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2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 25. Treasurer

§ 25. Treasurer
The Treasurer of the District shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors, shall not be a member of the Board, and shall serve at its pleasure. The Treasurer shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the funds of the District and shall be the disbursing officer of the District. When authorized by the Board of Supervisors, the Treasurer, or in his or her absence the Chair, may sign, make, or endorse in the name of the District all checks and orders for the payment of money, and pay out and disburse the same and receipt therefor. The Treasurer shall keep a record of every note or bond issued by the District and of every payment thereon of principal and interest and, if coupons are taken up, shall cancel and preserve them. The Treasurer shall keep correct books of account of all the business and transactions of the District, and such other books and accounts as the Board of Supervisors may require. The Treasurer shall render a statement of the condition of the finances of the District at each regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors and at such times as shall be required of him or her. The Treasurer shall prepare the annual financial statement and the budget of the District for distribution, upon approval of the Board of Supervisors, to the legislative bodies of the member municipalities. The Treasurer shall do and perform all the duties appertaining to the office of treasurer of a body politic and corporate. The Treasurer shall settle with the auditors within 60 days of the end of the fiscal year, at such other times as the Board of Supervisors may require, and upon retirement from office. Upon retirement from office, the Treasurer shall immediately pay over to his or her successor all the funds belonging to the District and at the same time deliver to his or her successor all official books and papers.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 31. Recall of officers

§ 31. Recall of officers
An officer shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Supervisors and may be removed by a vote of the Board as set forth in section 14 of this chapter, except that two-thirds of the representatives of the member municipalities and two-thirds of the votes cast shall be required.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 34. Collection

§ 34. Collection
Annually, after adoption of the budget by the Board of Supervisors, the Treasurer of the District shall issue and present a warrant to the legislative body of each member municipality requiring the amount of such assessment, if any, be paid to him or her in accordance with the schedule of payments adopted by the Board of Supervisors. The legislative body of each member municipality shall draw an order on the municipal treasurer for the amount of such assessment and the municipal treasurer shall pay to the District Treasurer the amount of such order in accordance with the schedule for payments adopted by the Board of Supervisors. If any member municipality shall fail to pay when due any assessment against it by the District, the District shall be entitled to collect interest on any payment due, from its due date at the maximum rate that the municipality is allowed by law to collect on overdue taxes. Such interest, together with the amount due, court costs, and reasonable attorney’s fees of the District may be recovered by the District in a civil action under this section, notwithstanding the availability of any other remedy available to the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 35. Limitations of appropriations

§ 35. Limitations of appropriations
Appropriations made by the Board of Supervisors for the various estimates of the budget as defined in subdivision 33(a)(1) of this chapter shall be expended only for such estimates, but by vote of the Board of Supervisors, the budget may be amended from time to time to transfer funds between or among such estimates, except as otherwise limited herein.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 37. Capital reserve fund

§ 37. Capital reserve fund
The Board of Supervisors may establish and provide for a capital reserve fund to pay for public improvements, replacement of worn-out buildings and equipment, and planned and unplanned major repairs of a disposal facility, in furtherance of the purpose for which the District was created. Any such capital reserve fund shall be kept in a separate account and invested as are other public funds and shall be expended for such purposes for which the fund is established. The cost of payments to any capital reserve fund shall be included in the annual budget of the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 38. Disposal fees

§ 38. Disposal fees
The Board of Supervisors shall establish and periodically adjust charges, including tipping fees, for the purpose of generating revenues from sources other than assessments to member municipalities for the District’s services in the management of solid waste.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 39. Special meetings

§ 39. Special meetings
The Board of Supervisors may call a special meeting of the District for the purposes of incurring bonded debt or entering into a long-term contract under section 36 of this chapter or for purposes of dissolution under section 53 of this chapter or for reconsideration under section 48 of this chapter. The Board shall call a special meeting if petitioned pursuant to section 48 or if requested pursuant to section 54 of this chapter to disallow an amendment to this chapter and shall call a special meeting regarding the question of dissolution of the District if petitioned to do so by not less than five percent of the legal voters from each municipality in the District. The Board shall also call a special meeting on the question of incurring bonded debt if petitioned by at least 10 percent of the legal voters in the District as defined in section 36 of this chapter. The Board of Supervisors may rescind the call of a special meeting called by them but not a special meeting called on application of the legal voters of the District or pursuant to section 54. The Board of Supervisors shall endeavor to have the time of such special meeting coincide with the time of annual municipal meetings, primary elections, general elections, or similar meetings when the electorate within the member municipalities will be voting on other matters.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 40. Places of meetings

