Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 13. Sewer Department authorization The Village is authorized to own, operate, control, and manage a public sewage system within and without its corporate limits and shall exercise all powers, prerogatives, and authority conferred generally upon municipalities with respect to se…

§ 14. Electric Department authorization (a) The Village is authorized to acquire, purchase, own, construct, maintain, and operate a municipal electric plant, a communications plant, an energy supply system, generation, transmission, and distribution facilities, or any or all simi…

§ 15. Fire Department authorization The Village is authorized to own, operate, control, and manage a Fire and Emergency Services Response Department and to appropriate and expend funds for the Department, and to contract for the receipt or delivery of fire and emergency services …

§ 16. Police Department authorization The Village is authorized to own, operate, control, and manage a Police Department under the direction of a Chief of Police appointed by the Board of Trustees. The Chief of Police and all police officers shall have those powers and authority …

§ 17. Rules of construction (a) Where the general law and this law conflict, this chapter shall apply. (b) Any statutory reference in this chapter shall include all amendments, supplements, and replacements to this chapter.

§ 18. Severability If any provisions of this chapter shall for any reason be held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect the remaining provisions that can be given effect without the invalid provision. To this end, the provisions of this chapter are severable.

§ 19. Fiscal year The fiscal year of the Village shall be from January 1 through the following December 31.

§ 2. Applicability of the general law (a) All provisions of the Constitution and the general laws of the State of Vermont relating to villages and their officers shall apply to the Village of Swanton except as modified in this chapter. (b) The Village of Swanton and its officers …

§ 20. Property By action of the Board of Trustees, the Village may acquire property within or without its corporate limits for any Village purpose, in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, condemnation, devise, or lease. The Village may sell, lease, mort…

§ 21. Ordinances (a) All rules, ordinances, regulations, and bylaws of the Village of Swanton in effect on the day before this chapter becomes effective shall become rules, ordinances, regulations, and bylaws of the Village of Swanton until lawfully amended or repealed. (b) Villa…

§ 22. Officers and employees of the Village All elected and appointed officers of the Village on the effective date of this chapter shall continue in office until their terms of office shall end in accordance with law and until their successors are duly elected or appointed and q…

§ 3. Annual meeting The annual meeting of the Village shall occur on the first Tuesday of March in each year.

§ 4. Board of Trustees (a) The legislative body of the Village of Swanton shall be the Board of Trustees, consisting of three trustees and the Village President, each of whom shall be elected by Australian ballot at the annual meeting of the Village. Trustees shall be elected for…

§ 5. Village Moderator The Village President shall be the Moderator of all meetings of the Village unless changed in the manner provided by law.

§ 6. Village Clerk The Village Clerk shall be a Village resident or nonresident elected for a one year term at the annual meeting of the Village. The Village Clerk shall have all the authority, duties, and responsibilities that are conferred upon the office of the Village Clerk b…

§ 7. Village Treasurer (a) The Village Treasurer shall be a Village resident or nonresident appointed by the Board of Trustees at the first meeting of the Board of Trustees following each annual meeting of the Village. These appointments shall be recorded in the office of the Vil…

§ 8. Village audit The Village shall engage a qualified auditor or firm of auditors to perform the annual audit of the Village. The audit report, or a summary of the report, shall be printed in the annual Village report, or otherwise distributed or made available to the residents…

§ 9. Village Manager (a) The Village hereby adopts the town manager form of government set forth in 24 V.S.A. chapter 37, which form of government shall continue unless amended by the voters in the manner provided by law. (b) The Board of Trustees shall appoint a Village Manager …