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2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 204. Moderator Pro Tem

§ 204. Moderator Pro Tem
In case the Moderator shall be absent from any meeting, that member of the Board of Trustees present at such meeting whose name shall have precedence on the list of trustees as recorded in the minutes of election of the then existing Board of Trustees, shall act as a Moderator Pro Tem.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 301. Terms of office

§ 301. Terms of office
The term of office for all trustees shall be three years, staggered so that at least one trustee is elected at any annual meeting. The Moderator, Clerk, Treasurer, and auditors shall all serve a one-year term. The term of office of all the Village officers shall commence on the day following their election, unless otherwise provided in this chapter, and continue until their successors are chosen and qualified. The term of the Treasurer shall coincide with the Village’s fiscal year (July-June). (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 302. Compensation of officers

§ 302. Compensation of officers
The compensation of the Clerk and Treasurer shall be fixed by the Village; the compensation of all other officers, servants, and employees of the Village shall be fixed by the Board of Trustees, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 303. Board of Trustees; general authority

§ 303. Board of Trustees; general authority
(a) The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of the Village; shall assess all taxes and make out a rate bill accordingly; shall direct the expenditure of all monies belonging to the Village, and draw orders upon the Treasurer and generally perform all the duties legally enjoined upon them by the Village, and shall submit their accounts and vouchers to the auditors at least three days before the annual meeting of each year.
(b) The Board shall have power to abate taxes laid or assessed by virtue of this chapter, and also all highway taxes assessed against taxpayers of the Village, and to remit fines imposed for the violation of the bylaws or regulations of the Village. The power of the Board to abate taxes shall be subject to the same limitations and may be exercised for the causes provided in general Vermont law.
(c) The Board may create commissions and committees not now existing and appoint the members thereof. It may inquire into the conduct of any officer, commission, or department and investigate any and all municipal affairs.
(d) The Board may fill any vacancy in any elective Village office, and a person so appointed shall serve until a successor is elected, but the Village may, at any time, at a meeting duly called for that purpose, fill such vacancy for the unexpired term. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 304. Clerk

§ 304. Clerk
It shall be the duty of the Clerk to warn Village meetings and keep a record of all the proceedings of said Village; the Clerk shall also ex-officio be Clerk of the Board of Trustees and keep a record of its proceedings so far as the same are proper matter for record; the Clerk shall have power to certify copies of all records kept by the Clerk for which the Clerk shall receive the same fees as town clerks for like services, and shall perform all other duties required by this charter and such as are usually performed by clerks of villages.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 305. Treasurer

§ 305. Treasurer
The Treasurer shall perform for the Village the same duties required by law respectively of a town treasurer and collector of town taxes and shall have the same powers, proceed in the same manner, be subject to the same liabilities, and give such bonds to the Village as the Board of Trustees may direct. A failure to give such bond within 10 days from their election or appointment will render such office vacant. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 306. Auditors

§ 306. Auditors
The auditors shall, previous to each annual Village meeting, examine and audit the accounts of the Village officers, but no account shall be allowed by such auditors without the production of proper vouchers therefor, and shall report to the Village at its annual meeting the condition of the treasury thereof, including the assets and the outstanding liabilities of the Village.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 401. Election of Chair and appointments

§ 401. Election of Chair and appointments
The Board of Trustees shall annually, at its first regular meeting, elect from its number a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson. It shall also appoint a Chief and two assistant engineers of the Fire Department, and may appoint a Highway Superintendent and a Sewer Commissioner. All officers appointed by the Board shall be under its direction and control and may be removed at its discretion. The Board shall cause a certificate of such appointment or removal to be recorded in the office of the Village Clerk. Any vacancy in an appointive office may be filled by the Board at any time. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 501. Fire Chief and firefighters

