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2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 304. Approval of section 102 of this charter by vote required

§ 304. Approval of section 102 of this charter by vote required
The maximum school tax rate of 120 cents upon the dollar of the property grand list of the City, as provided for in section 102 of this charter, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 102 of this charter, be 100 cents upon the dollar of said list, unless a majority of the legal voters of said City, present and voting thereon at the annual City meeting to be held on the first Tuesday in March 1950, shall vote favorably upon the following question to be voted upon by ballot: “Shall the provisions of section 102 of the City charter providing for a maximum school tax of 120 cents upon the dollar of the property grand list of the City be approved?”
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 305. Approval of section 99 by vote required

§ 305. Approval of section 99 by vote required
The limitation upon the tax provided by section 99 of this charter for City purposes shall be 200 cents upon the dollar of the property grand list, in the event that a majority of the legal voters of the City of Burlington present and voting thereon at the annual City meeting to be held on the first Tuesday in March 1950, shall vote favorably upon the following question: “Shall the City Council be authorized to assess annually upon the property grand list for City purposes a tax which shall not exceed 200 cents upon the dollar thereof?”
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 306. Reserve Fund of Light Department not to be increased without vote

§ 306. Reserve Fund of Light Department not to be increased without vote
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 65 of this charter, the Special Reserve Fund of the Light Department therein provided for shall not be increased in any one year by more than 10 percent of the net earnings of said Department for the previous year, unless a majority of the legal voters of the City present and voting thereon at the annual City meeting to be held on the first Tuesday in March, 1950, shall vote favorably upon the following question, to be voted upon by ballot: “Shall the City Council, with the approval of the Board of Light Commissioners, be authorized to increase the Reserve Fund of the Light Department by such part of the Department earnings as it may deem advisable?”
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 321. Creation of Downtown Improvement District, Church Street Marketplace District, and Marketplace

§ 321. Creation of Downtown Improvement District, Church Street Marketplace District, and Marketplace
(a) There is hereby created in the City of Burlington a special district to be known as the Downtown Improvement District, such District to be bounded by the shoreline of Lake Champlain on the west, the north property lines of properties fronting on Pearl Street on the north, the east property lines of properties fronting on South Winooski Avenue on the east, and the south property lines of properties fronting on Main Street to the intersection of Battery Street and then extending southerly to include properties fronting on Maple Street, on the south. The Church Street Marketplace District defined below shall also be included within the Downtown Improvement District.
(b) There is hereby created in the City of Burlington and within the Downtown Improvement District a special district to be known as the Church Street Marketplace District (District) that includes all of Church Street and the properties that have frontage thereon bounded on the north by the northernmost property line of properties bounded by Church and Pearl Streets, and bounded on the south by the southernmost property lines of properties at the northern corners of the Church and Main Street intersection, and more precisely shown on a plan entitled “Church Street Marketplace District” recorded with the Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Burlington on June 27, 1979.
(c) The Church Street Marketplace (Marketplace) shall be that section of the District now or hereafter under the direct control of the City of Burlington including the Church Street right-of-way and adjacent sidewalks. (Amended 1999, No. M-9, § 3, eff. June 1, 1999.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 322. Establishment of Commission

§ 322. Establishment of Commission
There shall be maintained in the City of Burlington a Church Street Marketplace Commission consisting of nine legal voters of the State of Vermont, no fewer than five of whom must be legal voters of the City, who shall be appointed by the City Council. On the first Monday in June 1993 the City Council shall appoint four commissioners, three for a three-year term and one for a four-year term.
(1) On the first Monday in June 1994, the City Council shall appoint one commissioner for a three-year term and on the first Monday in June 1995, the City Council shall appoint two commissioners for three-year terms. On the first Monday in June 1999, the City Council shall appoint two commissioners for a two-year term. Thereafter, all appointments shall be for three-year terms and commissioners shall serve from the first day of July following their appointment and until their successors are duly appointed and have qualified.
(2) Two members at all times shall be proprietors or managers of retail businesses that are within the Church Street Marketplace District and such members need not be residents of Burlington. Two members at all times shall be proprietors or managers of retail businesses that are within the Downtown Improvement District, with one of such members being located within the Downtown Improvement District but outside the boundaries of the Church Street Marketplace and such members need not be residents of Burlington.
(3) The Commission shall organize by the election of a Chair and Vice Chair and by the appointment of a Clerk and a Treasurer. The Clerk shall keep a written record of the proceedings of the Commission, such record to be the property of the City. The Clerk need not be a member of the Commission.
(4) The manner of removal of commissioners and filling of vacancies shall be as provided in sections 129 and 130 of this charter, and the commissioners shall, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, be subject to all other provisions of this charter relating to public officers. (Amended 1999, No. M-9, § 4, eff. June 1, 1999; 2015, No. M-7, § 2, eff. May 18, 2015.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 323. Expansion of Church Street Marketplace District and/or Marketplace

