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2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 17. Police officers

§ 17. Police officers
The police officers shall have the same power and authority as conservators of the peace within the Village as that of town constables. They may serve any criminal process for any offense against the laws of the State committed within the Village and may serve subpoenas for witnesses in such cases, and for all such services they shall be entitled to receive the same fees as constables are entitled to receive. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 17.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 19. Village Building Inspector

§ 19. Village Building Inspector
Within the Village limits, the Building Inspector shall have authority to oversee the location and construction of all buildings and all repairs on buildings already constructed and shall oversee the construction and repairs of elevators, oil storage tanks, fire places, stoves, flues, and chimneys and all electrical wiring and may order the occupants or owners of any building or premises to repair any elevator, oil storage tank, fireplace, stove, flue, chimney, electric wiring, or other apparatus that, in the opinion of the Inspector, is unsafe or dangerous, and may inspect the manner of manufacture and keeping of all explosives and combustibles. No building shall be located or constructed until the plans of the building have first been submitted to and approved by the Building Inspector, if the trustees by proper ordinance shall so order and require. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 19.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 20. Village trustee meetings

§ 20. Village trustee meetings
The trustees shall meet regularly at suitable times to enact ordinances and to transact any and all other proper business and at such meetings shall give audience to all complaints and protests and shall cause a record of their proceedings to be kept by the Village Clerk. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 20.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 21. Village ordinances taking effect

§ 21. Village ordinances taking effect
(a) No ordinance passed by the trustees shall be enforceable until notice thereof has been posted in four public places, within the bounds of the Village, for a period of two weeks, and published in a newspaper printed in the Village or, if no such newspaper be printed, in a newspaper having a current circulation within the Village twice within the same period of two weeks as mentioned in this subsection.
(b) If during such two weeks’ period a petition signed by 10 or more qualified voters of the Village be presented to the trustees objecting to an ordinance so passed and published by the trustees, the question of the approval of the ordinance shall be submitted to an annual or special meeting of the Village; and when approved by a majority vote of the meeting, and not otherwise, the ordinance so approved shall become an ordinance of the Village.
(c) If at any time subsequent to such period of two weeks for publication, a petition signed by 10 or more qualified voters of the Village be presented to the trustees requesting the repeal of any ordinance, the question of the repeal or approval of the ordinance shall be submitted to a meeting of the Village duly warned for that purpose; if at such meeting the ordinance be approved by a majority vote of the meeting, the ordinance so approved shall remain an ordinance of the Village; if the ordinance so voted upon shall fail of such approval, the ordinance shall be deemed to be repealed and shall thereupon be and become null and void and of no subsequent legal effect whatsoever, but fines and penalties imposed, judgments and decrees entered, prosecutions and legal proceedings instituted prior to the repeal of such ordinance shall not be vacated, set aside, or otherwise affected by such repeal. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 21.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 22. Ordinances and bylaws; inconsistencies

§ 22. Ordinances and bylaws; inconsistencies
All regulations enacted and adopted by the inhabitants of the Village for the government thereof shall be known as “bylaws.” All regulations passed and published by the trustees of the Village for the government thereof shall be deemed to be and shall be known as “ordinances.” In the case of any inconsistency between the bylaws and the ordinances of the Village, the bylaws shall be deemed superior and shall control as to such inconsistency. The Village at any annual meeting of the inhabitants thereof, or any special meeting duly warned for that purpose, may make, establish, alter, amend, or repeal any bylaws of the Village. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 22.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 23. Village and Town residents; public office

§ 23. Village and Town residents; public office
The inhabitants of the Village shall belong to and remain inhabitants of the Town of Newbury. No person being a resident or taxpayer of the Village shall be deemed thereby incompetent or disqualified to act as judge, justice, juror, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer, or witness in any matter, cause, or proceeding brought under this act in which the Village shall be interested. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 23.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 24. Highway district

