Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 201. Warning of meeting and qualified voters (a) The annual meetings of the Village of Derby Line shall be held on the first Tuesday in April in each year at such hour as the notice shall state, in the Town Hall in the Village or at such other time and place as the Village shal…

§ 202. Officers to be elected at annual meeting (a) At the annual meeting of the Village, the following officers shall be elected, by ballot if called for, for the ensuing year except as provided in subsection (d) of this section and until their successors are chosen: (1) a Moder…

§ 301. Powers of trustees The trustees of said Village shall have the same powers to lay out, alter, and discontinue streets and highways in said Village as are vested, by law, in the selectboard in towns, and all proceedings in respect to laying out, altering, and discontinuing …

§ 401. Highway district All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Derby, and three-fourths of all highway taxes assessed upon the ratable estate in the highway district shall be paid in money by the Selectb…

§ 501. Sewer system; establishment; fee assessment and collection When the public health or convenience shall require the construction of a common sewer or main drain in the Village of Derby Line and through the principal streets of the Village, the trustees of the Village, upon …

§ 502. Petition for appeal of damage award or fee assessment (a) When any person or corporation shall be dissatisfied with the decision of said Trustees in the award of damages for land taken for such sewer or drain, or in any assessment for contribution for the same, such person…

§ 601. Police officers The trustees of said Village shall have power to, and may appoint such number of police officers within said Village, as said trustees may judge necessary for the interest of the inhabitants of said Village, by writing under their hands, which shall be reco…

§ 701. Power to adopt bylaws Said Village may make, alter, and repeal bylaws of the following subject matters, viz.: First.— Relating to their streets, sidewalks, alleys, public highways, commons, parks, and public grounds, the cleaning, repairing, and improving the same; to prev…

§ 702. Imposition of penalties Said Village may impose a fine or forfeiture not exceeding $100.00 for the violation of any bylaw or ordinance. Such penalty may be recovered in an action on the case upon this statute, in the name of this corporation, in which action it shall be su…

§ 801. Fire district Said Village is hereby constituted a fire district for the purpose of preventing the destructive consequences of fires, and the trustees thereof shall have all the powers and be subject to the same restrictions as prudential committees in fire districts in ma…

§ 901. Grand list It shall be the duty of the listers of the Town of Derby, in making their assessments of real estate in said Town, to designate, in the list by them made, the real estate situated within the Village of Derby Line; and in case any piece or parcel of real estate i…

§ 902. Assessment of tax Said Village may, at its annual meeting or at any special meeting warned for that purpose, assess a tax on the list of real and personal estate taxable therein, for any of the purposes mentioned in this charter, and shall have all the powers, and may coll…

§ 903. Board of Tax Abatement The trustees and Clerk of said Village shall constitute a Board for the Abatement of Taxes in said Village and shall have the same power and proceed in the same manner as the board for the abatement of taxes in towns.

§ 904. Membership on Board not disqualification to serve as law enforcement or judicial officer A member of said corporation shall not be deprived, by reason of such membership, to act as judge, juror, sheriff, constable, or justice of the peace in any cause or proceeding in whic…