§ 501. Fire Chief and firefighters
(a) The Chief of the Fire Department, or in the absence of the Chief, the assistant engineer next in authority shall have power at fires to suppress tumults and riots, by force if necessary, to remove all effects endangered by such fire and protect the same from waste and depredation, to pull down or remove any building when the Chief deems it necessary to prevent the spreading of such fire, and for such acts the Fire Chief and those acting under the Chief’s authority shall not be held personally responsible.
(b) It shall be the Chief’s duty, under the direction of the Board of Trustees, to inspect the manufacture or keeping of gun powder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, gasoline, fireworks, and other combustibles, and the construction and repairs of fireplaces, chimneys, and stoves within the Village, and if the Chief deems the same dangerous to the safety of the inhabitants, the Chief shall by order in writing approved by the Board of Trustees and recorded by the Clerk and delivered to the person so conducting such manufacturing, keeping, construction, or repairs direct in what way to construct the same, and any person neglecting or refusing to obey any such order so made, recorded, and delivered shall be punished by a fine as established by ordinance or bylaw with costs of prosecution.
(c) The duties of the Chief may also include ex-officio Fire Warden and Emergency Management Director. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 502. Firefighting apparatus

§ 502. Firefighting apparatus
All apparatus for the extinguishment of fires and the rooms for storing the same, owned or leased by the Village, and all fire companies organized under the authority of said Village, shall be under the direction and control of the Chief of the Fire Department; and the Chief shall make a detailed report to the Board of Trustees before each annual meeting of the condition of the Fire Department.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 601. Highway Superintendent

§ 601. Highway Superintendent
The Highway Superintendent shall, under the direction and control of the Board of Trustees, have in charge the building and repairing of all the highways, streets, lanes, and sidewalks in the Village; the Superintendent shall keep such accounts relating thereto as the Board of Trustees may direct, and shall at all times have the same ready for inspection by the trustees or any of them, and furnish a copy thereof to the auditors when required at least three days before the annual meeting. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 603. Board of Trustees; authority with respect to roads, streets, and sidewalks

§ 603. Board of Trustees; authority with respect to roads, streets, and sidewalks
The trustees of said Village shall have the same power, whenever in their judgment the public good requires, to take gravel, earth, stone, and other materials to repair or build a road, street, or sidewalk in said Village, as is now vested in the selectboard of towns for the taking of such materials to build or repair highways therein, and in such taking by said trustees the same proceedings shall be had as provided by law for the taking thereof by selectboards.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 701. Police Department; appointment; duties

§ 701. Police Department; appointment; duties
(a)(1) The Board of Trustees may also appoint a Chief of Police and not more than five additional police officers, except on public occasions, when they may appoint such number of special police for that occasion as they may think necessary, by appointment in writing under their hands, who shall be qualified by taking the oath of office, and causing their appointments to be recorded by the Clerk of the Village.
(2) Any such appointment may be revoked by the Board, in its discretion, which revocation shall also be in writing and be recorded by the Clerk.
(b) The Chief of Police and other police officers shall, by virtue of their appointment be constables, informing officers, and conservators of the peace within the Village, and may serve any criminal process throughout the County of Bennington returnable within the Village or to the County Court within and for the County of Bennington; and they may commit any person convicted of a violation of any bylaw, regulation, or ordinance of the Village or any provision of this chapter, or any law of the State, upon mittimus, to the common jail in Bennington County; and they shall be proper officers in justice criminal courts held within the Village, with full power to empanel, draw, and summon jurors before such justice courts.
(c) Police officers shall be entitled to receive the same fees as constables would be entitled to receive for the same services.
(d) Police officers shall have the same right to demand assistance from any person or persons that sheriffs and constables now have, and any person refusing to assist such police officer shall be subject to the same fines and penalties as now provided by law for refusing to assist a sheriff or constable. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 801. Construction and maintenance of reservoir

