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2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville › App § 23. Construction of subchapter

§ 23. Construction of subchapter
This section is remedial in nature, and the powers hereby granted shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes hereof, and to this end the Village shall have power to do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes hereof in addition to the powers expressly conferred in this subchapter. Any proceedings heretofore taken by the Village relating to the subject matters of this subchapter, whether or not commenced under any other law, may, at the option of the Village trustees, be discontinued, and new proceedings instituted under this subchapter. It is hereby declared that the sections, clauses, sentences, and parts of this subchapter are severable, are not matters of mutual essential inducement, and any of them shall be deemed individually excised if this subchapter would otherwise be unconstitutional or ineffective. It is the intention to confer upon the Village the whole or any part of the powers in this subchapter provided for, and if any one or more sections, clauses, sentences, and parts of this subchapter shall for any reason be questioned in any court or administrative tribunal, and shall be adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remaining provisions thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the specific provision or provisions so held unconstitutional or invalid, and the inapplicability or invalidity of any section, clause, sentence, or part of this subchapter in any one or more instances shall not be taken to affect or prejudice in any way its applicability or validity in any other instance.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville › App § 26. Authority to form subsidiaries and enter ventures with other parties

§ 26. Authority to form subsidiaries and enter ventures with other parties
In addition to the authority granted under otherwise applicable law, the Village has the power and is authorized to create a corporate subsidiary or subsidiaries wholly owned by the Village, or to establish a joint venture or ventures between the Village or a subsidiary of the Village and any other business relationship with one or more third parties, in order to provide communications services within or without the corporate limits of the Village, or to provide customer-specific electric generation or cogeneration to customers within the Village’s electric service territory; provided that, before any such subsidiary, joint venture, or business relationship may provide communications or customer-specific generation or cogeneration services, it shall obtain whatever regulatory approvals may be necessary under applicable law.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 245 - Village of Morrisville › App § 27. Transitional provisions

§ 27. Transitional provisions
(a) Nothing herein contained, except as specifically provided, shall affect or impair the rights or privileges of officers of the Village existing at the time this charter takes effect.
(b) All contracts entered into by the Village prior to the effective date of this charter shall continue in full force and effect.
(c) The adoption of this charter shall not abate or otherwise affect any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending when it takes effect, brought by or against the Village or any office or officer thereof.
(d) All ordinances, resolutions, and regulations of the Village in effect at the time of the effective date of this charter, and not inconsistent with the provisions hereof, are hereby continued in force until the same are duly amended or repealed.
(e) This charter, or any part or article or section thereof, may be amended in the manner provided by the laws of the State of Vermont.
(f) This charter supersedes the previous charter and all amendments thereto.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 201. Corporate existence of the Village

§ 201. Corporate existence of the Village
All those persons residing in that part of the Town of Newbury lying within the corporate limits of School District #3 and School District #4 in the Town of Newbury as said districts existed and were bounded on March 31, 1893, shall continue to be a municipal corporation by the name of Newbury Village and by that name have perpetual succession and be capable of suing and being sued and have a common seal and alter the same at pleasure.
The corporation shall be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying real and personal estate for the use of the corporation. The corporation shall have the power to own and operate any public utility, to construct and install all facilities that are reasonably needed, and to lease or purchase any existing utility properties used or useful for public service. The Village may also furnish service to adjacent and nearby territories that may be conveniently and economically served by a municipally owned and operated utility.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 302. Grand list

§ 302. Grand list
The grand list of the Town of Newbury, within the Village corporate limits, shall be the grand list of the Village. The trustees shall make out and deliver to the Treasurer a tax bill, with a warrant for its collection. The Treasurer shall compile a tax roll from the Town of Newbury grand list for those areas of the Town lying within the Village’s corporate limits.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 401. Election of officers

§ 401. Election of officers
The officers of the corporation shall consist of a Moderator, three trustees, a Clerk, a Treasurer, and three auditors. The officers shall be elected at the annual meeting of the corporation for the term of one year and until their successors are elected, except that trustees shall hold office for three years. One trustee shall be elected at each annual meeting. (Amended 2007, No. M-6.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 403. Vacancy

