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2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 207 - Village of Bellows Falls › App § 30. Public parks and playgrounds

§ 30. Public parks and playgrounds
The Bellows Falls Village corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by gift or purchase land inside or outside the corporate limits of the Village corporation to be held by it and used as a public park and public playground. The Village, for the purpose of purchasing land for the park and playground, and to pay for the same and for improvement and maintenance, is hereby authorized to levy and collect, from year to year, such taxes upon the rateable estate of the Village as may be necessary, to borrow money, to pay the purchase price, and to issue its bonds or notes for that purpose, provided that all taxes laid and all loans authorized shall be only by virtue of a majority vote of the Village voters present and voting at a meeting duly warned and held for that purpose. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 288, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 1. Boundaries

§ 1. Boundaries
The inhabitants of all that part of the Town of Cambridge bounded and described as follows:
All that portion of the Town of Cambridge, in the County of Lamoille, known as the Village of Cambridge and enclosed in the following boundaries, to wit: the northern boundary of the Village shall be the southern bank of the Lamoille River, beginning at a point on the highway leading through Cambridge Village at northwest corner of the covered bridge over the Lamoille River and following the highway to the boundary line between the lands of Charles E. Ellenwood and the estate of O.W. Reynolds, Sidney Leach, and Saphronia Cady, meaning to include all property between the highway and the Lamoille River; thence following the southwest boundary of the Ellenwood’s farm to lands by E. J. Gates, and following the boundary of the Gates’ property to a point on the highway leading from Cambridge Village to Pleasant Valley near the Rogers Bridge; thence following the highway to the southern bounds of land owned by Mrs. W.H. Parker, and following the boundary of the lot to the highway known as the Hill road to Pleasant Valley; thence following the highway to a point that marks the boundary of the farm known as the Cutting place; thence along the boundary to the Lamoille River, meaning to include all that district on the west bank of the river between the Cutting farm and the point of beginning at the river bridge over the river, are hereby incorporated and made a body politic, and shall be hereafter called the Village of Cambridge.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 2. Powers of corporation

§ 2. Powers of corporation
The Village by that name may have perpetual succession and may sue and may be sued, 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 corporation, and at any annual or special meeting of the legal voters of the corporation legally warned and holden for that purpose may lay a tax upon the grand list of the Village of Cambridge for any of the purposes mentioned in this charter. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 289, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 21. Officers

§ 21. Officers
(a) The officers of the corporation shall be a Board of three Trustees, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, an Auditor, and a Fire Marshal, all of which officers shall be chosen by ballot at each annual meeting of the legal voters of the corporation or at a special meeting as hereafter provided.
(b) The term of office of the officers shall be one year and until their successors are elected. Any vacancy in a Village office may be filled by the Board of Trustees by appointment in writing, recorded by the Clerk.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 22. Powers of trustees; general

§ 22. Powers of trustees; general
The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of the corporation, shall draw orders upon the Treasurer for and direct the expenditure of all monies belonging to the corporation, and generally perform all duties legally enjoined upon it by the corporation. The Board of Trustees shall have power to abate taxes imposed by the corporation subject to the same limitations and for the same causes provided in section 3069 of the Vermont Statutes. All powers vested in the Board may be exercised by a majority of its members.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 23. Duty of Clerk

§ 23. Duty of Clerk
The Clerk shall keep a record of all meetings and proceedings of the corporation and of the Board of Trustees and give copies of the same when required upon payment of reasonable fees. The Clerk shall warn all meetings of the legal voters of the corporation, by posting notices thereof containing a statement of the business proposed to be transacted, in three or more public places within the limits of the corporation at least six days before the time of meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 24. Duties of Treasurer and Collector

§ 24. Duties of Treasurer and Collector
The powers and duties of the Treasurer and Collector of Taxes shall be the same with respect to the corporation as are the powers and duties of town treasurers and town collectors of taxes with respect to towns. Each shall give a bond to the corporation, conditioned for the faithful performance of duties, in such sum and with such sureties as the Board of Trustees shall prescribe. If a Treasurer or Collector of Taxes does not give such bond within 10 days after election or appointment, the office shall be vacant.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 25. Auditor