§ 801. Construction and maintenance of reservoir
The said Village shall also have authority and power to construct, maintain, and repair a reservoir or reservoirs, pumps, engines, and apparatus, take, purchase, and acquire, as in this charter provided, any ponds, springs, streams, water courses, real estate, water rights, flowage rights, and easements necessary for its purposes within the limits of the Towns of Bennington, Shaftsbury, and Glastenbury in the County of Bennington together with such land surrounding and adjacent to the same as may be reasonably necessary for protecting and preserving the purity of the water in such ponds, springs, and streams, and may enclose such ponds, springs, and streams by suitable fences for the purpose of such protection; and to enter in and upon any land or water for the purpose of making surveys, may take and construct dams and reservoirs, lay pipes and aqueducts and connect the same with the main aqueduct as may be necessary to convey the water when taken as aforesaid to the reservoirs of said Village and distribute the same through said Village for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants thereof and of the Towns of Bennington or of the adjoining Town of Shaftsbury, with water for fire, domestic, and other purposes; but said Village shall not take, otherwise than by purchase, the water of any stream, spring, pond, or reservoir owned by or used in other municipalities for like purposes or which the owner or lessee or other person having a vested right or interest in said water or use thereof, may reasonably require for domestic use or the watering of animals on the premises where such water may be in use.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 802. Use of land for reservoir

§ 802. Use of land for reservoir
Said Village for the purposes aforesaid may enter upon and use any land and enclosures over or through which it may be necessary for an aqueduct or pipes to pass and may thereon dig, place, lay, and construct such pipes, aqueducts, reservoirs, appurtenances, and connections and repairing of the same, from time to time, may open the ground in any streets, lanes, highways, and public grounds for the purpose of laying down and repairing such pipes, aqueducts, reservoirs, and appurtenances as may be necessary for conducting the water and the purposes aforesaid; provided that such streets, lanes, highways, and public grounds shall not be injured, but shall be left in as good condition as before the laying of said pipes, aqueducts, reservoirs, and appurtenances.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 803. Use of water; payment; inspection; damages

§ 803. Use of water; payment; inspection; damages
The owner of any tenement, house, or building who shall take the water of said Village shall be liable for the rent or the price of the same, and the officers and agents of said corporation entrusted with the care and superintendence of the water may at all reasonable times enter all premises so supplied to examine the pipes and fixtures and prevent any unnecessary waste, and if any person or persons without the consent of said corporation shall use any of said water, an action of tort under this statute may be maintained against such person by said corporation for the recovery of damages therefor and such action may be commenced and prosecuted by the Board of Water Commissioners in the name of said Village.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 804. Unauthorized diversion and malicious damage

§ 804. Unauthorized diversion and malicious damage
Any person who shall willfully, wantonly, or maliciously divert the water or part thereof of any of the ponds, springs, streams, aqueducts, water courses, or reservoirs, which shall be taken, used, or constructed by the Village, or shall corrupt the same, or make it impure, or commit any nuisance therein, or shall bathe therein, or within the limits that may be taken or prescribed by the Village pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or maliciously injure or destroy any dam, embankment, aqueduct, pipe, reservoir, conduit, hydrant, structure, pump, machinery, or other property owned, held, or used by the Village under the provisions of this chapter, shall be liable to the Village, in treble damages therefor, to be recovered in an action of tort founded on this statute. Such action may be commenced and prosecuted by the Board of Water Commissioners in the name of the Village. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 805. Sewers and drains

§ 805. Sewers and drains
(a) The Trustees shall have the care and supervision of the public sewers and drains of the Village and shall see that the same are properly constructed and maintained, and that the sewers or drains from abutting or adjacent property are properly connected with the public sewer or drain.
(b) Whenever a Sewer Commissioner is appointed by them, as in this charter provided, the Trustees may delegate to the Commissioner the performance of such of the foregoing duties as they may see fit.
(c) If in the judgment of the Board of Trustees the public good and necessity and convenience of individuals shall require the construction of a sewer system in the Village or a sewer main through the principal streets thereof, the Trustees are hereby authorized and empowered to lay out and construct such sewer system or sewer main and may from time to time extend the same as the public good and the necessity and convenience of individuals shall require, and when constructed, the same shall be under the care and control of the Board of Trustees or the Sewer Commissioner as herein provided. The Trustees are also authorized and empowered to lay out and construct the sewer main or parts of the system through lands of individuals or corporations, whenever, in the judgment of the Board, the public good shall so require, provided compensation for damages sustained by private individuals is made to them by the Village. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 806. Connections to sewer system