§ 403. Vacancy
When a vacancy occurs in any Village office, the trustees forthwith, by appointment in writing, shall fill such vacancy until an election is had; except that in the event of more than one vacancy on the Board of Trustees at the same time, such vacancies shall be filled by a special Village meeting called for that purpose. Any appointment shall be filed by the trustees in the office of the Clerk and duly recorded by the Clerk in the book of Village records.
A person appointed to a vacant office shall serve until the next annual meeting. A person elected to fill a vacant office at either a special or annual meeting shall serve for the unexpired term of his or her predecessor.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 404. Compensation of Village officers

§ 404. Compensation of Village officers
The Village may vote to compensate any or all Village officers for their official services. The Village at its annual meeting may fix the compensation of such officers and of Village employees.
Claims for personal services, except where compensation is fixed by law or by vote of the Village, shall not be allowed to a Village officer, but the Auditor shall report claims and the nature and extent of the services at an annual or special meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 501. Powers and duties of the Board

§ 501. Powers and duties of the Board
The members of the Board of Trustees shall constitute the legislative body of the Village of Newbury for all purposes required by statute and, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall have all powers and authority given to, and perform all duties required of incorporated villages or boards of trustees under the laws of the State of Vermont.
The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of said corporation, shall direct the expenditure of all monies belonging to said corporation, draw orders upon the Treasurer, and generally perform all the duties legally enjoined upon them by said corporation, and shall submit their accounts and vouchers to the Auditor at least 20 days before the annual meeting.
Trustees shall prepare a budget for the oncoming year and hold a public hearing on it at least 10 days before the annual meeting. Notice of such hearing shall be posted in four public places not less than five days before the date set for the hearing.
The trustees shall have power to abate taxes laid and assessed by virtue of this charter for the same causes and subject to the same limitation as boards of civil authority have in the matter of town taxes.
The trustees may by resolution create, change, and abolish boards and commissions as in their judgment are required or necessary and convenient to, or as are now or hereinafter provided by law, and may grant to them such power and duties as are consistent with the provisions of this charter. The trustees shall be ex officio members of all boards and commissions.
All powers vested in said trustees shall be exercised by a majority of them.
Forthwith after an election and qualification, the trustees shall organize and elect a Chair and shall file a certificate of such election for record in the office of the Village Clerk.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 502. Meeting of the Board

§ 502. Meeting of the Board
As soon as possible after an election of a Chair, the Board of Trustees shall fix the time and place of its regular meetings and such meetings shall be held at least once a month. The Clerk shall attend all meetings of the Board of Trustees and shall keep minutes of the meetings on file. The Board shall determine its own rules and order of business.
If the minutes of the regularly scheduled meetings of the Board of Trustees show that a member has not attended 50 percent of its meetings during a fiscal year the Clerk shall declare the office vacant, and the trustees shall call a special meeting forthwith, duly warned for the purpose of electing a replacement to serve the unexpired term.
All meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be open to the public, unless by an affirmative vote of the majority present, the Board shall vote that any particular session shall be an executive session in accordance with 1 V.S.A. § 313, or any amendments thereto.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 601. Bonds of officers

§ 601. Bonds of officers
The Clerk and Treasurer shall each give a bond to the corporation conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties in such sums and with such sureties as the trustees may prescribe. If a Treasurer does not give such bond within 10 days after his or her election or appointment the office shall be vacant.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 602. Auditor

§ 602. Auditor
The elected auditors shall compile and prepare a report of their examination of the accounts and vouchers of the officers of the corporation, which report shall be printed each year in the annual report of the Village of Newbury. (Amended 2007, No. M-6.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 603. Treasurer

§ 603. Treasurer
The Treasurer shall perform the duties required by State statute or provided by this charter. The Treasurer shall: (1) Promptly deposit funds coming into his or her hands in such depositories as may be designated by the trustees. (2) Invest funds as directed by trustees, in savings accounts or certificate of deposit. (3) Keep such books and accounts as may be required by the trustees. (4) Make deposits monthly or at such other times as may be required by the trustees, showing the state of the corporation’s finances and perform such other duties with respect to the Village finances as the trustees may require.
The Treasurer shall have and exercise the same powers and duties with respect to the Village that treasurers have and exercise with respect to towns.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 604. Clerk

§ 604. Clerk
The Clerk shall keep an official record of the proceedings of the Board of Trustees. Such records shall be kept in the office of the Village Clerk and shall be open for public inspection. The Clerk shall keep official record of the proceedings of all special and annual village meetings.
The minutes of each meeting shall be approved by the Board at its next meeting and the official copy authenticated by the signature of the Clerk. The Clerk shall keep two copies of annual reports on file in the office of the Clerk and be responsible for depositing two copies in the Tenney Memorial Library.
The Clerk shall have and exercise the same powers and duties with respect to the Village that clerks have and exercise with respect to towns.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 605. Moderator