§ 40. Places of meetings
At any special meeting of the District, voters of each member municipality shall cast their ballots at such polling places within the municipality of their residence as shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors of the District in cooperation with the board of civil authority of each member municipality.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 42. Warnings required

§ 42. Warnings required
The Board of Supervisors of the District shall warn a special meeting of the District by filing a notice with the town clerk of each member municipality and by posting a notice in a minimum of three public places in each municipality in the District not less than 30 nor more than 40 days before the meeting. In addition, the warning shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the District once a week on the same day of the week for three consecutive weeks before the meeting, the last publication to be not less than five nor more than 10 days before the meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 46. Qualifications and registration of voters

§ 46. Qualifications and registration of voters
All legal voters of the member municipalities shall be legal voters of the District. The member municipalities shall post and revise checklists in the same manner as for municipal meetings prior to any District meeting at which there will be voting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 47. Conduct of meetings

§ 47. Conduct of meetings
At all special meetings of the District, the provisions of 17 V.S.A. chapter 51 regarding election officials (subchapter 1), voting machines (subchapter 3), polling places (subchapter 4), absent voters (subchapter 6), process of voting (subchapter 7), count and return of votes (subchapter 8), recounts and contest of elections (subchapter 9), and jurisdiction of courts (subchapter 10) shall apply except where clearly inapplicable. The Addison Superior Court shall have jurisdiction over petitions for recounts. Election expenses shall be borne by the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 48. Reconsideration or rescission of vote

§ 48. Reconsideration or rescission of vote
(a) A question considered or voted on at any special meeting of the District shall not be submitted to the voters for reconsideration or rescission, except at a subsequent special meeting duly warned for that purpose, and called by the Board of Supervisors on its own motion or pursuant to a petition requesting such reconsideration or rescission signed and submitted in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Where a petition signed by not less than five percent of the qualified voters from each municipality in the District requesting reconsideration or rescission of a question considered or voted on at a previous special meeting is submitted to the Board of Supervisors of the District within 30 days following the date of that meeting, the Board of Supervisors shall provide for a vote by the District in accordance with the petition within 60 days of the submission at a special meeting duly warned for that purpose.
(c) A vote taken at a special meeting shall remain in effect unless rescinded at a special meeting called and warned in accordance with this section.
(d) A question voted on or considered shall not be presented for reconsideration or rescission at more than one subsequent meeting except with the approval of the Board of Supervisors.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 49. Validation of District meetings

§ 49. Validation of District meetings
When any of the requirements as to notice or warning of a special District meeting have been omitted or not complied with, the omission or noncompliance, if the meeting and the business transacted at it is otherwise legal and within the scope of the District powers, may be corrected and legalized by vote at a special meeting of the District called and duly warned for that purpose. The question to be voted upon shall substantially be: “Shall the action taken at the meeting of this District held on (state date), in spite of the fact that (state the error or omission), and any act or action of the District officers or agents pursuant thereto be readopted, ratified, or confirmed?” Errors or omissions in the conduct of an original meeting that are not the result of an unlawful notice or warning or noncompliance within the scope of the warning, may be cured by a resolution of the Board of Supervisors of the District by a vote stating that the defect was the result of an oversight, inadvertence, or mistake. When an error or omission of this nature has been thus corrected by resolution, all business within the terms of the action of the qualified voters shall be as valid as if the requirements had been initially complied with; however, upon condition that the original action thereby corrected by the Board of Supervisors was in compliance with the legal exercise of its corporate powers.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 50. Priority

§ 50. Priority
When a special meeting of the District is called to act upon a proposition to incur bonded indebtedness or to enter into a long-term contract, the special meeting procedures outlined in subchapter 4 of this chapter shall control over the meeting procedures outlined in this subchapter in the event of conflict.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 52. Admission of new member municipalities

