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2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated › App § 5-1. Districts authorized to dissolve and merge

§ 5-1. Districts authorized to dissolve and merge
Bennington Graded School District, Inc., incorporated by No. 121 of the Acts of 1870, and Greater Bennington Schools, Inc., incorporated by Nos. 240 and 241 of the Acts of 1935, are hereby authorized and enabled to surrender their respective charters, dissolve, and thereby merge into and form a municipal corporation to be called Bennington School District Incorporated, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated › App § 5-2. Merger to constitute incorporation of new district

§ 5-2. Merger to constitute incorporation of new district
If Bennington Graded School District, Inc. and Greater Bennington School, Inc. vote to surrender their respective charters and dissolve and thereby merge, this chapter shall constitute the incorporating charter of Bennington School District Incorporated the territorial limits of which shall be all of the Town of Bennington exclusive of the portion of the Town which is within the North Bennington Graded School District, Inc.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated › App § 5-3. New district to own all property of old districts

§ 5-3. New district to own all property of old districts
All real estate and other property and all assets of Bennington Graded School District, Inc. and Greater Bennington Schools, Inc. shall become the property of Bennington School District Incorporated on July 1 in the year following the calendar year in which it is voted to dissolve the old districts and to create the new district pursuant to subsection 8(a) of this chapter, subject, however, to any agreements with respect thereto made by Bennington Graded School District, Inc., or Greater Bennington Schools, Inc., before July 1 in such year.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated › App § 5-4. New district to provide public schools for grades kindergarten through sixth

§ 5-4. New district to provide public schools for grades kindergarten through sixth
(a) The Bennington School District Incorporated shall provide for the elementary education of students within the territorial limits of the District for grades kindergarten through sixth.
(b) Sixth grade. The School Board shall not allow the attendance of sixth graders of the Bennington School District at the Mount Anthony Union School District Middle School until receiving authorization from a majority of the voters of the District by Australian ballot vote at a regular or special meeting. If authorization is given, the authorization shall remain in effect until the provisions of this charter are amended. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 302, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated › App § 5-7. New district to vote a tax on the combined grand list of old districts; fiscal year

§ 5-7. New district to vote a tax on the combined grand list of old districts; fiscal year
(a) The taxable estates within the territorial limits of Bennington School District Incorporated shall be combined into one grand list. The Bennington School District Incorporated may vote a tax upon those taxable estates for the lawful purposes of the district, including the payment of obligations imposed upon the District by sections 4, 5, and 6 of this chapter.
(b) The fiscal year of Bennington School District Incorporated shall be from July 1 in any calendar year to June 30 in the following calendar year.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated › App § 5-9. Officers of new district

§ 5-9. Officers of new district
(a) The officers of Bennington School District Incorporated shall be a Moderator, Clerk, Board of School Directors, and Treasurer.
(b) The Board of School Directors of Bennington School District Incorporated shall have seven members who shall be elected at large. When Bennington School District Incorporated so votes at an annual or special meeting, the Board of School Directors may be increased or decreased by such number as is voted.
(c) All officers of Bennington School District Incorporated elected at an annual meeting shall enter upon their duties immediately following their election and shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified.
(d) The terms of office of the members of the Board of School Directors, Moderator, Clerk, and Treasurer shall be three years and of all other officers one year.
(e) The Board of School Directors shall annually appoint a certified public accountant to audit the financial records of Bennington School District Incorporated.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated › App § 5-11. Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) directors elected at large

§ 5-11. Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) directors elected at large
The two Directors of Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) elected by Bennington Graded School District, Inc. and the two Directors of the Union District elected by Greater Bennington Schools, Inc. shall be elected as four Directors at large from Bennington School District Incorporated at the first annual meeting of the District and thereafter.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 5 - Bennington School District Incorporated › App § 5-12. Organization of Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) validated

§ 5-12. Organization of Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) validated
The organization and operation of Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14), consisting of Bennington Graded School District, Inc., Greater Bennington Schools, Inc., North Bennington Graded School District, Inc., Shaftsbury Town School District, Woodford Town School District, and Pownal Town School District as altered and affected by this chapter, is hereby validated.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District › App § 7-1. Incorporation of district

