Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 23. Duty of Clerk The Clerk shall keep a record of all meetings and proceedings of the corporation and of the Board of Trustees and give copies of the same when required upon payment of reasonable fees. The Clerk shall warn all meetings of the legal voters of the corporation, b…

§ 24. Duties of Treasurer and Collector The powers and duties of the Treasurer and Collector of Taxes shall be the same with respect to the corporation as are the powers and duties of town treasurers and town collectors of taxes with respect to towns. Each shall give a bond to th…

§ 25. Auditor The Auditor shall at least once each year, and whenever the Auditor sees fit, examine and adjust and state the accounts of all corporation officers and of the corporation and shall report all such accounts and the items thereof and the state of the treasury to the c…

§ 26. Fire Marshal (a) The Fire Marshal may by writing recorded by the Clerk appoint one or more deputy fire marshals. (b) The Fire Marshal or in the Fire Marshal’s absence the deputy fire marshal next in authority shall have power at fires to suppress tumults and riots, by force…

§ 27. Powers of the Fire Marshal All apparatus for the extinguishment of fires and buildings for storing of the same, owned or leased by the corporation and all fire companies organized under the authority of the corporation, shall be under the direction and control of the Fire M…

§ 28. Collector to be Chief of Police The Collector of Taxes shall by virtue of the office be the Chief of Police of the Village of Cambridge and shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the office’s duties and shall cause the oath of office to be recorded by the Clerk. The Ch…

§ 3. Assessment of taxes All taxes voted by the corporation shall be assessed by the Board of Trustees, which shall make rate bills thereof and deliver the same to the Collector of Taxes with proper warrants for the collection thereof.

§ 31. Prosecutions Prosecution for violation of the provisions of this charter or the provisions of any bylaw of the Village of Cambridge made in pursuance of this charter may be commenced before any justice of the peace of the County of Lamoille upon complaint of any grand juror…

§ 41. Grand list The grand list of the Town of Cambridge comprised within the limits of the Village of Cambridge shall be the grand list of the corporation.

§ 42. Contracts for lighting and water The corporation is empowered to contract with any water company or any electric light company for water and lights or either for extinguishing fires, for watering the streets, for public drinking places, and for lighting the streets, and oth…

§ 43. Sewers The corporation is empowered to construct a system of sewers and repair the same, and for that purpose may take such lands as are necessary, and in taking lands for such purposes, the corporation and its Board of Trustees shall proceed in the manner prescribed for to…

§ 44. Connection with sewer After the system of sewers has been constructed as provided in section 43 of this charter, each and every owner of a house in the Village of Cambridge situate upon a street, alley, or lane through which a main sewer has been constructed shall cause to …

§ 45. Powers of trustees; streets, walks, and lanes The Board of Trustees of the Village shall have the power to lay out, alter, maintain, or discontinue any sidewalk in the Village, and appraise and settle the damages, causing its proceedings to be recorded in the Town Clerk’s o…

§ 46. Water pipes The Village is empowered to take, in addition to the water rights already owned or acquired by the Village, the water of any fountain, springs, ponds, or streams for the purpose of affording the Village or any of the inhabitants of the Town of Cambridge water fo…

§ 51. Annual meeting The annual meeting of the corporation for the choice of officers and for the transaction of any business specified in the warning of such meeting shall be held in the Village of Cambridge on the first Wednesday in May.

§ 52. Special meeting If the annual meeting of the Village fails to be held, for want of notice or for any other cause, the corporation shall not be prejudiced, and the several officers may at any later time be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose as provided by t…

§ 53. Voters Every person who resides within the limits of the Village and is a legal voter in Town meeting of the Town of Cambridge shall be entitled to vote at any Village meeting.

§ 61. Bylaws The corporation shall have power to make, amend, or repeal bylaws not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States for the following purposes: (1) To establish and regulate a market. (2) To suppress and restrain disorderly and gaming ho…

§ 62. Bylaws; recordation The bylaws of the corporation shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk, and the Clerk’s certificate that such bylaws were adopted at an annual meeting of the corporation or at a special meeting thereof, called for that purpose, shall be prima facie e…

§ 63. Penalty for breach of bylaws A fine not exceeding $20.00 with costs of prosecution may be imposed by the corporation for the breach of any of its bylaws with the alternative sentence to the house of correction in case the fine and costs are not paid as is provided by law in…

§§ 71-72. [Transitional provisions related to the first Village meeting and the effective date]