Title 24APPENDIX, MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

§ 93. Petition for Court hearing on compensation and damages for land taken When any person shall be dissatisfied with award of the electric light commissioners so made in any of the cases mentioned in the preceding section, such person may petition the Windsor County Court for a…

§ 94. Bonding for constructing electric light system Said Village by a majority vote at a meeting legally warned for such purpose is authorized to issue bonds not exceeding $40,000.00 on such terms as said Village shall prescribe for the purpose of paying the debt incurred in pur…

§ 95. Management of electric power plant The said Board of Electric Light Commissioners shall have the authority to control, manage, and operate the electric light plant now or hereafter owned by said Village. Said Board shall have the care and management of all property pertaini…

§ 96. Electric rates; liens The rates and rents for the use of said electric light plant and the appurtenances thereof established by the said Board of Electric Light Commissioners shall be chargeable to and may be collected of the owners of the property so supplied with electric…

§ 97. Meters A person supplied with electric light or power may, by a notice in writing, delivered to one of said Board, request the testing of the meter used to measure the electric power used by him or her or another. Said Board, upon receipt of such request, shall cause the me…

§ 98. Electric Department finances It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of said Village to keep separate accounts of all monies received from the Electric Light Department and the rates and receipts of said Village for the use of electric light power shall be applied first to pa…

§ 1. Village boundaries and establishment of body politic All estate in the Town of Manchester, included in the following boundaries, is hereby incorporated and shall hereafter be known as the Village of Manchester: (1) Being all that part of the Town of Manchester in the County …

§ 10. Fire Department; Chief Engineer The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department and the Chief’s assistants shall be ex officio fire wardens of the Village, and the duties of the Engineer shall be those as may be prescribed by the bylaws, ordinances, and regulations of the Village…

§ 11. Building Inspector Within the Village limits, the Building Inspector shall have authority to oversee the location and construction of all buildings, and all repairs on buildings already constructed, and shall oversee the construction and repair of elevators, oil storage tan…

§ 12. Trustee meetings The trustees shall meet regularly at suitable times to enact ordinances and to transact any and all other proper business, and at those meetings shall give audience to all complaints and protests. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 12.)

§ 13. Ordinances (a) No ordinance passed by the trustees shall be enforceable until notice thereof has been posted in four public places, within the bounds of the Village, for a period of two weeks and published twice within the period of two weeks in a newspaper printed in the V…

§ 14. Village as Town highway district (a) All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Manchester, and the Selectboard of the Town shall, on or before the first day of September of each year, draw an order on…

§ 15. Village trustees; license granting authority The trustees of the Village shall have the same power of granting licenses and vacating the same within the limits of the Village, agreeably to the bylaws, ordinances, and regulations that the selectboard has by law. (Added 1943,…

§ 16. Village taxing authority on ratable estate (a) The Village may, at any annual meeting or special meeting called for that purpose, as hereinbefore provided, lay a tax upon the ratable estate within the Village, whether of residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes he…

§ 17. Borrowing funds The Village at any annual meeting, or any special meeting called for that purpose, is authorized and empowered to vote to borrow money for any of the purposes herein mentioned, and to issue its orders therefor, which orders shall be signed by the trustees an…

§ 18. Abatement of taxes; remittance of fines or forfeitures The trustees of the Village shall have power to abate taxes paid or assessed by virtue of this charter, to remit fines or forfeitures imposed for violation of this charter or bylaws, ordinances, or regulations of the Vi…

§ 19. Conflict of interest No person being a resident or taxpayer of the Village shall thereby be deemed disqualified to act as judge, justice, juror, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or police officer in any matter, cause, or proceeding in which the Village shall be intereste…

§ 2. Alteration of Village boundaries The inhabitants of the Village may alter the bounds of the Village with the written consent of the persons owning real estate that will be included or excluded thereby, the written consent and alteration being first recorded in the office of …

§ 20. Imposition of fines and forfeitures (a) Fines, penalties, and forfeitures up to and including $200.00 for each breach of an ordinance or bylaw may be established by the trustees or by a properly warned Village meeting. (b) The fines, penalties, and forfeitures may be recove…

§ 21. Violations of Village ordinances Violations of the Village ordinances and bylaws may be prosecuted in behalf of the Village by its Attorney or police officers or by any other duly authorized prosecuting officer before the Bennington Municipal Court or before a justice of th…

§ 22. Village Manager The Village may at a properly warned Village meeting vote to accept a Village Manager, who shall have the same power and be subject to the same liabilities as town managers as provided by the laws of the State. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 22.)

