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2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 5. Warning and convening of annual meeting

§ 5. Warning and convening of annual meeting
On the first Tuesday of March 1918, and annually thereafter on the first Tuesday of March, a meeting of the legal voters of said City shall be held at nine o’clock A.M., at a place to be appointed by the City Council of said City, of which notice shall be posted in at least three public places within the limits of said City, and at least 14 days previous thereto, and also published for at least two weeks in a newspaper printed in said City, which notices shall be signed by the City Clerk, and in case of his or her failure, by the Mayor; provided, that if the annual meeting shall fail to be holden for want of notice hereinbefore mentioned or for any other cause, the corporation shall not thereby be prejudiced, and the several officers hereafter mentioned may at any time thereafter be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose as hereinbefore provided. The first meeting of said corporation shall be held at the school hall in the present Village of Newport, and shall be called by the Clerk of the Village of Newport. The Clerk of said City shall, at any time when directed by the City Council, or when requested in writing by 25 legal voters of said City, call a special meeting of the legal voters of said City at such time of day and place as directed by the City Council. In case of the failure of the Clerk to call a meeting as aforesaid, that duty shall be performed by the Mayor. The business session of each annual or special City meeting shall be held at eight o’clock in the evening of the day for such meeting, but this shall in no way alter the hour designated, or to be designated, for any meeting where any question must be voted upon under the Australian ballot system.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 6. Elections of officers at annual meeting

§ 6. Elections of officers at annual meeting
At the annual meeting the said corporations shall elect from among the legal voters of said City a Mayor, City Clerk, four aldermen, a City Treasurer, one Constable, three listers, three auditors, and three grand jurors, who shall hold office until the next annual meeting and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, except that at the first annual meeting of said corporation two of said aldermen shall be elected for one year and two for two years; one of said listers shall be elected for one year, one for two years, and one for three years; one of said auditors shall be elected for one year, one for two years and one for three years, and at each succeeding annual election two aldermen shall be elected for two years, one lister for three years, and one auditor for three years. The City Clerk and the Treasurer shall be elected for a term of three years, and the Mayor for a term of two years.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 7. Mayor and Board of Aldermen as City Council

§ 7. Mayor and Board of Aldermen as City Council
The administration of all fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of said City, and the government thereof, shall be vested in the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. The Board of Aldermen shall consist of four aldermen, who shall elect one of their number President of said Board. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen, in their joint capacity, shall be called the City Council. The Mayor and aldermen shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties. The Mayor and aldermen shall receive such compensation as the City shall determine at its annual or any special City meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 8. Officers appointed by City Council

§ 8. Officers appointed by City Council
The City Council shall appoint, and may remove at its pleasure and appoint others in their stead, the following officers, none of whom shall be members of the City Council, viz: a Collector of Taxes, a Superintendent of Streets and Waterworks, a City Attorney, a Board of Fire Wardens, consisting of one Chief and a first and second Assistant Engineer, and such other officers not herein otherwise provided for as are required by law. The City Council may fill vacancies in elective City offices, including the Board of School Trustees, until the next annual meeting, unless a special City meeting for the purpose of filling such vacancy is sooner warned and held. The City Council may fill vacancies in appointive offices until the next annual meeting or during the pleasure of said Council.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 9. Powers of Mayor; City Council to establish water rates

§ 9. Powers of Mayor; City Council to establish water rates
The Mayor shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the City. He or she shall use his or her best efforts to see that the laws and City ordinances are enforced and that the duties of all subordinate officers are faithfully performed. He or she shall take care that the finances of the City are properly expended and shall bring before the Board of Aldermen whatever he or she may deem worthy of their attention for prudentially and efficiently carrying on the affairs of the City. In his or her absence, the President of the Board of Aldermen shall act as Mayor in his or her stead. The Mayor, with the consent of the Board of Aldermen, shall have the power to remit penalties for the breach of City ordinances, in whole or in part, and shall cause the reason for such remission to be entered on the City records. The Mayor shall preside at all meetings of the City, with the power of moderator in town meetings, and at all meetings of the City Council. The City Council shall have all the powers of a selectboard. Said City Council shall hold a meeting on the first Monday of each month and oftener at the call of the Mayor. The presence of a majority of said Council shall be necessary to transact business at any meeting. The City Council shall establish rates to be paid for the use of water supplied by the City water works, which shall be called service rates and shall be collected by the City Treasurer. Such service rates shall be and are hereby made a lien in the nature of a tax upon the real estate so supplied with water and shall be collected and enforced under such regulations and ordinances as the City Council shall prescribe. The Mayor may appoint a Chief of Police and such number of other officers as he or she shall deem necessary, for a period not exceeding his or her term of office, but such appointees shall not continue in office after the next regular meeting of the City Council unless the same shall be approved by the City Council at such meeting. The Mayor may suspend any police officer and such suspension shall not continue in force after the next regular meeting of the City Council unless the same shall be approved by the City Council, and the City Council may at any time annul any of such appointments.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 10. Mayoral approval and Board of Aldermen reconsideration of vetoed actions

