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2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 107A - Town of Bridport › App § 3 Appointed officers

§ 3 Appointed officers
(a) In addition to all other offices that may be filled by appointment by the Selectboard pursuant to State law or this charter, the Selectboard shall appoint the following Town officers, who shall serve for such terms as the Selectboard may establish in its act of appointment or until the office otherwise becomes vacant:
(1) A Town Treasurer who shall not simultaneously hold any elective office within Town government. The Town Treasurer shall:
(A) be open to the public at hours adopted by the Selectboard;
(B) be responsible for the collection of current taxes;
(C) perform duties as specified in the accounting and financial policies adopted by the Selectboard and required by State law; and
(D) make monthly reports to the Selectboard of the financial activities of the Town. These reports shall include:
(i) a listing of all expenditures during the preceding month;
(ii) a listing of all revenue received during the preceding month, including the source of these revenues;
(iii) an accounting of all reserve funds of the Town; and
(iv) a statement showing the balance in the general, highway, and all special funds at the end of the preceding month.
(2) A Town Clerk who shall not simultaneously hold any elective office within Town government. The Town Clerk shall:
(A) be open to the public at hours adopted by the Selectboard; and
(B) perform those duties adopted by the Selectboard and required by State law.
(b) The Selectboard shall adopt and revise, from time to time, a general statement of the qualifications necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities of each of these appointed Town offices and a job description of those offices. These appointed officers shall exercise all the powers and duties necessary to carry out the provisions of this charter as well as those provided by State law generally.
(c) These appointed officers shall be employees of the Town, subject to all personnel and employment rules, regulations, and policies of the Town. An officer appointed hereunder shall be eligible to apply for reappointment at the expiration of his or her term of office, but failure by the Selectboard to make such reappointment shall not be construed as discharge from employment.
(d) A person appointed to the position of Town Treasurer or Town Clerk need not be a resident or voter of the Town. (Added 2015, No. M-16 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 17, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 107A - Town of Bridport › App § 4 Separability

§ 4 Separability
If any provision of this charter is held invalid, the other provisions of the charter shall not be affected thereby. (Added 2015, No. M-16 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 17, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 108 - Town of Bristol › App § 201. Applicability of the general law

§ 201. Applicability of the general law
Except when changed, enlarged, or modified by these charter provisions, the Town of Bristol shall have all the powers granted to towns by the Constitution and general laws of the State of Vermont, together with all the implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers granted to the Town of Bristol. (Added 1994, No. M-20, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 108 - Town of Bristol › App § 301. Officers

§ 301. Officers
The Town of Bristol shall continue to have the officers as provided for towns by the general laws of the State. However, there shall be added to the existing three members of the Selectboard an additional two members for a total of five. The two additional members shall be first elected at the 1995 Bristol annual Town meeting. The two additional members shall serve for two-year terms except that one of them elected at said 1995 annual Town meeting shall only be elected for an initial one-year term. The Town may vote to discontinue the positions of the two additional members at an annual or special Town meeting warned for that purpose. From the effective date of this merger until the 1995 Bristol annual Town meeting, the two additional members’ positions shall be filled by two of the persons in office as trustees of the Village of Bristol on the day before said effective merger date as designated by the incumbent Board of Trustees of the Village of Bristol. (Added 1994, No. M-20, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 108 - Town of Bristol › App § 401. Ordinances, etc

§ 401. Ordinances, etc
(a) The Town of Bristol may adopt, amend, repeal, and enforce any rule, regulation, bylaw, or ordinance to carry into execution all the powers granted to the Town of Bristol.
(b) Any rule, regulation, bylaw, or ordinance of the Town of Bristol may apply to one or more limited areas and not to the whole Town. This may include the providing of a particular service, such as collection of garbage, to one or more limited areas of the Town and the charging of fees to be paid by the users thereof for the costs of such a service. (Added 1994, No. M-20, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 108 - Town of Bristol › App § 501. Water Department