§ 323. Expansion of Church Street Marketplace District and/or Marketplace
(a) Upon recommendation of a majority of the Commission to the City Council, the boundaries of the Church Street Marketplace District may be expanded. Said boundaries may be expanded only if all the following conditions are met:
(1) Notification of the consideration of the expansion is given in writing to all persons owning property in the contemplated area of expansion.
(2) A legally warned public hearing on the question is conducted.
(3) Two-thirds of the membership of the City Council present and voting approve the extension.
(4) The expanded boundaries do not extend beyond the boundaries of the Downtown Improvement District above defined.
(b) Upon advice of the Commission to the City Council, that section of the District now or hereafter defined as the Marketplace may be expanded or not within the Downtown Improvement District, subject to the same restrictions listed under subsection (a) of this section. (Amended 1999, No. M-9, § 5, eff. June 1, 1999.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 325. Annual taxation for Downtown Improvement District; free parking for two hours in public lots and garages; annual budget of Church Street Marketplace District

§ 325. Annual taxation for Downtown Improvement District; free parking for two hours in public lots and garages; annual budget of Church Street Marketplace District
(a) The Church Street Marketplace Commission shall annually recommend and the City Council shall annually assess upon nonresidential properties (as defined in section 81 of this charter) located within the Downtown Improvement District a tax upon the dollar of the property grand list to be used for the herein enumerated purposes of the Downtown Improvement District, which tax shall not exceed $0.12 unless a larger amount has been authorized by the City Council upon affirmative recommendation of the Church Street Marketplace Commission. The revenues from such tax will be utilized for the purpose of providing a parking program that shall include not less than two free hours of parking for anyone parking in any designated municipally or privately owned or operated parking garage or parking lot located within the Downtown Improvement District pursuant to regulations to be established by the Public Works Commission.
(b) Annual budget. The Commission shall prepare a proposed budget for each fiscal year showing the proposed expenditures and anticipated receipts of such year. The estimated net cost of operation of the Marketplace, after taking account of all anticipated receipts available to meet such cost, shall, on or before the 15th day of April 1980, and annually thereafter, be reported to the Mayor to be incorporated, with such changes as he or she deems expedient, into the annual budget to be submitted to the City Council for the next fiscal year. In adopting an appropriation for operation of the Marketplace, the City Council shall not determine that any portion thereof be raised by the City tax levy. (Amended 1999, No. M-9, § 7, eff. June 1, 1999.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 327. Powers supplemental; construction

§ 327. Powers supplemental; construction
(a) The powers conferred by sections 321 through 326 of this charter are supplemental and alternative to other powers conferred by law, and these sections are intended as an independent and comprehensive conferral of powers to accomplish the purpose set forth herein.
(b) The provisions of these sections shall be liberally construed in order to effect their purpose.
(c) If any provision of these sections shall be held invalid in any circumstance, such invalidity shall not affect any other provisions or circumstances.
(d) These sections shall be construed in all respects so as to meet all constitutional requirements. In carrying out the purposes and provisions of these sections, all steps shall be taken that are necessary to meet constitutional requirements whether or not such steps are required by statute.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 330. Board of Tax Appeals