§ 24. Highway district
All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Newbury and all the highway taxes assessed upon the ratable estate thereof shall be paid in money, and the Selectboard of the Town of Newbury shall make out a tax bill thereof and deliver the same seasonably, as required by law, with a warrant for its collection to the Collector of the Village, who shall collect the same as other taxes of the Village are collected, and pay two-thirds of the same over to the Treasurer of the Village, which money shall be drawn from the treasury by the trustees and shall be expended by them in building, constructing, maintaining, repairing, sprinkling, and lighting streets, highways, walks, alleys, sewers, and lanes of the Village, and no highway surveyors shall be elected for the Village; and the remaining one-third of the highway taxes shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the Town of Newbury. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 24.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 26. Property tax

§ 26. Property tax
The Village may, at any annual meeting or special meeting called for that purpose, as hereinbefore provided, lay a tax on the ratable estate within the same, whether of residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, and the trustees shall make out a rate bill accordingly and deliver the same to the Collector, who shall have the same power to collect such tax as the collector of town taxes, and may in like manner sell property to satisfy the same, and for want thereof, commit to jail any person against whom the Collector has such a delinquent tax. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 26.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 27. Village water supply

§ 27. Village water supply
All water rents and charges due the Village for the use of the Village water supply or the Village aqueduct system in case of nonpayment thereof shall be and remain a lien in the nature of a tax upon the real estate so supplied with water, whether such rents or charges be charged in the first instance against the owner or occupant thereof. Such lien shall be enforceable in the same manner and to the same effect as the lien for taxes under the laws of this State. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 27.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 29. Grand list

§ 29. Grand list
The grand list of the ratable estate within the Village, as made out by the listers of the Town of Newbury, shall be the grand list of the Village, and the Trustees shall cause a copy of the list to be made and filed in the office of the Clerk of the Village, within 10 days after the same shall be completed and filed by the listers in the Town Clerk’s office. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 29.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 30. Village bylaw and ordinance fines, penalties, and forfeitures

§ 30. Village bylaw and ordinance fines, penalties, and forfeitures
(a) Fines, penalties, and forfeitures up to and including $200.00 for each breach of an ordinance or bylaw may be established by the trustees or by a properly warned Village meeting.
(b) These fines, penalties, and forfeitures may be recovered in an action of tort brought in the name of the Village, and in any such action, a general complaint relying on the ordinance or the bylaw shall be sufficient.
(c) The process may issue either against the body or the property of the defendant, and if the defendant is found guilty, and if it is found by the court that the cause of action arose from the defendant’s willful or malicious act or neglect, it shall so adjudge, and shall further adjudge that the defendant be confined in close jail, and may issue execution against the defendant’s body with a certificate of such findings endorsed thereon; and such execution with such certificate thereon shall have the same effect as an execution issued on a judgment founded upon tort having a like certificate endorsed thereon.
(d) Any person refusing to comply with any Village ordinance or bylaw relating to the person’s business may be enjoined by a proper action in chancery brought in the name of the Village from continuing such business in violation of such ordinance or bylaw and, in any such action, a bill relying on the ordinance or bylaw shall be sufficient.
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Village from having and exercising such other powers as may be proper to enforce obedience to its ordinances and bylaws and to punish violations thereof. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 30.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 31. Village ordinance and bylaw violations

§ 31. Village ordinance and bylaw violations
All violations of the Village ordinances and bylaws may be prosecuted in behalf of the Village by its attorneys or police officers, or by any other duly authorized prosecuting officer, before any justice of the peace of the County of Orange, or any municipal court that may hereafter be established in the County of Orange having jurisdiction in the Town of Newbury. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 31.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 285 - Village of Wells River › App § 32. Village Manager

§ 32. Village Manager
The Village may at any properly warned Village meeting vote to accept a Village Manager, who shall have the same power and be subject to the same liabilities as town managers as provided by the statutes of the State. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 32.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 1. Boundaries; body politic