§ 25. Auditor
The Auditor shall at least once each year, and whenever the Auditor sees fit, examine and adjust and state the accounts of all corporation officers and of the corporation and shall report all such accounts and the items thereof and the state of the treasury to the corporation at each annual meeting, and shall cause the Auditor’s report to be printed and a copy thereof to be delivered to each taxpayer of the corporation at least five days before the day of the annual meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 26. Fire Marshal

§ 26. Fire Marshal
(a) The Fire Marshal may by writing recorded by the Clerk appoint one or more deputy fire marshals.
(b) The Fire Marshal or in the Fire Marshal’s absence the deputy fire marshal next in authority shall have power at fires to suppress tumults and riots, by force if necessary, to direct the labor of all persons present at times of the fire, to remove all effects endangered by the fire and protect the same from waste and depredation, to pull down or remove any building when the Fire Marshal deems it necessary to prevent the spreading of the fire, and to require the assistance of any and all inhabitants of the corporation for the several purposes described in this section, and for any such acts, the Fire Marshal and those acting under the Fire Marshal’s authority shall not be held personally responsible.
(c) The Fire Marshal shall inspect the manner of manufacturing and keeping gunpowder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, fireworks, and other combustibles and the construction and repairs of fireplaces, chimneys, and stoves within the Village, and if the Fire Marshal deems the same dangerous shall by the Fire Marshal’s order in writing recorded by the Clerk and delivered to the person conducting such manufacturing, keeping, construction, or repairs direct in what way to conduct the same, and any person refusing or neglecting to obey any such order of the Fire Marshal or in the Fire Marshal’s absence of the Fire Marshal’s deputy next in authority, so made and recorded and delivered, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $20.00 with costs of prosecution. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 290, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 27. Powers of the Fire Marshal

§ 27. Powers of the Fire Marshal
All apparatus for the extinguishment of fires and buildings for storing of the same, owned or leased by the corporation and all fire companies organized under the authority of the corporation, shall be under the direction and control of the Fire Marshal who shall make a detailed report to each annual meeting of the corporation of the condition of the Department.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 28. Collector to be Chief of Police

§ 28. Collector to be Chief of Police
The Collector of Taxes shall by virtue of the office be the Chief of Police of the Village of Cambridge and shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the office’s duties and shall cause the oath of office to be recorded by the Clerk. The Chief of Police may by writing recorded by the Clerk appoint police officers not exceeding two in number, who shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties and cause their oaths of office to be recorded by the Clerk. The Chief of Police and police officers shall be informing officers and conservators of the peace within the Village of Cambridge, and may serve any criminal process returnable within the Village of Cambridge, and any mittimus issued by any court, and shall be proper officers of the court in all criminal causes before justices within the corporation and for all services shall receive the fees provided by law for constables. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 291, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 31. Prosecutions

§ 31. Prosecutions
Prosecution for violation of the provisions of this charter or the provisions of any bylaw of the Village of Cambridge made in pursuance of this charter may be commenced before any justice of the peace of the County of Lamoille upon complaint of any grand juror of the Town of Cambridge or the State’s Attorney of the County of Lamoille, and all fines and costs imposed for the violations of the provisions of this charter, or the Village bylaws, or the laws of the State within the limits of the corporation shall be paid into the treasury of the corporation, and the costs of prosecution shall be paid out of the same treasury to the persons entitled to the payment on the order of the court before which the trial was had. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 292, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 42. Contracts for lighting and water

§ 42. Contracts for lighting and water
The corporation is empowered to contract with any water company or any electric light company for water and lights or either for extinguishing fires, for watering the streets, for public drinking places, and for lighting the streets, and other public purposes, and may levy and collect a tax to provide funds to meet such contracts.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 43. Sewers

§ 43. Sewers
The corporation is empowered to construct a system of sewers and repair the same, and for that purpose may take such lands as are necessary, and in taking lands for such purposes, the corporation and its Board of Trustees shall proceed in the manner prescribed for towns and the selectboard in taking lands for highway purposes, and the corporation may borrow such sums of money to defray the expenses of such sewers as it may by vote determine, and for that purpose, may issue bonds with coupons attached on such terms and in such manner as the corporation may prescribe.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 44. Connection with sewer