§ 7-1. Incorporation of district
Such portions of the Town of Bradford as lie within the present limits of School District Number 2 and within the present limits of School District Number 12, and the inhabitants thereof, are hereby incorporated and constituted a school district of the Town of Bradford, by the name of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District; all the property owned by the Districts Numbers 2 and 12 shall be the property of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District; and all debts and liabilities of the District Numbers 2 and 12 shall be assumed and paid by the Bradford Academy and Graded School District; and the Bradford Academy and Graded School District shall have all the powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities that are incident to graded school districts under the general laws of this State.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District › App § 7-2. District boundaries

§ 7-2. District boundaries
If any other school district or districts in the Town of Bradford shall at any time, by their vote at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, signify their desire to become united with the Bradford Academy and Graded School District, and if the Bradford Academy and Graded School District, at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, shall vote to agree to such union, then the additional district or districts shall become and form a part of Bradford Academy and Graded School District; and such union of districts may be made upon such terms in regard to the school property of each as may be mutually agreed upon by the districts. And by vote of the Town of Bradford, and by consent of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District, at any annual or special meeting of the Town and the District, duly warned for that purpose, territory from adjoining districts may be added to the Bradford Academy and Graded School District; or territory may be taken from the Bradford Academy and Graded School District by vote of the town as aforesaid, and by the consent of two-thirds of the voters in the Bradford Academy and Graded School District present at any meeting legally warned for that purpose.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District › App § 7-3. Officers and trustees

§ 7-3. Officers and trustees
Instead of a prudential committee now required by law to be elected, the Bradford Academy and Graded School District at its first annual meeting shall elect three Trustees, as follows: one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years; and at all subsequent annual meetings, vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of office of Trustees shall be filled by the election of Trustees for the term of three years each; and all vacancies caused by resignation, death, removal from the District, or other cause, shall be filled at an annual or special meeting duly warned for that purpose, for the unexpired term of such Trustees only. Such Trustees shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of a prudential committee, and shall choose one of their number to be President, and shall appoint a Secretary of the Board of Trustees, who shall hold office for the term of one year and until their successors are chosen and appointed. All other officers of the District shall be elected in the manner prescribed by law.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District › App § 7-4. Annual meeting

§ 7-4. Annual meeting
The time for holding the annual meetings and elections shall be the same as now is or hereafter shall be fixed by law for all school districts in the State; and the first annual meeting under this charter shall be holden on the last Tuesday of March A.D. 1893.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District › App § 7-5. Transfer of property

§ 7-5. Transfer of property
The Trustees of the Bradford Academy, an institution located at Bradford, in the county of Orange, established by an act of the Legislature of November 2, 1820, are hereby authorized to transfer by deed the Academy building and all the property appertaining thereto, and to deliver any and all funds in their hands belonging to the institution, to the Bradford Academy and Graded School District, which deed shall become operative and binding whenever the District shall vote to accept the same.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District › App § 7-6. Library and Library Committee

§ 7-6. Library and Library Committee
Within ten days after the first annual meeting of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District the Trustees shall appoint a Library Committee of three persons, one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years, to hold their offices until their successors are appointed. And within ten days after each annual meeting after the first, the Trustees shall appoint one committee to fill the place of the committee whose term has expired, and such committee shall hold his or her place for the term of three years. And the Trustees may fill all vacancies occasioned by death, removal, or resignation. The Committee shall take charge of the Merrill Library and apparatus and such other books and apparatus as shall come into the possession of the District, and shall select and purchase books and apparatus for the library, and shall make such rules and regulations for the care and use of the same as may seem to them best. And it is hereby made the duty of the Trustees to pay for such books and apparatus so selected by the Library Committee to an amount not exceeding the annual income of the Merrill Library fund of $2,500.00. They shall also provide a room or rooms for the library and apparatus whenever the District shall build a new schoolhouse.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District › App § 7-7. Transfer deed

§ 7-7. Transfer deed
The deed referred to in section 5 of this charter may, on the part and in behalf of the Trustees of the Bradford Academy, be executed by one of their number who may be authorized so to do by a vote of a majority or the Board of Trustees.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District › App § 7-8. Receipt of county and State funds; maintenance of school and curriculum