§ 605. Moderator
The Moderator shall be the presiding officer of Village meetings, shall decide questions of order, and make public declarations of votes passed. When a vote declared is immediately questioned by seven voters present, the Moderator shall poll the voters or divide the meeting, unless the Village has provided some other procedure in such cases.
The Moderator shall have and exercise the same powers and duties with respect to the Village that moderators have and exercise with respect to towns.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 701. Annual Village meetings

§ 701. Annual Village meetings
The annual meeting of said corporation for the election of officers and transaction of any other business specified in the warning of said meeting shall be held within the corporate limits on the fourth Tuesday of May of each year and shall be called by the Clerk, or in case of the Clerk’s neglect, by the trustees by publishing and posting a warning therefor in at least four public places within the corporate limits not less than 10 days or more than 20 days before the time set for such annual meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 702. Special Village meetings

§ 702. Special Village meetings
Special meetings may at any time be called by the trustees for the transaction of any business specified in the warning of said meeting. The trustees shall call a special meeting upon written application and petition of not less than five percent of the qualified voters of said corporation stating the purpose for which they wish it called. When the office of any one or more of the trustees is vacant, the remaining trustees may call meetings. When there is no trustee who may call meetings, they may be called by the Clerk.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 703. Confirmation of appropriations

§ 703. Confirmation of appropriations
Whenever a proposal calling for an appropriation in excess of $1,000.00 is made at either an annual or a special meeting, a quorum of 15 percent of the legal voters of the Village shall be confirmed by the Moderator before such proposal can be discussed and/or acted upon in the meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 901. Fiscal year

§ 901. Fiscal year
The fiscal year shall commence on the first day of May and close on the last day of April, unless the Village, at its annual meeting shall determine otherwise. If the Village votes another fiscal year, it shall specify the procedure for transition, including the method for financing the transition.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1001. Adoption authority

§ 1001. Adoption authority
The Village shall have all the powers granted to villages and other municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of this State. It may enact ordinances, bylaws, and regulations and impose penalties for the violation thereof. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Village may enact such bylaws and regulations as are expedient, not inconsistent with law particularly such as relate to streets, sidewalks, lanes, commons, shade and ornamental trees and lights thereon, slaughterhouses and nuisances, police protection, restraint of animals, erection and regulation of buildings and hay scales, the preservation of buildings, with the right of directing alterations in stoves, fireplaces, and causes from which danger from fire may be apprehended, fire engines and other apparatus necessary for the extinguishment of fire, establishment and regulation of fire companies, and to the manufacture and safekeeping of ashes, explosives, and combustibles.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1202. Police department

§ 1202. Police department
The trustees shall have the same powers with regard to the establishment of a police department and appointment of police officers, including temporary police officers, as set forth under the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 55 or any amendments thereto.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1301. Lighting

§ 1301. Lighting
Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered under any vote had for that purpose at a meeting duly warned and held, to provide for suitable lighting of the streets and public buildings and ground within its corporate limits and to contract with any individual, corporation or entity for such purposes.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1303. Water commissioners and water works

