Title 24APPENDIX, Municipal Charters

§ 105. Police protection (a) Police protection in the former Village area shall be considered a special services district for those residing therein, provided that boundaries may be altered as provided in section 208 of the charter. Voters residing in the special services distric…

§ 106. Trash collection Trash collection in the former Village area shall be considered as a special services district for those residing therein. Voters residing in the special services district may, by a majority vote of those present and voting at a duly warned meeting, author…

§ 107. Existing ordinances (a) The Village zoning and flood hazard regulations, as amended, are hereby incorporated into the zoning ordinance of the Town of Richford for the purpose of defining a Village district within said Town ordinance and establishing area, density, use, bui…

§ 108. Election of Selectboard (a) Members of the Selectboard in office at the date of the adoption of the merger shall continue in office until the end of their respective terms. (b) The four Village trustees whose terms do not expire in 1998 shall remain on the new Board until …

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

§ 202. Officers (a) The officers of the Town of Richford shall be those provided by law for towns except as otherwise provided by this charter. Such officers shall have all the powers and duties necessary to carry out the provisions of this charter as well as those provided by la…

§ 203. Tax collection The Town Treasurer shall collect property taxes and penalty and interest charges. The Town shall not elect other collectors of current or delinquent taxes. The Town Treasurer shall deposit all taxes, penalties, and interest charges in the Town accounts for t…

§ 204. Town and School District officers The Clerk, Treasurer, and auditors of the Town of Richford shall perform those duties imposed upon the Clerk, Treasurer, and auditors of the Town of Richford School District by the general laws of the State of Vermont and this charter. (Ad…

§ 205. Appointed officers, commissions, and committees (a) The Selectboard may appoint any officers required by the Town’s personnel regulations, this charter, or the general laws of the State of Vermont. (b) The Selectboard may appoint commissions or committees as needed, and de…

§ 206. Town meeting (a) Provisions of the laws of the State of Vermont relating to voter qualification, warnings, methods of voting, the duties of the Town officers at Town meetings and elections, and all other particulars relating to preparation for, conduct, and management of T…

§ 207. Ordinances Any rule, ordinance, regulation, or bylaw of the Town of Richford may apply to a limited area and not to the whole Town, notwithstanding that the rule, ordinance, regulation, or bylaw might also have been applied to another area or areas within the Town. (Added …

§ 208. Special districts (a) The Selectboard may designate areas apart from the rest of the Town as a special service district and may provide that said area of the voters therein shall be provided with special services not common to all the voters of the Town, provided that the …

§ 301. Existing Water and Sewer Departments (a) The municipal water system taken over from the former Village of Richford and any additions thereto shall be maintained separate from all other departments of the Town, and all rents and revenue therefrom not necessary for current e…

§ 302. Voting procedures for water and sewer; capital improvements and extensions (a) Voting for capital improvements for water or sewer service within the areas served by the water and sewer systems shall continue to be by the voters using these services in the same manner estab…

§ 401. Fire prevention For the prevention and control of fires, the Town of Richford may function with a volunteer fire department. Annually, the Selectboard shall appoint, based on recommendations from the Firefighters’ Association, three fire wardens. These appointments shall b…

§ 402. Ambulance service (a) The Town of Richford may provide for an ambulance service for the Town. If so provided, the Richford Ambulance Service shall be owned and operated by the Town of Richford under the supervision of the Selectboard with the advice of an Ambulance Committ…

§ 403. Arvin A. Brown Public Library The Town of Richford shall provide suitable rooms in a Town property for the Arvin A. Brown Public Library and shall keep the rooms furnished and heated without expense to the Arvin A. Brown Library Trustees, as set forth in the deed of March …

§ 501. Severability If any provision of this charter shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining provisions that can be given effect without the invalid provision. To this end, the provisions of this charter are severable. (Added 1997, N…

§ 502. Continuance in office Except as specifically provided by this charter, if at the time this charter takes full effect a Town officer holds any office or position, he or she shall continue in such office or position until the taking effect of some specific provision(s) under…

§ 503. Municipal laws (a) All Town ordinances, resolutions, bylaws, orders, policies, and regulations that are in force at the time this charter becomes fully effective shall remain in full force and effect excepting only those ordinances, resolutions, orders, policies, and regul…

§ 504. Reference to statute If any matter mentioned in this charter is said to be controlled by a specific statute, the reference to such statute shall include the statute as amended or renumbered, or any statute substituted therefore and having a similar subject matter. (Added 1…

§ 505. Amendment of charter This charter may be amended as set forth by the general laws of the State of Vermont. (Added 1997, No. M-11 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.)