§ 44. Connection with sewer
After the system of sewers has been constructed as provided in section 43 of this charter, each and every owner of a house in the Village of Cambridge situate upon a street, alley, or lane through which a main sewer has been constructed shall cause to be constructed under the direction of the Board of Trustees a sewer or drain from the owner’s house to the main sewer, so constructed as to take all slops and filth from any sink, bowl, water closet, or privy in or around the house and discharge the same into the main sewer, and in case any person or corporation owning a house in the Village shall fail or neglect to construct the branch sewer from the house, it shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees to give the person notice in writing, recorded by the Clerk, requiring the owner to build the branch sewer from the premises to the main sewer; and in case the person does not so construct the branch sewer within 30 days from the time of receiving the notice, it shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees to declare the premises a nuisance, and the Board of Trustees is authorized and empowered to enter upon the premises and properly construct the branch sewer, and the person upon whose premises the branch sewer has been so constructed by the Board of Trustees shall pay to the Treasurer of the corporation upon the completion of the work all expense that the Board of Trustees has incurred in the construction of the branch sewer, and in case the person neglects to pay the same, the corporation shall have action founded on this statute to recover such expense, and the premises shall be holden for the payment of any judgment received in the action, and no homestead shall be exempt from attachment and execution in the action. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 293, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 45. Powers of trustees; streets, walks, and lanes

§ 45. Powers of trustees; streets, walks, and lanes
The Board of Trustees of the Village shall have the power to lay out, alter, maintain, or discontinue any sidewalk in the Village, and appraise and settle the damages, causing its proceedings to be recorded in the Town Clerk’s office in the Town, provided that the trustees, in laying out, altering, and maintaining, or discontinuing any sidewalk shall be subject to the same regulations, and in all respects shall proceed in the same manner, as the selectboard of towns in laying out, altering, and discontinuing highways; and any party aggrieved shall be entitled to the same redress to which they would be entitled if the same had been done by the Selectboard of the Town of Cambridge. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 294, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 46. Water pipes

§ 46. Water pipes
The Village is empowered to take, in addition to the water rights already owned or acquired by the Village, the water of any fountain, springs, ponds, or streams for the purpose of affording the Village or any of the inhabitants of the Town of Cambridge water for domestic or 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 the Village, provided that the Village shall not take water, or a water supply, so as to deprive an owner of water of an amount sufficient for domestic or agricultural uses without the owner’s consent. The Village, for the purposes described in this section, 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 on that land dig, place, lay, and construct such pipes, aqueducts, reservoirs, appurtenances, and connections and repair the same from time to time, may lay water pipes, within the limits of the Village, and for that purpose may enter upon the lands of any landowner in the Village, and lay and maintain water pipes through such land, and repair the same when necessary, upon payment or tender of payment of such compensation as damages as the trustees shall award to the landowner, and to any tenant or occupant of the land to the amount that the interests are affected. Any party aggrieved shall be entitled to the same redress as is provided in the case of the taking of land by the selectboard for highway purposes. The Village may borrow sums of money to defray the expenses of the water supply as it may by vote determine and, for that purpose, issue its negotiable notes or bonds on terms and in the manner as the Village may prescribe, the notes or bonds shall on their face state for what purpose they were issued and be signed by the trustees and Treasurer of the Village. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 295, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 52. Special meeting

§ 52. Special meeting
If the annual meeting of the Village fails to be held, for want of notice or for any other cause, the corporation shall not be prejudiced, and the several officers may at any later time be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose as provided by this charter for calling annual meetings, but the term of office of any officers so selected at any special meeting shall expire at the same time as if they had been regularly chosen at the annual meeting. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 296, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 62. Bylaws; recordation

§ 62. Bylaws; recordation
The bylaws of the corporation shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk, and the Clerk’s certificate that such bylaws were adopted at an annual meeting of the corporation or at a special meeting thereof, called for that purpose, shall be prima facie evidence of such fact in any court in this State; and certified copies of the bylaws 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 213 - Village of Cambridge › App § 63. Penalty for breach of bylaws