§ 501. Water Department
(a) Upon the effective date of this merger, the geographic area formerly covered by the then abolished Village of Bristol shall constitute a Water Department service area for the purpose of providing water services therein. However, said Water Department shall be responsible for continuing the present specific water services already in existence and being provided beyond said geographic area prior to the effective date of this merger.
(b) The water system taken over from the Village of Bristol and any additions thereto or modifications thereof shall be maintained separate from all other departments of the Town and no part of the rents and revenues therefrom may be used for any other purpose.
(c) Unless otherwise voted by the Town at a Town meeting, all costs of the Water Department shall be paid by the users thereof and the annual water rents or charges shall be at a rate sufficient to cover annual expenditures, temporary indebtedness, the amortizing of bonded indebtedness, and interest and any dedicated (sinking) funds. Prior to the setting of the annual budget and annual water rents or charges, the water commissioners shall each year hold a public hearing for the purpose of receiving input concerning a proposed annual budget and annual water rents or charges for the Water Department. The public notice for each such public hearing shall be given not less than 15 days prior to the date of the public hearing by the publication of the date, place, and purpose of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of Bristol and by the posting of the same information in one or more public places within the Water Department service area.
(d) The Selectboard of the Town of Bristol shall be the water commissioners who, in connection with those powers enumerated in the general laws of the State with respect to waterworks and supply, shall have the power to adopt and enforce rules, regulations, or ordinances concerning the control and operation of such water system.
(e) The Water Department service area may be enlarged or modified by the water commissioners after holding a public hearing on any such proposed enlargement or modification. The public notice for each such public hearing shall be given not less than 15 days prior to the date of the public hearing by the publication of the date, place, and purpose of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of Bristol and by the posting of the same information in one or more public places within the Water Department service area. (Added 1994, No. M-20, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 108 - Town of Bristol › App § 601. Sewer Department

§ 601. Sewer Department
(a) Upon the effective date of this merger, the geographic area served by the so-called Bristol core area sewer system of the then abolished Village of Bristol shall constitute a Sewer Department service area of the Town of Bristol for the purpose of providing sewer service therein.
(b) The Selectboard of the Town of Bristol shall be the sewer commissioners, alternatively known as the sewage system commissioners or sewage disposal commissioners, who, in connection with those powers enumerated in the general laws of the State with respect to sewage systems or sewage disposal systems, shall have the power to adopt and enforce rules, regulations, or ordinances concerning the control and operation of such sewer system.
(c) Unless otherwise voted by the Town at a Town meeting, all costs of the Sewer Department shall be paid by the users thereof, and the annual sewer charges shall be at a rate sufficient to cover annual expenditures, temporary indebtedness, the amortizing of bonded indebtedness and interest, and any dedicated (sinking) funds. The Sewer Department shall be maintained separate from all other departments of the Town, and no part of the charges and revenues therefrom may be used for any other purpose. Prior to the setting of the annual budget and annual sewer charges, the sewer commissioners shall each year hold a public hearing on the proposed annual budget and annual sewer charges for the Sewer Department. The public notice for each such public hearing shall be given not less than 15 days prior to the date of the public hearing by the publication of the date, place, and purpose of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of Bristol and by the posting of the same information in one or more public places within the general area served by the Sewer Department.
(d) The Sewer Department service area may be enlarged or modified by the sewer commissioners after holding a public hearing on any such proposed enlargement or modification. The public notice for each such public hearing shall be given not less than 15 days prior to the date of the public hearing by the publication of the date, place, and purpose of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of Bristol and by the posting of the same information in one or more public places within the Sewer Department service area. (Added 1994, No. M-20, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 108 - Town of Bristol › App § 701. Police Department

§ 701. Police Department
(a) Upon the effective date of the merger, the geographic area formerly covered by the then abolished Village of Bristol shall constitute a Police Department Special Service District for the purpose of providing police protection therein.
(b) All costs required to support said Special Service District shall be paid for by the taxpayers receiving said services by a special assessment property tax on the grand list of the property in the area covered by said Special Service District, to be assessed annually by the Selectboard and added to such taxpayers’ regular general property taxes and due as a part thereof at the same time and that shall be a lien on such property and shall be collected in the same manner as such regular general property taxes, including fees and interest charges. The Police Department of this Special Service District of the Town of Bristol shall be maintained separate from all other departments of the Town, and no part of the revenues therefrom may be used for any other purpose than for the Police Department. The Selectboard shall each year hold a special meeting for the purpose of adoption by the voters residing within said Special Service District of the annual budget of the Police Department Special Service District and the amount thereof to be raised by the special assessment property tax.
(c) The Town of Bristol may adopt and enforce rules, regulations, or ordinances concerning the Police Department, including but not limited to provisions providing for tenure of police officers during good behavior with removal only after hearing and for cause, except for reducing the number of officers for reasons of economic necessity.
(d) Said Special Service District may be modified with the separate approval of both the voters residing within said District as existing and the voters residing within any area proposed to be enlarged or diminished. Such respective approvals shall be expressed by the affirmative vote of a majority of such voters present and voting at special meetings thereof. However, the voters of the Town of Bristol at an annual or special Town meeting warned for the purpose may vote to abolish said Special Service District in favor of making the Police Department a townwide Police Department whose cost will become a part of the general budget expense of the Town of Bristol.
(e) The procedure for warning and holding each of the aforementioned special meetings shall be the same as the warning and holding of a special Town meeting, except that the legal voters shall be only those who are entitled to vote at the particular special meeting. (Added 1994, No. M-20, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 108 - Town of Bristol › App § 801. Separability