§ 330. Board of Tax Appeals
A Board of Tax Appeals, constituted in the manner set forth in section 91 of this charter, is created. The Board shall have the same duties and proceed in the same manner to hear and determine tax appeals as a board of civil authority under 32 V.S.A. chapter 131, subchapter 1 except as otherwise provided in this charter. Appeals from decisions of the Board of Tax Appeals or from the Board of Civil Authority as referenced in section 92 of this charter shall be controlled by 32 V.S.A. chapter 131, subchapter 2, except that the City Assessor may appeal subject to the approval of the City Board of Finance. The Board shall organize each year by the election of a Chair, Vice-Chair, and Clerk. The manner of removal of Board members and filling of vacancies shall be as provided in sections 129 and 130 of this charter and the Board members shall, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, be subject to all other provisions of this charter relating to public officers.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 332. Purposes and powers

§ 332. Purposes and powers
(a) Subject to the orders and ordinances of the City Council, the Community and Economic Development Office shall develop and implement a comprehensive community and economic development strategy.
(b) In furtherance of its purpose, the Community and Economic Development Office shall, subject to the orders and ordinances of the City Council, have the following rights, powers, and duties:
(1) to work on behalf of the City to stimulate investment, and to attract, retain, and encourage the development of both existing and new economic enterprises;
(2) to develop, coordinate, implement, and administer economic and community development strategies and projects for the City;
(3) to develop, coordinate, implement, and administer a comprehensive program to address the City’s housing needs;
(4) to develop, coordinate, implement, and administer waterfront development activities other than those activities that the Planning Commission and the City Council must exercise under the Vermont Planning and Development Act;
(5) to recommend to the City Council, and to solicit on behalf of the City Council, grants-in-aid funds for the City;
(6) to administer Community Development Block Grants and Urban Development Action Grants and to manage such grants-in-aid programs in accordance with the laws and regulations pertaining thereto;
(7) to coordinate and facilitate citizen participation in economic and community development with community organizations, City commissions, and the Neighborhood Planning Assemblies;
(8) to do all other things necessary or convenient to carry out its purposes in accordance with Vermont Statutes Annotated.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 352. Purposes and powers

§ 352. Purposes and powers
(a) Subject to the orders and ordinances of the City Council, Burlington City Arts shall develop and implement a strategy to enhance the cultural enrichment of the people of the greater Burlington area.
(b) In furtherance of its purpose, Burlington City Arts shall, subject to the order and ordinances of the City Council, have the following rights, powers, and duties:
(1) to plan, develop, coordinate, implement, and administer a broad spectrum of high quality arts programming and services that is accessible to all sectors of the community regardless of economic, social, or physical constraints;
(2) to support Vermont artists and nurture native talent by making available performance, gallery, and rehearsal space; providing technical assistance and awarding grants and prizes;
(3) to foster partnerships in the arts, education, human service, and business communities for the production of cultural events;
(4) to receive and spend voluntary contributions for the carrying out of its purposes;
(5) to do all other things necessary or convenient to carrying out its purposes in accordance with Vermont Statutes Annotated.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 362. Purposes and powers

§ 362. Purposes and powers
(a) Subject to the orders and ordinances of the City Council, the Human Resources Department shall be responsible for the administration of human resources policies and services.
(b) In furtherance of its purpose, the Human Resources Department shall, subject to the orders and ordinances of the City Council, have the following rights, powers, and duties:
(1) to develop and administer position classification and salary plans;
(2) to prepare, recommend, and implement policies and procedures for Human Resources Administration;
(3) to assist in the recruitment, testing, selection, and hiring of employees;
(4) to direct employee orientation, training, counseling, and career development in conjunction with department heads;
(5) to review performance evaluations;
(6) to administer, in conjunction with the Treasurer’s Office, the City Health Insurance and Life Insurance Programs and Workers’ Compensation Plans;
(7) to administer in conjunction with the chief labor negotiator, the terms and conditions of the collective bargaining plans;
(8) to assist in the administration of the employee grievance procedures;
(9) to do all other things necessary or convenient to carry out its purposes in accordance with Vermont Statutes Annotated.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 370. Creation of Department of Permitting and Inspections

§ 370. Creation of Department of Permitting and Inspections
There is hereby created in the City of Burlington the Department of Permitting and Inspections that shall combine the permitting and inspection functions of the previously existing Planning and Zoning Department, Inspection Services Division of the Department of Public Works, and Code Enforcement Office. (Added 2019, No. M-6, § 2, eff. May 23, 2019.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 371. Purposes and powers