§ 7-8. Receipt of county and State funds; maintenance of school and curriculum
Upon the transfer and acceptance of the Academy buildings and property, the powers and duties of the Trustees of the Bradford Academy shall cease and the Bradford Academy and Graded School District shall be entitled to such equal share of the income of the grammar school lands of Orange County, as the aforesaid Bradford Academy was entitled to receive before the passage of this chapter, and also those funds granted in common with other academies and grammar schools in this State, so long as the School District shall maintain, in connection with their schools, a good English high school, not less than 30 weeks each year, and shall in addition thereto, teach therein ancient and modern languages and higher mathematics and sciences to the extent necessary to prepare students entering at the beginning of the regular course in common American colleges, and shall employ as the principal thereof a teacher who is a graduate of some college of good reputation.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District › App § 7-9. Adoption of rules and bylaws; acceptance of scholars

§ 7-9. Adoption of rules and bylaws; acceptance of scholars
The Trustees of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations for the graduation, instruction, and management of the Academy and graded school, and for the care of the property of the District, as they may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of this State; they shall establish a course or courses of study in each of the schools, and shall, in conjunction with the teachers of the schools, arrange and hold a public examination of all the schools during each school year thereof and assign each scholar to the particular grade or department which each shall be found qualified to enter; shall assign each student to the proper grade upon admission to the school, and may change students from one grade to another during term time, whenever the interest of the student or the good of the school seems to require it. The Trustees shall, unless otherwise directed by vote of the District at an annual meeting thereof, allow scholars from outside the District to attend the Academy and Graded School with equal advantages of resident scholars, at rates for the same instruction in schools of like character in the State. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 302, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District › App § 7-10. Acceptance of endowments or legacies

§ 7-10. Acceptance of endowments or legacies
The Bradford Academy and Graded School District is hereby empowered to receive any endowment, fund, or legacy in fee or in trust that may be devoted as an endowment toward the support or for the use of the Academy and Graded School on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the donor or legator, not inconsistent with the laws of this State; and the trustees of the Academy and Graded School shall be the custodians of such fund and of the income of the same, subject to the instructions of the District in regard to the use of the fund or income, unless otherwise provided by the terms of the endowment, donation, or legacy.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 7 - Bradford Academy and Graded School District › App § 7-11. Public acts; first meeting

§ 7-11. Public acts; first meeting
This chapter shall be under the control of future legislatures to alter or amend as the public good may require, and shall take effect on March 1 next. The first annual meeting of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District shall be held at the Bradford Academy and shall be warned by the Clerk of the School District Number 12 by posting a notice in due form of law on the outside door of the Academy at least seven days before the time for holding the meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-1.1. Consolidation

§ 11-1.1. Consolidation
No. 113 of the Acts of 1872, entitled “An act to establish the Essex Junction Graded School District” (which shall hereafter be called the Essex Junction school district) and all amendments and additions thereto, is hereby amended and consolidated so as to read as follows.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-1.2. Incorporation of district

§ 11-1.2. Incorporation of district
All that portion of the Town of Essex now embraced within the limits of the Essex Junction School District as incorporated by No. 113 of the Acts of 1872, and as has been amended and added thereto and which is also embraced within the limits of the incorporated Village of Essex Junction together with the inhabitants therein is hereby incorporated and made a body politic and corporate and shall hereafter be known by the name of the Essex Junction School District and by that name may use and be used, prosecute and defend in any court, may have a corporate seal and alter it at pleasure, may take, hold, and convey real and personal property and estate, may levy and collect taxes, and generally shall have the rights and liabilities incident to municipal corporations.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-1.3. Disposition of property

§ 11-1.3. Disposition of property
All property, assets, and liabilities now belonging to the Essex Junction Graded School District shall at the time of the taking effect of this chapter vest in and become property, asset, liability or both, of the Essex Junction School District as incorporated by this chapter.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-1.6. District voter

§ 11-1.6. District voter
A citizen of voting age, as defined by State and federal law, whose name is on the voting list taken in the Village of Essex Junction at the annual assessment next preceding a District meeting or who has attained voting age subsequent to such assessment, shall while residing in the District be a voter in such District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-1.8. Effect of prior law

§ 11-1.8. Effect of prior law
All acts, parts of acts, and bylaws, inconsistent with this chapter, except as herein otherwise provided, are hereby repealed. By the provisions of this chapter, so far as they are the same as those acts hereby amended, shall be construed as a continuation and consolidation of such acts, and not as new enactments.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-1.9. Implementation of charter

§ 11-1.9. Implementation of charter
This chapter shall not become operative or effective until approved, ratified, and adopted by a majority of the legal voters of the Essex Junction School District voting at a duly warned meeting. If this chapter is voted favorably by a majority of the District, that vote shall be certified to the Secretary of State pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 702 and shall become effective pursuant to the provisions thereof.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-2.1. Officers