§ 63. Penalty for breach of bylaws
A fine not exceeding $20.00 with costs of prosecution may be imposed by the corporation for the breach of any of its bylaws with the alternative sentence to the house of correction in case the fine and costs are not paid as is provided by law in other criminal cases.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 101. Boundaries and corporate existence

§ 101. Boundaries and corporate existence
All that portion of the Town of Derby in the County of Orleans, enclosed within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the covered highway bridge crossing Clyde River near Carpenter’s grist mill, and running easterly up the north bank of said stream to the line between land of Josiah Grout and land of Emera Kingsbury; thence northerly on said line between said Grout and said Kingsbury to the south line of land of Norman W. Bingham; thence easterly following said Bingham’s line to the shore of Derby Pond; thence northerly following the shore of said pond, and the east line of land deeded to Josiah Grout and Charles K. Bates, by John E. Searles, now fenced and included with the Derby Center Cemetery grounds, to the north line of the highway leading from the county road easterly, past the premises known as the Emera Stewart Farm; thence following the north line of said highway westerly, to the county road leading to Derby Line; thence northwesterly and across said county road and on the north line of highway leading past school house in district No. 4 to W. F. Kingsbury’s, to southeast corner of lot of land occupied by John C. Gray; thence following the east line of said Gray’s land northerly to the south line of land of N. T. Blake; thence westerly on north line of said Gray land and north line of land owned by estate of Edwin Bates and Charles K. Bates, to the northwest corner of said Bates’ land; thence southerly on the west line of said Bates’ land, to the last mentioned highway; thence following said highway westerly to the cross-roads or four corners near the Willey Granite Quarry; thence westerly following the road leading to said quarry to the east line of said quarry lot; thence on the east line of said quarry lot southerly, to land of N. W. Bingham, and southerly and westerly on said Bingham’s line to the northwest corner of said Bingham’s land; thence southerly on said Bingham’s west line, and on west line of land of said E. and C. K. Bates, to the southwest corner of said Bates’ land; thence easterly on said Bates’ south line to the northeast corner of land of Hollis A. Moran; thence following the west line of land of said Moran southerly to the highway leading to Newport; thence across said highway at the forks of the roads near B. F. Sawyer’s dwelling house, to the northwest corner of land of Mrs. Hattie S. Jenne; thence following the west line of said Jenne’s land to the north bank of the Clyde River; thence up the north bank of said stream to the point begun at, shall be known as the Village of Derby Center, and in and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend in any court, may purchase, take, hold, sell, and convey real estate and personal property necessary for its corporate purposes, and shall have all the rights and privileges and be subject to all the liabilities incident to public corporations.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 201. Convening of annual meeting

§ 201. Convening of annual meeting
The annual meetings of the Village shall be held on the first Tuesday in April in each year at such hour as the notice mentioned in this section shall state, in the Town Hall in the Village, or at such other time and place as the Village shall appoint, of which a notice shall be posted in at least three public places in the Village, at least 10 days previous to the meeting, which notice shall be signed by the Clerk of the Village, and, in case of the Clerk’s failure so to do, by a majority of the Trustees of the Village, and for want of trustees, or upon their failure to do so, by a majority of the justices of the peace residing in the Village; and whenever five legal voters residing in the Village shall so request, the Clerk and, upon the Clerk’s neglect or refusal, the Trustees may call a special meeting of the Village, giving like notice of the same, and specifying in the notice the object of the meeting and the business to be done, and at the meetings none but inhabitants qualified to vote in Town meeting in said Town and who shall have resided for one year within the bounds of the Village shall be entitled to vote. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 298, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 202. Election of officers at the annual meeting

§ 202. Election of officers at the annual meeting
At the annual meeting of said corporation, there shall be elected, by ballot if called for, for the ensuing year and until their successors are chosen, a Moderator, who shall preside at all meetings of said corporation, with powers of moderators at town meetings; a Clerk who shall keep a record of the proceedings of said meetings of said corporation, with power to certify to copies of the same, and who shall perform all the usual duties of a clerk; one trustee for a term of one year, one trustee for a term of two years, and one trustee for a term of three years, and thereafter at each annual meeting one trustee for a term of three years, who shall have the management of the affairs of said corporation with the necessary powers for that purpose, who may fill vacancies in the offices of said corporation, who may act by a majority, and of whom the oldest in office present at any meeting of said corporation shall preside when the Moderator is absent; a Treasurer and a Collector, who shall be sworn, and who shall discharge the usual duties of such officers; and such other officers, as said corporation by its bylaws require who shall have all the powers necessary for the purposes of their office. The Treasurer and the Collector shall give bonds in such sums as the trustees of said corporation shall direct for the faithful performance of their duties, and if such Treasurer or Collector does not give such bond within 10 days after the person’s election or appointment, the office shall be vacant.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 301. Sewer system; establishment; fee assessment and collection