§ 1. Boundaries; body politic
The inhabitants of all that part of the Town of Westminster in the County of Windham, enclosed in the following boundaries, to wit:
Commencing at the northeast corner of the farm of Frank H. Farr, on the west bank of the Connecticut River, thence westerly on the north line of the Farr to the brow or top of Clapp’s Hill, so called, thence westerly on the north line of the Farr and land of the Kurn Hattin Home Association to the west side of the highway leading from Westminster East Parish to Westminster West Parish, thence northerly along the west side of the highway to the cold spring, so called, crossing the highway at the spring, thence northerly on the west line of lands of the Westminster Aqueduct Society, J. F. Ward, Rollo Metcalf, L. G. Converse, C. A. Peck, and Edgar A. Williams, crossing the highway leading from the former residence of Nelson Johnson to the residence of E. F. Lewis, at the northwest corner of land of the Williams, thence easterly on the north side of the last mentioned highway to land belonging to the estate of Nelson Johnson, thence northerly in a straight line to the southwest corner of land of Anders and Elna Nelson, thence northerly on the west line of land of John P. Holmes, Charles G. Miller, and Willis V. Farr to the north line of the Farr, thence easterly on the north line of the Farr to the river road, so called, leading from the Westminster to Bellows Falls and crossing the highway at the north line of the Farr and lands of the Vermont Valley Railroad to the east boundary of the railroad, thence northerly on the easterly right-of-way of the railroad to the west bank of the Connecticut River, thence southerly on the west bank of the river to the point of beginning, are hereby incorporated and made a body politic and shall be called the Village of Westminster. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 1; amended 1915, No. 309, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 2. Powers of Village

§ 2. Powers of Village
The Village is hereby granted and endowed with the power and authority to exercise the functions of a municipal corporation for the following purposes, and to the following extent only:
(1) To light the public streets and highways and public buildings within the limits of the Village.
(2) To build and maintain sidewalks along the streets and public highways within the Village.
(3) To establish and maintain a fire department and such means of protection against fire, including the maintenance of a system of water supply and hydrants, as may be voted by the Village.
(4) To provide and maintain necessary police protection within and for the Village.
(5) To have perpetual succession and to sue and be sued and to have a common seal and alter the same at pleasure and to purchase, hold, and convey real and personal estate for the use of the Village for the lawful purposes herein specified.
(6) To lay taxes upon the grand list of the Village for any and all the purposes herein specified.
(7) To sprinkle or oil the public streets and highways with the limits of the Village. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 1; amended 1915, No. 309, § 1; 1923, No. 229, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 3. Taxation of residents

§ 3. Taxation of residents
At any meeting of the legal voters legally warned and held for that purpose, a tax may be laid upon the grand list of the Village for any of the purposes for which the Village is incorporated. All taxes voted by the Village shall be assessed by the Board of Trustees, which shall make rate bills thereof and deliver the same to the Collector of Taxes with proper warrants for the collection thereof. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 2.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 4. Officers

§ 4. Officers
The officers of the corporation shall be a Board of five trustees, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, and an Auditor, all of which officers shall be chosen at each annual meeting of the legal voters of the corporation or at a special meeting as hereinafter provided. The term of office of the trustees shall be five years and until their successors are elected. The term of office of the other officers shall be one year and until their successors are elected. Any vacancy in any Village office may be filled by the Board of Trustees by appointment in writing recorded by the Clerk. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 3.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 5. Board of Trustees

§ 5. Board of Trustees
(a) The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of the corporation; shall draw orders upon the Treasurer for, and direct the expenditure of all monies belonging to, the corporation; and generally perform all duties legally enjoined upon it by the corporation. The Board of Trustees shall have power to abate taxes imposed by the corporation subject to the same limitations and for the same causes provide in section 3519 of the Public Statutes.
(b) All powers vested in the Board may be exercised by a majority of its members. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 4.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 6. Clerk

§ 6. Clerk
The Clerk shall keep a record of all meetings and proceedings of the corporation and of the Board of Trustees and give copies of the same when required upon payment of reasonable fees. The Clerk shall warn all meetings of the legal voters of the corporation by posting notices thereof containing a statement of the business proposed to be transacted, in three or more public places within the limits of the corporation at least six days before the time of meeting. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 5.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 7. Treasurer; Collector of Taxes