§ 10. Mayoral approval and Board of Aldermen reconsideration of vetoed actions
The action of the Board of Aldermen shall require the approval of the Mayor, except as herein otherwise provided, for the enacting of all ordinances and bylaws and the awarding of any contracts, the appointment of any officers or committees, or the passing of any resolution. If the Mayor shall approve any ordinance, bylaw, resolution, appointment, or contract made or voted by the City Council, the same shall be reduced to writing and the Mayor shall sign the same. If he or she does not sign the same he or she shall return it with his or her objections in writing to the Board of Aldermen at their next regular meeting, provided he or she shall have not less than one week to consider such ordinance, bylaw, resolution, appointment, or contract. The Board of Aldermen shall then proceed to consider such ordinance, bylaw, resolution, contract, or appointment, and if, upon such reconsideration, three-fourths of the whole number of aldermen shall vote in favor of the same it shall be valid and take effect, notwithstanding the objection of the Mayor. If any such ordinance, bylaw, resolution, appointment, or contract shall not be returned by the Mayor to the Board of Aldermen at their next regular meeting after the period of one week has elapsed after he or she shall have received it, the same shall be valid and take effect without his or her approval. The fiscal year for all departments of said City shall begin on July 1st and end on the following June 30th.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 12. Board of Civil Authority and Board of Abatement

§ 12. Board of Civil Authority and Board of Abatement
The City Council, City Clerk, and the justices of the peace residing in the City shall constitute the Board of Civil Authority for the City, and, in conjunction with the listers, shall constitute a Board for the Abatement of Taxes, and shall be governed by the general laws of the State in respect to the abatement of taxes. The Board of Civil Authority shall perform all the duties imposed by law upon the board of civil authority of towns, except as hereinbefore provided. All meetings of the Board of Civil Authority shall, on application, be appointed and notified by the Mayor in the manner provided by law for appointing and notifying the meetings of the board of civil authority in towns. The compensation of all officers, servants, and employees of the City shall be fixed by the City Council, except as herein otherwise provided.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 13. City Clerk

§ 13. City Clerk
The City Clerk shall perform for the City the same duties devolving by law upon town clerks, except so far as the same are rendered unnecessary by this charter, and shall receive the same fees therefor, or shall receive such compensation from the City for his or her services as the City Council shall allow. He or she shall be Clerk of the City Council and shall keep a record of their proceedings. He or she shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his or her duties, and his or her records, copies, and certificates shall be legal evidence in all courts and for all purposes, the same as those of town clerks. He or she shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the records and papers of the City, which shall not be taken out of his or her office unless upon the order or process of a court of competent jurisdiction. He or she shall have the same rights and authority conferred upon town clerks and may perform any official act that may be performed by town clerks.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 14. City Treasurer