§ 801. Separability
If all or any portion of any provision of these charter provisions is held invalid, the rest of these charter provisions shall not be affected thereby. If the application of any of these charter provisions to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the application thereof to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. (Added 1994, No. M-20, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 108C - Town of Calais › App § 1 Corporate existence retained

§ 1 Corporate existence retained
(a) Pursuant to the authority granted by the General Assembly, there is hereby enacted a charter to govern the organization and operation of local government in the Town of Calais.
(b) The inhabitants of the Town of Calais, within the geographical limits as now established, shall continue to be a municipal corporation by the name of the Town of Calais. (Added 2017, No. M-11, § 2, eff. May 30, 2017.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 108C - Town of Calais › App § 2 General Law; application

§ 2 General Law; application
(a) The Town of Calais shall have all powers granted to towns and municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of this State and this charter, together with all the implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers therein granted.
(b) Except when changed, enlarged, or modified by the provisions of this charter, all provisions of the statutes of the State applying to towns and municipal corporations shall apply to the Town.
(c) In this charter, any mention of a particular power shall not be construed to restrict the scope of the powers that the Town would have if the particular power were not mentioned, unless this charter otherwise provides.
(d) Nothing in this charter shall be construed to limit in any way the powers and functions conferred on the Town, the Selectboard, or its elected or appointed officers by general or special enactment of State statutes or rules in force or effect or hereafter enacted, and the powers and functions conferred by this charter shall be cumulative and in addition to the provisions of the general or special enactment unless this charter otherwise provides. (Added 2017, No. M-11, § 2, eff. May 30, 2017.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 108C - Town of Calais › App § 3 Treasurer

§ 3 Treasurer
The Selectboard shall annually appoint a Town Treasurer who shall perform all the duties of town treasurers as required by State statute and those additional duties specified by the Selectboard. The Town Treasurer shall be the collector of current taxes. The Town Treasurer shall not be Treasurer of the Town School District; the Town School District Treasurer shall be elected by the voters of the Town School District. The Town Treasurer need not be a resident or voter of Calais and shall serve at the pleasure of the Selectboard. (Added 2017, No. M-11, § 2, eff. May 30, 2017.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 108C - Town of Calais › App § 4 Auditor

§ 4 Auditor
The Selectboard shall annually appoint a Town Auditor who shall perform all the duties of Town Auditors as required by State statute and those additional duties specified by the Selectboard. The Town Auditor need not be a resident or voter of Calais and shall serve at the pleasure of the Selectboard. Not less than every three years, the Selectboard shall contract with a public accountant, licensed in this State, to perform a financial audit of all funds of the Town. (Added 2017, No. M-11, § 2, eff. May 30, 2017.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 1. Merger of the Village and Town

§ 1. Merger of the Village and Town
At midnight at the end of July 9, 1986, the Village of Proctorsville shall merge into the Town of Cavendish, and the Village of Proctorsville shall, except as hereinafter provided, cease to exist as a political entity or body corporate, and the merged shall hereinafter be known as the Town of Cavendish.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 2. Properties transferred and liabilities assumed