§ 7. Treasurer; Collector of Taxes
The powers and duties of the Treasurer and the Collector of Taxes shall be the same with respect to the corporation as are the powers and duties of town treasurers and town collectors of taxes with respect to towns. Each shall give a bond to the corporation conditioned for the faithful performance of his or her duties, in such sum and with such sureties as the Board of Trustees shall decide. If a Treasurer or Collector of Taxes does not give such bond within 10 days after election or appointment, the office shall be vacant. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 6.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 8. Auditor

§ 8. Auditor
The Auditor shall, at least once each year and whenever the Auditor sees fit, examine and adjust and make and file with the Town Clerk a statement of the accounts of all corporation officers and of the corporation and shall report all accounts and items thereof and the state of the treasury to the corporation at each annual meeting. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 7.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 9. Collector of Taxes; Chief of Police

§ 9. Collector of Taxes; Chief of Police
The Collector of Taxes shall, by virtue of the office, be the Chief of Police of the Village of Westminster, and as such shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of duties and shall cause the oath of office to be recorded by the Clerk. The Chief of Police shall be the informing officer and the conservator of the peace within the Village and may serve any criminal process returnable within the Village, and shall be the proper officer of the court in all cases before courts of competent jurisdiction sitting within the corporation in matters arising in or pertaining thereto, and for all such services shall receive the fees provided by law for constables. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 8.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 10. Prosecutions

§ 10. Prosecutions
Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this act or the provisions of any act or bylaw of the Village of Westminster, made in pursuance of this act may be commenced before any justice of the peace of the County of Windham, and all fines and costs imposed for the violation of the provisions of this act or the bylaws of the corporation, or the laws of the State within the limits of the corporation, shall be paid into the treasury of the corporation and the costs of prosecution shall be paid out of the same treasury to the persons entitled thereto. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 9.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 11. Water; light; sidewalks

§ 11. Water; light; sidewalks
The corporation is empowered to contract for water for extinguishing fires, and for that purpose may build and maintain its own system therefor or employ such other means as may be determined upon and may contract for lights for lighting the streets and public places, and may contract for the building of sidewalks, and may levy and collect a tax to provide funds to meet such contracts. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 10.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 12. Annual and special meeting

§ 12. Annual and special meeting
(a) The annual meeting of the corporation for the selection of officers and for the transaction of any business specified in the warning of the meeting shall be held in the Village of Westminster on the first Tuesday in April in each year.
(b) If the annual meeting of the Village fails to be held for want of notice herein before provided for, or for any other cause, the corporation shall not thereby be prejudiced and the several officers may at any time thereafter be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose as hereinbefore provided for calling annual meetings; but the term of office of any officers so elected at any special meeting shall expire at the same time as if they had been regularly chosen at the annual meeting. (Added 1912, No. 334, §§ 11 and 12.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 14. Bylaws

§ 14. Bylaws
The Village corporation may adopt, amend, or repeal any bylaws relating only to the functions that, by this chapter, the Village may exercise, and are not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution and laws of this State. The bylaws of the corporation shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk and the Clerk’s certificate that the bylaws were adopted at an annual meeting of the corporation, or at a special meeting thereof called for that purpose, shall be prima facie evidence of such fact in any court in this State; and the certified copies of the bylaws and the Clerk’s certificate shall also be received as evidence in all the courts of this State. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 14.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 15. Prosecutions

§ 15. Prosecutions
A fine not exceeding $20.00 with costs of prosecution may be imposed by the corporation for the breach of any of its bylaws with the alternative sentence to the house of correction in case the fine and costs are not paid as is provided by law in criminal cases. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 15.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 289 - Village of Westminster › App § 16. Village organization; termination; reestablishment

§ 16. Village organization; termination; reestablishment
The Village of Westminster as established by the action of the Selectboard under the provisions of the Public Statutes, by their order filed with the Town Clerk of the Town of Westminster, April 8, 1907, is hereby abolished except for the purpose of winding up its affairs, the collection of back taxes, and the payment of its debts. This section shall take effect, with the above exceptions, when the Village of Westminster is incorporated by this act and shall have organized. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 16.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 1. Village boundaries; residents; Town inhabitants