§ 371. Purposes and powers
(a) Subject to the orders and ordinances of the City Council, the Department of Permitting and Inspections shall provide a single location to obtain permits and inspection services for all zoning, building, plumbing, electrical wiring, and minimum housing and rental unit matters.
(b) In furtherance of its purpose, the Department of Permitting and Inspections shall, subject to the orders and ordinances of the City Council, have the following rights, powers, and duties:
(1) to review development projects and ensure compliance with the City’s building codes, land use bylaws, historic preservation guidelines, design, and subdivision standards;
(2) to issue permits, as provided in State law and local ordinances, for building, zoning, and related matters;
(3) to conduct inspections, as provided in State law and local ordinances, of buildings, plumbing systems, electrical wiring, and related matters;
(4) to conduct inspections to ensure compliance with zoning requirements and zoning, building, or related permits;
(5) to conduct inspections of rental housing units to ensure compliance with the Minimum Housing Code or other housing codes;
(6) to notice and enforce violations of building, zoning, minimum housing, and other laws, regulations, codes, or ordinances, as provided therein; and
(7) to carry out the orders of the Board of Health. (Added 2019, No. M-6, § 2, eff. May 23, 2019.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 372. Department to be under supervision of Director

§ 372. Department to be under supervision of Director
The management, direction, and control of the Department of Permitting and Inspections shall be vested in the Director, subject to the orders and ordinances of the City Council. (Added 2019, No. M-6, § 2 eff. May 23, 2019.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 373. Powers, duties, and responsibilities of Zoning Administrative Officer

§ 373. Powers, duties, and responsibilities of Zoning Administrative Officer
(a) The Zoning Administrative Officer shall have all of the powers, duties, and responsibilities as are provided in the Vermont Planning and Development Act to an administrative officer. The Director of Permitting and Inspections may also serve as the Zoning Administrative Officer.
(b) The Zoning Administrative Officer may delegate any or all of the Officer’s authority under the Vermont Planning and Development Act to one or more assistant administrative officers as are qualified. Any such delegation must be made in writing and posted in the department offices. (Added 2019, No. M-6, § 2, eff. May 23, 2019.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 405. Authority to establish system

§ 405. Authority to establish system
(a) The City Council of the City of Burlington is hereby authorized to establish and create a fund or funds for the purpose of providing, either for City employees or appointive officers of said City, or both, in lieu of all existing provisions of the charter of said City relating to the retirement of City employees and pension funds, one or more of the following:
(1) retirement benefits on account of age;
(2) retirement benefits prior to retirement age on account of accident incurred in the line of duty; and
(3) death benefits.
(b) Said fund or funds shall be available for benefits to such employees and appointive officers of the City of Burlington as the City Council may hereafter from time to time designate by ordinance.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 406. Authority to appoint boards and officers, appropriate funds, provide rate of contributions, and designate sums payable

§ 406. Authority to appoint boards and officers, appropriate funds, provide rate of contributions, and designate sums payable
The City Council of said City is hereby authorized by ordinance to appoint and employ such boards and officers as may be necessary to administer, control, and make expenditures from such fund or funds; to appropriate by ordinance or resolution funds from which such benefits and expenses incidental to the administration thereof may be paid; to provide by ordinance the rate of contributions, if any, to such fund or funds to be required of employees and appointive officers to be eligible to benefits therefrom; to designate by ordinance a retirement age for City employees and appointive officers beyond which age such employees may be removed from office and permanently retired; to establish by ordinance conditions and regulations under which such City employees and appointive officers may or shall be removed from office and retired; to designate and establish by ordinance the sums that may be paid to such City employees as benefits and the conditions of payment thereof, and to make, amend or repeal such ordinances as may be convenient or necessary to create, manage, and operate a fund or funds for the payment to City employees and appointive officers of retirement, disability, and death benefits, or any one or more of them.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 407. Direction to budget funds for system

§ 407. Direction to budget funds for system
The City Council of said City shall provide in the annual budget, beginning with the annual budget next following the due enactment and publication of an ordinance providing for such retirement benefits, disability benefits, and death benefits, or any one or more of them, for City employees and appointive officers, or for either class, and for necessary boards and officers to administer and control such retirement fund or funds and the terms and conditions under which such employees and officers, or either of said classes, may be retired and receive said benefits, an appropriation to any one or more of said funds as may be necessary to meet the required demands thereunder that are not otherwise provided for, and said City Council shall annually, assess, beginning with the annual property tax assessments next following the first such appropriation made, a special tax on the property grand list to provide the funds required for such appropriation.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 408. Existing provisions to remain valid until new provisions adopted

