Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 19. Compensation of members of Board of Supervisors Each member municipality may pay to its representatives to the Board of Supervisors such reimbursement of expenses as it may determine reasonable. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)

§ 2. Purpose The District is created and shall exist for the purpose of providing for the efficient, economical, and environmentally sound resource recovery, waste reduction, recycling, or disposal of solid waste generated by member municipalities and their residents. (Amended 20…

§ 20. Officers The officers of the District shall be the Chair and the Vice Chair of the Board of Supervisors, the Clerk to the District, and the Treasurer of the District.

§ 21. Bond Prior to assuming their offices, all officers shall post bond in such amounts as shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Supervisors. The cost of such bond shall be borne by the District.

§ 22. Chair The Chair of the Board of Supervisors shall be the chief executive officer of the District. The Chair shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Supervisors and shall authorize all contracts on behalf of the District upon approval by the Board of Supervisors. The C…

§ 23. Vice Chair During the absence of or inability of the Chair to render or perform his or her duties or exercise his or her powers, the same shall be performed and exercised by the Vice Chair and when so acting the Vice Chair shall have all the powers and be subject to all the…

§ 24. Vacancy During the absence or inability of the Vice Chairperson to render or perform his or her duties or exercise his or her powers, the Board of Supervisors shall elect from among its membership an acting Vice Chairperson who shall have the powers and be subject to all th…

§ 25. Clerk The Clerk of the District shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors, and shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Supervisors. The Clerk shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the public records of the District and the Seal of the District. The Clerk s…

§ 26. Treasurer The Treasurer of the District shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors. The Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Supervisors, may appoint an Assistant Treasurer. When authorized by the Board of Supervisors, the Treasurer shall sign, make, or endorse …

§ 26a. Grand juror The Board of Supervisors may appoint a grand juror who shall inquire into any person’s offenses under the District’s regulations or applicable law and present them to the proper authority. If the Attorney General or a State’s Attorney is unwilling to prosecute …

§ 27. Records The conduct of all meetings and public access thereto and the maintaining of all records, books, and accounts of the District shall be governed by the laws of this State relating to open meetings and accessibility of public records.

§ 28. Audit The Board of Supervisors shall cause an audit to be performed annually by an independent professional accounting firm or a certified public accountant.

§ 29. Executive Board The Board of Supervisors shall have the authority to establish an Executive Board and grant such powers as it may deem necessary.

§ 3. Composition The District is composed of and includes all of the lands and residents within those municipalities that vote to approve this chapter at the time of its creation, and such other municipalities as are subsequently admitted to the District as provided in this chapt…

§ 30. Committees The Board of Supervisors shall have the authority to establish any and all committees as it may deem necessary.

§ 31. Compensation of officers Officers of the District may be paid such compensation or reimbursement of expenses, or both, as may be determined by the Board of Supervisors. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)

§ 32. Recall of officers An officer may be removed by a two-thirds vote of the Board of Supervisors whenever, in its judgment, the best interest of the District will be served. For this action, each member of the Board of Supervisors shall cast one vote.

§ 33a. Delegation to District staff If the Board of Supervisors authorizes, the District may delegate duties to the District staff when necessary and appropriate to aid the officers. (Added 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)

§ 34. Fiscal year The fiscal year of the District shall commence on July 1 and end on June 30 of each year.

§ 35. Budget appropriation and assessment (a) Proposed Budget. Annually on or before the 15th day of December, the Board of Supervisors shall establish the per capita assessment to be paid by each member municipality for the next succeeding fiscal year and therefor shall approve …

§ 36. Collection Annually, on or before January 1, the Treasurer of the District shall issue and present a warrant to the legislative branch of each member municipality requiring the amount of such assessment be paid to the District in accordance with the schedule of payments ado…

§ 37. Limitations of appropriations Actions or resolutions of the Board of Supervisors for the annual appropriations of any year may not cease to be operative at the end of the fiscal year for which they were adopted, except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Vermo…

§ 38. Indebtedness (a) Short-term borrowing. The Board of Supervisors may borrow money through the issuance of notes of the District for the purpose of paying current expenses of the District. Such notes must mature within one year. The Board of Supervisors may also borrow money …

§ 39. Sinking fund The Board of Supervisors may establish and provide for a sinking fund, however denominated, for the retirement of bond issue or other debt, or to provide security for its payment. When so established, it may be kept intact and separate from other monies at the …

§ 4. Duration The District shall continue as a body politic and corporate unless and until dissolved according to the procedures set forth in this chapter.