§ 806. Connections to sewer system
After such system of sewers or mains has been constructed as above provided, each and every owner of a house or other building in said Village situate upon any highway, street, lane, or alley through which a sewer main has been so laid out and constructed, shall, when requested by the trustees, cause to be constructed under the direction of the Commissioner a sewer or drain from such house or other building to the nearest sewer main and connected therewith so as to take all the sewage from and around said house or building and discharge the same into such sewer main. In case any person or corporation owning a house so situate shall fail or neglect to construct such branch sewer from such house, it shall be the duty of the Sewer Commissioner to give such person notice in writing, recorded by the Clerk, requiring the person to build such branch sewer from the person’s premises to the main sewer; and in case any such person does not construct such branch sewer within 30 days from the time of receiving said notice, it shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees to declare said premises a nuisance, and said Board of Trustees may direct the Sewer Commissioner who is hereby authorized and empowered so to do to enter upon said premises and properly construct said branch sewer, and the person upon whose premises such branch sewer has been so constructed shall pay to the Treasurer of said Village forthwith upon the completion of work all expense which the Sewer Commissioner has incurred in the construction of such branch sewer, and upon neglect of such person to pay the same then the corporation shall have an action founded on this statute to recover such expenses and said premises shall be holden for the payment of any judgment recovered in such action, and no homestead shall be exempt from attachment and execution in such action.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 807. Entry onto land for construction

§ 807. Entry onto land for construction
The trustees shall have authority to enter upon private lands or property to clear out, open, or construct any drain or ditch which, in their judgment, is required or necessary to receive or carry off the surface water falling or flowing upon the streets or highways in said village and likely to do damage thereto, or to render the same dangerous to public travel, and to clean out, open, or increase the capacity of any water course or ditch or drain which now receives all or any part of such water upon payment or tender thereof to the party injured thereby, damages by the party sustained by reason thereof.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 808. Electric light plant

§ 808. Electric light plant
The Village shall also have authority to construct and maintain an electric or other light plant, for the purpose of lighting the streets, walks, and public grounds of said Village, and the lighting any buildings therein, and for this purpose may take or purchase, acquire, and hold any water power, land, and rights of way in said Town, needed for the construction, maintenance, and operation of said light plant, as provided in this charter, and may use any public highway over which it may be necessary or desirable to pass with the poles and wire or other conduits of the same, provided the use of such highway for the purpose of public travel is not thereby necessarily impaired.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 809. Furnishing of water

§ 809. Furnishing of water
Said Village shall have authority to contract for the furnishing of water to said Village for extinguishing fires, sprinkling the streets, supplying drinking places, or other public uses, and may contract for the furnishing of lights or the light of streets, sidewalks, or any public grounds, or for the lighting or heating of any building used by said Village, and may levy and collect a tax to provide funds to meet such contracts.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 810. Rights-of-way of public service corporation

§ 810. Rights-of-way of public service corporation
If in the construction, completion, maintenance, or future extension of said water system it becomes necessary, in order to complete said system or to convey water to the said Village or its inhabitants, to lay the water pipes or mains of said system across premises or a right-of-way owned by a public service corporation and already devoted to a public use and in case said Village and said corporation cannot agree as to the place and manner in which said water pipes or mains shall be laid across such premises or right-of-way or upon the amount to be paid therefor, or in case said corporation refuses to permit said Village to lay its water pipes or mains across said premises or right-of-way, the said Village or said corporation may petition the Public Service Commission which after due notice and hearing to the parties interested shall determine whether it is necessary that said water pipes or mains may be laid across said premises or right-of-way and if so in what place and manner and if so, what amount shall be paid therefor and to whom it shall be paid. The orders and findings of said Commission shall be subject to appeal or exception to the extent and in the manner now provided by the general law of Vermont in the case of the condemnation of land for railroad purposes.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 811. Rates for water