§ 14. City Treasurer
The City Treasurer shall have the same powers and be subject to the same liabilities as are prescribed by law for town treasurers. The City Clerk shall be eligible to hold the office of City Treasurer. It shall be the duty of said Treasurer, upon the receipt of any rate bill as hereinafter provided for, to post notices in at least three public places in said City, and to publish the same for one week in a newspaper published in said City, calling upon the taxpayers to pay their respective taxes within 90 days from the date of said notice. There shall be deducted from the taxes paid during the 90 days specified, four per cent of the amount thereof. At the expiration of said 90 days the said Treasurer shall issue his or her warrant against the delinquent taxpayers to the amount of their taxes, returnable in 60 days from the date thereof, and deliver the same to the Collector of Taxes of said City, but if the City Council direct, the issuing of said warrant shall be delayed 60 days from the expiration of said 90 day period. There shall be allowed said Treasurer the sum of five cents for each name on the warrant issued by him or her, which shall be taxed against the delinquent taxpayer. Upon the return of any warrant so issued by the City Treasurer, if any taxes included in such warrant remain uncollected, the City Treasurer may reissue such warrant to the Collector for the collection of such unpaid taxes, returnable in 60 days from the date of such reissue. In reissuing said warrant, it shall only be necessary for the City Treasurer to write upon the same “Reissued to the Collector, returnable in 60 days from this date,” dating and signing the same, and the reissue of such warrant shall in no manner affect any act or proceeding of the Collector made on such warrant previous to its reissue. It shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to collect all water rates that may be or shall hereafter become due to said City for the use of the City water under such regulations and ordinances as shall be prescribed by the City Council, but no compensation shall be allowed said Treasurer for the performance of this duty. The City Treasurer shall keep a separate account of all monies appropriated for the use of schools, which monies shall consist of the income of all school funds of whatsoever nature, the income of any money or other property donated by any person to said City for the use of schools, and all money appropriated by the City Council for that purpose. The City Treasurer shall pay out of any monies mentioned in this paragraph, all warrants drawn by the school trustees for the use of schools.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 14a. Collector of Taxes

§ 14a. Collector of Taxes
The Collector of Taxes shall have the same powers and be subject to the same liabilities in and for the City as collectors of town taxes in the State have by law and are subject to, and shall proceed in the performances of his or her duties as such collectors of town taxes are required to proceed. It shall be the duty of the Collector of Taxes of said City to execute such warrants as shall be issued by the City Treasurer under the provisions of section 14 of this charter, and return the same to said Treasurer and the amount thereon collected, with the return of his or her doing thereon within the time, therein named; provided, however, that if the said Treasurer shall make an affidavit that any person, whose name appears on the rate-bill as a taxpayer, is about to remove or abscond from the State, and shall file the same with the City Council, the Treasurer may thereupon issue a warrant against such taxpayer for the amount of his or her tax, although the 90 days hereinbefore mentioned shall not have then expired, and it shall be the duty of the said Collector to execute the warrant. The City Council may award said Tax Collector such compensation as they may determine to be appropriate.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 15. Constable

§ 15. Constable
The Constable shall have the same powers and be under the same duties and liabilities as are prescribed by law for the constables of towns, except for the collection of taxes, and said Constable and all special police officers shall have the same powers as sheriffs in suppressing riots and all unlawful assemblages, and of arresting without warrant all persons disturbing the peace, and may bring them before any competent court forthwith. The City Constable shall be Collector of Taxes and shall have the same powers and be subject to the same liabilities in and for the City as collectors of town taxes in the State have by law and are subject to, and shall proceed in the performance of his or her duties as such collectors of town taxes are required to proceed. It shall be the duty of the Collector of Taxes of said City to execute such warrant as shall be issued by the City Treasurer under the provisions of section 14 of this charter, and return the same to the said Treasurer and the amount thereon collected, with the return of his or her doings thereon within the time therein named; provided, however, that if the said Treasurer shall make an affidavit that any person, whose name appears on the rate-bill as a taxpayer, is about to remove or abscond from the State, and shall file the same with the City Council, the Treasurer may thereupon issue a warrant against such taxpayer for the amount of his or her tax, although the 90 days hereinbefore mentioned shall not have then expired, and it shall be the duty of the said Collector to execute the warrant. The City Council may award such Tax Collector additional compensation for the collection of taxes beyond that now fixed by statute.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 16. Department of Assessment

§ 16. Department of Assessment
There shall be a Department of Assessment, which shall consist of a Chief Assessor and such assistants as are deemed to be necessary by the City Council. The Chief Assessor and assistants shall be appointed and may be removed by the City Council. The Department of Assessment shall have the same powers, discharge the same duties, proceed in the discharge thereof in the same manner, and be subject to the same liabilities as are prescribed for listers or the board of listers under the laws of this State, except as herein otherwise provided. At least every five years the Department shall review, or cause to be reviewed, their appraisals of all real property in the City that is subject to taxation and conduct a reappraisal of all such properties when necessary to conform their appraisals to the standards for appraising established by the laws of this State.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 17. Auditors