§ 1303. Water commissioners and water works
(a) The Village shall have three water commissioners who may be elected by ballot if the Village has so ordered; otherwise they shall be appointed by the trustees. Of those commissioners first elected or appointed, one shall have a term of one year, one a term of two years, and one a term of three years.
(b) The trustees may remove from office a commissioner appointed by them for just cause after due notice and hearing. The trustees may appoint members of their own Board to serve as water commissioners. The Village shall have such powers, and the commissioners shall have such duties, with reference to any waterworks that are in existence or established as set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapter 89, or any amendments thereto.
(c) Without limiting the generality of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, commissioners shall have the supervision of the Municipal Water Department and shall make and establish all needful water rates, rules, and regulations for its control and operation.
(d) The water commissioners shall hire a person to superintend the physical operation of the water system, provide him or her with written guidelines of the Superintendent’s duties, and this Superintendent shall be responsible for the proper and efficient maintenance of the system in accordance with the guidelines.
(e) The Superintendent shall report once each month to the water commissioners and once each year shall make a written report to them. The written report shall be included in the water commissioners annual report to the Village.
(f) The books and bank accounts of the water system shall be kept separate from the other books and accounts of the Village. The rents and receipts for the use of municipal water shall only be used and applied to pay the interest upon the Water Department bonds, the expense of repairs, improvements, and management of the Water Department, and in payment of the Municipal Water Department bonds. The money received from the operation of the Municipal Water Department shall not be used for any other purposes until all bonds, notes, or other certificates of indebtedness have been paid.
(g) Any improvements to the system costing more than $7,000.00 shall require the approval of a majority of the legally qualified voters of the Village present and voting, at either an annual or special meeting called for that purpose.
(h) From the income of the system an emergency fund, not to exceed $10,000.00, may be created by the water commissioners. Emergency funds shall be expended only in case of an emergency and the nature of the emergency recorded by the Clerk as declared by the water commissioners.
(i) Any extension of the main lines of the system as the lines exist on the effective day of this charter shall require a two-thirds vote of the qualified voters, present and voting, of the Village of Newbury at either an annual or special meeting called for that purpose. (Amended 2007, No. M-6.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1401. Incursion of debt

§ 1401. Incursion of debt
The Village shall not incur an indebtedness for public improvements which, with its previously contracted indebtedness, shall, in the aggregate exceed 10 times the amount of the last grand list of the corporation or the amounts authorized by the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 1 or any amendments thereto.
Debt may be incurred and bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of the above noted subchapter, or any amendments thereto, for any improvements, but no bonds shall be issued for the purpose of providing funds for ordinary expenses of the Village, except as otherwise provided by the provisions of this charter or of the laws applicable to municipal corporations.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1402. Improvements for which debt may be issued

§ 1402. Improvements for which debt may be issued
An improvement shall include, apart from its ordinary meaning, the acquiring of land for municipal purposes, the construction of, extension of, additions to, or remodeling of buildings or other improvements thereto, also furnishings, equipment, or apparatus to be used for or in connection with any existing or new improvements, work, department, or other corporate purposes.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1403. Level of debt

§ 1403. Level of debt
In determining the amount of municipal indebtedness permitted, obligations created for current expenses, for a water supply or for electric lights, and temporary loans created in anticipation of the collection of taxes and necessary for meeting current expenses shall not be taken into account. Sinking funds and other monies set aside for the sole purpose of paying outstanding bonds shall be deducted.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1405. Revenue anticipation notes

§ 1405. Revenue anticipation notes
Pending the receipt of revenue in the form of grants in aid from any source, the trustees may, by resolution or ordinance, issue revenue anticipation notes in anticipation of the grants in aid to be received pursuant to the provisions of the above noted subchapter, or any amendments thereto.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1406. Public utility financing

§ 1406. Public utility financing
The Village may, by action of the Board of Trustees, in lieu of the issuance of bonds of levy of taxes and in addition to any other lawful means or methods of providing for the payment of indebtedness, have the power by and through the Board of Trustees to provide for and secure the payment of all or a part of the cost of any public utility pursuant to the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 2, or as hereafter amended.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1501. Construction and operation of sewage system

§ 1501. Construction and operation of sewage system
The corporation may construct, maintain, operate, and repair a sewage system; and take, purchase, and acquire, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, real estate and easements necessary for its purposes; and enter in and upon any land for the purpose of making surveys; and lay pipes and sewers and connect the same as may be necessary to convey sewage and other waters to an outfall or treatment plant.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1502. Board of Sewage Disposal

§ 1502. Board of Sewage Disposal
The trustees of the Village shall constitute a Board of Sewage Disposal System commissioners and they shall have such duties and the Village shall have such powers with reference to any sewage system that may be established as set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapters 97 and 101 or any amendments thereto.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1601. Effect of charter