§ 811. Rates for water
The inhabitants of said Village and of those parts of said Towns of Bennington and Shaftsbury to which said Board of Water Commissioners may decide to extend said system shall be entitled to water from said system at reasonable rates and under reasonable rules and regulations, not in conflict with the deed to said Village from said Laura H. Jennings, or her heirs, administrators, or executors.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 812. Prohibition on taxation, assessment, or encumbrance of water works

§ 812. Prohibition on taxation, assessment, or encumbrance of water works
The Village of North Bennington shall never tax or assess said system of water works or the income thereof, and shall never mortgage or encumber the same or allow or permit the same to be encumbered.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 813. Board of Water Commissioners

§ 813. Board of Water Commissioners
The entire management and control of the said water system and property shall be vested in the Village of North Bennington acting through a Board of Water Commissioners, five in number, at least four of whom shall be residents of the Village of North Bennington. Vacancies in their number caused by death, resignation, completion of term, removal, or any other cause shall be filled by the Trustees of said Village. If a majority of the remaining Commissioners proposes to Trustees, in writing, within 15 days of the occurrence of any vacancy, at least two qualified candidates for each such vacancy, the Trustees shall appoint one of the two qualified candidates. If such nominations are not made within 15 days, or if the Trustees in their sole discretion conclude that not all of the candidates are qualified, then the Trustees may appoint a new commissioner of their sole choice. Commissioners may be recalled without cause by vote of a majority of Commissioners and of at least 75 percent of the Trustees. The Commissioners shall serve a term of five years. The Commissioners shall elect a Chair annually, who shall serve for no more than three consecutive one-year terms as Chair. The Commissioners may vote to create other officers in their discretion. The Board shall meet at least monthly. Water Commissioners may be paid an annual stipend in an amount determined by the Trustees. (Amended 1989, No. M-21 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Oct. 3, 1990.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 814. Gross income of water works

§ 814. Gross income of water works
The gross income from said system of water works shall from time to time as collected be paid into the Village treasury and the same shall by the Treasurer be kept separate and apart from all other monies of the Village and a separate account of the same showing all monies received and payments therefrom shall be kept by the Treasurer.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 816. Board of Water Commissioners’ rules

§ 816. Board of Water Commissioners’ rules
The said Board of Water Commissioners shall adopt rules and regulations and a proper system of bookkeeping for the keeping of accurate accounts of the receipts and income received by it for water or from any other source from or for said system of water works and it shall show the rents and charges paid by every person, the kind and extent of service rendered him or her and when and where, and how much rent there may be overdue, if any. Said accounts shall also show all the sums expended and the purpose for which the sums are expended and said accounts shall, at all times, be kept separate from all accounts of said Village, and shall be public accounts and shall be open to public inspection.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 818. Annual net income of water works

§ 818. Annual net income of water works
The annual net income from said system of water works, as defined by said deed from the said Laura H. Jennings or her heirs, administrators, or executors shall be used for the following purposes, viz., If the said Village installs a sewer system within seven years from date the said annual net income and the accumulation thereof not exceeding in the whole the sum of $30,000.00 shall be used by the said Board of Water Commissioners to pay the cost thereof or to pay any bonds which the Village may incur or any indebtedness which the Village may incur (including interest thereon) for the building of a Village sewer system, not exceeding said sum of $30,000.00. This provision shall not include the cost of future extensions of said sewer but only the initial cost thereof said cost, bonds, or indebtedness for said sewer system shall be canceled when paid and shall not be a claim of the Water Department against said Village or any department thereof. After the cost of said sewer system is paid or after said sewer bonds or indebtedness, with interest, are paid, or if said sewer system is not installed within said seven years, said annual net income shall not be used for the ordinary purposes of said Village or for the ordinary purposes for which money is usually required by law to be raised by taxation, but, subject to the foregoing restriction, shall be expended by said Board of Water Commissioners for the improvement and betterment of the inhabitants of the Village of North Bennington in such ways as the said Board of Water Commissioners may judge best.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 901. Bonding for water and sewer systems and light plant