§ 17. Auditors
The auditors shall examine and adjust the accounts of the Treasurer and all other City officers, and report the accounts so settled with the items thereof, and also the state of the Treasury; and the reports shall be printed, together with those of the other City officers, under the direction of the City Council, at the expense of said City, and circulated among the taxpayers thereof at least 15 days prior to the annual meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 19. Overseer of the Poor

§ 19. Overseer of the Poor
[This section, originally enacted as § 19 of No. 273 of the Laws of 1917, established the Office of Overseer of the Poor, which the General Assembly abolished in every municipality as of October 1, 1968 pursuant to the provisions of § 37 of No. 147 of 1967. Based on the 1967 statute, the original reference to the appointment of an Overseer of the Poor in section 8 (Officers appointed by City Council) and in section 41 (City Council election of City officer) has been deleted.]
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 20. Superintendent of Streets

§ 20. Superintendent of Streets
The Superintendent of Streets, under the direction of the City Council, shall have the superintendence of all roads, streets, sidewalks, sewers, and electric wires, conduits, and appliances used for lighting purposes and owned by the City, in said City, and the construction and repair of the same, and shall have the general supervision of the entire water works belonging to the City of Newport, and shall keep the same in repair.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 21. City Attorney

§ 21. City Attorney
It shall be the duty of the City Attorney to prosecute and defend all suits by or against the City or in which the City is interested, to prosecute for all violations of the City ordinances, and to advise the Mayor or Council when requested by them upon any legal questions arising relative to the affairs of the City, and to perform all the duties imposed by law upon town agents.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 22. Board of Fire Wardens

§ 22. Board of Fire Wardens
The Board of Fire Wardens, or any one of them who may be present at a fire, shall have power at such fire to suppress all tumults and riots by force if necessary, to direct the labor of all persons present during the continuance of such fire, to remove goods and effects endangered by such fire and protect the same from waste and depredation, and to pull down, remove, or destroy any house, store, or other building when they or any of them present at such fire shall deem it necessary for the better preservation of any property. Said Board of Fire Wardens may inspect the manner of manufacturing and keeping gun powder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, fire works, or combustibles, and the construction and repairs of fireplaces, stoves, flues, and chimneys in said City. Said Board of Fire Wardens may, by vote of a majority thereof, direct all persons manufacturing or keeping such gunpowder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, fireworks, combustibles, kerosene oil, petroleum, naptha, gasoline, oils, or burning fluid, in what manner and quantities to manufacture and keep the same, and the owners or occupants of buildings with such fire places, stoves, flues, or chimneys, how to repair the same. Every person refusing or neglecting to obey such order shall forfeit and pay to the use of said City a fine not exceeding $25.00 for each period of 20 days after notice of such order that such person shall neglect or refuse to obey the same. Such order shall not be inconsistent with any ordinance or bylaw of the City. The Board of Fire Wardens shall have full power to regulate their own proceedings and to form new hose or hook and ladder companies, subject to the approval of the City Council, and to organize and govern the Fire Department, and, subject to the approval of the City Council, to purchase necessary fire apparatus and have the general care and custody of the property pertaining to the Fire Department.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 24. Fines

§ 24. Fines
No fine shall be imposed for the violation of any City ordinance or bylaw exceeding $100.00, provided, that when it may be necessary to abate a nuisance the expense of such abatement may be imposed upon the delinquent in addition to said fine. A person who violates any City ordinance or bylaw may, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the house of correction, at hard labor, for a term not exceeding six months in addition to or in lieu of said fine, in the discretion of the court. A person convicted for violation of any City ordinance or bylaw, who shall neglect to pay such fine and costs as the court in its discretion shall adjudge, subject to the limitations herein contained, within 24 hours from the rendition of such judgment, shall be committed to said house of correction under the same regulations and in the same manner as provided by the laws of this State. In addition to such fine for a violation of any such ordinance or bylaw, the City may have and maintain an action of tort founded on this statute against any person willfully and maliciously damaging or destroying any of the property of said City, or injuring or corrupting any of the water supply or water works of said City, and may recover treble damages and costs against such person.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 25. Streets and sidewalks