§ 408. Existing provisions to remain valid until new provisions adopted
The existing retirement and pension provisions of the City charter of said City shall remain in force and effect until the powers granted by this article are exercised by the City Council by the due enactment of an ordinance for that purpose, and such existing retirement and pension provisions of said charter shall, upon the due enactment of such ordinance, be void and of no force and effect, except as to persons theretofore duly retired and pensioned under said provisions, and as to such persons, said existing charter provisions shall remain in force.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 415. Authority to construct and maintain an electric plant

§ 415. Authority to construct and maintain an electric plant
(a) The City of Burlington is hereby authorized and empowered to construct and maintain an electric plant for the purpose of lighting the streets, walks, public grounds, and public buildings of the City, and may furnish electric lights and electric power to parties residing within or without the corporate limits of said City upon such terms and subject to such regulations as are provided by law or may be lawfully agreed upon between the contracting parties, subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission.
(b) Said City is also authorized and empowered to purchase, hold, maintain, and operate from time to time for said purposes, either as an extension, addition, and improvement of the present electric and power plant now owned and operated by said City, and as an addition to the business of the present plant, or as a separate unit, any existing electric or power plant and the lands, buildings, equipment, distribution system, franchises, rights-of-way, business, and goodwill of any such plant now owned or operated by a public utility corporation or individual, or any portion of any such property and business, and may from time to time construct such additions and improvements to said present plant and distribution system of the City and acquire additional lands and buildings for that purpose, as, in the judgment of the City Council, may be required or justified by the growth and development of the business.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 416. Authority to construct, maintain, and operate a gas-generating and distribution plant

§ 416. Authority to construct, maintain, and operate a gas-generating and distribution plant
(a) The City of Burlington is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain, and operate a plant for the generation and distribution of manufactured gas and may furnish such gas within and without the corporate limits of the City to corporations and individuals for domestic and other purposes upon such terms as are provided by law or may be lawfully agreed upon between the contracting parties, subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission.
(b) For the purpose of acquiring, holding, maintaining, and operating such gas plant and distribution system for the distribution and sale of manufactured gas to corporations and individuals within and without the City limits, said City is also authorized and empowered to purchase, hold, maintain, and operate any existing gas plant, gas distribution system, rights-of-way, and franchises held and used in connection therewith, and the gas business of any corporation or individual owned and operated in connection with such plant, and the goodwill of such business, or any part of such plant, distribution system, franchises, rights-of-way, business, and goodwill.
(c) Said City may from time to time enlarge and improve such plant and distribution system as the growth and development of the business, in the judgment of the City Council, may require, and for that purpose may from time to time either construct such enlargements and improvements or purchase the same when available.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 417. Authority to acquire property for purposes of sections 415 and 416 of this charter

§ 417. Authority to acquire property for purposes of sections 415 and 416 of this charter
For any and all of the purposes set forth in sections 415 and 416 of this charter, said City may acquire and hold within and without the limits thereof by gift, grant, purchase, or by the right of eminent domain, such lands, water powers, and rights-of-way as may be needed for the construction, maintenance, and operation of such electric plant and any and all required enlargements and improvements thereof from time to time, including enlargements and improvements of the present electric plant of said City, and also such lands and rights-of-way as may be needed for the construction, maintenance, and operation, and for the required enlargement and improvement from time to time of such gas plant and gas distribution system and may use any public street that it may be necessary and desirable to pass through with the poles, wires, and conduits of such electric plant, or with the distribution mains and equipment of such gas plant, provided the use of such highway for purposes of public travel is not thereby unnecessarily impaired, and further provided that said City may not exercise the right of eminent domain to acquire any existing property or rights owned and used by any existing public utility company or by any individual for public utility purposes.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 418. Authority to sell services, merchandise, and equipment incidental to use of electricity or gas