§ 52. Admission of new member municipalities
The Board of Supervisors may authorize the inclusion of additional member municipalities in the District upon such terms and conditions as it in its sole discretion shall deem to be fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of the District. The legislative branch of any nonmember municipality that desires to be admitted to the District shall make application for admission to the Board of Supervisors of the District. The Board shall determine the effects and impacts that are likely to occur if such municipality is admitted and shall thereafter either grant or deny authority for admission of the petitioning municipality. If the Board grants such authority, it shall also specify any terms and conditions, including financial obligations, upon which such admission is predicated. The petitioning municipality shall thereafter comply with the approval procedures specified in 24 V.S.A. chapter 121. If a majority of the voters of the petitioning municipality present and voting at a meeting of such municipality duly warned for such purpose shall vote to approve the agreement and the terms and conditions for admission, the vote shall be certified by the clerk of that municipality to the Board of Supervisors. Thereafter, upon satisfactory performance of the terms and conditions of admission, said municipality shall by resolution of the Board of Supervisors become and thereafter be a member municipality of the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 54. Amendment of this chapter

§ 54. Amendment of this chapter
(a) The Board of Supervisors may amend this chapter by the procedure set out in this section. Any vote of the Board required under this section shall be as prescribed in section 14 of this chapter, except that the votes of the representatives of two-thirds of the member municipalities and two-thirds of the votes cast shall be required for adoption. The Board of Supervisors at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Supervisors may pass a resolution stating their intent to amend this chapter. A written copy of the resolution, stating the wording of the amendment and the purpose of the amendment, and the date of a Board meeting scheduled to act on the amendment, shall be delivered to the legislative branches of each municipality and mailed or left at the usual place of residence of each member of the Board of Supervisors at least 30 business days prior to the meeting scheduled to adopt the amendment. The amendment shall be considered adopted by the Board of Supervisors 30 business days following approval of the Board. However, if a majority of the legislative branches of member municipalities request a special District meeting within such a 30-day period, a special District meeting shall be held on the question of approval of the proposed amendment as provided in subchapter 5 of this chapter, and the amendment shall not be adopted unless approved by the District voters.
(b) Upon adoption by the Board of Supervisors or approval of the voters, the amendment shall be submitted and acted on by the General Assembly in accordance with the provisions of 17 V.S.A. § 2645. The amendment shall become effective upon affirmative enactment of the proposal, either as proposed or as amended by the General Assembly. For the purposes of this section, this chapter shall be considered a municipal charter.
(c) This chapter may be amended from time to time in the manner provided in this chapter, but no such amendment shall be made that shall substantially impair the rights of the holders of any bonds or other evidence of indebtedness or substantially affect any obligations under long-term contracts of the District then outstanding or in effect, or the rights of the District to procure the means for payment, continuation, or termination thereof.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 55. Severability

§ 55. Severability
Should any court of competent jurisdiction judge any term, phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this chapter to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, such judgment shall not affect the validity, legality, or enforceability of the chapter as a whole or any other part of this chapter.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 401 - Addison County Solid Waste Management District › App § 56. Definitions

§ 56. Definitions
In this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Solid waste” means any discarded garbage, refuse, septage, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply plant, or pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations and from community activities but does not include animal manure and absorbent bedding used for soil enrichment or solid or dissolved materials in industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under 10 V.S.A. chapter 47.
(2) “Hazardous waste” means any waste or combination of wastes of a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semisolid form, including those that are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, reactive, strong sensitizers, or that generate pressure through decomposition, heat, or other means, which in the judgment of the Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources or his or her duly authorized representative may cause, or contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness, taking into account the toxicity of such waste, its persistence and degradability in nature, and its potential for assimilation, or concentration in tissue, and other factors that may otherwise cause or contribute to adverse acute or chronic effects on the health of persons or other living organisms, or any matter that may have an unusually destructive effect on water quality if discharged to ground or surface waters of the State. All special nuclear, source, or byproduct material, as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1964 and amendments thereto, codified in 42 U.S.C. § 2014, is specifically excluded from this definition.
(3) “Population” shall be established for the purpose of determining the number of votes to be cast by municipal representatives, amounts of municipal assessments, and other purposes under this chapter, by reference to the official Department of Health population estimate (including group quarters or institutional population) as published most recently preceding the beginning of the District’s fiscal year in which the vote is being cast, assessment being determined, or other action is occurring that requires a determination of population. Except for purposes of determining amounts due under subdivision 51(2)(A)(ii) of this chapter, the most recent publication prior to a vote of withdrawal shall be used. In the event the Department of Health ceases to publish population estimates, the Board of Supervisors may designate another appropriate publication containing population estimates for purposes of establishing population.
(4) “Solid waste facility” means all contiguous lands, structures, other appurtenances and improvements on the land, used for treating, storing, or disposing of waste. A facility may consist of several treatment, storage, or disposal operational units.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 2. Purpose