§ 25. Streets and sidewalks
The City Council shall have power to regulate, establish, and alter the grade of streets and width of sidewalks, and the construction thereof, and to prescribe the material to be used therein, and also to provide, order, and direct that the sidewalks upon such streets as the City Council shall designate, shall together with the curbing therefor, be constructed in part at the expense of the owner or owners of the lands or buildings adjacent thereto, and in proportion to the benefit conferred, not to exceed one-half, and to assess the lands or buildings of such owner or owners adjacent to or abutting on any such sidewalk so constructed in compliance with such order, such proportion of the cost or expense thereof, such assessment to be apportioned among the owners of such lands or buildings fronting as aforesaid according to their frontage on such sidewalk, and the benefit to be conferred to be made in the manner and in accordance with provisions respecting highways. When such Council shall have made any such assessment, it shall make a report thereof, setting forth its doings in that respect, which report shall be recorded in the City Clerk’s office, and, when so recorded, the amount so assessed shall be and remain a lien in the nature of a tax upon the land so assessed until the same shall be paid. Said Council shall have power to assess abutting land owners for a portion of the expense of sprinkling streets, not to exceed one-half, and in proportion to the benefit conferred. Such assessment when made and filed as hereinbefore specified shall be and remain a lien in the nature of a tax upon the land so assessed until the same shall be paid.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 26. Water system

§ 26. Water system
The City Council shall have all the powers over and in any way appertaining to the water system owned by the present Village of Newport that are now conferred on the water commissioners, provided for in 1878 Acts and Resolves No. 201, entitled “An act defining the power of the Village of Newport,” and all amendments thereto.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 27. Sale or lease of City owned property

§ 27. Sale or lease of City owned property
The City Council may authorize the sale of real or personal estate belonging to the City when the same shall not exceed in value $1,000.00, or may lease the same for a term not exceeding one year, and all conveyances, grants, or leases of any such real estate shall be signed by the Mayor and sealed with the City Seal.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 28. City expenditures

§ 28. City expenditures
Except as herein otherwise provided, no money shall be paid out of the City Treasury except upon warrant, signed by the Mayor and approved by the Board of Aldermen, such approval to be authenticated by the City Clerk. A full record of all expenditures shall be kept, and a clear statement of all receipts and disbursements of City monies, and of the affairs of the City generally, shall be annually published under the direction of the City Council, at least two weeks before the annual City election. No City official shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract with the City.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 29. Assessment of taxes on grand list

§ 29. Assessment of taxes on grand list
The City Council shall assess and lay all taxes upon the grand list of said City, and in addition to such tax as may be necessary for the payment of all such State, county, and highway taxes as are or may be required by law, and in addition thereto such tax as the Board of School Trustees shall recommend to said Council for the support of schools, not exceeding 100 cents on the dollar of the grand list of said City unless authorized by a vote of the City. They shall have power annually to lay and assess upon said grand list such tax, which shall not exceed 100 cents on the dollar thereof, unless by vote of the City, as in their judgment may be required for the payment of the current expenses of the City and for carrying out any of the provisions of this charter; and in addition they shall annually assess a tax of not less than 20 cents nor more than 60 cents on the dollar of said grand list, the proceeds of which shall be used in retiring the floating and funded indebtedness of said City or in creating a sinking find for the future redemption of such indebtedness. All of the aforesaid taxes may be included in one rate bill, and such tax bills, with a warrant signed by the Mayor of the City or any justice of the peace within the county, shall be delivered to the Treasurer, to whom all taxes shall be paid in money.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 30. Revenues credit and appropriations