§ 901. Bonding for water and sewer systems and light plant
The Village at an annual or special meeting called for that purpose, is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money for any of the purposes herein mentioned, including the construction and establishment of a water system, sewer system, and light plant, and to issue notes and bonds therefor, and such notes or bonds shall be signed by the Board of Trustees and countersigned by the Treasurer of the Village, and payable at times and in a manner as the Board may direct. However, no vote to borrow, or for the issue of orders therefor, shall be taken at any meeting for which the purpose is not specified in the warrants. Before the orders shall issue, a record thereof shall be made in a book kept for that purpose by the Treasurer. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 902. Maximum bonded indebtedness

§ 902. Maximum bonded indebtedness
(a) The total amount of the bonded or other outstanding indebtedness of said Village at any one time, however, shall not exceed 10 percent of the assessed valuation of the property therein; and said Village may refund its outstanding legal indebtedness by issuing its notes or bonds therefor subject to the provision of this section.
(b) This section shall not be construed to prevent the Village issuing its orders to borrow money to provide for current necessary expenses in any year; said orders, however, to be retired from the avails of taxes appropriated for the purpose by the Village that year.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 1001. Compensation for taking

§ 1001. Compensation for taking
Whenever, to exercise or carry into effect any of the powers hereinbefore vested in said Village, or the trustees thereof, the public good or the necessity of said Village shall, in the judgment of the trustees, require the entering upon or the taking by the Village, or by the trustees in its behalf, of water, land, or real estate, or any interest therein of any person or corporation, and such person or corporation disputes the necessity of such taking, or if the damages therefor cannot be adjusted by agreement, the matter shall be determined by the trustees of said Village, after hearing all parties interested. Such hearing shall be had upon written notice of the time and place thereof, given at least 10 days before the hearing, which notice shall substantially describe the waters, lands, or privileges desired; and said trustees shall within 10 days after such hearing file their decision and award in the Town Clerk’s office of the town where the property is situated, and cause the same there to be recorded and shall at the same time file in such office a description of the waters, lands, or privileges so taken, sufficiently accurate for the identification; and if no appeal is taken from the decision and award of said trustees, as hereinafter provided, they shall, upon payment or tender of the amount awarded by them to the persons entitled thereto, be authorized to proceed under the provisions of this charter, without further hindrance or liability for damages.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 1002. Petition for appeal of compensation award

§ 1002. Petition for appeal of compensation award
When any person or corporation interested in any property or rights taken under this charter shall be dissatisfied with the decision of said trustees as to the necessity for or extent of such taking, or with the award of damages, the person may petition the Bennington County Court for a rehearing in the premises, and any number of person aggrieved may join therein; but such petition shall not delay said Village or its Board of Trustees in taking possession and control of such waters, lands, or privileges, where such petition relates to the matter of damages only.
Such petition shall be served on the Clerk of the Village within 60 days after the filing of the decision and award of the trustees, as hereinbefore provided, and at least 12 days before the term of Court to which it is made returnable; and such proceedings shall be had in said Court, on said petition, except as herein otherwise provided as are provided by sections 816 and 817 of Vermont Statutes, and the amendments thereof, relating to the taking of land for school purposes.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 1201. Amendment and repeal

§ 1201. Amendment and repeal
The said trustees may make, alter, amend, or repeal any ordinance, bylaw, or regulation which it deems necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers or for the well-being of said Village, and which is not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States; and to provide penalties for the breach thereof; and public notice of such bylaws, regulations, and ordinances shall be given by posting a notice thereof in at least three public places in said Village, not less than five days before the same shall take effect; all fines, penalties, taxes, and monies paid for, licenses thereby provided shall belong to the Village and be paid to its Treasurer.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 1202. Recordation and certification

§ 1202. Recordation and certification
The bylaws, rules, regulations, and ordinances of said Village shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of said Village, and the Clerk’s certificate that such bylaws, rules, regulations, or ordinances have been passed or adopted shall be prima facie evidence of such fact in any court in this State, and certified copies of said bylaws, rules, regulations, and ordinances and Clerk’s certificates shall also be received as evidence in all the courts of this State.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 1203. Fines

