Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 306. Clerk The Clerk of the District shall be appointed by the Board. The Clerk, with the approval of the Board, may appoint an Assistant Clerk. Neither the Clerk nor the Assistant Clerk may be a supervisor. The Clerk shall have charge and custody of the public records of the D…

§ 307. Treasurer The Treasurer of the District shall be appointed by the Board. The Treasurer, with the approval of the Board, may appoint an Assistant Treasurer. Neither the Treasurer nor the Assistant Treasurer may be a supervisor. The Treasurer shall have the custody of the fu…

§ 308. Grand Juror The Board 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 the State’s Attorney is unwilling to prosecute such offenses…

§ 309. Open meetings and public records The conduct of all meetings and the maintenance of all records of the District and the Board shall be governed by the laws of this State relating to open meetings and accessibility of public records.

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

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

§ 312. Compensation of officers Officers of the District shall be paid such compensation or reimbursement of expenses, or both, as shall be determined by the Board.

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

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

§ 402. Budget appropriation and assessment (a) Proposed budget. Annually on or before November 1, the Board shall approve and cause to be distributed to the legislative body of each member municipality for review and comment an annual report of its activities, including a financi…

§ 403. Collection Annually on or before February 1, the Treasurer shall issue and present a warrant to the legislative body of each member requiring that the amount of such assessment be paid beginning not sooner than July in accordance with the schedule of payments adopted by th…

§ 404. Limitations of appropriations Appropriations made by the Board for the various estimates of the budget as defined in section 402 of this chapter above shall be expended only for such estimates; however, by majority vote of the Board, the budget may be amended from time to …

§ 405. Indebtedness (a) Short-term borrowing. The Board 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 may also borrow money in anticipation of assessment…

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

§ 407. Capital reserve fund The Board may establish and provide for a capital reserve fund to pay for public improvements, replacement of worn out buildings and equipment, and major repairs of District facilities. Any such capital reserve fund shall be kept in a separate account …

§ 408. Disposal fees (a) Giving due consideration to the fact that State policy, as established in 10 V.S.A. § 6601, provides that the generators of waste should pay disposal costs that reflect the real costs to society of waste management and disposal, the Board may establish an…

§ 501. Special District meetings The Board may on its own motion call special meetings of the District and shall call a special meeting of the District when action by the voters of the District is required. The Board shall call a special meeting of the District if petitioned to d…

§ 502. Places of meetings At any special meeting of the District, voters of each member shall cast their ballots at such polling places within the municipality of their residence as shall be determined by the Board in consultation with the board of civil authority of each municip…

§ 503. Public hearings Not less than 30 nor more than 40 days prior to any special meeting of the District, the Board shall hold at least one public hearing at which the issues to be voted upon at the special meeting shall be presented for public comment. Notice of such public he…

§ 504. Warnings required The Board of the District shall warn a special meeting of the District by filing a notice with the Clerk of each member and by posting or causing to be posted a notice in at least three public places in each municipality in the District not less than 30 n…

§ 505. Signing of warning The original warning of any special meeting of the District shall be signed by the Clerk and Chairperson of the Board.

§ 506. Warning contents The posted notification shall include the date, time, place, and nature of the meeting. It shall, by separate articles, specifically indicate the questions to be voted upon.

§ 507. Australian ballot The Australian ballot system shall be used at all special meetings of the District.

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

§ 509. 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), c…

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

§ 511. 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, if the meeting and the business transacted is otherwise legal, the omission or noncompliance may be corrected and lega…

§ 512. Priority When a special meeting of the District is called to act to incur bonded or other indebtedness or to enter into a long-term contract, and the meeting procedures in this chapter conflict with the procedures in subchapter 4, the procedures in subchapter 4 shall preva…

§ 601. Withdrawal of a municipality (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, a member municipality may vote to withdraw from this chapter in the same manner as it votes to adopt the chapter if one year has elapsed since the District has become a body polit…

§ 602. Admission of additional municipalities The Board, by the affirmative vote of supervisors representing at least two-thirds of all votes entitled to be cast on behalf of all members and comprising at least two-thirds of all possible supervisors (including vacancies), may aut…

§ 603. Dissolution of the District (a) Upon the affirmative vote of supervisors representing at least two-thirds of all votes entitled to be cast on behalf of all members and comprising at least two-thirds of the supervisors present, the Board may prepare a plan of dissolution fo…

§ 604. Amendment of the District agreement This chapter may be amended by the voters of the District in the manner prescribed for petitions under subchapter 5 of this chapter, or by the Board under this section. The Board at any regular or special meeting may adopt a resolution e…

§ 605. Seal The District shall have a seal designed as the Board requires.

§ 606. Extramunicipal waste No member may dispose of solid waste from outside its geographical limits without the prior approval of the Board.

§ 607. 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 the chapter a…

§ 101. Creation and name In accordance with the provisions of 24 V.S.A. chapter 121, subchapter 3, there is hereby created a union municipal district that shall be known as the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District at a place designated by the Board of Supervisors.

§ 102. Purpose The District is created and shall exist for the purpose of providing for the effective, economical, and environmentally sound management of solid waste generated by the member municipalities and their residents.

§ 103. Composition The District is composed of and includes all of the lands and residents within those municipalities that vote to approve this agreement at the time of the creation of the District, or that shall be subsequently admitted to the District in accordance with the pr…

§ 104. Duration The District shall continue as a body politic and corporate until and unless dissolved in accordance with the procedures hereinafter set forth.

§ 105. Powers Except as otherwise provided or limited herein, the District shall have the following powers: (a) To operate, cause to be operated, or contract for the operation of facilities for the collection, transportation, recycling, composting, processing, and disposal of sol…

§ 106. Sovereign immunity The District shall have the benefit of sovereign immunity to the fullest extent authorized by law, except to the extent that it shall have in force and effect liability or other insurance for itself and members of its Board of Supervisors. The District s…

§ 107. Responsibility to accept waste (a) The District shall not enter into any contract with nonmember municipalities or private entities for the management of solid waste generated outside the boundaries of the District unless the contract is deemed to be in the best interests …

§ 201. Authority The legislative power and authority of the District and the administrative and general supervision thereof shall be vested in a governing body known as the Board of Supervisors, except as specifically provided in this agreement.

§ 202. Selection of supervisors and their alternates Board members and alternates shall be appointed by the legislative body, unless the voters of the municipality decide at a regular or special meeting warned for that purpose that the Board members and alternates will be elected…

§ 203. Composition (a) Each member municipality shall be entitled to be represented by one District supervisor for each 2,500 people, or portion thereof, residing in the municipality, except that unorganized towns, gores, and grants shall be considered as a single municipality an…

§ 204. Term of office (a) Board members and alternates shall serve two year terms, running from April 1st of the year in which selected to March 31st of the year their term expires, or until a successor is duly selected. (b) Member municipalities may appoint or elect a new Board …