§ 1. Village boundaries; residents; Town inhabitants
(a) That part of the Town of Woodstock, in the County of Windsor, beginning at a stone post standing on the easterly side of the highway leading from the Village of Woodstock to Taftsville, and distant about 70 rods from the present northeast corner of the Village; thence running south 65 degrees east 62 rods to a corner; thence south 40 degrees west 128 rods to the northeasterly corner of the creamery lot; thence the same course 301 rods to the southeast corner of R. E. Townsend’s meadow; thence westerly on Townsend’s land 117 and one-half rods to Harvey H. Lockwood’s east line; thence north 51 and one-half degrees west 96 rods to a stone post standing on the northwesterly side of the highway near Sorrel Lucia’s house; thence same course 78 rods to a corner; thence north 39 degrees east 73 rods to the north-east corner of L. B. Marble’s wood shed; thence same course 304 rods to the south-west corner of Allen W. Thompson’s house; thence south 65 degrees east 64 and a half rods to a stone post standing near the fair ground school house so called; thence same course 171 rods to place of beginning, shall hereafter be known by the name of the Village of Woodstock.
(b) The corporation hereby created may alter the boundaries and limits of the Village, with the consent of any person or persons to be included or excluded by such alteration; and a record of all such alterations shall be made in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of said Town of Woodstock. The inhabitants and territory included in the limits of the Village shall belong to the Town of territory of Woodstock, in the same manner as though this charter had not passed.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 2. Corporate existence; assessment

§ 2. Corporate existence; assessment
(a) The inhabitants residing in the Village are hereby constituted a body, politic and corporate, by the name of the Village of Woodstock and by that name shall have succession, and may commence, prosecute, and defend suits or actions in all courts whatever; may have a common seal and alter the same; may purchase, hold, and convey real and personal estate for the use of the Village; may tax themselves and levy and collect taxes for the purpose aforethe, or to carry into effect any legal vote or bylaw of the corporation.
(b) Provided that, no tax shall be assessed, except by vote at a meeting of the inhabitants warned for that purpose.
(c) The inhabitants of the Village shall hereafter have power to assess and collect taxes on the property situated within the limits of the Village, belonging to nonresidents therein, for the same purposes and in the same manner that taxes may now be assessed and collected on the property situated within the limits of the Village, belonging to residents therein.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 3. Annual meeting; election of officers

§ 3. Annual meeting; election of officers
A meeting of the inhabitants shall be held annually on the third Tuesday in March for the purpose of electing a Clerk, five trustees, a Treasurer, and a Collector of Taxes, and for the transaction of any business specified in the warning of the meeting, which warning shall be signed by the Clerk, and shall specify such other business to be done at the meeting, besides the choice of officers, as the trustees shall direct, and shall be published in a newspaper in the Village, or posted up in three public places therein, at least 10 days before the meeting. The warning shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk before it is posted.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 5. Breach of bylaws; fines and forfeitures

§ 5. Breach of bylaws; fines and forfeitures
The corporation shall have power to assess fines and forfeitures for the breach of any of its bylaws; not exceeding $25.00 for any one offence, to be prosecuted; and recovered by actions of debt, before any justice of peace in the Village, in which action it shall be sufficient to declare generally that the defendant or defendants are indebted to the corporation in the amount of fine, penalty, or forfeiture for the breach of the certain bylaw violated by such party, under which declaration special matter may be given in evidence, and the inhabitants of the Village not otherwise incapacitated may be admitted as witnesses in any suit or action in which the corporation is a party.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 6. Clerk; Treasurer; Collector

§ 6. Clerk; Treasurer; Collector
The Clerk, Treasurer, and Collector shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their respective offices; and the Treasurer and Collector shall give bonds, with sureties, to the corporation, in such sum as the trustees shall direct for the faithful performance of their respective duties.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 7. Clerk; duties

§ 7. Clerk; duties
The Clerk shall keep records of all proceedings of the corporation, and give copies of the same when required, and may receive such fees as town clerks are entitled to receive for like services. The Clerk shall also warn meetings of the corporation, both annual and special, agreeably to the directions of the trustees, who are authorized to call special meetings of the corporation, causing the same to be warned in the manner prescribed for warning annual meetings.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 8. Trustees; duties

