Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 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…

§ 1. Corporate body politic; boundaries The ratable estate, included within the limits of School District Number Seven, in Enosburgh, in the County of Franklin, and all other estate therein included, is hereby incorporated and shall hereafter be known by the name of the Village o…

§ 10. Grand list; taxes; assessment and collection The corporation may, at any annual or special meeting called for that purpose, as hereinbefore provided, lay a tax on the grand list of the Town of the inhabitants of the Village, and upon the ratable estate within the same belon…

§ 11. Village residents; office holders; legal proceedings The inhabitants of the Village shall belong to and remain inhabitants of the Town of Enosburgh, and no member of the Village corporation shall be deemed thereby incompetent to act as judge, justice of the peace, juror, sh…

§ 12. Trustees; duties The trustees shall keep a full and true record of all orders drawn and expenditures made by them, and no money shall be paid out of the treasury except upon their order, and the Village may appoint one or more auditors to audit and settle the accounts of an…

§ 13. [Transitional provision relating to the Village’s approval of the charter] (Added 1886, No. 195, § 13.)

§ 14. Water supply; powers; eminent domain The Village of Enosburg Falls shall have and exercise the following powers and functions: to provide a supply of water for protection of the Village against fire, and for the use of the inhabitants of the Village, and for other purposes;…

§ 15. Water supply; takings When the Village shall vote, in a meeting duly warned for that purpose, to provide itself with a water supply, the trustees of the Village shall proceed to acquire the same, and if the owner of any pond, spring, stream, water source, water right, land,…

§ 16. Orders; recordation Orders and proceedings of the Selectboard, under the provisions of section 15 of this charter, be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Town in which the property against which the orders are directed is located. (Added 1890, No. 87, § 3; amended 19…

§ 17. Damage award; appeal If the owner of the pond, spring, stream, water source, water right, land, or easement in or over lands does not accept the damage awarded by the Selectboard, then the Village trustees may agree with the owner to refer the question of damages to one or …

§ 18. Judicial review If a person having an interest in a pond, spring, stream, water source, water right, land, or easement in or over lands is dissatisfied with the action of the Selectboard, either as to the necessity for taking or with the damages awarded therefor by it, he o…

§ 19. Applicability of State law To the extent not otherwise inconsistent with this charter, the provisions of Title 24, chapters 95 through 105, inclusive, shall apply. (Added 1890, No. 87, § 1; amended 1923 No. 197, § 6; 2007, No. M-22 (Adj. Sess.), § 8, eff. May 19, 2008.)

§ 2. Annual meeting The annual meeting of the corporation shall be held each year on the date, at the time, and at the location as the Village trustees may determine. Notice of which shall be posted at three public places in the Village, at least 10 days previous to the meeting, …

§ 20. Bylaws; water The Village may, at any legally warned meeting, enact and adopt bylaws and regulations concerning the management and use of an aqueduct, reservoirs, and appurtenances, not inconsistent with law, as it may deem expedient, including the fixing and collecting of …

§ 21. Malicious disturbance or interference Any person who shall maliciously disturb or injure the aqueduct, reservoirs, springs, stream, pond, or fountains, or any of the connecting appurtenances, enclosures, or works thereof, or pollute the waters of the aqueduct, reservoirs, s…

§ 22. Water rights; leasing and selling The Village may, at any legally warned meeting, authorize the water commissioners to lease, dispose of, or sell upon terms fixed by the meeting, to any person, partnership, or body corporate, or other company, any part or all of the rights …

§ 23. Sewers and drains; construction and maintenance Whenever the public health or convenience shall require the construction of a common sewer or main drain in the Village of Enosburg Falls, the trustees of the Village, upon the application in writing of five percent or more fr…

§ 24. Sewers and drains; condemnation The Village may take the land of individuals and corporations on making compensation for the lands so taken; and the trustees shall proceed in the same manner as is prescribed by law for selectboard members in taking land for public highways …

§ 25. Sewer and drains; condemnation; appeal (a) When any person shall be dissatisfied with the decision of the trustees in the award for damages for land taken for a sewer or main drain, or in any assessment for contribution for the same, the person may appeal by petition to the…