§ 301. Sewer system; establishment; fee assessment and collection
When the public health or convenience shall require the construction of a common sewer or main drain in the Village of Derby Center and through the principal streets of the Village, the Trustees of the Village, upon application in writing of 20 or more freeholders and legal voters of the Village, are authorized and empowered to lay, make, and maintain the common sewer or main drain and repair the same when necessary, from time to time, and for that purpose may take the lands of any individuals or corporations; and the Trustees shall proceed in the same manner as is prescribed by law for a selectboard in taking lands for highways and in awarding damages; and the Trustees shall make a return of their doings to the office of the Clerk of the Village, who shall record the same in the records of the Village. Each person or corporation whose particular drain shall enter into the main drain or sewer, or who in the opinion of the Trustees shall receive benefit from the system for draining the premises of the person or corporation, shall be liable to contribute a just share toward the expense of laying and constructing and maintaining of the sewer or drain, and shall be assessed by the Trustees such share; and at least 10 days’ notice of the time and place of the assessment for the contribution shall be given to the person or corporation, its agent, tenant, or lessee, and a certificate of the assessment shall be left with the Clerk of the Village, and recorded by the Clerk, and when so recorded the amount so assessed shall be and remain a lien, in the nature of a tax upon the lands and premises so assessed until the same shall be paid, and if the owner of the lands and premises 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 the Village Treasurer the amount of the assessment, the Trustees shall issue their warrant for the collection of the same, directed to the Village Tax Collector, who shall have authority to sell at public auction so much of the lands and premises 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. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 299, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 302. Petition for appeal of damage award or fee assessment

§ 302. Petition for appeal of damage award or fee assessment
(a) When any person or corporation shall be dissatisfied with the decision of the trustees in the award of damages for land taken for the sewer or drain, or in any assessment for contribution for the same, the person or corporation may petition the Orleans County Court for a reassessment of damages or contribution, and any number of persons agreed may join in the petition, but the petition shall not delay the laying or repairing of the sewer or drain.
(b) The petition shall be served on the Clerk of the Village within 60 days after the awarding of damages or the assessment for contribution and shall be filed in the office of the Village Clerk. The proceedings shall be had in the court on the petition as is provided by law for the reassessment for lands taken for highways, except as provided in this charter, and the commissioners provided by the court shall notify one of the Trustees of the Village, of the time and place when they will hear the matter. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 300, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 401. Appointment of police officers

§ 401. Appointment of police officers
The trustees of said Village shall have power to, and may appoint such number of police officers within said Village, as said Trustees may judge necessary for the interest of the inhabitants of said Village, by writing under their hands, which shall be recorded in the office of the Village Clerk; and such appointment may be revoked at any time.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 402. Duties, compensation, and terms of police officers

§ 402. Duties, compensation, and terms of police officers
The trustees may specify their duties as watchmen and patrols and agree with them for their compensation, which shall be paid by the the Village. Each of the police shall be sworn; shall have the same powers within the limits of the Village as constables in serving criminal process and in criminal matters; when on duty, shall wear conspicuously a badge of office; and shall hold their office for one year, unless sooner discharged. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 301, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 502. Fines for violations of bylaws and ordinances

§ 502. Fines for violations of bylaws and ordinances
The Village may impose a fine or forfeiture not exceeding $100.00 for the violation of any bylaw or ordinance. The penalty may be recovered in an action on the case upon this statute, in the name of the Village, in which action it shall be sufficient to declare generally that the defendant is guilty of violation of a certain bylaw, naming it generally, and under that declaration the special matter may be given in evidence. But nothing contained in this section shall be so construed as to prevent the Village from having such other and further relief as it may be entitled by law to compel a compliance with the bylaws and ordinances of the Village. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 303, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 601. Fire district