§ 1203. Fines
(a) For the breach of any bylaw, rule, regulation, or ordinance, the Village may impose a fine as specified therein. The court or Judicial Bureau shall impose the costs of prosecution in addition to the fine, in case of a conviction, and when it is necessary to abate a nuisance, the expense of abatement may be imposed upon the delinquent in addition to such fine and costs.
(b) If any person while residing without this State and while owning real or personal property within the Village shall with and by means of the real or personal estate or by his or her agents and servants violate any of the ordinances which the Village is authorized to make, the Village may sue for and recover the penalty for violation of such ordinance in an action founded on this statute and shall proceed in the same manner as by law is now provided in civil actions against persons residing without the State. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy › App § 1. Corporate existence, boundaries

§ 1. Corporate existence, boundaries
All that part of Troy, in the County of Orleans, enclosed within the following boundaries: commencing at the northeast corner of land owned and occupied by Winfield S. Elkins, thence southerly along the line between the land owned and occupied by said Elkins, S. P. Hunt, and C. P. Adams, to the highway leading from North Troy Village to Newport, thence westerly in the highway to the river road, so called, thence southerly in the river road to the southeast corner of land owned and occupied by Curtis Elkins, thence westerly and southerly on said Curtis Elkins’ south and east line to the Missisquoi River, thence westerly along the river to the southeast corner of land formerly owned and occupied by the late Harvey Elkins, deceased, thence westerly on the south line of said Harvey Elkins’ land to the southwest corner of the land, thence southerly on the easterly line of land owned by John W. Currier to the southeast corner of said Currier’s land, thence westerly on the south line of said Currier’s land to the west road, so called, crossing the road and continuing westerly to the southwest corner of land owned by H. B. Parkhurst, thence northerly on lot lines to the Canadian boundary, thence easterly on Canada line to the Missisquoi River, following the river to S. B. Hammond’s north line, thence easterly along said Hammond’s north line to said Winfield S. Elkins’ northwest corner, thence along said W. S. Elkins’ north line to point commenced at-all surface measure-shall hereafter be known by the name of the Village of North Troy.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy › App § 2. Authority of Village

§ 2. Authority of Village
By that name may have perpetual succession, and be capable of suing and being sued, may prosecute and defend in any court, may have a common seal, and the same alter at pleasure, and shall be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying real and personal estate for the use of the Village; and may, at any annual or special meeting warned for that purpose, as provided in this chapter, lay a tax upon the ratable estate within the same, whether residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes herein mentioned, and the trustees shall make out a rate bill accordingly and deliver the same to the Collector, who shall have the same power to collect such tax as the collector of town taxes, and may in like manner levy on and sell property to satisfy the same, and for want thereof may commit any person to jail against whom the Collector has such a tax.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy › App § 5. Elections at meeting

§ 5. Elections at meeting
At every annual meeting of the Village, the qualified electors of the Village shall, by ballot if called for, elect from their number a Moderator, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, three trustees, three fire wardens, and an Attorney. The Trustees elected at the last Village meeting shall hold office during the remainder of their official year. At the annual Village meeting to be held on the first Tuesday of January, one trustee shall be elected for the term of three years. All vacancies in the office of trustee shall be filled at the next annual meeting or at a special Village meeting duly called for that purpose.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy › App § 7. Village Clerk

§ 7. Village Clerk
It shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep fair and accurate records of all the proceedings of the corporation, and he or she shall give copies of the same when required, with power to certify to the same. It shall be the Clerk’s duty to warn special meetings of the corporation, agreeably to the direction of the trustees, or a majority of them, and all annual meetings, by posting notice of the time and place of such meetings in at least three public places in the Village, at least 10 days previous to the time of meeting, together with a statement of the business to be transacted. Any meeting of the corporation may be adjourned, and any business may be transacted at such adjourned meeting, which might, under the warning, have been transacted at the original meeting, as well as any other business, notice of which shall be given at such original meeting before the adjournment of the same.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy › App § 8. Village Treasurer and Collector