§ 418. Authority to sell services, merchandise, and equipment incidental to use of electricity or gas
(a) Said City, when engaged in the business of distributing and selling electricity or gas, is hereby authorized and empowered, as part of such business, to engage in the sale, installation, and servicing of such merchandise and equipment as is incidental or auxiliary to the use of electricity or gas or necessary to properly serve the interests of its customers and to promote the sale and use of electricity or gas.
(b) And all acts heretofore done by said City and any of its officers and employees in connection with the sale, installation, or servicing of such merchandise and equipment are hereby confirmed and made valid to the same extent as though this article had then been in effect.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 419. Operation of gas business

§ 419. Operation of gas business
Whenever said City does acquire any gas plant, gas distribution system, business, and goodwill (hereinafter referred to as the gas business) in accordance with the foregoing sections, such gas business shall be operated and maintained as a separate unit with separate accounting insofar as practicable, and shall be controlled, managed, operated, and maintained by the Light Department and the officers thereof as part of that Department, and all provisions of the City charter relating to the operation and maintenance of the Light Department and the duties of the officers thereof and not inconsistent with any section of this article shall apply to such gas business.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 420. Procedure for exercising eminent domain right

§ 420. Procedure for exercising eminent domain right
In exercising the right of eminent domain to acquire any property or some easement or other limited right in property required by the City for the purposes authorized by this article, said City shall proceed by petition to the Public Service Commission and in the same manner and by the same process as provided in Chapter 242 of the Public Laws for the condemnation of property by public service corporations other than railroads and the Public Service Commission shall have all and the same powers and perform all and the same duties in hearing and determining the matter, rendering judgment, and making findings as in the case of such public utility corporations. Any party who feels himself or herself aggrieved by such judgment or findings shall have the same right of appeal with the same incidents thereof as provided by Section 5969 of the Public Laws in the case of condemnation proceedings by a public service corporation. In exercising its right to use public highways, said City shall have the same rights and be subject to the same restrictions as prescribed for towns in Chapter 259 of the Public Laws.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 422. Rates sufficient to pay for services and bonds to be charged

§ 422. Rates sufficient to pay for services and bonds to be charged
(a) Whenever bonds are issued pursuant to this article, said City shall charge and collect adequate rates and charges for electric energy and for gas and all other services, facilities, and commodities sold, furnished, or supplied by the electric plant and system and gas plants and system sufficient to provide for the proper operation and maintenance of said systems and for the payment of the principal of and interest on all indebtedness payable from said revenues, and all other payments in connection therewith. All such revenues shall be paid into the City Treasury in a special fund to be called the “Light Department Fund,” and shall be subject to the covenants contained in any ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under this article.
(b) In no case shall funds collected from electric ratepayers be used to cross-subsidize or finance the repayment of any debt instrument used to fund the construction, operation, or utilization of any new cable television, fiber optic cable, or other telecommunications network or telecommunications business, and the expenses from such enterprises may not be included in the cost of electric service, except to the extent that the City has utilized such funds directly for its own utility plant or electric services. (Amended 1999, No. M-14 (Adj. Sess.), § 5a.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 423. Bond issuance to be approved by voters

§ 423. Bond issuance to be approved by voters
The City Council shall not issue any bonds under the provisions of this article for any of the purposes thereof unless previously authorized so to do by a majority of the legal voters of said City voting on the question at any annual or special City meeting duly warned for the purpose.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 432. Electric plant; improvement of

§ 432. Electric plant; improvement of
The City is hereby authorized and empowered to improve its electric plant for the purpose of lighting the streets, walks, public grounds, and buildings of the City, for the furnishing of electric or gas services within or without the corporate limits of the City and for production of electric energy or acquisition, production, transmission, or distribution of gas for sale to electric or gas distribution companies, cooperative, municipal, and privately owned, within or without the State.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 434. Same—payment of