§ 30. Revenues credit and appropriations
(a) The current revenues of the City shall consist of money raised by taxation, from fines and other lawful sources, and such revenues shall constitute the entire sum from which appropriations and payments are to be made, according to law, by or under the authority of the City Council. The credit of the City, other than by temporary loans, not exceeding $3.50 on the dollar of the grand list of the City for the time being shall not be pledged except by authority of the legal voters of the City. Such temporary loans and all debts incurred by the City Council shall be deemed expenditures and shall be paid by the City Council during the fiscal year in which they are contracted.
(b) All appropriations for specific purposes made at any annual or special meeting in said City shall, unless otherwise directed by the voters, be paid out of current revenues for that year and shall be deemed as expenditures by the City Council.
(c) The City Council shall not exceed in expenditures, except by express authority of the legal voters of the City, said current revenues of the City during any year. If it should happen that said current revenues of the City shall have been expended before the end of any fiscal year, and there remain necessary or desirable expenditures to be met, the City Council shall call a special meeting of the legal voters of the City to consider what shall be done.
(d) The Mayor and Board of Aldermen, without special direction of the voters of said City, shall not draw, sign, or approve warrants to pay expenditures or appropriations in excess of current revenues. The City Treasurer, without special direction of the voters of said City, shall not honor or pay warrants in excess of current revenues. Any official violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to refund to the City the full amount of all warrants so drawn, signed or approved or so honored or paid.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 32. Bonds of City officers

§ 32. Bonds of City officers
The Treasurer, Clerk, Constable, Tax Collector, and Superintendent of Streets and Waterworks shall annually give bonds to the City to the satisfaction of the City Council for the faithful discharge of their respective duties, and any other City officer may be required by the City Council to give similar bonds. In case any officer neglects to give bonds as above specified, after 10 days’ notice from the City Council that he or she is required to do so, his or her office shall thereupon become vacant and the vacancy shall be filled as hereinbefore provided.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 34. Pledge of credit

§ 34. Pledge of credit
Whenever the legal voters of the City shall give authority to the Council thereof to pledge the credit of the City for any purpose, the City shall have power and authority to issue its negotiable orders, warrants, notes, or bonds, and to prescribe whether such bonds shall be registered or have interest coupons attached, to the amount, not to exceed the limit prescribed by law, for which the legal voters aforesaid shall have given authority to so pledge the credit of the City. Such notes or bonds shall be payable at such time and at such a rate of interest as shall be established by said voters, or, if no time or rate of interest is fixed thereby, the same shall be established by resolution of said Council.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 39. Public schools and school property

§ 39. Public schools and school property
The exclusive management and control of the public schools and all school property is vested in a board of five school trustees. Said trustees shall be bona fide residents of the City and qualified voters for school officers. The three incumbents constituting the present Board shall continue in office until their respective terms expire. At the annual meeting each year thereafter, one trustee shall be elected for a term of three years and until his or her successor is elected and qualified. The remaining two members of the Board shall be appointed in the first instance by the City Council, one for a term of one year, and one for a term of two years; and thereafter the successor of each shall be elected and hold office for a term of three years and until his or her successor is elected and qualified. The Board of School Trustees shall make an annual report of their doing and expenditures to the City Council on or before the first day of February in each year for the last preceding fiscal school year, and in this report they shall make estimates of the necessary expenditures for the support of schools for the ensuing fiscal year, the amount of school income to be derived from sources other than taxation and the amount of money to be raised by taxation for the support of said schools, which report shall be published with the report of the City officials, as herein provided. Said Board of School Trustees shall annually recommend to the City Council, on or before the first day of April, the amount of money that they require for school purposes, to be raised by taxation, and the City Council shall include such tax in their annual rate bill. On or before the first day of each July hereafter the City Council shall appropriate for the use of schools such sum as will be raised by taxation in that year for the support of schools, and shall also then appropriate the amount of school income to be derived from sources other than taxation in such year, all of which shall constitute the school fund of said City that the City Treasurer shall pay out from time to time on warrants signed by a majority of the Board of School Trustees which said warrant shall not require the approval of the City Council. All money and property formerly owned by the Newport Academy and Graded School District shall belong to said City and all debts and liabilities of said District shall be paid and discharged by said City, and all lawful contracts of said District on March 1, 1918, shall be carried out by said City. The act incorporating the Newport Academy and Graded School District, and all acts, amendatory thereof, are hereby repealed. The school trustees shall give such bond to the City, at the expense of the City, as the City Council shall demand and approve for the faithful discharge of their duties.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 40. City Manager