§ 8. Village Treasurer and Collector
The Treasurer and Collector shall perform for the corporation the same duties required by law respectively of a town treasurer and a collector of town taxes, and shall have the same powers, shall proceed in the same manner, be subject to the same liabilities, and give like bonds to the corporation for the faithful performance of its respective duties.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy › App § 9. Village trustees

§ 9. Village trustees
The trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interest of the Village; shall make out all taxes, and direct the expenditures of all monies belonging to the Village, and shall draw all orders upon the Treasurer, and generally shall perform all duties legally enjoined upon them by the corporation; and all powers vested in the trustees may be performed by a majority of them. The trustees, in case of the death, removal, or disability of any of the officers mentioned in this chapter, may perform their respective duties until others are elected.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy › App § 10. Highway district taxes

§ 10. Highway district taxes
All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Troy, and all the highway taxes assessed upon the ratable estate therein shall be paid in money; and the Selectboard of the Town of Troy shall make out a tax bill therefor, and deliver the same seasonably, as required by law, with a warrant for its collection, to the Collector of the Village, who shall collect the same as other taxes of the Village are collected, and pay the same over to the Treasurer of the Village; which money shall be drawn from the Village treasury by the trustees, and shall be expended by them in building, constructing, sustaining, and repairing the streets, highways, walks, alleys, and lanes of the Village, except 15 percent thereof which shall be paid into the treasury of the Town of Troy by the Treasurer of the Village of North Troy for the use of the Town; and no surveyors of highways for the highway district shall be required or chosen by the Town.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy › App § 11. Roads, sidewalks, and assessments

§ 11. Roads, sidewalks, and assessments
The trustees of the Village may lay out, alter, maintain, and discontinue any street, road, lane, alley, or walk in the Village, and appraise and settle the damages therefor, causing their proceedings to be recorded in the Town Clerk’s office in the Town; provided, that any person aggrieved by their proceedings shall have the like opportunity for applying to the County Court for the County of Orleans to obtain redress, as is or may be allowed by law to those aggrieved with the proceedings of the Selectboard in similar cases. The trustees in making, altering, or repairing sidewalks shall have power, subject to the ordinances and bylaws of the Village, on giving 12 days’ notice to the parties of the time and place of hearing, to assess the owners of lands adjoining such sidewalk as the trustees shall judge such lands to be benefited thereby; and when they shall have made any such assessment, they shall make a report thereof, setting forth their doings in that respect; which report they shall cause to be recorded in the Town Clerk’s office in the Town of Troy, and when so recorded, the amount so assessed shall be and remain a lien, in the nature of the tax, upon the lands so assessed, until the same shall be paid. From such assessment, there shall be the same right of appeal to the County Court, and the same proceedings in respect to such appeal as is provided in this section, and the final decision of the County Court in the matter of such appeal shall, when the record thereof is duly recorded as aforesaid, be a lien upon the lands so assessed as mentioned in this section; but such appeal shall not delay the making, altering, or repairing such sidewalk; and, if the owner of such lands shall neglect, for the space of six months after the final decision of the trustees, or in case of appeal to the County Court, to pay to the Village Treasurer the amount of the assessment, the trustees shall issue their warrant for the collection of the same, directed to the Village Collector of Taxes, who shall have authority to sell at public auction so much of the land as will satisfy the assessment and all legal fees, and who shall proceed in the same manner as collectors of town taxes are required by law to proceed in selling real estate at auction for the collection of town taxes.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy › App § 12. Licensing authority

§ 12. Licensing authority
The trustees of the Village shall have the sole power of granting licenses and vacating the same, within the limits of the Village, agreeably to the bylaws, rules, and ordinances thereof that the selectboard has by Titles 7 and 24 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated and all monies received for such licenses shall belong to the Village treasury, and be paid into the same.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 253 - Village of North Troy › App § 13. Fire Warden

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