§ 434. Same—payment of
In order to secure the payment of any of the bonds, issued pursuant to this article, the interest thereon, or in connection with such bonds, the City shall have power as to such bonds, to the extent not inconsistent with the mandatory provisions of this article:
(1) to pledge all or any part of the revenues derived from electric or gas service;
(2) to provide for the terms, forms, registration, exchange, execution, and authentication of such bonds;
(3) to provide for the replacement of lost, destroyed, or mutilated bonds;
(4) to covenant as to the use and disposition of the proceeds from the sale of such bonds and as to the use and disposition of revenues, including of the generality of the foregoing, the establishment of reserves for debt service or other capital or current expenses from bond proceeds or revenues or both;
(5) to covenant as to the rates and charges of the electric plant, provided that the City shall always collect revenues adequate at all times to provide for the proper operation and maintenance of the electric plant and for the payment of the principal of and interest on all bonds payable from said revenues and all other required payments in connection therewith;
(6) to redeem such bonds, and to covenant for their redemption, and to provide the terms and conditions thereof;
(7) to covenant and prescribe as to what happenings or occurrences shall constitute “events of default” and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of such bonds shall become or may be declared due before maturity and as to the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived;
(8) to covenant as to the rights, liabilities, powers, and duties arising upon the breach by it of any covenant, conditions, or obligations;
(9) to vest in a trustee or trustees the right to receive all or any part of the income and revenue pledged and assigned to, or for the benefit of, the holder or holders of bonds issued hereunder, and to hold, apply, and dispose of the same and the right to enforce any covenant made to secure or pay or in relation to the bonds; to execute and deliver a trust agreement or trust agreements that may set forth the powers and duties and the remedies available to such trustee or trustees and limiting the liabilities thereof and describing what occurrences shall constitute “events of default” and prescribing the terms and conditions upon which such trustee or trustees or the holder or holders of bonds of any specified amount or percentage of such bonds may exercise such rights and enforce any and all such covenants and resort to such remedies as may be appropriate;
(10) to make covenants other than, and in addition to, the covenants herein authorized, of like or different character, necessary or advisable to effectuate the purposes of this article;
(11) to execute all instruments necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers herein granted or in the performance of its covenants or duties.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 435. Same—pledge of revenues

§ 435. Same—pledge of revenues
(a) Any pledge hereunder shall be valid and binding and shall be deemed continuously perfected for the purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code from the time when the pledge is made; unless otherwise provided in the resolution making the pledge, the pledge of revenues shall include any contract or other rights to receive the same, whether then existing or thereafter coming into existence and whether then held or thereafter acquired by the City, and the proceeds thereof; the revenues, rights, and proceeds so pledged and then held or thereafter acquired by the City shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery or segregation thereof or further act; and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the City, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. The resolution by which a pledge is made need not be filed or recorded except in the records of the proceedings of the Board of Light Commissioners and no filing need be made under the Uniform Commercial Code.
(b) A resolution pledging revenues hereunder may provide for priorities among payments to be made from such revenues, whether required by statute, the City charter, such resolution, or otherwise. The pledge may include revenues otherwise accruing to particular funds established by statute or the City charter. In the event bonds are issued junior and subordinate to other bonds, revenues remaining from time to time that are permitted by the terms of the senior bonds to be used to pay or secure the junior bonds may be pledged for that purpose by the resolution under which the junior bonds are issued. A pledge of revenues under this article shall constitute a sufficient appropriation thereof for the purposes of any provision for appropriation and such revenues may be applied as required by the pledge without further appropriation.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 436. Same—refunding

§ 436. Same—refunding
The City may issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying any of its bonds issued hereunder at maturity or upon acceleration or redemption. The refunding bonds may be issued at such time prior to the maturity or redemption of the refunded bonds as the City deems to be in the public interest. The refunding bonds may be issued in sufficient amounts to pay or provide the principal of the bonds being refunded, together with any redemption premium thereon, any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of payment of such bonds, the expenses of issue of the refunding bonds, the expenses of redeeming the bonds being refunded, and such reserves for debt service or other capital or current expenses from the proceeds of such refunding bonds as may be required by a resolution under which bonds are issued. The issue of refunding bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the security therefor, the rights of the holders thereof, and the rights, duties, and obligations of the City with respect thereto shall be governed by the provisions of this article relating to the issue of bonds other than refunding bonds insofar as the same may be applicable.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 437. Same—Anticipation notes