§ 11-2.1. Officers
The officers shall be a Moderator, five Prudential Committee members composing the Prudential Committee, a Clerk-Treasurer who shall be the same person, and a Collector of Taxes. All officers shall be chosen from legally qualified voters in the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-2.2. Election and terms of officers

§ 11-2.2. Election and terms of officers
The Moderator and the five Prudential Committee members shall be elected at the annual meeting or on the day following. A Moderator shall be elected every year and shall serve a term of one year. The Moderator’s term of office shall commence on July 1 following his or her election, and shall terminate at midnight, June 30, following election of a successor. One or more persons shall be elected to the Prudential Committee each year. Effective as of the 1994 annual meeting, one of the two seats scheduled that year for election to the Prudential Committee shall be for a term of two years. Effective as of the 1995 annual meeting, one of the two seats scheduled that year for election to the Prudential Committee shall be for a term of two years. All other newly elected Prudential Committee members shall hold office for three year terms. Prudential committee members shall be elected by Australian ballot on the day following the annual meeting as set forth in Vermont law. All officers, excepting the Moderator, the Clerk-Treasurer, and the Collector of Taxes, shall hold office for terms commencing upon their election and terminating upon the election of their successor. The Clerk-Treasurer and the Collector of Taxes shall each be appointed by the Prudential Committee for a term of one year. The appointment shall be made following elections every year and before July 1st. The Clerk-Treasurer and the Collector of Taxes shall each be appointed for a term commencing July 1 following appointment and terminating at midnight on June 30 following the appointment of a successor.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-2.3. Vacancies

§ 11-2.3. Vacancies
When an officer resigns, dies, becomes incapacitated, or removes residency from the District, such office shall be considered vacant. When a vacancy occurs in any office, other than the office of Moderator, Clerk-Treasurer, and Collector of Taxes, the Prudential Committee shall forthwith, by appointment, in writing, fill such a vacancy until the election of a successor at the annual meeting next thereafter. At such annual meeting, the voters of the School District shall fill the vacancy in any elected office, other than the office of Moderator, for the remainder of the term. When the office of the Moderator, Clerk-Treasurer, or Collector of Taxes becomes vacant, the Prudential Committee shall forthwith by appointment, in writing, appoint a Moderator, Clerk-Treasurer, or Collector of Taxes to fill such vacancy until midnight of June 30 following election of a successor, in the case of the Moderator’s office, or appointment of a successor, in the case of the Clerk-Treasurer’s office or the Collector of Taxes’ office. All appointments under this section shall be filed and recorded in the office of the Clerk-Treasurer. No person shall be appointed to fill a vacancy in office who would not be eligible for election to such office.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-2.4. Bonding of officers

§ 11-2.4. Bonding of officers
A Prudential Committee member shall not be a Clerk-Treasurer or Collector of Taxes. Before entering upon their duties, the Collector of Taxes and Clerk-Treasurer shall give a bond to the District conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties in such sums as may be required. When the Collector or Clerk-Treasurer for ten days neglects to give a bond as required, the office shall be vacant.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-2.5. Board of Civil Authority

§ 11-2.5. Board of Civil Authority
The Moderator, Prudential Committee, Clerk-Treasurer, and Justices of the Peace residing in the District shall constitute a Board of Civil Authority in the District. The Board of Civil Authority shall have the same authority and power to abate taxes as the board of civil authority in towns. The Board of Civil Authority shall be responsible for conducting elections and shall decide all questions as to the eligibility of a person to vote in a district meeting. The members of the Board of Civil Authority present and acting at any meeting shall constitute a quorum in which to act.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-2.6. Moderator

§ 11-2.6. Moderator
The Moderator shall preside at the District meeting and in his or her absence, a Moderator Pro Tempora may be elected. As the presiding officer at District meetings, the Moderator shall perform the same duties and have the same authority as moderators at town meetings.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-2.7. Clerk-Treasurer

§ 11-2.7. Clerk-Treasurer
The Clerk-Treasurer of Essex Junction School District shall keep a record of the proceedings of the District and shall have the power to certify the copies of the same and shall perform the duties and have the authority and powers incident to clerks and treasurers of other municipal corporations. All money belonging to the District shall be paid to the Clerk-Treasurer, be safely kept, and paid out by the Clerk-Treasurer only upon orders issued by the Prudential Committee, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-2.8. Collector of Taxes

