Title 16APPENDIX, Education Charters and Agreements

§ 11-1.3. Disposition of property All property, assets, and liabilities now belonging to the Essex Junction Graded School District shall at the time of the taking effect of this chapter vest in and become property, asset, liability or both, of the Essex Junction School District a…

§ 11-1.4. Definition of district Wherever the “District” hereafter appears in this chapter, it shall mean the Essex Junction School District.

§ 11-1.5. Exemption from taxation The District shall be exempt from all local taxation in the Town of Essex.

§ 11-1.6. District voter A citizen of voting age, as defined by State and federal law, whose name is on the voting list taken in the Village of Essex Junction at the annual assessment next preceding a District meeting or who has attained voting age subsequent to such assessment, …

§ 11-1.7. Inconsistency with general law This chapter shall control whenever any general act or law is inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.

§ 11-1.8. Effect of prior law All acts, parts of acts, and bylaws, inconsistent with this chapter, except as herein otherwise provided, are hereby repealed. By the provisions of this chapter, so far as they are the same as those acts hereby amended, shall be construed as a contin…

§ 11-1.9. Implementation of charter This chapter shall not become operative or effective until approved, ratified, and adopted by a majority of the legal voters of the Essex Junction School District voting at a duly warned meeting. If this chapter is voted favorably by a majority…

§ 11-2.1. Officers The officers shall be a Moderator, five Prudential Committee members composing the Prudential Committee, a Clerk-Treasurer who shall be the same person, and a Collector of Taxes. All officers shall be chosen from legally qualified voters in the District.

§ 11-2.2. Election and terms of officers The Moderator and the five Prudential Committee members shall be elected at the annual meeting or on the day following. A Moderator shall be elected every year and shall serve a term of one year. The Moderator’s term of office shall commen…

§ 11-2.3. Vacancies When an officer resigns, dies, becomes incapacitated, or removes residency from the District, such office shall be considered vacant. When a vacancy occurs in any office, other than the office of Moderator, Clerk-Treasurer, and Collector of Taxes, the Prudenti…

§ 11-2.4. Bonding of officers A Prudential Committee member shall not be a Clerk-Treasurer or Collector of Taxes. Before entering upon their duties, the Collector of Taxes and Clerk-Treasurer shall give a bond to the District conditioned for the faithful performance of their duti…

§ 11-2.5. Board of Civil Authority The Moderator, Prudential Committee, Clerk-Treasurer, and Justices of the Peace residing in the District shall constitute a Board of Civil Authority in the District. The Board of Civil Authority shall have the same authority and power to abate t…

§ 11-2.6. Moderator The Moderator shall preside at the District meeting and in his or her absence, a Moderator Pro Tempora may be elected. As the presiding officer at District meetings, the Moderator shall perform the same duties and have the same authority as moderators at town …

§ 11-2.7. Clerk-Treasurer The Clerk-Treasurer of Essex Junction School District shall keep a record of the proceedings of the District and shall have the power to certify the copies of the same and shall perform the duties and have the authority and powers incident to clerks and …

§ 11-2.8. Collector of Taxes Except as modified by this charter, the Collector of Taxes shall perform the same duties and have the same authority and power in the collection of taxes as those given by law to collectors of taxes and collectors of delinquent taxes in towns.

§ 11-3.1. Duties and powers of Prudential Committee The Prudential Committee in addition to other powers and duties specifically assigned and allowed by law for school boards shall: (1) Have the management of all business and affairs of the District and all authority and powers n…

§ 11-4.1. Annual meeting The annual meeting of the District shall be held at an appropriate meeting place within the District on the second Tuesday of May in each year, or at such place or time as the District may vote, but never later than June 15. Annual meetings shall be warne…

§ 11-4.2. Special meetings Special meetings of the District shall be warned by the School District Clerk, or by the Prudential Committee, either upon its own volition or upon application in writing signed by one percent or more of the legal voters of the District.

§ 11-4.3. Warnings A warning for an annual or special District meeting shall be posted in three or more public places in the District not less than 30 and not more than 40 days before the meeting, setting forth the time and place of the meeting and the business to be done.

§ 11-4.4. Parliamentary and voting procedures All decisions at District meetings shall be decided by majority vote unless otherwise provided in this chapter. Parliamentary matters shall follow Robert’s Rules of Order as it is from time to time revised.

§ 11-5.1. Grand list The grand list of the Town of Essex composed of the taxable property and estate within the limits of the District shall constitute the grand list of the District. The District may at an annual or special meeting legally warned for that purpose vote to lay and…

§ 11-5.2. Borrowing The District may borrow money in any year in anticipation of taxes assessed in such year, in an amount not to exceed 90 percent of the taxes assessed in such year. Such notes or orders, however, must mature within one year from the date thereof and be paid fro…

§ 11-5.3. Issuance of negotiable bonds The District is hereby authorized and empowered by a vote of a majority of all voters voting at a legally warned meeting held for that purpose to issue its negotiable bonds or negotiable interest-bearing notes pursuant to State statutes.

