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24A V.S.A. § 251-901
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-901. Bonding for water and sewer systems and light plant

§ 251-901. Bonding for water and sewer systems and light plant|The Village at an annual or special meeting called for that purpose, is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money for any of the purposes herein mentioned, including the construction and establishment of a water system, sewer system, and light plant, and to issue notes and bonds therefor, and such notes or bonds shall be signed by the Board of Trustees and countersigned by the Treasurer of the Village, and payable at times and in a manner as the Board may direct. However, no vote to borrow, or for the issue of orders therefor, shall be taken at any meeting for which the purpose is not specified in the warrants. Before the orders shall issue, a record thereof shall be made in a book kept for that purpose by the Treasurer. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-902
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-902. Maximum bonded indebtedness

§ 251-902. Maximum bonded indebtedness|(a) The total amount of the bonded or other outstanding indebtedness of said Village at any one time, however, shall not exceed 10 percent of the assessed valuation of the property therein; and said Village may refund its outstanding legal indebtedness by issuing its notes or bonds therefor subject to the provision of this section.(b) This section shall not be construed to prevent the Village issuing its orders to borrow money to provide for current necessary expenses in any year; said orders, however, to be retired from the avails of taxes appropriated for the purpose by the Village that year.
24A V.S.A. § 251-1001
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-1001. Compensation for taking

§ 251-1001. Compensation for taking|Whenever, to exercise or carry into effect any of the powers hereinbefore vested in said Village, or the trustees thereof, the public good or the necessity of said Village shall, in the judgment of the trustees, require the entering upon or the taking by the Village, or by the trustees in its behalf, of water, land, or real estate, or any interest therein of any person or corporation, and such person or corporation disputes the necessity of such taking, or if the damages therefor cannot be adjusted by agreement, the matter shall be determined by the trustees of said Village, after hearing all parties interested. Such hearing shall be had upon written notice of the time and place thereof, given at least 10 days before the hearing, which notice shall substantially describe the waters, lands, or privileges desired; and said trustees shall within 10 days after such hearing file their decision and award in the Town Clerk's office of the town where the property is situated, and cause the same there to be recorded and shall at the same time file in such office a description of the waters, lands, or privileges so taken, sufficiently accurate for the identification; and if no appeal is taken from the decision and award of said trustees, as hereinafter provided, they shall, upon payment or tender of the amount awarded by them to the persons entitled thereto, be authorized to proceed under the provisions of this act, without further hindrance or liability for damages.
24A V.S.A. § 251-1002
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-1002. Petition for appeal of compensation award

§ 251-1002. Petition for appeal of compensation award|When any person or corporation interested in any property or rights taken under this act shall be dissatisfied with the decision of said trustees as to the necessity for or extent of such taking, or with the award of damages, the person may petition the Bennington County Court for a rehearing in the premises, and any number of person aggrieved may join therein; but such petition shall not delay said Village or its Board of Trustees in taking possession and control of such waters, lands, or privileges, where such petition relates to the matter of damages only.Such petition shall be served on the Clerk of the Village within 60 days after the filing of the decision and award of the trustees, as hereinbefore provided, and at least 12 days before the term of Court to which it is made returnable; and such proceedings shall be had in said Court, on said petition, except as herein otherwise provided as are provided by sections 816 and 817 of Vermont Statutes, and the amendments thereof, relating to the taking of land for school purposes.
24A V.S.A. § 251-1201
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-1201. Amendment and repeal

§ 251-1201. Amendment and repeal|The said trustees may make, alter, amend, or repeal any ordinance, bylaw, or regulation which it deems necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers or for the well-being of said Village, and which is not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States; and to provide penalties for the breach thereof; and public notice of such bylaws, regulations, and ordinances shall be given by posting a notice thereof in at least three public places in said Village, not less than five days before the same shall take effect; all fines, penalties, taxes, and moneys paid for, licenses thereby provided shall belong to the Village and be paid to its Treasurer.
24A V.S.A. § 251-1202
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-1202. Recordation and certification