§ 11-2.8. Collector of Taxes
Except as modified by this charter, the Collector of Taxes shall perform the same duties and have the same authority and power in the collection of taxes as those given by law to collectors of taxes and collectors of delinquent taxes in towns.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-4.1. Annual meeting

§ 11-4.1. Annual meeting
The annual meeting of the District shall be held at an appropriate meeting place within the District on the second Tuesday of May in each year, or at such place or time as the District may vote, but never later than June 15. Annual meetings shall be warned by the Clerk-Treasurer or in case of his or her absence or neglect, by the Prudential Committee.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-4.2. Special meetings

§ 11-4.2. Special meetings
Special meetings of the District shall be warned by the School District Clerk, or by the Prudential Committee, either upon its own volition or upon application in writing signed by one percent or more of the legal voters of the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-4.3. Warnings

§ 11-4.3. Warnings
A warning for an annual or special District meeting shall be posted in three or more public places in the District not less than 30 and not more than 40 days before the meeting, setting forth the time and place of the meeting and the business to be done.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-5.1. Grand list

§ 11-5.1. Grand list
The grand list of the Town of Essex composed of the taxable property and estate within the limits of the District shall constitute the grand list of the District. The District may at an annual or special meeting legally warned for that purpose vote to lay and assess a tax on its grand list for school purposes, and all taxes so voted, laid, or assessed shall be paid and collected in the same manner as is proved by law or by this chapter for the payment and collection of town taxes, and the Prudential Committee, Clerk-Treasurer, and Collector of Taxes shall perform the same duties and have the same authority in respect thereto as is provided by law for members of selectboards, treasurers, collectors of taxes, and collectors of delinquent taxes in towns, except that the District shall charge a collection fee of eight percent in addition to any interest owing on any and all tax payments, including installment payments, made after expiration of the time established in the notice of taxes due mailed to each taxpayer as required by law.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-5.2. Borrowing

§ 11-5.2. Borrowing
The District may borrow money in any year in anticipation of taxes assessed in such year, in an amount not to exceed 90 percent of the taxes assessed in such year. Such notes or orders, however, must mature within one year from the date thereof and be paid from the taxes assessed and collected in such year.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 11 - Essex Junction School District › App § 11-5.3. Issuance of negotiable bonds

§ 11-5.3. Issuance of negotiable bonds
The District is hereby authorized and empowered by a vote of a majority of all voters voting at a legally warned meeting held for that purpose to issue its negotiable bonds or negotiable interest-bearing notes pursuant to State statutes.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4 › App § 13-1. Incorporation of district

§ 13-1. Incorporation of district
School District No. 4 in Middlebury, in the County of Addison, a corporation duly established under the laws of this State, is hereby empowered and required to educate the scholars in the District in a grade 1 school or schools; and for that purpose may sell and convey any real estate belonging to the District, purchase, build, lease, and hold as many schoolhouses or school rooms, and establish and keep as many schools, and cause to be taught therein as extended a course of study as the District shall direct.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4 › App § 13-2. Merger of districts

§ 13-2. Merger of districts
In order that a competent number of schools shall be maintained in the Town of Middlebury, for the convenient instruction of youth, School District No. 4 in Middlebury, in the County of Addison, an incorporated school district established by Act No. 89 of the laws of 1866, is empowered to merge with the Town School District of Middlebury, provided a majority of the legal voters of the Town School District of Middlebury present and voting at any meeting legally warned of the Town School District of Middlebury vote to become a part of School District No 4. in Middlebury, and a majority of the legal voters of School District No. 4 in Middlebury present and voting at any meeting legally warned of School District No. 4 in Middlebury vote to accept the merger. If the merger occurs, School District No. 4 in Middlebury shall retain all its present corporate powers and shall continue its corporate existence heretofore granted, and the Town School District of Middlebury shall no longer exist except for the settlement of its own pecuniary affairs and for the purpose only of voting, assessing, and collecting of a special tax annually to pay its indebtedness, if any, which settlement and payment shall be made before the expiration of two years from the date of the vote of School District No. 4 in Middlebury accepting the merger.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4 › App § 13-3. Transfer of real estate