§ 2. Properties transferred and liabilities assumed
(a) Upon the merger specified in section one of this charter, all the lands, buildings, easements, funds, uncollected taxes, monies, street lights, and other property of the Village of Proctorsville, of any description, except as hereinafter provided, shall become vested in and become the property of the Town of Cavendish, and all indebtedness, bonded and otherwise, of the Village of Proctorsville shall be assumed by the Town of Cavendish, without any further act, deed, or instrument being necessary.
(b) Upon the merger specified in section one of this charter, the lands described as Greven Field, five acres, more or less, and the Main Street Fire Hall, so-called in the Village of Proctorsville and no other land, shall be retained and vested in the independent Proctorsville Fire District, to be established simultaneously with this merger by petition pursuant to the dictates of 20 V.S.A. chapter 171.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 3. Properties held in trust

§ 3. Properties held in trust
Any and all properties held in trust by the trustees of the Village of Proctorsville, or any officer thereof, shall become vested in the Selectboard of the Town of Cavendish and its successors, or in the respective officer of the Town and the officer’s successor, as the case may be, and shall continue to be held in trust for the same uses as before the merger, all without any further act, deed, or instrument being necessary.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 4. Settling the affairs of the Village of Proctorsville

§ 4. Settling the affairs of the Village of Proctorsville
Prior to the merger, the officers of the Village of Proctorsville shall settle so far as possible their financial affairs and shall except as hereinafter provided, on said date, turn over and deliver to the Clerk of the Town of Cavendish all records, books, and documents of the Village of Proctorsville, and to the proper officers of the Town all property of the Village of Proctorsville, except the heretofore noted property of the independent Proctorsville Fire District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 6. Water rates

§ 6. Water rates
(a) All water rates of the Village of Proctorsville in effect at the time of merger shall continue in effect until changed by the Selectboard of the Town of Cavendish. All costs of the Water Department shall be paid by the users.
(b) Annual water charges shall be at a rate sufficient to cover annual expenditures, adequate reserves, temporary indebtedness, and the amortizing of bonded indebtedness and interest.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 7. Existing ordinances; municipal maps; regulations

§ 7. Existing ordinances; municipal maps; regulations
(a) The Town Plan, zoning regulations, subdivision regulations, and official maps of the Town of Cavendish and the Village of Proctorsville, as they exist or may exist, all as contemplated by the Vermont Planning and Development Act, shall become and be the Town Plan, zoning regulations, subdivision regulations, and official maps of the Town of Cavendish, as merged.
(b) All rules, ordinances, regulations, and bylaws for the Village of Proctorsville, if any, in effect on the day before the merger shall become and continue in full force and effect as rules, ordinances, regulations, and bylaws of the Town of Cavendish, for the respective area presently involved, unless in conflict with rules, ordinances, regulations, and bylaws of the Town of Cavendish already existing, until lawfully amended or repealed.
(c) Whenever a power is granted by any such rule, ordinance, regulation, or bylaw to an officer of the Village of Proctorsville, such power is conferred hereby upon the appropriate officer of the Town of Cavendish.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 8. Election of Selectboard

§ 8. Election of Selectboard
Town Selectboard members in office at the date of adoption of the merger shall continue in office until the end of their respective terms. Village trustees in office at the date of adoption of the merger shall cease to serve as trustees. No further trustees shall be elected.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 9. Votes required for effect

§ 9. Votes required for effect
All sections of this plan of merger shall take effect if this plan is approved as follows:
(1) by majority vote of the Town of Cavendish, which includes all qualified voters of the Town; and
(2) by majority vote of the Village of Proctorsville, which includes all qualified voters of the Village; and
(3) by compliance with the terms of 24 V.S.A. chapter 49.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 21. Applicability of general law

§ 21. Applicability of general law
(a) All provisions of the Constitution and general laws of the State of Vermont relating to towns and their officers shall apply to the Town of Cavendish.
(b) The Town of Cavendish shall have all the powers now or hereafter conferred upon towns and villages by the Constitution and general laws of the State of Vermont.
(c) The form, function, powers, and administration of the Town government of the Town of Cavendish shall not and will not be altered, changed, or amended under the terms of this plan of merger.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 22. Officers