§ 1601. Effect of charter
Nothing herein contained, except as specifically provided, shall affect or impair the rights or privileges of officers of the Village existing at the time the charter takes effect.
All persons holding offices at the time this charter takes effect shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until provision has been made in accordance with the charter for the continued performance or discontinuance of such duties.
The powers conferred and the duties imposed on any office shall, if such office is abolished by this charter, or under its authority, be thereafter exercised by the office designated in the charter.
All boards and commissions heretofore existing shall continue and shall exercise such powers and duties as were granted therein until such boards or commissions are changed or abolished as provided in this charter.
All records, property, and equipment whatsoever of any office, the power and duties of which are reassigned, shall be transferred and delivered to the office to which such powers and duties are so reassigned.
All contracts entered into by the Village prior to the effective date of this charter shall continue in full force and effect.
The adoption of this charter shall not abate or otherwise affect any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending when it takes full effect, brought by or against the Village or any office or officer thereof.
All ordinances, resolutions, and regulations of the Village in force at the time of the effective date of this charter, and not inconsistent with the provisions thereof, are hereby continued in force until the same are duly amended or repealed.
This charter or any part or article or section thereof, may be amended in the manner provided by the laws of the State of Vermont.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 247 - Village of Newbury › App § 1701. Repeal of previous acts

§ 1701. Repeal of previous acts
Those provisions of the charter as amended heretofore existing which are inconsistent with this revised charter shall be supplanted and governed by the provisions of this charter except that this revision shall not be construed to constrict or diminish any right, powers, and privileges previously granted under the terms of the heretofore existing charter.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 101. Village boundaries and legal taxing authority

§ 101. Village boundaries and legal taxing authority
The inhabitants of all that part of the Town of Newfane, in the County of Windham, known as the Village of Newfane, and enclosed in the following boundaries, to wit:
Beginning at a point on the highway leading from said Village to Townshend at the northern boundary of L.H. Whitney’s land; then easterly along said northern boundary of said Whitney’s land to the western boundary of the West River Railroad; thence southerly along the westerly boundary of said railroad to the southeast corner of land owned by Stella Micott; thence westerly along the southern boundary of said Micott’s land across the highway leading from said Village to Brattleboro; thence southerly along the western boundary of said highway to the southern boundary of land owned by Rodney S. Willard; thence westerly along the southern boundary of said Willard’s land to said Willard’s western boundary; then northerly along the westerly boundary of said Willard’s land; thence to the western boundary of land, at Smith’s Brook, owned by E.C. Benedict, and along his western boundary, at Smith’s Brook, to his northern boundary; thence easterly along said Benedict’s northern boundary to and across Smith Brook, so-called, to land of Laura S. Rice; thence southerly on said Rice’s land to land of Sarah M. Fish; thence easterly along said Fish’s land to and across the highway; thence northerly along the east side of the highway leading from said Village to Wardsboro, to the boundary line between land of said Fish and land of F.L. Hamlin; thence easterly along said boundary line to the eastern boundary of said Fish’s land; thence to the northern boundary of land of A.G. Warren; thence along said Warren’s northern boundary to land of Lewis H. Higgins; thence easterly along boundary line between Warren and Higgins’s to land owned by Walter Park, and thence along the boundary line between Higgins and Park to the highway; thence southerly along the western boundary of said highway to a point opposite the place of beginning; thence easterly across said highway to the place of beginning, are hereby incorporated and made a party politic, and shall hereafter be called the Village of Newfane and by that name may have perpetual succession and may sue and 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 said Village corporation, and at any annual meeting of the legal voters of said corporation legally warned and holden for that purpose may lay a tax upon the grand list of said Village of Newfane for any of the purposes hereinafter mentioned. All taxes voted by said corporation shall be assessed by the Board of Trustees which shall make rate bills thereof and deliver the same to the Collector of Taxes with proper warrants for the collection thereof.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 201. Elections and terms of officers

§ 201. Elections and terms of officers
The officers of said 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 said corporation or at a special meeting as hereafter provided. The term of office of said 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 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 301. Powers of the Board of Trustees

§ 301. Powers of the Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of said corporation, shall draw orders upon the Treasurer for and direct the expenditure of all monies belonging to said corporation, and generally perform all duties legally enjoined upon it by said corporation. Said Board of Trustees shall have power to abate taxes imposed by said 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 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 302. Clerk

§ 302. 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 said 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 said corporation at least six days before the time of meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 303. Treasurer and Collector of Taxes

§ 303. Treasurer and Collector of Taxes
The powers and duties of the Treasurer and Collector of Taxes shall be the same with respect to said 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 each office’s 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 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 304. Auditor

§ 304. Auditor
The Auditor shall at least once each year, and whenever the Auditor sees fit to 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 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 said annual meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 305. Collector of Taxes to be Chief of Police