§ 13-3. Transfer of real estate
The Town School District is hereby authorized and empowered when the merger occurs to transfer and assign to School District No. 4 in Middlebury all right title and interest or use in any estate, real or personal, wherever situate, and from whatever source derived appertaining or belonging to the Town School District of Middlebury, provided said present School District of Middlebury so votes by a majority of its legal voters present and voting at a meeting thereof legally warned.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4 › App § 13-5. School funds; State aid

§ 13-5. School funds; State aid
If the merger occurs, School District No. 4 in Middlebury shall be entitled to all the public money distributed to Middlebury and to all State aid granted to the town of Middlebury and provisions heretofore granted to the District inconsistent with this section shall be repealed.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4 › App § 13-6. Adoption of rules and regulations

§ 13-6. Adoption of rules and regulations
The Incorporated School District may make all such necessary rules and regulations in regard to the attendance of scholars, and the course of instruction in the school or schools, as shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this State.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4 › App § 13-8. Officers and Prudential Committee

§ 13-8. Officers and Prudential Committee
The officers of the Incorporated School District shall be a Moderator, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector, and an Auditor, who shall be chosen annually, and a Prudential Committee of seven hereafter to be chosen as follows:
At each annual meeting of the Town of Middlebury, there shall be elected a member of the Committee for a term of three years. A vacancy on the Committee shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by a majority of the members of the Committee. All elected officers shall be elected by Australian ballot, chosen from the legally qualified voters of the Town, and shall hold their respective offices until their successors are elected and qualified.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 13 - Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4 › App § 13-9. General provisions

§ 13-9. General provisions
The general provisions of law pertaining to schools not inconsistent with the provisions of law pertaining to this charter and with the rights heretofore granted School District No. 4 by special legislation shall apply to school District No. 4 when the merger occurs.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 15 - North Bennington Graded School District › App § 15-1. Establishment of District

§ 15-1. Establishment of District
All of the Town of Bennington which is included within the limits of the incorporated Village of North Bennington is hereby constituted a school district in the Town by the name of the North Bennington Graded School District and the Graded School District shall have all the powers and privileges and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities that are incident to school districts as established under the laws of this State.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 15 - North Bennington Graded School District › App § 15-2. Prudential Committee

§ 15-2. Prudential Committee
The Prudential Committee shall consist of five persons, and at the annual meeting of the District, vacancies occasioned by the expiration of the term of office of members of the Committee shall be filled by the election of members for the term of three years each; and all vacancies on the Committee caused by resignation, death, removal from the District, or other cause shall be filled at an annual or special meeting warned for that purpose for the unexpired term of such members only.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 15 - North Bennington Graded School District › App § 15-3. Authority to make rules and establish schools

§ 15-3. Authority to make rules and establish schools
The Graded School District may make bylaws, rules, and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, and may provide for the establishment and maintenance of such number of schools and of such grade or grades and for teaching therein such branches of knowledge as it may deem expedient.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 15 - North Bennington Graded School District › App § 15-4. Distribution of public funds

§ 15-4. Distribution of public funds
In the distribution of public moneys, that portion which may be divided among the several districts, irrespective of the number of scholars or their attendance at school, shall be so divided as to give the Graded School District the shares of the several original districts of which it is or shall be composed.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 15 - North Bennington Graded School District › App § 15-5. Additional districts

§ 15-5. Additional districts
If any other school district or districts in the Town of Bennington or in the adjoining Town of Shaftsbury shall at any time, by their vote at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, signify their desire to become united with the Graded School District, and if the Graded School District at a meeting duly warned for that purpose shall vote to agree to the union, the additional District shall to all intents and purposes become and form a part of the North Bennington Graded School District, and the union of the districts may be made upon the terms in regard to the school property of each as may be mutually agreed upon by the districts.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 17 - Orleans School District › App § 17-1. Incorporation; boundaries

§ 17-1. Incorporation; boundaries
Such portions of the Town of Barton as were included within the limits of School District Number Seven, prior to the enactment of an act, entitled “An act relating to public instruction,” approved November 12, 1892, and bounded as the District was then bounded and the inhabitants thereof are hereby incorporated and constituted a school district of the Town of Barton by the name of the Orleans School District, and the school house and all other property of whatever character in the District shall become the general property of the Orleans School District; and the Graded School District shall have all the powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities of such districts under the laws of this State, and the laws in addition thereto or in amendment thereof.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 17 - Orleans School District › App § 17-2. Officers; trustees