§ 26. Sewers and drains; assessment (a) Every person whose particular drain shall enter into any sewer or main drain or who in the opinion of the trustees shall receive benefit thereby for draining the person’s premises, including all owners of buildings, lands, or premises adjac…

§ 27. Sewer and drains; abutting landowners Whenever in the judgment of the trustees, the public health, convenience, or sanitary condition of the Village renders it necessary, the Village may require any abutting or adjacent property holder to construct a suitable sewer or drain…

§ 28. Electric light plant; purchase; operation The incorporated Village of Enosburg Falls is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, purchase, own, construct, maintain, and operate plants for generating of electricity, transmission and distribution lines, or any or all of su…

§ 29. Electric light plant; damages In the event the Village and any owner of land over which it may be desirable to pass with the poles and wires of a plant or that the Village may need for the operation of the plant cannot agree upon the damages to be paid to the owner for the …

§ 3. Officers (a) At every annual meeting, the corporation shall, by ballot, if called for, elect for the ensuing year, and until their successors shall be chosen, a Moderator, who shall preside at all meetings of the corporation, with the powers of a moderator at town meetings; …

§ 30. Malicious disturbance or interference Any person who shall maliciously interfere with or injure the electric light wires, lamps, connections, or appurtenances shall be liable to be prosecuted therefor by the Grand Juror of the Town or the State’s Attorney of the county wher…

§ 31. Electric and gas plants; bonding When authorized by a majority of all the voters voting at a regular or special meeting of the Village, the Village may issue and sell its negotiable bonds to an amount not exceeding the amount authorized by the meeting for the purpose of pur…

§ 32. Village indebtedness Any bonds issued for the purposes herein specified shall not be taken into account in determining the amount of the indebtedness that the Village is permitted to incur. (Added 1935, No. 247, § 3.)

§ 33. Borrowing; authorization The Village is also authorized and empowered to borrow money from time to time as may be necessary to enable it to carry on and complete the work and for paying current indebtedness incurred in connection with its electric plant, transmission, and d…

§ 34. Bonds; denominations The trustees of the Village shall determine the denomination of the bonds, the rate of interest, the time and place of payment, and the form of such bond to be used. When such bonds are to be registered, they shall be registered in the manner as prescri…

§ 35. Bonds; authorization Each of the bonds shall be signed by the trustees of the Village and countersigned by the Treasurer. The bonds shall contain on the face thereof a statement of the authority conferred by this chapter and of the vote of the Village authorizing the issue …

§ 36. Legislative authority This chapter shall always be under the control of the Legislature to alter, amend, or repeal as the public good may require. (Added 1886, No. 195, § 14.)

§ 4. Board of Trustees (a) There shall be a Board of five Trustees to manage the affairs of the corporation with the necessary powers for that purpose to exercise such general powers of their office within the Village limits as are applicable to the selectboard in town affairs as…

§ 5. Highway taxes; expenditure (a) The trustees of the corporation shall have power to direct the expenditure of all the highway taxes assessed upon the grand list of the inhabitants of the Village, and upon the ratable estate belonging to nonresidents, situated within the bound…

§ 9. Corporate powers The corporation may purchase, hold, and convey any real estate, and erect and keep in repair any building necessary for their purposes; may construct, maintain, or purchase such aqueducts and reservoirs as they may judge best; may make bylaws regulating zoni…

§ 1. Authority of citizens All governmental authority of the Village of Hyde Park rests with the citizens of the Village, who exercise their powers in Village meeting, and to whom the elected and appointed officers of the Village are ultimately responsible. (Added 1999, No. M-11 …

§ 111. Ordinances (a) Village legislation shall be by ordinance adopted pursuant to 24 V.S.A. chapter 59. (b) The Village Clerk shall prepare and keep in the Village Clerk’s office a book of ordinances that shall contain each Village ordinance, together with a complete index of t…

§ 112. Compensation and fees (a) The Village meeting may annually vote the compensation to be paid to the following officers: (1) Trustees. (2) Auditors. (3) President. (4) Board of Civil Authority and Abatement. (b) All fees prescribed by State law, charter, ordinance, or otherw…