§ 2. Purpose
The District is created and shall exist for the purpose of providing for the efficient, economical, and environmentally sound resource recovery, waste reduction, recycling, or disposal of solid waste generated by member municipalities and their residents. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 3. Composition

§ 3. Composition
The District is composed of and includes all of the lands and residents within those municipalities that vote to approve this chapter at the time of its creation, and such other municipalities as are subsequently admitted to the District as provided in this chapter, except for those municipalities that may withdraw as provided in this chapter.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 5a. Sovereign immunity

§ 5a. Sovereign immunity
The District shall have the benefit of sovereign immunity to the same extent that the State of Vermont does. The District shall provide liability and other insurance for itself and the members of the Board of Supervisors. The District shall hold harmless and indemnify all members of the Board of Supervisors from all claims of every kind and nature arising out of or connected with duties as supervisors, excepting only willful negligence and criminal conduct. (Added 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 6. Transportation and collection site

§ 6. Transportation and collection site
Each member municipality, either directly or through independent parties, may provide one or more collection sites for the solid waste or recoverable materials generated within the member municipality and for the transportation of solid waste or recoverable materials to the District facility, together with all costs incident thereto. In the event that any member municipality does not wish to institute its own collection system for delivery of the solid waste to the facility designated by the District, then the Board of Supervisors may provide for collection and transportation as provided in subdivision 5(1) of this chapter. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 7. Responsibility to accept solid waste

§ 7. Responsibility to accept solid waste
(a) The District becomes responsible for providing a system for resource recovery, as delineated in subsection (b) of this section, when the Board of Supervisors declares the disposal system operational.
(b) The District may provide a system for resource recovery and disposal of all solid waste generated by residential and commercial activities, tires, and metal goods generated within the member municipalities. The District may provide for the disposal of solid waste from industrial activities within a member municipality. The District may provide for the disposal of biosolids through contract with a member municipality. The District may provide for the resource recovery or disposal of any or all demolition and construction waste or yard wastes, or both, from any member municipality. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 8. Authority

§ 8. Authority
The legislative power and authority of the District and the administration and the general supervision of all fiscal, prudential, and governmental affairs shall be vested in a governing body known as the Board of Supervisors, except as specifically provided otherwise in this chapter. The Board of Supervisors may appoint and employ a General Manager and other personnel as it deems necessary for the conduct of business of the District. The General Manager oversees all aspects of the District, in accordance with the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District’s mission statement. The General Manager shall be responsible to the Board for the administration of the District and for carrying out the policies of the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District. The powers and duties of the General Manager shall be specified by the Board of Supervisors. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 10. Appointment

§ 10. Appointment
Annually, on or before the last Monday in March, the legislative branch of each member municipality shall appoint its representative to the Board of Supervisors. Appointments shall be in writing, signed by the chair of the legislative branch, and presented to the Clerk of the District. The legislative branch, by majority vote, may remove its approved representative during the one-year term for stated reasons. In addition, each legislative body is encouraged to appoint an alternative representative to the Board of Supervisors who shall act as the appointed representative during his or her absence. The clerk of the member municipality shall certify to the Clerk of the District the name of the persons appointed as representative and alternate. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 11. Organizational meeting

§ 11. Organizational meeting
Annually, on the first Wednesday in April, the Board of Supervisors shall hold its organizational meeting. At such meeting, the Board of Supervisors shall elect from among its membership a Chair and a Vice Chair, each of whom shall hold office for one year and until a successor is duly elected and qualified. For this election, each member of the Board of Supervisors present shall cast one vote.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 13. Special meetings

