Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 13. Annual and special meetings (a) The annual meeting of the Village for the election of officers and transaction of any other business specified in the warning of the meeting shall be held on the second Monday in April of each year at a time and place designated in the notice…

§ 14. Residence All persons qualified to vote in a Town meeting of the Town of Morristown who reside within the corporate limits, described in section 2 of this charter, shall be legal voters of the Village of Morrisville. The residents of the Village shall belong to and remain r…

§ 15. Fiscal year The fiscal year of the corporation shall commence on the first day of January and close on the last day of December, unless the legal voters of the Village at its annual meeting shall determine otherwise. If the legal voters of the Village vote another fiscal ye…

§ 16. Waterworks (a) The Village shall have such powers, and the trustees shall have such duties, with reference to any waterworks that are in existence as set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapter 89 or any amendments thereto. (b) Without limiting the generality of subsection (a) of this s…

§ 17. Definitions The following terms when used in this subchapter shall have the following meaning: (1) “Acquire” shall mean to purchase, to acquire by eminent domain, to hire, to lease, to construct, to reconstruct, or to replace. (2) “Electric plant” shall mean the complete mu…

§ 18. Electric plant; authority to operate, improve, extend, better, and add to existing plant The Village is authorized and empowered to own, maintain, operate, improve, and extend, or otherwise acquire, and to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, in accordance with and in any …

§ 19. Electric plant; regulation The Village’s operation of its electric plant, as defined herein, shall take place in accordance with the statutory authority and requirements of 30 V.S.A. chapter 79, relating to municipal electric plants, and 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, relating to mu…

§ 2. Village boundaries All that portion of the Town of Morristown in the County of Lamoille as follows: Beginning at the northwest corner of the farm now owned by W.J. Foss and Helen Foss, and being at the point where the lands of the said W.J. Foss and Helen Foss and lands of H…

§ 20. Energy conservation and management facilities The Village is authorized and empowered to provide or finance energy conservation and management facilities within the customer service territory of its electric plant. The term “energy conservation and management facilities” in…

§ 21. Communications plant; authority to acquire, construct, operate, improve, extend, and better (a) The Village is authorized and empowered to own, maintain, operate, improve, and extend, or otherwise acquire, and to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, in accordance with and …

§ 22. Communications plant; operation and regulation (a) The Village’s operation of its communications plant, as defined herein, shall take place in accordance with the applicable State and federal law and regulation, and 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, relating to municipal indebtedness, …

§ 23. Construction of subchapter This section is remedial in nature, and the powers hereby granted shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes hereof, and to this end the Village shall have power to do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes hereo…

§ 24. Powers exercised through trustees The powers granted to the Village hereunder shall be exercised by its trustees, who shall have the supervision of the Village’s electric and communications plants as provided for herein and not inconsistent with law: (1) Sewer system: The V…

§ 25. Indebtedness (a) The Village shall not incur an indebtedness for public improvements that, together with previously contracted indebtedness, shall, in the aggregate, exceed the amounts authorized by the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 1 or any amendments ther…

§ 26. Authority to form subsidiaries and enter ventures with other parties In addition to the authority granted under otherwise applicable law, the Village has the power and is authorized to create a corporate subsidiary or subsidiaries wholly owned by the Village, or to establis…

§ 27. Transitional provisions (a) Nothing herein contained, except as specifically provided, shall affect or impair the rights or privileges of officers of the Village existing at the time this charter takes effect. (b) All contracts entered into by the Village prior to the effec…

§ 3. General corporate powers (a) The Village of Morrisville in and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute, and defend in any court. The Village may purchase, take, and hold, sell, and convey real estate and personal property necessary for its corporate purposes. The Village…

§ 4. Specific corporate powers At any meeting legally warned for that purpose, the legal voters of the Village may vote a tax upon the taxable estate within the corporate limits for the lawful purposes of the Village.

§ 5. Grand list The grand list for the Town of Morristown within the Village corporate limits shall be the grand list for the Village of Morrisville. The trustees shall make out and deliver to the Treasurer a tax bill, with a warrant for its collection. The Treasurer shall compil…

§ 6. Village officers (a) The officers of the corporation shall consist of a Moderator, five trustees, a Clerk, and a Treasurer. The officers shall be elected at the annual meeting of the corporation for the term of one year and until their successors are elected, except that tru…

§ 7. Board of Trustees; powers; meetings (a) The members of the Board of Trustees shall constitute the legislative body of the Village of Morrisville for all purposes required by statute, and, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall have all powers and authority given to…

§ 8. Treasurer The Treasurer shall give a bond to the corporation conditioned upon the faithful performance of his or her duties in such sums and with such sureties as the trustees may prescribe. If a Treasurer does not give such bond within 10 days after his or her election or a…

§ 9. Audit of Village officers The accounts and vouchers of the officers of the corporation shall be professionally audited, and the audit shall be printed each year in the annual report of the Village of Morrisville.