§ 8. Trustees; duties
It shall be the duty of the trustees to make out and deliver to the Collector an assessment or rate bill of all taxes that shall be laid by the corporation; to see that all the bylaws of the corporation are duly executed; and to direct all prosecutions for all breaches of them and, generally, to take care of all the prudential concerns of the corporation and to perform all duties that shall be legally enjoined on them by the corporation and all powers, by this act vested in the trustees, may be exercised by a majority of them; and in case of the death, removal, absence, or incapacity of the Clerk, the trustees may designate one of their number to perform the duties of Clerk and fill any temporary vacancy in any office in the Village.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 9. Fire wardens

§ 9. Fire wardens
The fire wardens of the Village of Woodstock, and such persons as shall, pursuant to the bylaws of the Village, be elected fire wardens, and having with them some distinguishing badge of their office, designated by such bylaws, may, in times of fire, demand and require assistance from any of the inhabitants of the Village to extinguish and prevent the spreading of such fire, and remove goods and effects from any building or other place endangered by fire; and a majority of the fire wardens may cause to be pulled down, blown up, or removed such dwellings or the buildings as they may deem necessary to prevent the spreading or progress of such fire; and the fire wardens may require and demand assistance from any of the inhabitants of the Village to pull down and remove any building whenever it shall be judged necessary by a majority of the fire wardens present; and the fire wardens may suppress any disorder or tumults and direct the labors of all persons present during such fire; and if any resident of the Village, so present as aforesaid, shall refuse to obey the orders of any fire wardens in any manner authorized by this act, the offender shall, on conviction thereof, before any justice proper to try the same, forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding seven dollars to the Treasurer of the Village. Provided that the offender be prosecuted by action of debt, brought by any wardens, in the name of the Treasurer, within 90 days from the time of committing the offence.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 11. Contract with aqueduct company

§ 11. Contract with aqueduct company
(a) The Village of Woodstock is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with the Woodstock Aqueduct Company, or any other aqueduct company, from time to time, for supplying the Village with water for fire purposes, for watering the streets, and for other purposes, for such length of time and upon such terms as the Village at its annual meeting, or at any special meeting duly called for that purpose, shall direct.
(b) All contracts made by the Village with the aqueduct company, or companies, as provided for by subsection (a) of this section, shall be legal and binding of the Village; and the Village may vote, levy, and collect taxes for fulfilling such contract or contracts.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 12. Construction; sidewalks; sewers; drains

§ 12. Construction; sidewalks; sewers; drains
The Village shall have the right to construct sidewalks, sewers, and drains within the limits of the Village and make such bylaws and regulations in respect thereto as the Village shall think best, not inconsistent with the laws of this State.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 13. Highway district; construction agents

§ 13. Highway district; construction agents
(a) The Village of Woodstock shall constitute a highway district, by itself, and the construction and repairs of the highways and sidewalks, within the limits of the Village, shall be under the direction of the trustees of the Village.
(b) The trustees shall annually appoint one or two (as they shall think best) agents for the construction and repair of highways and sidewalks, and remove them if they think proper, and appoint others in their stead, who shall have charge of the expenditure of the highway money in the Village, under the direction of the trustees.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 14. Highway taxes

§ 14. Highway taxes
Two-thirds of the highway taxes assessed by the Selectboard, or voted by the Town, upon the grand list of the inhabitants of the Village, and upon the ratable estate of nonresidents situated within the limits of the Village, shall be paid by the Treasurer or the Selectboard of the Town to the Treasurer of the Village, to be expended in the maintenance and repair of highways and sidewalks in the Village, as provided in section 13 of this charter.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 291 - Village of Woodstock › App § 15. Sewer system

§ 15. Sewer system
(a) The Village shall have power to establish a system of sewerage.
(b) The Village may take all real estate, right-of-way, or any other interest in real estate, required for the construction of such system of sewerage, having first notified the owner thereof of its purpose so to do; and upon further condition that in the event that the Village and the owner are unable to agree as to the damage that shall be paid therefor to the owner, the same shall be determined, and the same proceedings had, as is provided for in determining damages in laying out highways.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 1. Creation

