Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 8. Village Clerk; recording of rules and ordinances (a) The Clerk shall keep a record of all called Village meetings of the Village trustees; shall perform the usual duties of a clerk; shall have the same power and be subject to the same liabilities as are prescribed by law for…

§ 9. Village Treasurer The Village Treasurer shall discharge the usual duties of such office and shall have the same power and be subject to the same liabilities as are prescribed by law for town treasurers. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 9.)

§ 1. Boundaries; body politic The inhabitants of all that part of the Town of Westminster in the County of Windham, enclosed in the following boundaries, to wit: Commencing at the northeast corner of the farm of Frank H. Farr, on the west bank of the Connecticut River, thence wes…

§ 10. Prosecutions Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this act or the provisions of any act or bylaw of the Village of Westminster, made in pursuance of this act may be commenced before any justice of the peace of the County of Windham, and all fines and costs impose…

§ 11. Water; light; sidewalks The corporation is empowered to contract for water for extinguishing fires, and for that purpose may build and maintain its own system therefor or employ such other means as may be determined upon and may contract for lights for lighting the streets …

§ 12. Annual and special meeting (a) The annual meeting of the corporation for the selection of officers and for the transaction of any business specified in the warning of the meeting shall be held in the Village of Westminster on the first Tuesday in April in each year. (b) If …

§ 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…

§ 1. Village boundaries; residents; Town inhabitants (a) That part of the Town of Woodstock, in the County of Windsor, beginning at a stone post standing on the easterly side of the highway leading from the Village of Woodstock to Taftsville, and distant about 70 rods from the pr…

§ 10. Hiring of money The Village of Woodstock shall have authority to hire money from time to time for the purposes of carrying into effect the object of this charter and for other legal purposes of the Village.

§ 11. Contract with aqueduct company (a) The Village of Woodstock is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with the Woodstock Aqueduct Company, or any other aqueduct company, from time to time, for supplying the Village with water for fire purposes, for watering the streets…

§ 12. Construction; sidewalks; sewers; drains The Village shall have the right to construct sidewalks, sewers, and drains within the limits of the Village and make such bylaws and regulations in respect thereto as the Village shall think best, not inconsistent with the laws of th…

§ 13. Highway district; construction agents (a) The Village of Woodstock shall constitute a highway district, by itself, and the construction and repairs of the highways and sidewalks, within the limits of the Village, shall be under the direction of the trustees of the Village. …

§ 14. Highway taxes Two-thirds of the highway taxes assessed by the Selectboard, or voted by the Town, upon the grand list of the inhabitants of the Village, and upon the ratable estate of nonresidents situated within the limits of the Village, shall be paid by the Treasurer or t…

§ 15. Sewer system (a) The Village shall have power to establish a system of sewerage. (b) The Village may take all real estate, right-of-way, or any other interest in real estate, required for the construction of such system of sewerage, having first notified the owner thereof o…

§ 16. Legislative authority The Legislature of this State reserves the power hereafter to alter, amend, or repeal this charter.

§ 2. Corporate existence; assessment (a) The inhabitants residing in the Village are hereby constituted a body, politic and corporate, by the name of the Village of Woodstock and by that name shall have succession, and may commence, prosecute, and defend suits or actions in all c…

§ 3. Annual meeting; election of officers A meeting of the inhabitants shall be held annually on the third Tuesday in March for the purpose of electing a Clerk, five trustees, a Treasurer, and a Collector of Taxes, and for the transaction of any business specified in the warning …

§ 4. Election of officers; enactment of bylaws The Village may elect such officers and enact such bylaws not repugnant of the laws of this State, as the public interests of the Village may require.

§ 5. Breach of bylaws; fines and forfeitures The corporation shall have power to assess fines and forfeitures for the breach of any of its bylaws; not exceeding $25.00 for any one offence, to be prosecuted; and recovered by actions of debt, before any justice of peace in the Vill…

§ 6. Clerk; Treasurer; Collector The Clerk, Treasurer, and Collector shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their respective offices; and the Treasurer and Collector shall give bonds, with sureties, to the corporation, in such sum as the trustees shall direct f…

§ 7. Clerk; duties The Clerk shall keep records of all proceedings of the corporation, and give copies of the same when required, and may receive such fees as town clerks are entitled to receive for like services. The Clerk shall also warn meetings of the corporation, both annual…

§ 8. Trustees; duties It shall be the duty of the trustees to make out and deliver to the Collector an assessment or rate bill of all taxes that shall be laid by the corporation; to see that all the bylaws of the corporation are duly executed; and to direct all prosecutions for a…

§ 9. Fire wardens The fire wardens of the Village of Woodstock, and such persons as shall, pursuant to the bylaws of the Village, be elected fire wardens, and having with them some distinguishing badge of their office, designated by such bylaws, may, in times of fire, demand and …

§ 1. Creation Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. chapter 121, subchapter 3, and upon approval of at least two voting municipalities, a union municipal district to be known as the “Addison County Solid Waste Management District” (the “District”), which shall be a body politic and corporate, sh…

§ 10. Organizational meeting Annually, on the second Thursday in April commencing in 1989, the Board of Supervisors shall hold its organizational meeting. At such meeting, the Board of Supervisors shall elect from among its membership a Chair and a Vice Chair, each of whom shall …

§ 11. Regular meeting A schedule of regular meetings of the Board of Supervisors shall be established at the organizational meeting.

§ 12. Special meetings Special meetings of the Board of Supervisors may be called at any time by the Chair or shall be called by the Clerk upon written request of a majority of the members of the Board of Supervisors. Except in case of emergency, each member of the Board of Super…

§ 13. Quorum For the purpose of transacting business, the presence of 50 percent of the municipal representatives to the Board of Supervisors shall constitute a quorum. However, a smaller number may adjourn to another date. The entire number of regular representatives to be appoi…

§ 14. Voting Each representative in attendance at a meeting of the Board of Supervisors at which a quorum is present shall cast one vote for every 2,500 population, or part thereof, in the municipality that he or she represents. If a representative is unable to attend, the munici…

§ 15. Term All representatives and alternate representatives to the Board of Supervisors shall hold office for one year or until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. Any representative may be reappointed to successive terms without limit.

§ 16. Vacancy Any vacancy on the Board of Supervisors or in an alternate representative position shall be filled within 30 days after such vacancy occurs by the legislative body of the member municipality that appointed the representative or alternate whose position has become va…

§ 17. Rules of procedures Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, Robert’s Rules of Order shall govern at all meetings.

§ 18. Compensation of members of Board of Supervisors Each member municipality shall pay to its representative to the Board of Supervisors such reimbursement or expenses as it shall determine reasonable.

§ 19. Officers The officers of the District shall be the Chair and the Vice Chair of the Board of Supervisors, the Clerk of the District, and the Treasurer of the District. The offices of the Clerk of the District and the Treasurer of the District may be held by one person. No ot…

§ 2. Purpose The District is created and shall exist for the purpose of providing a comprehensive system for managing solid waste generated within the member municipalities. The principal elements of the management system may include collection, transportation, processing, citize…