§ 251-1202. Recordation and certification|The bylaws, rules, regulations, 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, regulations, or ordinances have been passed or adopted shall be prima facie evidence of such fact in any court in this State, and certified copies of said bylaws, rules, regulations, and ordinances and Clerk's certificates shall also be received as evidence in all the courts of this State.
24A V.S.A. § 251-1203
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-1203. Fines

§ 251-1203. Fines|(a) For the breach of any bylaw, rule, regulation, or ordinance, the Village may impose a fine as specified therein. The court or Judicial Bureau shall impose the costs of prosecution in addition to the fine, in case of a conviction, and when it is necessary to abate a nuisance, the expense of abatement may be imposed upon the delinquent in addition to such fine and costs.(b) If any person while residing without this State and while owning real or personal property within the Village shall with and by means of the real or personal estate or by his or her agents and servants violate any of the ordinances which the Village is authorized to make, the Village may sue for and recover the penalty for violation of such ordinance in an action founded on this statute and shall proceed in the same manner as by law is now provided in civil actions against persons residing without the State. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
24A V.S.A. § 251-1204
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-1204. Prosecutions

§ 251-1204. Prosecutions|The trustees of the Village and any informing or prosecuting officer of the Town or County of Bennington may prosecute for violations of the charter; or the ordinances, bylaws, and regulations of said Village.
24A V.S.A. § 251-1301
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington|App § 251-1301. Amendment and repeal

§ 251-1301. Amendment and repeal|This charter shall be subject to future legislation to alter, amend, or repeal.
24A V.S.A. § 253-1
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-1. Corporate existence, boundaries

§ 253-1. Corporate existence, boundaries|All that part of Troy, in the County of Orleans, enclosed within the following boundaries:  commencing at the northeast corner of land owned and occupied by Winfield S. Elkins, thence southerly along the line between the land owned and occupied by said Elkins, S. P. Hunt, and C. P. Adams, to the highway leading from North Troy Village to Newport, thence westerly in the highway to the river road, so called, thence southerly in the river road to the southeast corner of land owned and occupied by Curtis Elkins, thence westerly and southerly on said Curtis Elkins' south and east line to the Missisquoi River, thence westerly along the river to the southeast corner of land formerly owned and occupied by the late Harvey Elkins, deceased, thence westerly on the south line of said Harvey Elkins' land to the southwest corner of the land, thence southerly on the easterly line of land owned by John W. Currier to the southeast corner of said Currier's land, thence westerly on the south line of said Currier's land to the west road, so called, crossing the road and continuing westerly to the southwest corner of land owned by H. B. Parkhurst, thence northerly on lot lines to the Canadian boundary, thence easterly on Canada line to the Missisquoi River, following the river to S. B. Hammond's north line, thence easterly along said Hammond's north line to said Winfield S. Elkins' northwest corner, thence along said W. S. Elkins' north line to point commenced at-all surface measure-shall hereafter be known by the name of the Village of North Troy.
24A V.S.A. § 253-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-2. Authority of Village

§ 253-2. Authority of Village|By that name may have perpetual succession, and be capable of suing and being sued, may prosecute and defend in any court, may have a common seal, and the same alter at pleasure, and shall be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying real and personal estate for the use of the Village; and may, at any annual or special meeting warned for that purpose, as provided in this chapter, lay a tax upon the ratable estate within the same, whether residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes herein mentioned, 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 may in like manner levy on and sell property to satisfy the same, and for want thereof may commit any person to jail against whom the Collector has such a tax.
24A V.S.A. § 253-4
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-4. Qualified voters

§ 253-4. Qualified voters|Every person who resides within the limits of the Village, and is a legal voter in Town meetings in the Town of Troy, shall be entitled to vote in any Village meeting.
24A V.S.A. § 253-5
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-5. Elections at meeting

§ 253-5. Elections at meeting|At every annual meeting of the Village, the qualified electors of the Village shall, by ballot if called for, elect from their number a Moderator, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, three trustees, three fire wardens, and an Attorney. The Trustees elected at the last Village meeting shall hold office during the remainder of their official year. At the annual Village meeting to be held on the first Tuesday of January, one trustee shall be elected for the term of three years. All vacancies in the office of trustee shall be filled at the next annual meeting or at a special Village meeting duly called for that purpose.
24A V.S.A. § 253-6
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-6. Village Moderator