§ 1. Creation
Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. chapter 121, subchapter 3, and upon approval of at least two voting municipalities, a union municipal district to be known as the “Addison County Solid Waste Management District” (the “District”), which shall be a body politic and corporate, shall be created.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 2. Purpose

§ 2. Purpose
The District is created and shall exist for the purpose of providing a comprehensive system for managing solid waste generated within the member municipalities. The principal elements of the management system may include collection, transportation, processing, citizen information and education, land disposal, incinerators, recycling centers, intermediate processing facilities, composting plants or resource recovery facilities, or any combination thereof, as well as any other methods allowed by law. In order to assure that everyone pays the real cost of solid waste management, the primary source of funding for District operations will be based on user fees.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 3. Composition

§ 3. Composition
This District shall consist of those municipalities that elect to join the District by votes of their voters present and voting at annual or special meetings duly warned for such purpose, and such other municipalities as are subsequently admitted to the District as provided in this chapter, excepting those municipalities that may withdraw as provided in this chapter.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 6. Procedure for adoption of ordinances, rules, and regulations

§ 6. Procedure for adoption of ordinances, rules, and regulations
Any ordinance, rule, or regulation of the District may be adopted by the Board of Supervisors at a duly called Board of Supervisors’ meeting following the following procedure: if the Board of Supervisors desires to adopt an ordinance, rule, or regulation, it shall hold at least one public hearing on the proposed ordinance, rule, or regulation. Public notice shall be given of the public hearing by publication of the date, place, and purpose of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation within the District on a date not less than 15 days prior to the date of the hearing; the notice shall also be posted in at least three public places within each member municipality and mailed to the town clerk of each municipality at least 30 days prior to the date of the hearing. The notice shall make reference to a place within the District where copies of the proposed ordinance, rule, or regulation may be examined, and the full text of the ordinance, rule, or regulation, or a concise summary of it, including a statement of purpose, principal provisions, and table of contents or list of section headings, shall also be published. Following such public hearing, the Board of Supervisors may at any duly called Board of Supervisors’ meeting adopt the ordinance, rule, or regulation by resolution, and the ordinance, rule, or regulation shall become effective upon adoption. An ordinance, rule, or regulation adopted in accordance with these procedures may be amended or repealed in accordance with the same procedures. No ordinance, rule, or regulation, or amendment or repeal shall be subject to any voter referendum. The foregoing procedure shall not be required for rules as to the internal workings of the Board or internal administration of this District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 7. Authority

§ 7. Authority
The voters of the District shall have the power to vote on bonded indebtedness, amendments to this chapter, and dissolution of the District. All other power and authority of the District and the administration and the general supervision of all fiscal, prudential, and governmental affairs thereof shall be exclusively vested in a governing body known as the Board of Supervisors.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 8. Composition

§ 8. Composition
The Board of Supervisors shall be composed of one representative from each member municipality; each representative shall be a resident of the municipality he or she represents or may be a nonresident employee of the municipality. No one person may represent more than one municipality.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 9. Appointment

§ 9. Appointment
(a) Initial Board. The Initial Board shall be appointed by the legislative body of each member municipality. Appointments shall be made within 30 days of the effective date of this chapter and certified by the clerk of each member municipality to the Board. Within 60 days of the effective date of this chapter, the initial Board shall meet and shall elect from its membership a Chair and Vice Chair to serve until the organizational meeting to be held pursuant to section 10 of this chapter, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The initial Board shall also appoint a Clerk and Treasurer pursuant to sections 24 and 25 of this chapter.
(b) Subsequent boards. Each year, subsequent to Town Meeting and prior to the annual organizational meeting, the legislative body of each member municipality shall appoint its representative and shall also name an alternate representative to the Board of Supervisors. Appointments shall be in writing, signed by the Chair of the legislative body, and presented to the Clerk of the District. The legislative body, by majority vote, may remove its municipality’s appointed representative or alternate during his or her term of office at its discretion. The alternate representative shall represent the municipality at all meetings of the Board of Supervisors that the regular representative is unable to attend and shall have all the rights and privileges of the regular representative in his or her absence.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 10. Organizational meeting