§ 601. Fire district
Said Village is hereby constituted a fire district for the purpose of preventing the destructive consequences of fires, and the trustees thereof shall have all the powers and be subject to the same restrictions as prudential committees in fire districts in making contracts and expenditures for the preservation of property in said Village from loss or damage by fire.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 701. Village grand list

§ 701. Village grand list
It shall be the duty of the listers of the Town of Derby, in making their assessments of real estate in the Town, to designate, in the list made by them, the real estate situated within the Village of Derby Center; and in case any piece or parcel of real estate is situated partly within and partly outside the limits of the Village, the listers shall designate in the list the appraised value of the real estate that lies within the Village limits. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 304, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 702. Assessment of tax

§ 702. Assessment of tax
The Village may, at its annual meeting or at any special meeting warned for that purpose, assess a tax on the list of real and personal estate taxable in the Village for any of the purposes mentioned in this charter and shall have all the powers, and may collect such tax in such manner as is provided by law for the collection of town taxes in towns, and the Trustees of the Village are to have the power and perform the duties required in this section, of the selectboard in towns. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 305, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 703. Board of Tax Abatement

§ 703. Board of Tax Abatement
The trustees and Clerk of said Village shall constitute a Board for the Abatement of Taxes in said Village and shall have the same power and proceed in the same manner as the board for the abatement of taxes in towns.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 704. Membership on Board not disqualification to serve as law enforcement or judicial officer

§ 704. Membership on Board not disqualification to serve as law enforcement or judicial officer
A member of said corporation shall not be deprived by reason of such membership to act as judge, juror, sheriff, constable, or justice of the peace in any cause or proceeding in which such corporation is interested.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 801. Borrowing authority

§ 801. Borrowing authority
The Village at an annual or at any special meeting called for that purpose is authorized and empowered to vote to borrow money for any of the purposes mentioned in this charter, and to issue its notes and bonds, and the notes or bonds shall be signed by the Trustees and countersigned by the Treasurer of the Village, and if interest coupons are attached they shall be signed by the Treasurer; and the bonds or notes shall contain a statement that they were issued for the purposes mentioned and in conformity with the provisions of this charter, and the statement shall be conclusive evidence of the same, and of the liability of the Village to pay the notes or bonds in an action by a person who in good faith holds the notes or bonds. The Village Treasurer shall keep a record of every note or bond issued under the provisions of this charter, stating the number and denomination of each note or bond, when and where payable, to whom issued, and the rate of interest; and also shall keep a record of payments, interest, and principal, and if any coupons are taken up shall deface the same. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 306, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 901. Authority to construct electric light plant

§ 901. Authority to construct electric light plant
The Village shall also have authority to construct an electric light plant for the purpose of lighting the streets, walks, and public grounds of the Village, and lighting any buildings in the Village, and, for this purpose, may take or purchase, acquire, and hold any water power, land, and rights of way in the Town, needed for the construction, maintenance, and operation of the electric light plant, and may use any public highway over which it may be necessary or desirable to pass with the poles and wires of the same, provided the use of the public highway for the purpose of public travel is not unnecessarily impaired. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 307, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 902. Assessing damages

§ 902. Assessing damages
In the event that the Village and any owner of land over which it may be desirable to pass with the poles and wires of the plants, or of land, water power, or rights-of-way, which it may need for the construction and operation of the plant, cannot agree upon the damages to be paid to the owner for the passage or right-of-way, or for the land or water power, or if the owner be a minor or out of the State, or a person who lacks capacity to protect the person’s interests due to a mental condition or psychiatric disability, or otherwise incapable to sell and convey the real estate or rights in the real estate, the same proceedings shall be had for assessing damages as are provided in section 302 of this charter, for compensating the owners of land taken for the construction and maintenance of a sewer or main drain, for the Village. (Amended 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 168; 2023, No. 6, § 308, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 903. Authority to issue bonds for electric light plant

