Title 24, Title 24: Municipal and County Government

§ 1154a. Records; return postage Whenever an instrument listed in section 1154 of this chapter is filed or left for record with the town clerk, the town shall bear the costs of returning the original copy of the instrument to the person who filed or left the instrument for record…

§ 1155. Record of trust mortgage Trust mortgages may be recorded by furnishing the clerk with a printed copy thereof on not smaller than 8 1/4 by 10 3/4 nor larger than 10 1/2 by 16 ledger paper of good quality with good cloth binding which volume after being duly compared with t…

§ 1156. Chattel mortgages; conditional sales; discharge of lien Within 15 days after a chattel mortgage, a sufficient memorandum of a conditional vendor’s lien, or a memorandum of a discharge of such mortgage or lien has been delivered to a town clerk for recording, accompanied b…

§ 1157. Duties of town clerk as to chattel mortgages A town clerk shall procure and keep a book of records for mortgages of personal property and shall keep an alphabetical index of mortgagors and mortgagees. The record and index shall be open to public inspection. The clerk shal…

§ 1158. Assignment or discharge of mortgage or judgment lien An assignment or discharge of a mortgage or judgment lien shall be duly recorded in the records of the town. A mortgage or judgment lien may be discharged by the mortgagee, judgment creditor, or assignee of such mortgag…

§ 1159. Indorsement of time of receiving instruments (a) An instrument shall be deemed recorded when the town clerk: (1) receives the instrument, the recording fee provided in 32 V.S.A. § 1671, and all supporting documents required by statute; and (2) indorses a certificate of th…

§ 1160. Acknowledgements; oath (a) A town clerk, commissioned as a notary public pursuant to 26 V.S.A. chapter 103, may take acknowledgements of deeds and other instruments throughout his or her county. (b) In his or her county, he or she may administer oaths in all cases where a…

§ 1161. General index (a)(1) A town clerk shall keep a general index of transactions affecting the title to real estate wherein he or she shall enter in one column, in alphabetical order, the name of the grantor to the grantee and, in a parallel column, the name of the grantee fr…

§ 1162. Indices; liability of clerk and town A town clerk who neglects to keep in his or her office the indices required by law to be kept by him or her shall be fined $20.00 for each six months’ neglect. A town which, upon such neglect of its town clerk, delays for six months to…

§ 1163. Index of attachments A town clerk shall keep a book in which shall be alphabetically indexed all attachments of personal property lodged in his or her office. Such index shall show the names of the parties to the action in which the attachment is made, the court and date …

§ 1164. Certified copies; form (a) A town clerk shall furnish certified copies of any instrument on record in his or her office, or any instrument or paper filed in his or her office pursuant to law, on the tender of fees therefor, and his or her attestation shall be a sufficient…

§ 1165. Files and records available; when The files and records in the office of the clerk shall be available for inspection upon proper request at all reasonable hours.

§ 1166. Return of name of town treasurer to State Treasurer Annually, on or before July 1, a town clerk shall transmit to the State Treasurer the name of the town treasurer.

§ 1167. Certification of votes When at an annual or special meeting a town votes to raise a tax, to borrow money, or to make any appropriation of money, the clerk of such town, within five days thereafter, shall certify such vote to the treasurer of the town and to the chair of t…

§ 1168. Return of names of listers to Director of the Division of Property Valuation and Review After each annual meeting, a town clerk shall report forthwith electronically to the Director of the Division of Property Valuation and Review the name of each lister in the town, his …

§ 1169. Name and address of first constable to county clerk After each annual meeting, a town clerk shall certify forthwith to the county clerk the name and post office address of the person elected first constable at such meeting.

§ 1170. Appointment of assistant clerk After his or her election, a town clerk shall forthwith appoint one or more assistant clerks, for whose official acts he or she shall be responsible, who shall hold office during his or her term of office, or until such appointment is revoke…

§ 1171. Duties of assistant clerk (a) The assistant clerk shall be sworn and is authorized to perform the recording and filing duties of the town clerk, to issue licenses and certified copies of records, and, in the absence, death, or disability of the town clerk, is further auth…

§ 1172. Assistant clerk; record to county clerk Such assistant clerk shall deposit with the county clerk a copy of the record of his or her appointment, duly certified by the town clerk making such appointment, and shall also deposit a copy of his or her official oath signed by h…

§ 1173. Town or village reports The clerk of a municipality shall supply annually each library in such municipality with two copies of the municipal report, upon its publication. The clerk shall also send to the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration one copy thereof i…

§ 1174. Town file Such clerk shall keep on file in his or her office two or more sets of the annual report of the auditors, which at suitable intervals he or she shall bind in book form.

§ 1175. Permanent service records Town clerks shall record the honorable discharges or certificates of service of all members of the Armed Forces of the United States, by photographic copy or on forms approved by the Adjutant General of a size and with a margin to permit binding.…

§ 1176. Manuscripts All books and manuscripts belonging to a town or a town school district, except town histories, published under the authority of a town, shall be kept in the office of the town clerk, unless otherwise provided and shall not be sold or disposed of. (Amended 196…

§ 1178. Safes; vaults A town not already provided with a fireproof safe or vault of a sufficient size for the effectual preservation of the files and records now in the office of the town clerk, or that may hereafter accumulate there, shall forthwith procure such safe or vault.

§ 1179. Reporting of fees received Within 30 days after the completion of a town’s fiscal year, each town clerk shall disclose to the public the total amount of fees received as part of his or her compensation during the fiscal year immediately preceding. (Added 1979, No. 161 (Ad…