§ 437. Same—Anticipation notes
Unless otherwise provided in the authorizing proceedings, if bonds are authorized under this article, temporary notes may be issued in anticipation thereof. The Board of Light Commissioners may delegate the sale of temporary notes to an officer or officers thereof. The principal of and interest on notes may be renewed or paid from time to time by the issue of other notes. Except as otherwise provided, notes issued under this section shall be governed by the provisions of this article relating to bonds insofar as the same may be applicable.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 438. Same—regulation

§ 438. Same—regulation
(a) The Public Utility Commission shall exercise its regulatory powers in such a manner as to permit the City to fulfill all of its obligations, including its obligations to the holders of the bonds issued hereunder.
(b) The Public Utility Commission shall not be empowered to suspend the effective date of any change in the rates and charges of the City’s electric plant pending final determination as to the justness or reasonableness of such change, but the Commission may require that the City undertake to refund rates and charges collected in excess of those that are finally determined just and reasonable. Any increase in the rates and charges of the City’s electric plant shall be implemented by means of an identical percentage increase to each class or division of electric plant ratepayers under rate design tariffs previously approved by the Public Utility Commission until such time as the Public Utility Commission shall specifically approve an alteration in such rate design and corresponding tariffs.
(c)(1) If the City exercises its authority under subdivision 431(4) or section 449 of this charter, the Public Utility Commission, in considering any application for a certificate of public good, shall ensure that any and all losses from these businesses, and, in the event these businesses are abandoned or curtailed, any and all costs associated with investment in cable television, fiber optic, and telecommunications network and telecommunications business-related facilities, are borne by the investors in such business, and in no event are borne by the City’s taxpayers, the State of Vermont, or are recovered in rates from electric ratepayers.
(2) Any certificate of public good issued shall contain terms or conditions that are consistent with both the statutory requirements of 30 V.S.A. chapter 13 and the establishment of competitive neutrality between incumbents and new entrants, after the evaluation of factors that include the payment of pole attachment rental fees, and the provision of public access channels, equipment, and facilities.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 439. Same—rights of holders

§ 439. Same—rights of holders
Any holder or holders of bonds, including a trustee or trustees for holders of such bonds, shall have the right in addition to all other rights:
(1) by mandamus or other suit, action, or proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce his or her or their rights against the City, the City Council, the Board of Light Commissioners, and any other proper officer, agent, or employee of any of them, including the right to require the City, the City Council, the said Board, and any proper officer, agent, or employee of any of them, to fix and collect rates and charges adequate to carry out any agreement as to, or pledge or revenues, and to require the City, the City Council, the said Board and any officer, agent, or employee of any of them to carry out any other covenants or agreements and to perform its and their duties under this article;
(2) by action or suit in equity to enjoin any acts or things that may be unlawful for a violation of the rights of such holder of bonds.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 440. Same—right of City

§ 440. Same—right of City
(a) The City shall have power by resolution of its Board of Light Commissioners to confer upon any holder or holders of a specified amount or percentage of bonds, including a trustee or trustees for such holders, the right in the event of an “event of default” as defined in such resolution or as may be defined in any agreement with the holder or holders of such bonds or the trustee or trustees therefor:
(1) By suit, action, or proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction to obtain the appointment of a receiver of the electric plant or any part or parts thereof. If such receiver be appointed, he or she may enter and take possession of such electric plant or any part or parts thereof and operate and maintain the same, and collect and receive all revenues thereafter arising therefrom in the same manner as the City itself might do and shall deposit such monies in a separate account or accounts and apply the same in accordance with the obligations of the City as the court shall direct.
(2) By suit, action, or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction to require the City to account as if it were the trustee of an express trust.
(b) Any such resolution shall constitute a contract between the City and the holders of bonds of such issue.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 3 - City of Burlington › App § 441. Rates; payment by municipal agencies

§ 441. Rates; payment by municipal agencies
The City Council or other board or agency of the City operating the electric plant may charge the City and all departments, agencies, instrumentalities, officers, or employers thereof for any electric service furnished to them, at the rate applicable to other customers taking service under similar conditions and the revenues so derived from any such service shall be treated as all other revenues of the electric plant. Notwithstanding the foregoing, special contracts for electric services may be entered into with another department, agency, or instrumentality of the City, provided that the Public Utility Commission first reviews and approves the contract pursuant to the provisions of 30 V.S.A. § 229.