warn or call town meetings. (Added 1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. March 22, 1968.)
24 V.S.A. § 3676
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 105 - Consolidated Sewer Districts|§ 3676. Eligibility of voters

§ 3676. Eligibility of voters|Persons residing within the limits of the district, who are qualified voters in their town meetings, shall be voters in the district meeting. The moderator, clerk, and members of the board of sewer commissioners shall decide all questions as to the eligibility of a person to vote at a district meeting. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. March 22, 1968.)
24 V.S.A. § 3677
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 105 - Consolidated Sewer Districts|§ 3677. Check list

§ 3677. Check list|The clerk of each town within a consolidated sewer district shall furnish to the clerk of the district, at the expense of the district, authenticated copies of the check lists of legal voters within the town as the same appears after revision of the check list before the last town meeting, annual or special, preceding the date of the district meeting, which check list shall control for the purposes of determining the voters eligible to vote at the district meeting. Whenever a matter, including bond issues under chapter 53, subchapter 1 of this title, is to be determined by ballot or voting machine, the regular polling places within the district shall be used. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 6, eff. March 22, 1968.)
24 V.S.A. § 3678
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 - Municipal and County Government|Chapter 105 - Consolidated Sewer Districts|§ 3678. Record of proceedings

§ 3678. Record of proceedings|The clerk shall keep a record of the votes and the proceedings of the district meetings and give certified copies thereof when required. A clerk who neglects to perform his or her duty shall forfeit $20.00 to the district, to be recovered in a civil action on this statute. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 7, eff. March 22, 1968.)