§ 903. Authority to issue bonds for electric light plant
The Village shall be authorized to issue bonds, not exceeding seven thousand dollars, on such terms as said Village may prescribe, for the purpose of constructing and operating the electric light plant provided for in this charter, and in case the Village shall neglect to make seasonable provisions, for the payment of the principal or interest, of the bonded indebtedness as the same shall from time to time mature, the Treasurer of the Village shall be clothed with the power to make out and deliver to the Collector of the Village, a tax bill on the grand list of the Village, and the Treasurer shall forthwith issue to the Collector a warrant, substantially in form as now provided to be issued for the collection of town or other taxes by town treasurers, directing the collection and payment of the tax to the Treasurer, within 60 days from the time of delivery, in amount to seasonably and promptly pay the interest or principal, or both, then past due and unpaid, with all proper charges for assessing and collecting the same; and the tax shall be collected and paid into the treasury promptly according to the warrant, and the money so collected and paid to the Treasurer shall be especially held, appropriated, and used for the payment of the interest or principal, or both, and for no other purpose save the incidental expense of assessing and collecting the tax. And it is hereby made the duty of the Treasurer of the Village to provide for and promptly pay the interest on and the principal of the bonded indebtedness, as the same shall become due and payable from time to time, without any vote of the Village, and the tax bill shall have all the force and authority in every respect of a tax bill for a tax voted at a regular meeting of the Village. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 309, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 215 - Village of Derby Center › App § 904. Management of electric light plant

§ 904. Management of electric light plant
The management and operation of the electric light plant provided for in this charter shall be vested in the Village Board of Trustees, under such bylaws and regulations as the Village at any legal meeting may enact and adopt, and the Village may make bylaws and regulations concerning the management and use of its electric light plant, and the lights furnished thereby, including the rates and charges for the same, and the collection for the same, as it may deem expedient. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 310, eff. July 1, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 217 - Village of Derby Line › App § 101. Boundaries and corporate existence

§ 101. Boundaries and corporate existence
All that portion of the Town of Derby in the County of Orleans, enclosed within the following boundaries, to wit:
Beginning at the national boundary line post on the highway leading from A. P. Ball’s to Hiram Todd’s and thence along said boundary line easterly to a point that intersects with a continuation of the easterly line of land owned by H. D. Holmes, thence southerly along said continuation of, and the said easterly line of said Holmes’ land, to the southeast corner of said land, thence west following the south line of the said Holmes’ land, to the highway leading to the farm now owned by Asa Moran, across said highway to the pasture owned by the A. T. Foster estate and following the east line of said pasture to the northeast corner of land owned by H. E. Foster, thence along the east line of said Foster land to the southeast corner of said land; thence westerly on the south line of said Foster’s and along the south line of land now owned by F. D. Butterfield to the highway leading from Derby Line to Derby Center; thence across said highway to the line of road leading west, known as “Hammer Handle Road” along the south lines of land owned by William Spaulding, A. B. Nelson, H. E. Foster, and A. G. Bugbee to southwest corner of said A. G. Bugbee’s land; thence along the west line of land owned by the said Bugbee and land owned by Henry E. Foster, northerly to said Foster’s northwest corner; thence easterly from said point to the southwest corner of land owned by J. B. Goodhue; thence northerly and on said Goodhue’s west line to the highway leading from Mrs. H. H. Leslie’s farm to Derby Line; thence along the highway in an easterly direction to a point opposite H. D. Holmes’ west line; thence across said highway and on said Holmes’ west line to his northwest corner; thence across the Tomiphobia River to land owned by Connecticut and Passumpsic R. R. R. Co., or by Massawippi Valley R. R. Co.; thence in a westerly direction along said river to a point where it intersects the national boundary line; thence in an easterly direction along said boundary line to the place begun at, shall be known as the Village of Derby Line, and in and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute, and defend in any court, may purchase, take, hold, sell, and convey real estate and personal property necessary for its corporate purposes, and shall have all the rights and privileges and be subject to all the liabilities incident to public corporation.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 217 - Village of Derby Line › App § 201. Warning of meeting and qualified voters