§ 13-1. Incorporation of district School District No. 4 in Middlebury, in the County of Addison, a corporation duly established under the laws of this State, is hereby empowered and required to educate the scholars in the District in a grade 1 school or schools; and for that purp…

§ 13-2. Merger of districts In order that a competent number of schools shall be maintained in the Town of Middlebury, for the convenient instruction of youth, School District No. 4 in Middlebury, in the County of Addison, an incorporated school district established by Act No. 89…

§ 13-3. Transfer of real estate The Town School District is hereby authorized and empowered when the merger occurs to transfer and assign to School District No. 4 in Middlebury all right title and interest or use in any estate, real or personal, wherever situate, and from whateve…

§ 13-4. Records of Town School District The records of the Middlebury Town School District shall be deposited with the Town Clerk when said merger occurs.

§ 13-5. School funds; State aid If the merger occurs, School District No. 4 in Middlebury shall be entitled to all the public money distributed to Middlebury and to all State aid granted to the town of Middlebury and provisions heretofore granted to the District inconsistent with…

§ 13-6. Adoption of rules and regulations The Incorporated School District may make all such necessary rules and regulations in regard to the attendance of scholars, and the course of instruction in the school or schools, as shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this State.

§ 13-7. Acceptance of scholars The Prudential Committee of the Incorporated School District may admit scholars coming from outside the District upon such terms as they may prescribe.

§ 13-8. Officers and Prudential Committee The officers of the Incorporated School District shall be a Moderator, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector, and an Auditor, who shall be chosen annually, and a Prudential Committee of seven hereafter to be chosen as follows: At each annual …

§ 13-9. General provisions The general provisions of law pertaining to schools not inconsistent with the provisions of law pertaining to this charter and with the rights heretofore granted School District No. 4 by special legislation shall apply to school District No. 4 when the …

§ 15-1. Establishment of District All of the Town of Bennington which is included within the limits of the incorporated Village of North Bennington is hereby constituted a school district in the Town by the name of the North Bennington Graded School District and the Graded School…

§ 15-2. Prudential Committee The Prudential Committee shall consist of five persons, and at the annual meeting of the District, vacancies occasioned by the expiration of the term of office of members of the Committee shall be filled by the election of members for the term of thre…

§ 15-3. Authority to make rules and establish schools The Graded School District may make bylaws, rules, and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, and may provide for the establishment and maintenance of such number of schools and of …

§ 15-4. Distribution of public funds In the distribution of public moneys, that portion which may be divided among the several districts, irrespective of the number of scholars or their attendance at school, shall be so divided as to give the Graded School District the shares of …

§ 15-5. Additional districts If any other school district or districts in the Town of Bennington or in the adjoining Town of Shaftsbury shall at any time, by their vote at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, signify their desire to become united with the Graded School Distric…

§ 17-1. Incorporation; boundaries Such portions of the Town of Barton as were included within the limits of School District Number Seven, prior to the enactment of an act, entitled “An act relating to public instruction,” approved November 12, 1892, and bounded as the District wa…

§ 17-2. Officers; trustees The School District at its first annual meeting shall elect three Trustees as follows: One for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years; and at all subsequent annual meetings vacancies by the expiration of…

§ 17-3. Annual meeting All annual meetings of the School District shall be held on the second Tuesday of March in each year, at such time of day and place as shall be designated by the Clerk of the District and the notice thereof shall not be less than six nor more than ten days …

§ 17-4. Powers of officers All persons elected to the office of Collector, Treasurer, and Auditors shall be invested with the same powers and privileges and subject to the same duties and liabilities of such officers of school districts under the school district system under the …

§ 17-5. Bylaws, rules, and regulations; District The Orleans School District may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, and may provide for the establishment and maintenance of such number of schools, of su…

§ 17-6. Bylaws, rules, and regulations; Trustees The Trustees may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations for the graduation, instruction, and management of the school, and for the care of the property of the District as they may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of…

§ 17-7. Gifts, benefactions, legacies, and endowments The School District is hereby empowered to receive any gift, benefaction, legacy, or endowment fund in fee or in trust, that may be donated, devised, given, or bestowed, for the support and use of the Graded School on such ter…

§ 17-8. Public money In the distribution of the public moneys for the support of schools, the school district shall be entitled to such a share thereof, as Graded School Districts shall receive by virtue of the laws of this State.

§ 17-9. Public act; effective date This act shall be under the control of future legislation to alter or amend as the public good may require, and shall take effect whenever a majority of the legal voters resident within the limits of that part of the Town of Barton, which prior …