§ 22. Officers
(a) The Town of Cavendish shall have the officers as provided for towns by general laws except as provided by this section. Such officers shall have all the powers and duties necessary to carry out the provisions of this merger as well as those provided by law.
(b) Those Town officers that are elected in the Town of Cavendish shall continue to be elected and no provision of this merger will alter or amend their status, standing, or term of office.
(c) The Town of Cavendish shall continue to have five Selectboard members who shall be elected for the following terms: three for three years and two for one year terms. Such Selectboard members shall have all the power and authority given to and perform all duties required of Town legislative bodies or Selectboards under the Constitution and laws of the State of Vermont. The Selectboard members as presently constituted in the Town of Cavendish will continue in office for their respective terms as the Selectboard under the provisions of this merger.
(d) The Selectboard shall determine its own rules and procedures but in compliance with pertinent laws of the State of Vermont. The Selectboard may elect its own Chair.
(e) Without limiting any of its duly vested powers and authority, the Selectboard shall continue to have those powers and duties as conferred by law.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 23. Town Manager system

§ 23. Town Manager system
Until and unless the Town of Cavendish shall reject the same by a majority vote of the legal voters, present and voting at an annual meeting, the Town of Cavendish shall take advantage of the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 37, and the Selectboard shall continue with the appointed Town Manager system of government.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 24. Powers and functions

§ 24. Powers and functions
(a) The Town shall have the authority to exercise all powers relating to municipal affairs conferred and granted by law, including those implied powers necessary to effectuate and execute granted powers.
(b) Without limiting any of its duly vested powers and authority, the Town of Cavendish may exercise those powers conferred by law.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 25. Ordinances

§ 25. Ordinances
Any rule, ordinance, regulation, or bylaw of the Town of Cavendish may apply to a limited area and not the whole Town, notwithstanding that the ordinance, rule, or regulation might also have been applied to another area or areas within the Town.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 26. Fire prevention

§ 26. Fire prevention
For the prevention and control of fires, the Town of Cavendish may function with volunteer firefighter districts. At present there are two: one in the Proctorsville Village area, to be established by petition as an independent fire district as prescribed by 20 V.S.A. chapter 171, and one in Cavendish known as Fire District No. 2. Each group shall choose its own Chief and other officers and hold its own meetings, as well as service its own geographic district. Each district shall propose and ratify its own budget and duly administer and collect the same through a fire district tax pursuant to statute.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 27. Water and Sewer Departments

§ 27. Water and Sewer Departments
Control and management of the Village water system and Town water and sewer systems shall be vested in the Town, subject to all indebtedness and liabilities relating thereto; provided, however, that administration of the systems and payment of existing liabilities relating thereto shall be as specifically provided for in this merger.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 29. Special districts

§ 29. Special districts
(a) According to law, the Selectboard may designate areas apart from the rest of the Town as a special service district and may provide that the area of the voters therein shall be provided with special services not common to all the voters of the Town, provided that the majority of the voters residing in the respective designated areas are present and voting at a special district meeting on the subject shall have approved of such resolution.
(b) Such areas shall be reasonable geographically, taking into account the areas and persons actually benefited, the types of services to be provided, and the fact that the efficiency of providing multiple services in a single, special service district might outweigh the fact that the areas and voters benefiting from the respective services might not coincide exactly. All costs required to support a given special service shall be paid for by the taxpayers receiving the service, by a tax on the grand list in the special service district involved, to be assessed annually by the Selectboard, or in such other manner as the Selectboard determines. If the costs are to be paid by a tax, the tax shall be paid and collected in the same manner as other taxes, and the tax assessed on any part of the grand list shall be in lien thereon. All funds of any special service shall be kept in a special fund, no part of which may be used for any other purpose.
(c) The warning for each annual or special district meeting may contain appropriate articles under which the legal voters residing at any special service district may separately vote.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 30. Voting procedures for annual water and sewer expenses and extensions

§ 30. Voting procedures for annual water and sewer expenses and extensions
(a) The Selectboard shall propose and adopt annual budgets for water and sewer to defray necessary expenses and thereafter set rates for users to pay the same.
(b) In case of future extension of water or sewer lines and to presently unserved areas where bonding or temporary costs are to be assumed by the Town, all legal Town voters shall be eligible to vote on the project.
(c) In all cases where bonding is required, all legal voters of the Town may vote on the bond issue.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 109 - Town of Cavendish › App § 31. Special funds

