Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 105. Police Department Upon the date of merger, the Village Police Department will become a Town Police Department. The Town Police Department budget will be determined annually at Town meeting.

§ 106. Finances With the exception of the funds of the Water Department and Sewer Department, and other special service funds and Highway Department funds, the funds of the Village of Bradford shall be added to the General Fund of the Town of Bradford: Highway Department funds of…

§ 107. Water and Sewer Department (a) The services of the Water and Sewer Department of the Town of Bradford shall be fee based, with all costs paid by the users. All water and sewer rates of the Village of Bradford in effect at the time of the merger shall continue in effect unt…

§ 108. Existing ordinances (a) The development plan, zoning regulations, subdivision regulations, and official maps of the Town and Village of Bradford shall become and be the development plan, zoning regulations, subdivision regulations, and official maps of the Town of Bradford…

§ 109. Election of Selectboard On November 30, 2004, the Office of Trustees shall cease to exist. The 2004 duly elected Selectboard shall serve as the merged Selectboard until the Town meeting on March 7, 2005, at which time all Selectboard members shall resign. At the 2005 Town …

§ 110. Votes required for effect All sections of this plan of merger shall take effect if this plan is approved as follows: (1) By majority vote of the Town of Bradford that includes qualified voters in Town and Village. (2) By majority vote of the Village of Bradford that includ…

§ 201. Applicability of the general law (a) All provisions of the Constitution and general laws of the State of Vermont relating to towns and their officers shall apply to the Town of Bradford. (b) The Town of Bradford shall have all the powers now or hereafter conferred upon tow…

§ 202. Officers The Town of Bradford shall have the officers as provided for towns by the general laws. (Amended 2007, No. M-3, § 2, eff. March 8, 2007.)

§ 203. Ordinances Any rule, ordinance, regulation, zoning regulation, or bylaw of the Town of Bradford may apply to a limited area and not to the whole Town, notwithstanding that the ordinance, rule, regulation, zoning regulation, or bylaw might also have been applied to another …

§ 204. Fire prevention For the prevention and control of fires, the Town of Bradford may function with volunteer firefighters. The fire officers shall be an advisory body reporting to the Selectboard.

§ 205. Existing Water and Sewer Departments (a) As approved by the majority of the voters of the Village of Bradford, the supervision, management, control, and operation of the Village public water supply system and the Village public sewage system shall be vested in a Board of W…

§ 206. Special districts (a) The Selectboard may designate areas apart from the rest of the Town as special service districts and may provide the voters therein with special services not common to all the voters of the Town, provided that the majority of the voters residing in th…

§ 206a. Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners (a) The supervision, management, control, and operation of the Village public water supply system, the Village public sewage system, and the Town water and sewage systems shall be vested in the Water and Sewer Department of the Town …

§ 207. Voting procedures for water and sewer expenses and extensions (a) Voting for new capital improvements for water or sewer service within the areas being served by the water and sewer systems shall be by the voters using these services, and all votes shall be approved by a m…

§ 208. Special funds (a) The Town Treasurer shall keep all money in a special fund in an account or accounts separate from those of any other special funds and from those of other Town funds and shall honor no warrant upon it except for the purpose thereof as heretofore enumerate…

§ 209. Severability If any provision of this charter shall for any reason be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining provisions. To this end, the provisions of this charter are severable.