§ 253-6. Village Moderator|It shall be the duty of the Moderator to preside at all the meetings of the Village, and he or she shall have the same power as a Moderator of Town meetings.
24A V.S.A. § 253-7
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-7. Village Clerk

§ 253-7. Village Clerk|It shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep fair and accurate records of all the proceedings of the corporation, and he or she shall give copies of the same when required, with power to certify to the same. It shall be the Clerk's duty to warn special meetings of the corporation, agreeably to the direction of the trustees, or a majority of them, and all annual meetings, by posting notice of the time and place of such meetings in at least three public places in the Village, at least 10 days previous to the time of meeting, together with a statement of the business to be transacted. Any meeting of the corporation may be adjourned, and any business may be transacted at such adjourned meeting, which might, under the warning, have been transacted at the original meeting, as well as any other business, notice of which shall be given at such original meeting before the adjournment of the same.
24A V.S.A. § 253-8
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-8. Village Treasurer and Collector

§ 253-8. Village Treasurer and Collector|The Treasurer and Collector shall perform for the corporation the same duties required by law respectively of a town treasurer and a collector of town taxes, and shall have the same powers, shall proceed in the same manner, be subject to the same liabilities, and give like bonds to the corporation for the faithful performance of its respective duties.
24A V.S.A. § 253-9
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-9. Village trustees

§ 253-9. Village trustees|The trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interest of the Village; shall make out all taxes, and direct the expenditures of all moneys belonging to the Village, and shall draw all orders upon the Treasurer, and generally shall perform all duties legally enjoined upon them by the corporation; and all powers vested in the trustees may be performed by a majority of them. The trustees, in case of the death, removal, or disability of any of the officers mentioned in this chapter, may perform their respective duties until others are elected.
24A V.S.A. § 253-10
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-10. Highway district taxes

§ 253-10. Highway district taxes|All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Troy, and all the highway taxes assessed upon the ratable estate therein shall be paid in money; and the Selectboard of the Town of Troy 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 the Village, who shall collect the same as other taxes of the Village are collected, and pay the same over to the Treasurer of the Village; which money shall be drawn from the Village treasury by the trustees, and shall be expended by them in building, constructing, sustaining, and repairing the streets, highways, walks, alleys, and lanes of the Village, except 15 percent thereof which shall be paid into the treasury of the Town of Troy by the Treasurer of the Village of North Troy for the use of the Town; and no surveyors of highways for the highway district shall be required or chosen by the Town.
24A V.S.A. § 253-11
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-11. Roads, sidewalks, and assessments

§ 253-11. Roads, sidewalks, and assessments|The trustees of the Village may lay out, alter, maintain, and discontinue any street, road, lane, alley, or walk in the Village, and appraise and settle the damages therefor, causing their proceedings to be recorded in the Town Clerk's office in the Town; provided, that any person aggrieved by their proceedings shall have the like opportunity for applying to the County Court for the County of Orleans to obtain redress, as is or may be allowed by law to those aggrieved with the proceedings of the Selectboard in similar cases. The trustees in making, altering, or repairing sidewalks shall have power, subject to the ordinances and bylaws of the Village, on giving 12 days' notice to the parties of the time and place of hearing, to assess the owners of lands adjoining such sidewalk as the trustees shall judge such lands to be benefited thereby; and when they shall have made any such assessment, they shall make a report thereof, setting forth their doings in that respect; which report they shall cause to be recorded in the Town Clerk's office in the Town of Troy, and when so recorded, the amount so assessed shall be and remain a lien, in the nature of the tax, upon the lands so assessed, until the same shall be paid. From such assessment, there shall be the same right of appeal to the County Court, and the same proceedings in respect to such appeal as is provided in this section, and the final decision of the County Court in the matter of such appeal shall, when the record thereof is duly recorded as aforesaid, be a lien upon the lands so assessed as mentioned in this section; but such appeal shall not delay the making, altering, or repairing such sidewalk; and, if the owner of such lands shall neglect, for the space of six months after the final decision of the trustees, or in case of appeal to the County Court, to pay to the Village Treasurer the amount of the assessment, the trustees shall issue their warrant for the collection of the same, directed to the Village Collector of Taxes, who shall have authority to sell at public auction so much of the land as will satisfy the assessment and all legal fees, and who shall proceed in the same manner as collectors of town taxes are required by law to proceed in selling real estate at auction for the collection of town taxes.
24A V.S.A. § 253-12
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-12. Licensing authority