§ 10. Organizational meeting
Annually, on the second Thursday in April commencing in 1989, the Board of Supervisors shall hold its organizational meeting. At such meeting, the Board of Supervisors shall elect from among its membership a Chair and a Vice Chair, each of whom shall hold office for one year and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified. The Chair and Vice Chair are eligible to be elected to not more than three successive terms.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 12. Special meetings

§ 12. Special meetings
Special meetings of the Board of Supervisors may be called at any time by the Chair or shall be called by the Clerk upon written request of a majority of the members of the Board of Supervisors. Except in case of emergency, each member of the Board of Supervisors shall be given at least 24 hours’ notice of any special meeting of the Board of Supervisors by notice in person, by telephone, or by written notice delivered personally, mailed, or left at such member’s usual place of residence.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 13. Quorum

§ 13. Quorum
For the purpose of transacting business, the presence of 50 percent of the municipal representatives to the Board of Supervisors shall constitute a quorum. However, a smaller number may adjourn to another date. The entire number of regular representatives to be appointed to the Board under section 9 of this chapter shall be used to determine a quorum, regardless of whether vacancies exist.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 14. Voting

§ 14. Voting
Each representative in attendance at a meeting of the Board of Supervisors at which a quorum is present shall cast one vote for every 2,500 population, or part thereof, in the municipality that he or she represents. If a representative is unable to attend, the municipality’s duly designated alternate shall be entitled to vote. A member of the Board of Supervisors may not split his or her votes. In order for any motion to carry, it must be voted on affirmatively by a minimum of the representatives from one-third of the member municipalities and a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the Board of Supervisors, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 16. Vacancy

§ 16. Vacancy
Any vacancy on the Board of Supervisors or in an alternate representative position shall be filled within 30 days after such vacancy occurs by the legislative body of the member municipality that appointed the representative or alternate whose position has become vacant. An appointee to a vacancy shall serve until the expiration of the term of the representative to whose position the appointment was made and may thereafter be reappointed.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 19. Officers

§ 19. Officers
The officers of the District shall be the Chair and the Vice Chair of the Board of Supervisors, the Clerk of the District, and the Treasurer of the District. The offices of the Clerk of the District and the Treasurer of the District may be held by one person. No other person may hold more than one office at one time.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 21. Chair

§ 21. Chair
The Chair of the Board of Supervisors shall be the chief executive officer of the District. The Chair shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Supervisors and shall make and sign all contracts on behalf of the District upon approval by the Board of Supervisors. The Chair shall perform all the duties incident to the position and office.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 22. Vice Chair

§ 22. Vice Chair
During the absence or inability of the Chair to render or perform his or her duties or exercise his or her powers, the same shall be performed and exercised by the Vice Chair and when so acting, the Vice Chair shall have all the powers and be subject to all the responsibilities given to or imposed upon the Chair.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 23. Vacancy

§ 23. Vacancy
During the absence or inability of the Vice Chair to render or perform his or her duties or exercise his or her powers, the Board of Supervisors shall elect from among its membership an acting Vice Chair who shall have the powers and be subject to all the responsibilities given or imposed upon the Vice Chair.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 24. Clerk

§ 24. Clerk
The Clerk of the District shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors, shall not be a member of the Board, and shall serve at its pleasure. The Clerk shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the public records of the District and the Seal of the District. The Clerk shall record all votes and proceedings of the District, including meetings of the District and meetings of the Board of Supervisors, and shall cause to be posted and published all warnings of meetings of the District. The Clerk shall prepare all warnings of meetings of the District as required by section 44 of this chapter. Following approval by the Board of Supervisors, the Clerk shall cause the annual report to be distributed to the legislative branches of its member municipalities. The Clerk shall prepare and distribute any other reports required by laws of the State of Vermont and resolutions or regulations of the Board of Supervisors. The Clerk shall perform all the duties and functions incident to the office of secretary or clerk of a body corporate.