§ 13. Special meetings
Special meetings of the Board of Supervisors may be called at any time by the Chair or may be called by the Clerk. Except in case of emergency, each member of the Board of Supervisors shall be given at least 24 hours’ notice of any special meeting of the Board of Supervisors by notice in person, by telephone, or by written notice delivered personally, mailed, e-mailed, or left at a member’s usual place of residence. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 14. Quorum

§ 14. Quorum
For the purpose of transacting business, the presence of members whose accumulated votes represent more than 50 percent of the total number of accumulated votes of all members who have at that time appointed representatives to the Board of Supervisors and the presence of more than 50 percent of the membership of the Board of Supervisors shall constitute a quorum. However, a smaller number may adjourn to another date. Any action adopted by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the Board of Supervisors at which a quorum is present shall be the action of the Board of Supervisors, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 15. Voting

§ 15. Voting
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, each member of the Board of Supervisors shall be entitled to cast one vote for every 1,000 population, or part thereof, in the municipality that the Supervisor represents; provided, however, no member municipality or supervisor shall be entitled to more than 20 votes, regardless of the population of the municipality. A member of the Board of Supervisors may not split its votes. The determinations of population shall be made based upon the latest census provided by the Vermont Department of Health.
(b) The vote of the Board of Supervisors approving the siting of any solid waste disposal facility, including a landfill, incinerator, gasifier, plasma arc conversion facility, or a facility using similar technologies that rely on extremely high temperature heating of high carbon feedstocks, any other similar facility that poses a potential for risk to the environment or the public; or a biosolids facility shall require an affirmative recorded vote of the supervisor representing the town or city in which such facility is to be located, in addition to approval by two-thirds vote of the entire Board of Supervisors.
(c) The vote of the Board of Supervisors approving the siting of a resource recovery facility, including a recycling, transfer, or composting facility shall require an affirmative recorded vote of the supervisor representing the town or city in which the facility is to be located, in addition to approval by two-thirds vote of the entire Board of Supervisors.
(d) The District may not enter into any contract with nonmember municipalities or private entities for the management of solid waste generated outside the boundaries of the District, unless the contract is deemed to be in the best interests of the District, and approved by a two-thirds majority of the Board of Supervisors. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 17. Vacancy

§ 17. Vacancy
Any vacancy on the Board of Supervisors shall be filled within 30 days after such vacancy occurs by appointment by the authority that appointed the representative whose position has become vacant. An appointee to a vacancy shall serve until the expiration of the term of the representative to whose position the appointment was made and may thereafter be reappointed.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 18. Rules of procedures

§ 18. Rules of procedures
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, Roberts Rules of Order, as amended, shall govern at all meetings. The Board of Supervisors may adopt ordinances relating to the District, its powers, and other related subjects pursuant to the procedures of 24 V.S.A chapter 59. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 19. Compensation of members of Board of Supervisors

§ 19. Compensation of members of Board of Supervisors
Each member municipality may pay to its representatives to the Board of Supervisors such reimbursement of expenses as it may determine reasonable. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 22. Chair

§ 22. Chair
The Chair of the Board of Supervisors shall be the chief executive officer of the District. The Chair shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Supervisors and shall authorize all contracts on behalf of the District upon approval by the Board of Supervisors. The Chair shall perform all of the duties incident to the position and office.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 23. Vice Chair

§ 23. Vice Chair
During the absence of or inability of the Chair to render or perform his or her duties or exercise his or her powers, the same shall be performed and exercised by the Vice Chair and when so acting the Vice Chair shall have all the powers and be subject to all the responsibilities hereby given to or imposed upon the Chair.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 24. Vacancy

§ 24. Vacancy
During the absence or inability of the Vice Chairperson to render or perform his or her duties or exercise his or her powers, the Board of Supervisors shall elect from among its membership an acting Vice Chairperson who shall have the powers and be subject to all the responsibilities hereby given or imposed upon the Vice Chairperson.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 25. Clerk

§ 25. Clerk
The Clerk of the District shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors, and shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Supervisors. The Clerk shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the public records of the District and the Seal of the District. The Clerk shall record all votes and proceedings of the District, including meetings of the District and meetings of the Board of Supervisors, and shall cause to be posted and published all warnings of meetings of the District. The Clerk shall prepare all warnings of meetings of the District as required by section 46 of this chapter. Following approval of the Board of Supervisors, the Clerk shall cause the annual report to be distributed to the legislative branches of its member municipalities. The Clerk shall prepare and distribute any other reports required by laws of the State of Vermont and resolutions or regulations of the Board of Supervisors. The Clerk shall perform all of the duties and functions incident to the office of secretary or clerk of a body corporate. The Clerk, with the approval of the Board of Supervisors, may appoint an Assistant Clerk. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 26. Treasurer