§ 305. Collector of Taxes to be Chief of Police
The Collector of Taxes shall by virtue of holding said office be the Chief of Police of said the Village of Newfane, and as such shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of those duties and shall cause this officer’s oath of office to be recorded by the Clerk. The Chief of Police shall be informing officer and conservator of the peace within the said the Village of Newfane, and may serve any criminal process returnable within said the Village of Newfane, and any mittimus issued by any justice of the peace therein, and shall be proper officer of the court in all causes before justices within said corporation and for all such services shall receive the fees provided by law for constables.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 401. Prosecutions

§ 401. Prosecutions
Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this charter or the provisions of any bylaw of the said the Village of Newfane made in pursuance of this Charter may be commenced before any justice of the peace of the County of Windham upon complaint of any grand juror of the Town of Newfane or the State’s Attorney of the County of Windham, and all fines and costs imposed for the violations of the provisions of this charter, or the bylaws of the said corporation, or the laws of the State within the limits of said corporation shall be paid into the treasury of said corporation, and the costs of prosecution shall be paid out of the same treasury to the persons entitled thereto on the order of the court before which the trial was held.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 501. Water and light

§ 501. Water and light
Said 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 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 502. Sewers

§ 502. Sewers
Said 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 said corporation and its Board of Trustees shall proceed in the manner prescribed for towns and selectboards in taking lands for highway purposes, and said 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 said corporation may prescribe. If said Village votes to construct a sewer, it may make and establish bylaws regulating the manner of construction, the raising of the money therefor, and all other matters of detail relating thereto.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 503. Streets and walks

§ 503. Streets and walks
The Board of Trustees of said corporation shall have the power to lay out, alter, maintain, or discontinue any street or walk and lane in said Village, and appraise and settle the damage therefor, causing its proceedings to be recorded in the Town Clerk’s office in said Town; provided, that the trustees, in laying out, altering, and maintaining, or discontinuing, any such street, walk, or lane, shall be subject to the same regulations, and in all respects shall proceed in same manner, as selectboards of towns in like cases; 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 selectboards of the Town of Newfane.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 504. Water pipes

§ 504. Water pipes
The trustees, or a majority of them, may lay water pipes, within the limits of said Village, and may, for that purpose enter upon the lands of any land owner in said 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 therefor as the said trustees shall award to such land owner, and to any tenant or occupant of such land to the amount that the individual’s interests are affected thereby. Any party aggrieved shall be entitled to the same redress as is provided in case of taking of land by selectboards for highway purposes.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 602. Elections at special meeting

§ 602. Elections at special meeting
If the annual meeting of said Village fails to be held, for want of notice hereinbefore provided for, or for any other cause, the corporation shall not thereby be prejudiced and said several officers may at any time thereafter be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose, as hereinbefore provided for calling annual meetings; but the term of office of any officers so elected at any special meeting shall expire at the same time as if they had been regularly chosen at the annual meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 701. Powers of the Village

§ 701. Powers of the Village
Said corporation shall have power to make, amend or repeal by-laws not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States, for the following purposes:
1. To establish and regulate a market.
2. To suppress and restrain disorderly and gaming houses, billiard and pool tables, and all descriptions of gaming, and for the destruction of all instruments and devices used for that purpose.
3. To regulate exhibitions of common show persons, and of shows of every kind not interdicted by law.
4. To abate and remove all public and private nuisances.
5. To compel the owner or occupant of any unwholesome, noisesome, or offensive house or place to remove or cleanse the same from time to time, as may be necessary for the health and comfort of the inhabitants of said Village.
6. To direct the location and management of all slaughter houses, meat markets, steam mills, blacksmith shops, and sewers.
7. To prevent immoderate riding or driving in the streets, and cruelty to animals, and may enforce the statutes of the State relating to use of automobiles.
8. To regulate the erection of buildings, and to regulate entrances and exits to public halls and theatres until proper exits are provided, to prevent the encumbering of the streets, sidewalks, and public alleys with firewood, lumber, carriages, boxes, and other things, and provide for the care, preservation, and improvement of public grounds.
9. To restrain all cattle, horses, sheep, swine, and fowls from running at large in the streets of said Village.
10. To provide a supply of water for the protection of the Village against fire, and for other purposes, and to regulate the use of the same.
11. To compel all persons to remove from the sidewalks and gutters adjacent to the premises owned or occupied by them all snow, ice, dirt, and garbage, and to keep such sidewalks and gutters clean.
12. To license innkeepers, keepers of saloons or victualing houses, peddlers, itinerant vendors, and auctioneers, under such regulations and for such sums of money as shall be prescribed therefor.
13. To restrain the use of rockets, squibs, firecrackers, or other fireworks in the streets or commons, and to prevent the practicing therein of any amusements having a tendency to injure or annoy persons passing thereon or to endanger the security of property.
14. To regulate the grade of streets and the grade and width of sidewalks and the construction thereof and protect the same.
15. To provide for lighting the Village.
16. To prohibit and punish willful injury to trees, regulate the posting of notices and advertisements, and to prevent and punish trespasses or willful injuries to or upon the common, public buildings, and other property.
17. To establish and maintain a public library and reading room.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 801. Recordation and certification