§ 31. Special funds
(a) The Town Treasurer shall keep all money in a special fund in an account or accounts separate from that of any other special fund and from those of the other Town funds, and shall honor no warrant upon it except for the purpose thereof as heretofore enumerated.
(b) Any person who shall pay or cause to be paid any portion of any special fund for any purpose other than as herein specified shall forfeit to the Town for the benefit of such special fund twice the amount so paid to be recovered in a civil action of this section. It shall be the duty of the Town Agent to defend and prosecute suits and to bring an action to collect the forfeiture. In case such person is bonded, the bondsman shall be joined with the person in such action, provided such bondsman is within the jurisdiction of the State of Vermont.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 201. Town powers

§ 201. Town powers
The Town of Chester may exercise the following powers and functions in addition to those already or otherwise conferred upon it by law:
(a) To establish and maintain a Police Department, to provide for the appointment of police officers, who shall be sworn and who shall have the same powers as constables in the service of civil and criminal process and such further special authority as may be provided in any bylaws or ordinances of said Town enacted under authority of law.
(b) To acquire by gift or purchase, sell, convey, lease, assign, maintain, and service real and personal property as may be necessary or incidental to the exercise of its municipal powers, duties, and functions and to exercise in connection therewith any incidental powers as may be necessary to preserve and maintain the value of any such property once lawfully acquired.
(c) To establish and maintain a Fire Department.
(d) To establish, maintain, and keep in repair systems of sewers and drainage and to apportion and assess the expenses thereof against property benefited thereby as hereinafter provided.
(e) To light its highways and bridges and to lay dust on said highways and bridges by sprinkling or otherwise, and to assess by vote of the Town such portion as may be voted to the cost of sprinkling or otherwise laying the dust on the highways and bridges against abutting land owners.
(f) To establish, maintain, and keep in repair the water system heretofore owned by the Village of Chester and to provide the government and control of the same as hereinafter is specifically provided.
(g) To provide for the collection and disposition of garbage, waste, and other refuse material.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 302. Other ordinances and bylaws

§ 302. Other ordinances and bylaws
Said Town may make, establish, alter, amend, or repeal any other bylaws, rules, and ordinances that it may deem necessary for the well-being of said Town, and not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the State or the United States.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 303. Recordation and certificate of prima facie evidence

§ 303. Recordation and certificate of prima facie evidence
The bylaws, rules, and ordinances of said Town shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of said Town, and the Clerk’s certificate that such by-laws, rules, and ordinances were adopted at an annual meeting of said Town, 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 certified copies of said by-laws, rules, and ordinances and Clerk’s certificates shall also be received as evidence in all the courts of the State.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 304. Fines and prosecution

§ 304. Fines and prosecution
A fine not exceeding $20.00 and costs of prosecution may be imposed for the breach of any by-law, rule, or ordinance, or of any section of this charter unless some other sum is named in the section. In case such fine and costs are not paid, the alternative sentence shall be confinement in the house of correction as is provided by law in other criminal cases. Prosecution for offenses under this charter, unless otherwise specified, shall be commenced within three months after the commission of the offense. All fines shall be paid to the Town Treasurer and justices shall have jurisdiction where punishment is by fine not exceeding $20.00.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 305. Parking ordinances

§ 305. Parking ordinances
(a) Any person who has violated any ordinance that regulates, restricts, or defines the time or place of parking vehicles in the Town of Chester and who has not been convicted of any such offense more than once prior thereto in the same calendar year may, within three days from date of such violation, by a statement signed by the person, admit such violation and may waive the issuing of any process and a trial by jury or hearing, and may voluntarily pay to the Windsor Municipal Court, or a justice of the peace, the penalty herein prescribed; provided, however, that whenever, in the opinion of the court, or such justice, the gravity of the offense requires a fine in excess of the above penalty, such court, or justice, may refuse to accept such signed statement and penalty, and may order that the offender be proceeded against in the manner prescribed by law. In such event, the penalty shall be returned to the offender and the signed statement shall not be considered as an admission or used as evidence in any trial in any court in this State.
(b) The said court, or such justice, shall treat such signed statement, if accompanied by the penalty herein prescribed as a plea of guilty, and shall make such entry in its records. No costs, fees, or further charges shall be assessed against any person so admitting a violation of said parking ordinances or shall be allowed or paid to any officer or person because of such violations, but such penalty shall be accepted by said court, or such justice, in full discharge of the criminal liability of such person caused by such violation.
(c) Such court, or such justice, shall retain the above signed statements for a period of two years from the date thereof, and shall keep a separate record, available to the public at any reasonable time, of all money collected and all other official acts done in connection herewith.
(d) The penalty that may be so voluntarily paid by any person so violating any ordinance regulating, restricting, or defining the time or place of parking vehicles in the Town of Chester, shall be $1.00 for the first violation in any calendar year and $2.00 for the second violation in any calendar year. Other violations of Town ordinances shall be punished in the manner prescribed by law.
(e) All money so collected by the said court, or by such justice, shall be turned over to the Treasurer of the Town of Chester, at the time when fines and costs collected for violations of other Town ordinances are paid to such Treasurer.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 401. Adoption of rules and regulations

