Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 303. Vacancies The trustees shall fill a vacancy occurring in a Village office, and such person so appointed shall serve for the unexpired term unless superseded. But the Village may, at any time before the expiration of such term, supersede such appointment by a new election a…

§ 304. Presiding officer The senior member of the Board of Trustees shall preside at Village meetings. The presiding officer in a Village meeting shall have the same power and duties as a moderator in town meetings. (Amended 2001, No. M-10 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)

§ 305. Board of Trustees The Board of Trustees shall have the management of the affairs of the Village and the necessary powers for that purpose.

§ 306. Clerk The Clerk shall keep a record of the proceedings of said corporation and shall have power to certify copies of the same. The Clerk shall also have the usual powers and duties incident to clerks of such corporation.

§ 307. Treasurer and Collector The Treasurer and Collector shall have similar powers and duties to those of town treasurers and town collectors. They shall each give bonds to the Village conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices in such su…

§ 308. Auditors The auditors shall, previous to each annual Village meeting, examine and adjust the accounts of the Village officers, and report the amounts so adjusted with the items thereof, and also the state of the treasury, to said annual meeting. The auditors shall cause th…

§ 309. Claims and accounts of Village officers The auditors shall not allow a claim or account for the personal service of a Village officer except when compensation for such service is fixed by law or by a vote of the Village. The auditors shall include in their report to the Vi…

§ 401. Authority to adopt bylaws The Village may establish, alter, and repeal bylaws on the following subject matters: First. Relating to its streets, sidewalks, parks, and public grounds; the cleaning, repairing, and improving of the same; and to compel persons to remove from th…

§ 402. Imposition of forfeitures The Village may impose a forfeiture of not exceeding $25.00 for violation of any bylaw. Such forfeiture may be recovered in an action of tort founded on this charter, brought in the name of the Village, and in any such action a general complaint c…

§ 403. Violations In an action for violation of a bylaw, the process may issue against the body of the defendant and if the defendant is found guilty, and it appears to the court before whom the action is tried that the cause of action arose from willful or malicious act or negle…

§ 501. Grand list The grand list of the ratable estate within said Village as made out by the listers of the Town of Alburgh shall be the grand list of said Village, and the trustees shall cause a copy of such list to be made and filed in the office of the Clerk of said Village w…

§ 502. Assessment of tax on grand list The Village may, at any legal meeting, assess a tax on the grand list of the Village for any of the purposes specified in this charter. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 266, eff. July 1, 2023.)

§ 601. Residency not disqualification to serve No person being a resident or taxpayer of said corporation shall thereby be deemed disqualified to act as judge, justice, juror, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or police officer in any matter, cause, or proceeding in which said …

§ 701. [Transitional provisions relating to adoption of the charter]

§ 702. [Transitional provisions relating to adoption of the charter]

§ 801. Authority to construct and maintain infrastructure The Village of Alburgh is authorized and empowered to construct, extend, renew, and maintain a common sewer or sewers in the Village; to build and maintain sidewalks and curbings along the streets and public highways in th…

§ 802. Eminent domain authority For any of the foregoing purposes, said Village may take, use, or occupy the land of individuals and corporations on making compensation for the taking, and the trustees in the taking of land and in the awarding of damages shall proceed in the mann…

§ 803. Procedures for eminent domain authority In all proceedings under this charter for taking land, rights, or property, the trustees shall pass upon the convenience and necessity for the taking at hearings held by them after giving notice to each owner or interested person of …

§ 804. Assessments for sidewalks and curbs The Board of Trustees in making, altering, or repairing sidewalks and curbs shall have power, subject to the ordinances and bylaws of the Village, on giving 12 days’ notice to the parties interested, of the time and place of hearing, to …

§ 805. Recordation and collection of sidewalk and curbing assessments (a) The Board of Trustees shall, as soon as may be after they have caused the report and assessments to be recorded in the Village Clerk’s office of the Village of Alburgh, place a list of the assessments in th…

§ 806. Taxation for infrastructure improvements The legal voters of the Village of Alburgh, at any annual or special meeting warned for that purpose, may vote a tax upon the grand list of the Village for any of the purposes mentioned in this charter. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 272, …

§ 807. Construction of individual sewer and drain connections The owner of property abutting or adjacent to any street or alley in the Village through which a public sewer has been constructed shall construct under the direction of the trustees a suitable sewer or drain from the …

§ 808. Assessment of sewer service fee The trustees of the Village of Alburgh may, on due notice and after hearing, assess against the property connected with the system in such Village a service fee to be used by said Village for the maintenance, upkeep, and repair of the sewage…

§ 809. Funds for sidewalk and curbing repairs The selectboard of the Town of Alburgh shall, on or before the first day of November in each and every year, draw its order on the Treasurer of the Town of Alburgh for a sum of money equal to 10 percent of the Village grand list, whic…