§ 801. Recordation and certification
The bylaws of said corporation shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk, and the Clerk’s certificate that such bylaws were adopted at annual meeting of said 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 said bylaws and the 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 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 802. Fines

§ 802. Fines
A fine not exceeding $20.00 with costs of prosecution may be imposed by said corporation for the breach of any of its bylaws with the alternative sentence to the house of correction in case said fine and costs are not paid as is provided by law in other criminal cases.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 249 - Village of Newfane › App § 901. Competency to act as legal or public safety officer

§ 901. Competency to act as legal or public safety officer
No person being a resident or taxpayer of said corporation shall thereby be deemed incompetent to act as judge, justice, juror, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or police officer in any matter, cause, or proceeding in which said corporation shall be interested.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 101. Corporate existence

§ 101. Corporate existence
The geographical area as described in subchapter 14 of this chapter shall hereafter be known by the name of the Village of North Bennington, and by that name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, prosecute, and defend in any court, may have a common seal and alter it at pleasure, may purchase, take, hold, and convey real and personal estate for the use or benefit of said Village, and generally shall have, exercise, and enjoy all the rights, immunities, and privileges, and shall be subject to the duties, liabilities, and obligations that are incident to public corporations in this State. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 201. Authorization for the assessment and collection of property taxes

§ 201. Authorization for the assessment and collection of property taxes
The Village may, at an annual or special meeting warned for that purpose as provided in section 202 of this chapter, lay a tax upon the ratable estate within the same, whether of residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes set forth in this chapter, and the Board of Trustees shall make out a rate bill accordingly and deliver the same to the Treasurer, who shall have the same power to collect such tax as a town treasurer has to collect like taxes in the towns and may in like manner levy on and sell property to satisfy the same. It shall be the duty of the listers of the Town of Bennington in making the grand list of the Town to designate therein such of the ratable estate thereof as shall be within the limits of the Village. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 202. Warning of annual and special meetings

§ 202. Warning of annual and special meetings
(a)(1) The annual meeting of the legal voters of the Village shall be held therein on the third Tuesday of March of each year at seven-thirty o’clock in the afternoon at the Village hall or at such place as the Board of Trustees shall hereafter appoint.
(2) The meeting shall be warned by posting in three public places in the Village, at least 12 days prior to the meeting, a notice calling the meeting and containing a statement of business to be transacted thereat. The notice shall be signed by the Clerk of the Village, or in case of his or her failure or neglect, by the Trustees.
(3) If the annual meeting is not held, for want of the notice set forth in subdivision (2) of this subsection, or for any other cause, the Village shall not thereby be prejudiced.
(b) In addition, whenever 10 legal voters of the Village shall so petition in writing, the Clerk, or upon the Clerk’s neglect or refusal, the Trustees, shall call a special meeting of the Village and give notice of the same as provided for annual meetings.
(c) Any business may be transacted at an adjourned meeting, which under the warning might have been transacted at the original meeting.
(d) In all meetings of the Village, none but the residents thereof qualified by law to vote in Village meetings shall be entitled to vote. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 251 - Village of North Bennington › App § 203. Elections at annual meetings

§ 203. Elections at annual meetings
(a) The Village shall, at every annual meeting elect a Moderator, Clerk, Treasurer, three auditors, and the number of trustees as are necessary to fill vacancies where terms of office have expired or a member has resigned, died, or been removed in order to make a full board of five trustees.
(b) The trustees shall be elected by ballot, and any of the other officers shall also be elected by ballot provided a writing demand therefor is filed with the Clerk before the meeting signed by not less than five legal voters therein.
(c) Any person who receives the highest number of votes cast for a given office shall be elected thereto. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)