§ 40. City Manager
(a) The Council may, when the City so votes at any annual meeting, appoint a City Manager who shall be the administrative head of the municipal government under the direction and supervision of the Council, and who shall hold office at the pleasure of the Council. The duties of the City Manager shall be:
(1) to see that the laws and ordinances are faithfully executed;
(2) to attend all meetings of the Council at which his or her attendance may be required by that body;
(3) to recommend for adoption to the Council such measures as he or she may deem necessary or expedient;
(4) to appoint, excepting as otherwise provided for by this act, all officers and employees of the municipality, and to perform the duties of such officers and employees as the Council may designate; (5) to prepare and
(5) to prepare and submit to the Council such reports as may be required by that body, or as he or she may deem advisable to submit;
(6) to keep the Council fully advised of the financial condition of the municipality and its future needs;
(7) to prepare and submit to the Council a tentative budget for the next fiscal year;
(8) and to perform such other duties as the Council may determine by ordinance or resolution.
(b) The City Manager shall receive such salary as may be fixed by the Council. Before entering upon the duties of his or her office, he or she shall take the official oath required of other officers by this charter and shall execute a bond in favor of the municipality for the faithful performance of his or her duties in such sum as may be fixed by the Council. The City Manager need not be a voter in or a resident of the City.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 7 - City of Newport › App § 41. City Council election of City officers

§ 41. City Council election of City officers
The Council shall, when the City so votes at any annual meeting, elect the Clerk, Treasurer, Constable, listers, auditors, City grand jurors provided for in section 6 of this charter, which election by said Council shall be in lieu of the method provided for in said section 6 of this charter. The term of office of each person so elected by said Council shall be that provided for by said section.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 9 - City of Rutland › App § 1.3. Wards

§ 1.3. Wards
(a) The City of Rutland may be divided into wards by ordinance.
(b) The Board of Aldermen is empowered to make such changes in the number and boundaries of the several wards of the City as they may deem proper, having regard, so far as practicable and convenient, to an equal division of population among them.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 9 - City of Rutland › App § 2.1. City election

§ 2.1. City election
(a) On the first Tuesday in March of odd numbered years, the legal voters of the City shall elect, from among their number, a Mayor, a City Treasurer, a City Assessor, and six aldermen at large, each for a term of two years.
(b) On the first Tuesday in March of even numbered years, the legal voters of the City, shall elect from among their number, five aldermen at large and such ward officers as are provided for hereinafter, each for a term of two years.
(c) On the first Tuesday in March 1988, the legal voters of the City shall elect from among their number four school commissioners who shall hold office for three years; and on the first Tuesday in March 1989, they shall elect from among their number, three school commissioners who shall hold office for three years; and on the first Tuesday in March 1990, they shall elect from their number four school commissioners who shall hold office for three years; and annually thereafter school commissioners shall be elected at the annual City election by the legal voters of said City as their respective terms expire, to hold office for three years, and until their successors are elected and have qualified.
(d) All officers of said City of Rutland, who have been duly elected or appointed and have qualified under the provisions of the charter in force before the passing of this charter, and all such officers who shall be hereafter duly elected or appointed and shall qualify under the provisions of this charter, shall continue to hold office until their successors have been duly elected or appointed and have qualified in accordance with the provisions of this charter.
(e) The election of all City and ward officers to be elected under the provisions of this charter, shall be by ballot, and the person or persons receiving a plurality of all votes cast for any office aforesaid, shall be declared elected thereto.
(f) In the election of ward officers, if no candidate receives a plurality of the votes cast, the Mayor shall appoint a legal voter of the ward to fill such office until the next election. In the election of all other elected officers, if no candidate receives a plurality of the votes cast, another election shall be called by the Mayor to be held within 60 days, said election shall be conducted under the same proceedings and methods as the inconclusive election.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 9 - City of Rutland › App § 2.2. Special City meetings

§ 2.2. Special City meetings
(a) The Mayor shall call a special meeting of all the legal voters of the City, when petitioned to do so by not less than five percent of the legal voters of the municipality, but only for any legal purpose beyond the jurisdiction of the Board of Aldermen.
(b) The Mayor shall call a special City meeting for any purpose upon being petitioned to do so by two-thirds of the members of the Board of Aldermen voting and present at a regular meeting, or by two-thirds of the members of the Board of School Commissioners, voting and present at a regular meeting.
(c) Also, the Mayor may, with the approval of the Board of Aldermen, call a special meeting for any purpose when he or she feels such a meeting is necessary for the public good.
(d) At such special meetings those persons whose names are on the checklist used for the last City election shall be entitled to vote; and also such persons as were or have become entitled by law to have their names on the checklist and whose names have been added thereto, by the Board of Civil Authority since said City election.
(e) The questions at any such special meeting shall be decided by ballot. There shall be separate polling places in each ward, for every such special meeting and the ward officers hereinbefore named shall act at such meeting in the same manner and have the same powers as at City or ward elections. For all such meetings it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to prepare and distribute suitable ballots in the same manner provided for city and ward elections. (Amended 1997, No. M-17(Adj. Sess.), § 2.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 9 - City of Rutland › App § 2.3. General and primary elections