§ 26. Treasurer
The Treasurer of the District shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors. The Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Supervisors, may appoint an Assistant Treasurer. When authorized by the Board of Supervisors, the Treasurer shall sign, make, or endorse in the name of the District all checks and orders for the payment of monies and pay out and disburse the same. The Treasurer shall be a nonvoting member of the Executive Board. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 26a. Grand juror

§ 26a. Grand juror
The Board of Supervisors may appoint a grand juror who shall inquire into any person’s offenses under the District’s regulations or applicable law and present them to the proper authority. If the Attorney General or a State’s Attorney is unwilling to prosecute the offenses, the grand juror may do so. For these purposes, the grand juror shall have the same authority within the District as a State’s Attorney. The grand juror shall not be a member of the Board of Supervisors. (Added 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 31. Compensation of officers

§ 31. Compensation of officers
Officers of the District may be paid such compensation or reimbursement of expenses, or both, as may be determined by the Board of Supervisors. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 32. Recall of officers

§ 32. Recall of officers
An officer may be removed by a two-thirds vote of the Board of Supervisors whenever, in its judgment, the best interest of the District will be served. For this action, each member of the Board of Supervisors shall cast one vote.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 33a. Delegation to District staff

§ 33a. Delegation to District staff
If the Board of Supervisors authorizes, the District may delegate duties to the District staff when necessary and appropriate to aid the officers. (Added 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 36. Collection

§ 36. Collection
Annually, on or before January 1, the Treasurer of the District shall issue and present a warrant to the legislative branch of each member municipality requiring the amount of such assessment be paid to the District in accordance with the schedule of payments adopted by the Board of Supervisors. The legislative branch of each member municipality shall draw an order on the municipal treasury for the amount of such assessment, and the municipal treasurer shall pay to the District Treasurer the amount of such order in accordance with the schedule for payments adopted by the Board of Supervisors. If any member municipality shall fail to pay when due any assessment against it by the District, it shall incur the maximum penalty allowed by law, plus interest at the maximum rate allowed by law. Such penalty and interest, together with the amount due, court costs, and reasonable attorney’s fees of the District may be recovered by the District in a civil action under this section, notwithstanding the availability of any other remedy available to the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 37. Limitations of appropriations

§ 37. Limitations of appropriations
Actions or resolutions of the Board of Supervisors for the annual appropriations of any year may not cease to be operative at the end of the fiscal year for which they were adopted, except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Vermont. Appropriations made by the Board of Supervisors for the various estimates of the budget as defined in subsection 35(a) of this chapter may be expended only for such estimates, but by majority vote of the Board of Supervisors, the budget may be amended from time to time to transfer funds between or among such estimates, except as otherwise limited by this chapter. Any balance left or unencumbered in any such budget estimate, or the amount of any deficit at the end of the fiscal year, may be included in and paid out of the operating budget and appropriations in the next fiscal year. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 39. Sinking fund

§ 39. Sinking fund
The Board of Supervisors may establish and provide for a sinking fund, however denominated, for the retirement of bond issue or other debt, or to provide security for its payment. When so established, it may be kept intact and separate from other monies at the disposal of the District, and may be accounted for as a pledged asset for the purpose of retiring or securing such obligations. The cost of payments to any sinking fund may be included in the annual budget of the District. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 40. Capital reserve fund

§ 40. Capital reserve fund
The Board of Supervisors shall establish and provide for a capital reserve fund to pay for public improvements, replacement of worn out buildings and equipment, and planned and unplanned major repairs of a disposal facility, in furtherance of the purpose for which the District was created. Any such capital reserve fund shall be kept in a separate account and invested as are other public funds, and shall be expended for such purposes for which established. The cost of payments to any capital reserve fund shall be included in the annual budget of the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 41. Disposal fees

