Title 24APPENDIX, MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

§ 22. Powers of trustees; general 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 gener…

§ 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]

§ 1001. [Transitional provision related to current Board of Trustees.]

§ 1002. [Amendment and repeal of charter] This charter shall be subject to future legislation to alter, amend, or repeal.

§ 101. Boundaries and corporate existence All that portion of the Town of Derby in the County of Orleans, enclosed within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the covered highway bridge crossing Clyde River near Carpenter’s grist mill, and running easterly up the north …

§ 201. Convening of annual meeting The annual meetings of the Village shall be held on the first Tuesday in April in each year at such hour as the notice mentioned in this section shall state, in the Town Hall in the Village, or at such other time and place as the Village shall a…

§ 202. Election of officers at the annual meeting At the annual meeting of said corporation, there shall be elected, by ballot if called for, for the ensuing year and until their successors are chosen, a Moderator, who shall preside at all meetings of said corporation, with power…

§ 301. 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 Center and through the principal streets of the Village, the Trustees of the Village, upo…

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

§ 401. Appointment of 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, whic…

§ 402. Duties, compensation, and terms of police officers The trustees may specify their duties as watchmen and patrols and agree with them for their compensation, which shall be paid by the the Village. Each of the police shall be sworn; shall have the same powers within the lim…

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

§ 502. Fines for violations of bylaws and ordinances The Village may impose a fine or forfeiture not exceeding $100.00 for the violation of any bylaw or ordinance. The penalty may be recovered in an action on the case upon this statute, in the name of the Village, in which action…

§ 601. 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…

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

§ 702. Assessment of tax The 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 in the Village for any of the purposes mentioned in this charter and shall have all the powers, and may …

§ 703. 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.

§ 704. 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 which …

§ 801. Borrowing authority The Village at an annual or at any special meeting called for that purpose is authorized and empowered to vote to borrow money for any of the purposes mentioned in this charter, and to issue its notes and bonds, and the notes or bonds shall be signed by…

§ 901. Authority to construct electric light plant The Village shall also have authority to construct an electric light plant for the purpose of lighting the streets, walks, and public grounds of the Village, and lighting any buildings in the Village, and, for this purpose, may t…

§ 902. Assessing damages In the event that the Village and any owner of land over which it may be desirable to pass with the poles and wires of the plants, or of land, water power, or rights-of-way, which it may need for the construction and operation of the plant, cannot agree u…

§ 903. Authority to issue bonds for electric light plant The Village shall be authorized to issue bonds, not exceeding seven thousand dollars, on such terms as said Village may prescribe, for the purpose of constructing and operating the electric light plant provided for in this …

§ 904. Management of electric light plant The management and operation of the electric light plant provided for in this charter shall be vested in the Village Board of Trustees, under such bylaws and regulations as the Village at any legal meeting may enact and adopt, and the Vil…

§ 1001. Bonding authority Said Village at an annual or at any special meeting called for that purpose is hereby authorized and empowered to vote to borrow money for any of the purposes herein mentioned, and to issue its notes and bonds therefor, and such notes or bonds shall be s…

§ 101. Boundaries and corporate existence All that portion of the Town of Derby in the County of Orleans, enclosed within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the national boundary line post on the highway leading from A. P. Ball’s to Hiram Todd’s and thence along said …

§ 1101. [Transitional provision relating to present board of officers]