§ 17-2. Officers; trustees
The School District at its first annual meeting shall elect three Trustees as follows: One for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years; and at all subsequent annual meetings vacancies by the expiration of the terms of office of Trustee shall be filled by the election of Trustees for the term of three years each; and all vacancies caused by death, registration, removal from the District, or other cause shall be filled at an annual or special meeting warned for the purpose, for the unexpired term of such Trustees only. The Trustees shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of a Prudential Committee of a school district, and shall choose one of their number to be President, and may appoint a Secretary of the Board, each of whom shall hold office for the term of one year and until their successors are chosen and appointed. There shall also be elected a Collector, Treasurer, and three Auditors at each annual meeting of the District for the term of one year each, and vacancies in either of the offices may be filled at any special meeting called for that purpose, and they shall serve in their respective offices until their successors are elected. The President of the Board of Trustees shall serve as Moderator at all meetings of the District, and the Secretary of the Board of Trustees who shall not be a member of the Board shall serve as Clerk of the District and shall be invested with the same powers and subject to the same duties and liabilities of clerks of school districts under the school district system.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 17 - Orleans School District › App § 17-3. Annual meeting

§ 17-3. Annual meeting
All annual meetings of the School District shall be held on the second Tuesday of March in each year, at such time of day and place as shall be designated by the Clerk of the District and the notice thereof shall not be less than six nor more than ten days from the date of such notice or warning, and special meetings may be called at any time under the direction of the Trustees or on petition of any five or more legal voters in the District, and the notice for such meetings shall be the same as that herein provided for annual meetings and the notices for all annual and special meetings shall be posted in three or more public places in the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 17 - Orleans School District › App § 17-4. Powers of officers

§ 17-4. Powers of officers
All persons elected to the office of Collector, Treasurer, and Auditors shall be invested with the same powers and privileges and subject to the same duties and liabilities of such officers of school districts under the school district system under the laws of this State prior to the adoption of the town system of schools.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 17 - Orleans School District › App § 17-5. Bylaws, rules, and regulations; District

§ 17-5. Bylaws, rules, and regulations; District
The Orleans School District may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, and may provide for the establishment and maintenance of such number of schools, of such length, and of such grade or grades, and for teaching such branches of study therein as it may deem expedient; and may at its option afford and provide for the studies taught in higher academic schools and which are requisite to prepare scholars for admission to colleges. The graded school shall not be required to afford instruction gratuitously in drawing, music, or the languages other than English or the higher mathematics, but may do so at its option; all residents of the District between the ages of five and 20 years may attend the graded school free of tuition for all branches of study, except those above mentioned, tuition to be charged upon the branches excepted at the option of the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 17 - Orleans School District › App § 17-6. Bylaws, rules, and regulations; Trustees

§ 17-6. Bylaws, rules, and regulations; Trustees
The Trustees may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations for the graduation, instruction, and management of the school, and for the care of the property of the District as they may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of the State; they shall establish a course or courses of study in each of the schools or departments of the school, and shall in conjunction with the teachers of the several schools or departments arrange and hold a public examination of all the scholars at the close of each term thereof, if thought best, and assign each scholar to the particular grade or department which each shall be found qualified to enter; shall assign each student to the proper grade upon admission to the school and may change students from one grade to another during term time, whenever the interest of the student or the welfare and good of the school may seem to require it. The Trustees, shall, unless otherwise directed by a vote of the District at any annual meeting thereof, allow and make provision for the attendance and instruction of students from other parts or portions of the Town of Barton or from other towns in the graded school with equal advantages of resident students, at rates of tuition corresponding as nearly as may be to the usual rates for the same instruction in schools of like character in the State. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 302, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 16 Appendix - Education Charters and Agreements › Chapter 17 - Orleans School District › App § 17-7. Gifts, benefactions, legacies, and endowments

§ 17-7. Gifts, benefactions, legacies, and endowments
The School District is hereby empowered to receive any gift, benefaction, legacy, or endowment fund in fee or in trust, that may be donated, devised, given, or bestowed, for the support and use of the Graded School on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed and limited by any donor or legator not inconsistent with the laws of this State; and the Trustees of such Graded School shall be the custodians of such gifts, benefactions, legacies, or endowment funds and of the income of the same, subject to the order and direction of the District in relation to the same, unless otherwise provided by the terms of such gift, benefaction, legacy, or endowment fund.