§ 23. Aqueducts and reservoirs (a) The corporation may purchase, construct, and maintain the aqueducts and reservoirs and build and lay the pipes and conduits as may be required for the purpose of furnishing the Village with suitable protection from fire, and for sewer purposes a…

§ 24. Sewer and sewage system (a) The legal voters of the Village at a meeting duly warned and held for that purpose may vote to construct and maintain for the benefit of the Village a common sewer or a sewerage system and extend the same through the highways, streets, and lanes …

§ 25. Street lights and gas or electric plants The Village may light its streets in the way as it may determine, and may construct, own, and maintain gas or electric plants for lighting them, and furnishing its inhabitants with light and power, and for this purpose, may purchase …

§ 26. Property of Village under former charter The property belonging to the Village of Manchester under its previous chapter and owned by it at the time of the taking effect of this charter shall vest in the Village of Manchester hereby constituted, and the Village shall be held…

§ 27. [Transitional provision related to repeal of former charter as amended.] (Added 1943, No. 183, § 27.)

§ 28. [Transitional provision related to acceptance of charter by section and subdivision.] (Added 1943, No. 183, § 28.)

§ 29. [Transitional provision related to Village officers serving at time the new charter takes effect.] (Added 1943, No. 183, § 29.)

§ 3. Powers of Village; general authority The Village shall have and is hereby granted the authority to exercise all powers relating to municipal affairs and no enumeration of powers in this chapter shall be deemed to limit or restrict the general grant of authority hereby confer…

§ 30. [Transitional provision relating to the effective date of sections 28 and 29.] (Added 1943, No. 183, § 30.)

§ 4. Village powers; specific authority The generality of the preceding section and the grant of powers therein made, but as a more specific designation of some of the powers conferred upon the Village, the Village of Manchester has authority: (1) To levy, assess, and collect tax…

§ 5. Village meetings (a) The annual meetings of the Village shall be on the second Monday of July in each year at the place within the Village and at the hour as may be named in the warning therefor for the purpose of electing the officers hereinafter named, and for the purpose …

§ 6. Election of Village officials (a) At the annual meeting to be held on the second Monday of July, the Village shall, by ballot, if called for by three or more legal voters in the meeting, elect for the ensuing year, and, until their successors are chosen; a President, who sha…

§ 7. Village Clerk The Clerk shall keep records of all Village meetings, all trustees meetings when requested so to do, and other proceedings of the Village. The ordinances and regulations of the Village shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk, and the Clerk’s certificate th…

§ 8. Village trustees; powers (a) The trustees shall have the same powers to lay out, alter, and discontinue streets and highways in the Village as are vested by law in the selectboard of towns, and all proceedings in respect to laying out, altering, or discontinuing streets and …

§ 9. Village trustees; appointments The trustees shall have authority to appoint annually and to prescribe the duties of a Chief of Police and police officers; of a Chief Engineer and the assistant engineers of the Fire Department; of the superintendents of the Village department…

§ 1. Applicability (a) When approved by a majority of the legal voters of the Village of Morrisville present and voting by Australian ballot at an annual meeting duly warned for that purpose, the following shall be the charter of the Village of Morrisville. (b) This charter may b…

§ 10. Duties of Treasurer (a) The Treasurer shall perform the duties required by State statute or this charter. The Treasurer shall: (1) promptly deposit all funds coming into his or her hands in such depositories as may be designated by the trustees; (2) invest funds as directed…

§ 11. Village Clerk (a) The Clerk shall keep an official record of the proceedings of the Board of Trustees. The records shall be kept in the office of the Village Clerk and shall be open for public inspection. The Clerk shall keep the official record of the proceedings of all sp…

§ 12. Moderator The Moderator shall preside at all annual and special meetings of the Village, shall decide questions of order, and make public declarations of votes passed. The Moderator shall have and exercise the same powers and duties with respect to the Village that Moderato…

§ 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 …