§ 253-12. Licensing authority|The trustees of the Village shall have the sole power of granting licenses and vacating the same, within the limits of the Village, agreeably to the bylaws, rules, and ordinances thereof that the selectboard has by Titles 7 and 24 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated and all moneys received for such licenses shall belong to the Village treasury, and be paid into the same.
24A V.S.A. § 253-13
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-13. Fire Warden

§ 253-13. Fire Warden|The fire wardens of the Village shall be present at all fires, having some distinguishing badge, fixed upon by the corporation; and the wardens, in time of fire, are hereby empowered to demand reasonable assistance from the inhabitants of the Village or any of them, and all persons who may be present at such times are hereby required to assist in extinguishing and preventing the spreading of such fire, and to remove goods and effects out of any house or other building endangered by such fire; and the majority of the fire wardens present at any fire are hereby further empowered to cause to be pulled down or removed such buildings as they may think necessary for the purpose of preventing the progress or spreading of the fire, and for that purpose may command the assistance of any person in the Village; they are also empowered, by force if necessary, to suppress any tumults and disorders at the fire, and all persons present are required to yield strict obedience to the wardens and all orders given by them; and if any person shall neglect or refuse to obey the orders of the fire wardens or either of them, in time of fire in the Village, in any manner authorized in this act, such offender shall, upon conviction before any justice of the peace, forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding $50.00, with costs of prosecution, to the Treasurer of the corporation.
24A V.S.A. § 253-14
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-14. Hook and ladder company

§ 253-14. Hook and ladder company|The trustees of the Village may organize one fire and hook and ladder company in the Village, for the purpose of preventing fires, and at the expense of the Village may purchase a fire engine and other necessary implements; provided, the corporation shall so direct by vote at a meeting duly called for that purpose.
24A V.S.A. § 253-15
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-15. Grand list

§ 253-15. Grand list|The trustees may make a grand list for the Village at any time prior to voting a tax, on the following basis: the Town grand list of Troy, comprised within the limits of the Village, shall constitute such grand list, and the trustees shall deduct therefrom all real estate lying and being without the limits of the Village, as near as may be, and such list, when completed, shall be final and conclusive upon all concerned.
24A V.S.A. § 253-16
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-16. Competency to hold Village office

§ 253-16. Competency to hold Village office|No member of the Village shall be deemed thereby incompetent to act as judge, justice of the peace, juror, sheriff, or constable in any cause or proceeding in which the corporation shall be interested.
24A V.S.A. § 253-17
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-17. Date of annual meeting

§ 253-17. Date of annual meeting|The annual meeting of the corporation for the choice of officers and for the transaction of any business specified in the warning of the meeting shall be held in the Village of North Troy, on the third Tuesday of March of each year, or such other day that the trustees may approve. (Amended 2007, No. M-3, § 2.)
24A V.S.A. § 253-20
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy|App § 253-20. Village Constable

§ 253-20. Village Constable|An office of Village Constable is established in the Village of North Troy. The Village Constable shall be appointed by the Village Trustees and serve at the pleasure of the Trustees. If the Village Constable is certified as a Level II or Level III law enforcement officer under 20 V.S.A. § 2358, he or she shall have the authority to enforce any Village ordinance. (Added 2003, No. M-3, § 2; amended 2015, No. 2, § 4.)
24A V.S.A. § 261-2
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters|Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans|App § 261-2. Alteration of bounds; requisites

§ 261-2. Alteration of bounds; requisites|The Village may, by vote in Village meeting, alter its bounds with the written consent of each person whose residence or property will be included or excluded by such alteration. A record of such alteration of bounds and of such instruments of consent shall be made in the Town Clerk's office of the Town of Barton and the alteration shall not take effect until such record has been made. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 2.)