§ 401. Adoption of rules and regulations
The Selectboard, under the vote and direction of said Town, may make and adopt such rules and regulations concerning the management and use of the water system of said Town, reservoirs, lands, and appurtenances, not inconsistent with law, as it may deem expedient, including the fixing and collecting of water rates.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 402. Water rents

§ 402. Water rents
All water rents with the charges for making water connections and piping shall be chargeable to and may be collected of the owners of property supplied with the same, and such owners and all such rents with charges for making water connections and piping shall be a lien and charge upon the buildings, lots, and other property so supplied and may be collected in the same manner as any tax assessed by said corporation.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 403. Taking of water and land for water system

§ 403. Taking of water and land for water system
Said Town is hereby authorized and empowered under any vote hereafter had for that purpose, through the Selectboard, to take, in addition to the water rights and appurtenances thereof, already owned or acquired by said Town, the waters of any fountains, springs, ponds, or streams for the purpose of affording said Town or any of the inhabitants of the Town of Chester a supply of water for fire, domestic, and other purposes, and may acquire the same by purchase or by right of eminent domain, and in like manner may take and hold such real estate as may be necessary for preventing the pollution of the water supply of said Town water system, provided that said Town shall not take water nor a supply thereof, so as to deprive an owner of water of an amount sufficient for his or her domestic and agricultural uses, without such owner’s consent.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 404. Aqueduct and reservoir; laying of pipes

§ 404. Aqueduct and reservoir; laying of pipes
The said Town is hereby authorized and empowered through its Selectboard to maintain its present aqueduct and reservoir to conduct the water thereof to and distribute the same and for this purpose may enter upon and use any land through or over which it may be necessary for said aqueduct to pass, and may thereon lay and construct such pipes, reservoirs, and appurtenances as may be necessary for its complete construction and repairing of the same; and may also for the purposes aforesaid, dig up or occupy any common, highway, street, or bridge for the purpose of laying, constructing, or repairing such aqueduct and appurtenances thereof.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 405. Petition to contest compensation for taking or use of land

§ 405. Petition to contest compensation for taking or use of land
When any person shall be dissatisfied with the award of the Selectboard as made in any of the cases mentioned in the two preceding sections, or if a person disputes the necessity of taking of any lands or streams for the purposes mentioned in said sections, such person may petition the Windsor County Court for an inquiry into such necessity or a reassessment and award of damages, and such proceedings shall be had in said court on said petition as are provided by law in the case of an appeal from the action of Selectboard in taking lands for highway purposes. Said petition shall be served on the Clerk within 30 days next after said award shall be filed in the Town Clerk’s office as aforesaid, and at least 12 days before the term of court to which it is returnable, but nothing in said proceedings shall prevent the Selectboard from entering upon such land and using said water after the award shall have been made as herein set forth, and the amount thereof tendered by them, if the petition mentioned in this section is for a reassessment and award of damages only.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 406. Providing water to Chester and other municipalities

§ 406. Providing water to Chester and other municipalities
Said Town may sell and furnish water to any person or corporation for domestic or other purposes, except power for manufacturing and mechanical purposes, within or without said Town and lay all pipes necessary to furnish water to all such persons.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 111 - Town of Chester › App § 407. Malicious damage to water system

§ 407. Malicious damage to water system
Any person who shall maliciously disturb or injure said aqueduct, reservoir, springs, streams, or fountains, named or referred to in this charter, or swim or bathe in the waters of said reservoir, springs, streams, or fountains supplying such reservoir, shall be liable to be prosecuted therefor by the Grand Juror of the Town or the State’s Attorney of the county wherein such offense is committed by information, complaint, or indictment, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00 and costs of prosecution and shall be liable, to said Town for all damage resulting to it by such disturbance-injury or pollution with full costs, the same to be recovered by said Town in an action on the case founded on this statute.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 113 - Town of Colchester › App § 101. Corporate existence retained

