Title 24APPENDIX, Municipal Charters

§ 13. Legal voters Every person who resides within the limits of the Village and is a legal voter in Town meeting of the Town of Westminster shall be entitled to vote at any Village meeting. (Added 1912, No. 334, § 13.)

§ 14. Bylaws The Village corporation may adopt, amend, or repeal any bylaws relating only to the functions that, by this chapter, the Village may exercise, and are not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution and laws of this State. The bylaws of the…

§ 15. Prosecutions 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 criminal cases.…

§ 16. Village organization; termination; reestablishment The Village of Westminster as established by the action of the Selectboard under the provisions of the Public Statutes, by their order filed with the Town Clerk of the Town of Westminster, April 8, 1907, is hereby abolished…

§ 2. Powers of Village The Village is hereby granted and endowed with the power and authority to exercise the functions of a municipal corporation for the following purposes, and to the following extent only: (1) To light the public streets and highways and public buildings withi…

§ 3. Taxation of residents At any meeting of the legal voters legally warned and held for that purpose, a tax may be laid upon the grand list of the Village for any of the purposes for which the Village is incorporated. All taxes voted by the Village shall be assessed by the Boar…

§ 4. Officers The officers of the corporation shall be a Board of five trustees, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, and an Auditor, all of which officers shall be chosen at each annual meeting of the legal voters of the corporation or at a special meeting as hereinafter …

§ 5. Board of Trustees (a) The Board of Trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interests and affairs of the corporation; shall draw orders upon the Treasurer for, and direct the expenditure of all monies belonging to, the corporation; and generally …

§ 6. 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 by posting …

§ 7. Treasurer; Collector of Taxes The powers and duties of the Treasurer and the 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 the…

§ 8. Auditor The Auditor shall, at least once each year and whenever the Auditor sees fit, examine and adjust and make and file with the Town Clerk a statement of the accounts of all corporation officers and of the corporation and shall report all accounts and items thereof and t…

§ 9. Collector of Taxes; Chief of Police The Collector of Taxes shall, by virtue of the office, be the Chief of Police of the Village of Westminster, and as such shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of duties and shall cause the oath of office to be recorded by the Clerk. The…