§ 41. Disposal fees
The Board of Supervisors may from time to time establish and adjust a disposal fee structure (tipping fee) for the purpose of generating revenues from sources other than assessments to member municipalities, particularly concerning the operation and maintenance of any District solid waste disposal or resource recovery facility, or both.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 42. Special meetings

§ 42. Special meetings
The Board of Supervisors may call a special meeting of the District when it deems it necessary or prudent to do so and shall call a special meeting of the District when action by the voters of the District is necessary under this chapter or under any applicable law. In addition, the Board of Supervisors shall call a special meeting of the District if petitioned to do so by not less than five percent of legal voters of the district. The Board of Supervisors may rescind the call of a special meeting called by it but not a special meeting called on application of five percent of the legal voters of the District. The Board of Supervisors shall endeavor to have the time of such special meetings coincide with the time of annual municipal meetings, primary elections, general elections, or similar meetings when the electorate within the member municipalities will be voting on other matters.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 43. Places of meetings

§ 43. Places of meetings
At any special meeting of the District, voters of each member municipality shall cast their ballots at such polling places within the municipality of their residence as shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors of the District in cooperation with the board of civil authority of each member municipality.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 44. Public hearings

§ 44. Public hearings
Not less than three nor more than 14 days prior to any special meeting called by the Board of Supervisors, at least one public hearing shall be held by the Board of Supervisors at which time the issues under consideration shall be presented and comments received. Public hearings shall be warned by the publishing of a notice in a newspaper of general circulation within the District not more than 25 days and at least 15 days prior to the meeting. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 45. Warnings required

§ 45. Warnings required
The Board of Supervisors of the District shall warn a special meeting of the District by filing a notice with the clerk of each member municipality and by posting a notice in at least five public places in each municipality in the District not less than 30 nor more than 40 days before the meeting. In addition, the warning shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the District once a week on the same day of the week for three consecutive weeks before the meeting, the last publication to be not less than five nor more than 10 days before the meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 46. Signing of warning

§ 46. Signing of warning
The original warning of any special meeting of the District shall be signed by a number of the Board of Supervisors equal to a majority of the total votes entitled to be cast and shall be filed with the District Clerk before being posted.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 47. Warning contents

§ 47. Warning contents
The posted notification shall include the date, time, place, and nature of the meeting. It shall, by separate articles, specifically indicate the business to be transacted and the questions to be voted upon. The warning also shall contain any article requested by petition signed by five percent of the voters of the District and filed with the District Clerk not less than 40 days before the date of any District meeting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 49. Qualifications and registration of voters

§ 49. Qualifications and registration of voters
All legal voters of the member municipalities shall be legal voters of the District. The member municipalities shall post and revise checklists in the same manner as for municipal meetings prior to any District meeting at which there will be voting.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 50. Conduct of meetings

§ 50. Conduct of meetings
At all special meetings of the District, the provisions of 17 V.S.A. chapter 51 regarding election officials (subchapter 1), voting machines (subchapter 3), polling places (subchapter 4), absent voters (subchapter 6), process of voting (subchapter 7), count and return of votes (subchapter 8), recounts and contest of elections (subchapter 9), and jurisdiction of courts (subchapter 10) shall apply except where clearly inapplicable. The District Clerk shall perform the functions assigned to the Secretary of State under chapter 51. The Washington Superior Court shall have jurisdiction over petitions for recounts. Election expenses shall be borne by the District.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters › Chapter 403 - Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District › App § 51. Reconsideration or rescission of vote

§ 51. Reconsideration or rescission of vote
(a) A question voted on at any special meeting of the District shall not be submitted to the voters for reconsideration or rescission, except at a subsequent special meeting duly warned for that purpose, and called by the Board of Supervisors on its own motion or pursuant to a petition requesting such reconsideration or rescission signed and submitted in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Where a petition signed by not less than five percent of the qualified voters of the District requesting reconsideration or rescission of a question considered or voted on at a previous special meeting is submitted to the Board of Supervisors of the District within 30 days following the date of that meeting, the Board of Supervisors shall provide for a vote by the District in accordance with the petition within 60 days of the submission at a special meeting duly warned for that purpose.
(c) A vote taken at a special meeting shall remain in effect unless rescinded at a special meeting called and warned in accordance with this section.
(d) A question voted on shall not be presented for reconsideration or rescission at more than one subsequent meeting except with the approval of the Board of Supervisors.