§ 2.3. General and primary elections
General and primary elections shall be conducted in the wards of the City pursuant to the provisions of Vermont Statutes Annotated. Ward officials shall perform all and the same duties in regard to certifying the results of elections in their respective wards as now devolve by law upon the presiding officers of elections and town clerks; in addition thereto they shall certify the same to the City Clerk, who shall keep a record thereof.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 9 - City of Rutland › App § 2.5. Warnings

§ 2.5. Warnings
(a) All warnings for all meetings for the elections of City or ward officers, and for special meetings of all the legal voters of said City, for any purpose, shall be issued by the Mayor and published in the manner and for the length of time designated by law.
(b) Warnings for all City elections or special meetings of a municipality shall, by separate articles, specifically indicate the business to be transacted. The warning shall also contain any article or articles requested by a petition signed by at least five percent of the legal voters of the municipality and filed with the legislative branch not less than 40 days before the day of such meeting. The warnings shall also contain any question requested by a signed petition of at least two-thirds of the members of the Board of Aldermen or Board of School Commissioners, present and voting at a regular meeting. Questions shall be stated as written in said petition.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 9 - City of Rutland › App § 2.6. Checklists

§ 2.6. Checklists
Checklists of voters for the City and for each of the City’s wards shall be compiled and maintained pursuant to Title 17 Vermont Statutes Annotated. (Amended 1997, No. M-17 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 9 - City of Rutland › App § 2.7. Qualifications of voters—penalties

§ 2.7. Qualifications of voters—penalties
(a) Voting qualifications for the right to vote in any City election or meeting shall be the same as those required by State statutes for municipal meetings.
(b) The penalties for illegal voting at any City election shall be the same as those prescribed for illegal voting by State statutes.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 9 - City of Rutland › App § 2.8. Ward officers

§ 2.8. Ward officers
(a) The ward officers shall be a Clerk and a First, Second, and Third Inspector of Elections, and any other officers required by law of the State for each polling place at an election. One of said Inspectors shall be a member of the minority party casting the largest vote at the general election next preceding. Said officers shall be subject to rules and regulations of the Board of Civil Authority, not in conflict with State statutes.
(b) The ward officers shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of their respective duties and shall hold their offices until their successors are chosen and have qualified. They shall be paid such compensation as shall be voted by the Board of Civil Authority.
(c) In case there is no representative of the minority party herein provided for on the Board of Inspectors of Elections of any ward, the Mayor shall, before any election is held in such ward, declare a vacancy in the Third Inspector’s place in such ward, and shall thereupon fill such vacancy by appointing a legal voter residing in such ward and belonging to such minority party.
(d) In case of a vacancy in any ward office occasioned by death, removal from the ward or City, resignation, inability to serve, failure to elect, or other cause, the same shall be filled by the Mayor.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 9 - City of Rutland › App § 2.9. Duties of ward officers

§ 2.9. Duties of ward officers
(a) It shall be the duty of the clerk of each ward to preside at the polling place of the ward, to keep a record of all elections held therein, and immediately after any election in such ward, to return to the City Clerk a statement of the votes cast in such ward signed by two ward officials, which statement shall be recorded in the City record.
(b) It shall be the duty of the inspectors of elections to be present, and preserve order at all elections in their respective wards, to decide all questions relative to the right of any person to vote at the election, and with the ballot clerks, to sort and count the ballots, and to inform the City Clerk immediately after such count is completed of the results of the election.
(c) For all City or ward elections, and all City meetings, the City Clerk shall prepare all official ballots in the same manner and subject to all the provisions of the laws of this State providing for and regulating the preparation and distribution of official ballots in towns and cities.