§ 101. Corporate existence retained
The area and inhabitants within the current boundaries of the Town of Colchester shall continue to be a municipal corporation by the name of the Town of Colchester. (Amended 2015, No. M-1, § 2, eff. Jan. 27, 2015.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 113 - Town of Colchester › App § 103. Powers of the Town

§ 103. Powers of the Town
(a) The Town shall have all the powers granted to towns by the Constitution and laws of the State together with all the implied powers necessary to carry into execution the powers granted; it may enact ordinances consistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Vermont or with this charter, and impose penalties for violations thereof not in excess of a fine of $100.00, together with the costs of prosecution, or imprisonment for not more than 60 days, or both.
(b) The Town of Colchester may adopt, amend, enforce, and repeal ordinances relating to any aspect of municipal concern for the peace, order, health, safety, comfort, protection, morality, and general welfare of the Town and of its citizens.
(c) The Town may acquire real property within its corporate limits for any Town purpose, in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, or condemnation, or without its corporate limits by purchase, gift, devise, lease, with approval of the voters, consistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Vermont, and may sell, lease, mortgage, hold, manage, and control such property as its interests may require.
(d) In this charter, no mention of a particular power shall be construed to be exclusive or to restrict the scope of the powers that the Town would have if the particular power were not mentioned.
(e) The Town may merge with political subdivisions within its boundary after approval of the voters in elections to be held by both the Town and political subdivision involved.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 113 - Town of Colchester › App § 104. Additional powers

§ 104. Additional powers
In addition to powers otherwise conferred upon it by law, the Town is authorized:
(1) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to making and installing local improvements including curbs, sidewalks, storm drains, and water and sanitary waste systems; apportioning part of the expense of such improvements against property owners who benefit thereby; providing for the collection of such assessments and penalties for nonpayment; provided however:
(A) That, in absence of an ordinance, no assessment shall be made by the Selectboard until it has received a petition in writing from 50 percent of the owners of property fronting on such local improvements as proposed. Upon receiving such petition, the Selectboard may order the proposed improvements to be made.
(B) That no assessment shall be made in excess of the actual benefit to the land so assessed as determined by the Selectboard after notice to and hearing of the owners of the property assessed.
(C) That the total assessment made on account of any such improvements shall not exceed 50 percent of the cost of such improvement and the remaining cost of such improvement shall be borne by the Town.
(2) To adopt and enforce ordinances requiring the installation of curbs, sidewalks, and storm drains in a manner specified by the Town as a condition precedent to the issuance of a building permit.
(3) To adopt and enforce ordinances regulating signs and billboards.
(4) To adopt and enforce police ordinances regulating the parking, operation, and speed of motor vehicles upon Town and State aid streets and highways; to adopt police ordinances regulating the use of firearms, air rifles, and devices having a capacity to inflict personal injury; to adopt and enforce police ordinances prohibiting the use of firearms, air rifles, and devices having a capacity to inflict personal injury in specified areas, but only with approval of the voters.
(5) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to regulation, licensing, or prohibition of the storage and accumulation of garbage, ashes, rubbish, refuse, and waste materials.
(6) To create and maintain a Police Department.
(7) To establish a policy whereby the Selectboard may determine it to be in the public interest to plow those private roads serving two or more year-round residences, which had previous to January 1, 1997, have the Town providing winter road maintenance. (Amended 2015, No. M-1, § 2, eff. Jan. 27, 2015.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 113 - Town of Colchester › App § 105. Ordinances; enforcement; adoption

§ 105. Ordinances; enforcement; adoption
(a) The Selectboard may provide monetary penalties or injunctive relief for the breach of any ordinance authorized by general law or this charter; may prosecute any person violating the same through the Town legal counsel or police officers who for such purposes shall be informing officers and may maintain actions to restrain actual or threatened violations of the same. The establishment of any fine or penalty shall be by ordinance.
(b) Ordinance-making authority granted to the Town by this charter and general law shall be exercised in accordance with sections 106 through 109 of the charter. (Amended 2015, No. M-1, § 2, eff. Jan. 27, 2015.)