§ 201. Warning of meeting and qualified voters
(a) The annual meetings of the Village of Derby Line shall be held on the first Tuesday in April in each year at such hour as the notice shall state, in the Town Hall in the Village or at such other time and place as the Village shall hereafter appoint.
(b) Notice for such meetings shall be posted in at least three public places in the Village, at least 10 days previous to a meeting. The notice shall be signed by the Clerk of the Village, and, in case of the Clerk’s failure so to do, by a majority of the Trustees of the Village, and for want of the Trustees, or upon their failure so to do, by a majority of the justices of the peace residing in the Village.
(c) Whenever five legal voters residing in the Village shall so request, the Clerk and, upon the Clerk’s neglect or refusal, the Trustees may call a special meeting of the Village, giving notice of the special meeting as provided in subsection (b) of this section and specifying in the notice the object of the special meeting and the business to be done at the special meeting.
(d) At a meeting held under this section, only the inhabitants of the Village who meet the qualifications of 17 V.S.A. § 2121 and who are on the voter checklist of the Village shall be entitled to vote. (Amended 2013, No. M-11 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 8, 2014.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 217 - Village of Derby Line › App § 202. Officers to be elected at annual meeting

§ 202. Officers to be elected at annual meeting
(a) At the annual meeting of the Village, the following officers shall be elected, by ballot if called for, for the ensuing year except as provided in subsection (d) of this section and until their successors are chosen:
(1) a Moderator, who shall preside at all meetings of the Village with powers of moderators at town meetings;
(2) a Clerk, who shall keep a record of the proceedings of meetings of the Village, with power to certify copies of the same and who shall perform all the duties of a clerk;
(3) three Trustees, subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this section, who shall have the management of the affairs of the Village, with the necessary powers for that purpose, who may fill vacancies in the offices of the Village, may act by a majority, and of whom the oldest in office present at any meeting of the Village shall preside when the Moderator is absent;
(4) a Treasurer, who shall be sworn and shall discharge the usual duties of a treasurer;
(5) a Tax Collector, who shall be sworn and shall discharge the usual duties of a tax collector; and
(6) such other officers as the bylaws of the Village require, who shall have all the powers necessary for the purposes of their office.
(b) The Treasurer and the Tax Collector shall give bonds within 10 days after their election or appointment in such sums as the Village shall direct for the faithful performance of their duties. Failure to give such a bond within that time period shall cause the office to be vacant.
(c) Candidates for the offices of Clerk, Treasurer, and Tax Collector do not need to be residents of the Village but shall be residents of the Town of Derby as shown by their inclusion on the Town voter checklist.
(d) There shall be elected at the annual meeting of 1911 three Trustees for a term of one, two, and three years, respectively, and thereafter, at each annual meeting, one Trustee shall be elected for the term of three years, to succeed the Trustee whose term expires. A vacancy in such office may be filled at an annual meeting. (Amended 2013, No. M-11 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 8, 2014.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 217 - Village of Derby Line › App § 301. Powers of trustees

§ 301. Powers of trustees
The trustees of said Village shall have the same powers to lay out, alter, and discontinue streets and highways in said Village as are vested, by law, in the selectboard in towns, and all proceedings in respect to laying out, altering, and discontinuing streets and highways in said Village shall be had in the same manner as is prescribed by law in respect to such matters in towns, and from all of their acts or omissions or refusals to act in such respect, appeals may be taken to the County Court in the same manner as is provided by law for the decision of selectboards in such matters. And the Selectboard of the Town of Derby shall have no power to lay out, alter, or discontinue streets or highways within the limits of said Village. The trustees shall have full charge of repairing streets and highways in said Village.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 217 - Village of Derby Line › App § 401. Highway district

§ 401. Highway district
All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Derby, and three-fourths of all highway taxes assessed upon the ratable estate in the highway district shall be paid in money by the Selectboard of the Town of Derby to the Treasurer of the Village to be used and applied by the Trustees in building, repairing, and sustaining the highways, streets, walks, alleys, sidewalks, and lanes; and if any portion of the tax so paid into the treasury of the Village in the judgment of the Trustees shall not be needed for the purposes specified in this section, the same may, in the discretion of the Trustees, be expended in improving, beautifying, or lighting the streets or commons of the Village, and no highway surveyor shall be required or chosen by the Town for said Village. The tax shall be paid over by the Selectboard on or before the first day of July in each year. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 311, eff. July 1, 2023.)