§ 40. Capital reserve fund The Board of Supervisors shall establish and provide for a capital reserve fund to pay for public improvements, replacement of worn out buildings and equipment, and planned and unplanned major repairs of a disposal facility, in furtherance of the purpos…

§ 41. Disposal fees The Board of Supervisors may from time to time establish and adjust a disposal fee structure (tipping fee) for the purpose of generating revenues from sources other than assessments to member municipalities, particularly concerning the operation and maintenanc…

§ 42. Special meetings The Board of Supervisors may call a special meeting of the District when it deems it necessary or prudent to do so and shall call a special meeting of the District when action by the voters of the District is necessary under this chapter or under any applic…

§ 43. Places of meetings At any special meeting of the District, voters of each member municipality shall cast their ballots at such polling places within the municipality of their residence as shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors of the District in cooperation with th…

§ 44. Public hearings Not less than three nor more than 14 days prior to any special meeting called by the Board of Supervisors, at least one public hearing shall be held by the Board of Supervisors at which time the issues under consideration shall be presented and comments rece…

§ 45. Warnings required The Board of Supervisors of the District shall warn a special meeting of the District by filing a notice with the clerk of each member municipality and by posting a notice in at least five public places in each municipality in the District not less than 30…

§ 46. Signing of warning The original warning of any special meeting of the District shall be signed by a number of the Board of Supervisors equal to a majority of the total votes entitled to be cast and shall be filed with the District Clerk before being posted.

§ 47. Warning contents The posted notification shall include the date, time, place, and nature of the meeting. It shall, by separate articles, specifically indicate the business to be transacted and the questions to be voted upon. The warning also shall contain any article reques…

§ 48. Australian ballot The Australian ballot system shall be used at all special meetings of the District when voting is to take place.

§ 49. Qualifications and registration of voters All legal voters of the member municipalities shall be legal voters of the District. The member municipalities shall post and revise checklists in the same manner as for municipal meetings prior to any District meeting at which ther…

§ 5. Powers Except as otherwise provided or limited in this chapter, the District shall have the following powers: (1) Except as provided in section 6 of this chapter, to operate, cause to be operated, or contract, or any combination of these, for the operation of any and all fac…

§ 50. Conduct of meetings At all special meetings of the District, the provisions of 17 V.S.A. chapter 51 regarding election officials (subchapter 1), voting machines (subchapter 3), polling places (subchapter 4), absent voters (subchapter 6), process of voting (subchapter 7), co…

§ 51. Reconsideration or rescission of vote (a) A question voted on at any special meeting of the District shall not be submitted to the voters for reconsideration or rescission, except at a subsequent special meeting duly warned for that purpose, and called by the Board of Super…

§ 52. Validation of District meetings When any of the requirements as to notice or warning of a special District meeting have been omitted or not complied with, the omission or noncompliance, if the meeting and the business transacted at it is otherwise legal and within the scope…

§ 53. Priority When a special meeting of the District is called to act upon a proposition to incur bonded or other indebtedness, the special meeting procedures outlined in subchapter 4 of this chapter shall control over the meeting procedures outlined in this subchapter in the ev…

§ 54. Withdrawal of member municipality A member municipality may withdraw from the District upon the following terms and conditions: (1) Withdrawal prior to the District incurring bonded indebtedness or entering long-term contracts. (A) The Board of Supervisors shall not enter i…

§ 55. Admission of new member municipalities The Board of Supervisors may authorize the inclusion of additional member municipalities in the District upon such terms and conditions as it in its sole discretion shall deem to be fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of the Di…

§ 56. Dissolution of District (a) Procedure. If the Board of Supervisors by resolution approved by two-thirds of all the votes entitled to be cast determines that it is in the best interests of the public, the member municipalities, and the District that the District be dissolved…

§ 57. Amendment of chapter This chapter may be amended by petition of five percent of the voters of the District under the provisions of subchapter 5 of this chapter or by the Board of Supervisors under this section. The Board of Supervisors may, by a majority vote, adopt a resol…

§ 58. Severability Should any court of competent jurisdiction judge any term, phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this chapter to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, such judgment shall not affect the validity, legality, or enforceability of this chapter a…

§ 59. Definitions As used in this chapter: (1) “Solid waste” shall have the same meaning as set forth in 10 V.S.A. § 6602. (2) “Solid waste from residential activities” includes any solid waste generated by a household or apartment, including, food waste, packaging, newspaper, an…