Title 24APPENDIX, Municipal Charters

§ 21. City Attorney It shall be the duty of the City Attorney to prosecute and defend all suits by or against the City or in which the City is interested, to prosecute for all violations of the City ordinances, and to advise the Mayor or Council when requested by them upon any le…

§ 22. Board of Fire Wardens The Board of Fire Wardens, or any one of them who may be present at a fire, shall have power at such fire to suppress all tumults and riots by force if necessary, to direct the labor of all persons present during the continuance of such fire, to remove…

§ 23. City Council powers The City Council shall have power to make, establish, alter, amend, or repeal ordinances, regulations, and bylaws not inconsistent with this charter or with the Constitution or laws of the United States or of this State for the following purposes and to …

§ 24. Fines No fine shall be imposed for the violation of any City ordinance or bylaw exceeding $100.00, provided, that when it may be necessary to abate a nuisance the expense of such abatement may be imposed upon the delinquent in addition to said fine. A person who violates an…

§ 25. Streets and sidewalks The City Council shall have power to regulate, establish, and alter the grade of streets and width of sidewalks, and the construction thereof, and to prescribe the material to be used therein, and also to provide, order, and direct that the sidewalks u…

§ 26. Water system The City Council shall have all the powers over and in any way appertaining to the water system owned by the present Village of Newport that are now conferred on the water commissioners, provided for in 1878 Acts and Resolves No. 201, entitled “An act defining …

§ 27. Sale or lease of City owned property The City Council may authorize the sale of real or personal estate belonging to the City when the same shall not exceed in value $1,000.00, or may lease the same for a term not exceeding one year, and all conveyances, grants, or leases o…

§ 28. City expenditures Except as herein otherwise provided, no money shall be paid out of the City Treasury except upon warrant, signed by the Mayor and approved by the Board of Aldermen, such approval to be authenticated by the City Clerk. A full record of all expenditures shal…

§ 29. Assessment of taxes on grand list The City Council shall assess and lay all taxes upon the grand list of said City, and in addition to such tax as may be necessary for the payment of all such State, county, and highway taxes as are or may be required by law, and in addition…

§ 3. City boundaries and corporate powers The inhabitants of that portion of the Towns of Newport and Derby included within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the southeast corner of land of J. C. Roby, and southwest corner of land of William Buck in the Town of Derby…

§ 30. Revenues credit and appropriations (a) The current revenues of the City shall consist of money raised by taxation, from fines and other lawful sources, and such revenues shall constitute the entire sum from which appropriations and payments are to be made, according to law,…

§ 31. [Transitional provisions related to the financial obligations of the Villages of Newport and West Derby; 1917 Acts and Resolves No. 273, § 31.]

§ 32. Bonds of City officers The Treasurer, Clerk, Constable, Tax Collector, and Superintendent of Streets and Waterworks shall annually give bonds to the City to the satisfaction of the City Council for the faithful discharge of their respective duties, and any other City office…

§ 33. [Transitional provisions related to the financial assets and liabilities of the Villages of Newport and West Derby; 1917 Acts and Resolves No. 273, § 33.]

§ 34. Pledge of credit Whenever the legal voters of the City shall give authority to the Council thereof to pledge the credit of the City for any purpose, the City shall have power and authority to issue its negotiable orders, warrants, notes, or bonds, and to prescribe whether s…

§ 35. [Transitional provisions related to the financial liabilities and assets of the Towns of Newport and Derby; 1917 Acts and Resolves No. 273, § 35.]

§ 36. [Transitional provisions related to the books and records of the Town of Newport; 1917 Acts and Resolves No. 273, § 36.]

§ 37. [Transitional provisions related to the books and records of the Town of Derby; 1917 Acts and Resolves No. 273, § 37.]

§ 38. Paupers (a) The Town of Newport and the City of Newport shall, on and after April first, 1919, be respectively liable for one-half the support of all persons who were paupers on said Town of Newport, meaning those being supported on the Town Farm of said Town, on the first …

§ 39. Public schools and school property The exclusive management and control of the public schools and all school property is vested in a board of five school trustees. Said trustees shall be bona fide residents of the City and qualified voters for school officers. The three inc…

§ 4. Voter qualifications The qualifications of a voter in City meetings shall be the same as are required of voters in town meetings.

§ 40. City Manager (a) The Council may, when the City so votes at any annual meeting, appoint a City Manager who shall be the administrative head of the municipal government under the direction and supervision of the Council, and who shall hold office at the pleasure of the Counc…

§ 41. City Council election of City officers The Council shall, when the City so votes at any annual meeting, elect the Clerk, Treasurer, Constable, listers, auditors, City grand jurors provided for in section 6 of this charter, which election by said Council shall be in lieu of …

§ 42. [Transitional provisions related to effective date.]

§ 5. Warning and convening of annual meeting On the first Tuesday of March 1918, and annually thereafter on the first Tuesday of March, a meeting of the legal voters of said City shall be held at nine o’clock A.M., at a place to be appointed by the City Council of said City, of w…

§ 6. Elections of officers at annual meeting At the annual meeting the said corporations shall elect from among the legal voters of said City a Mayor, City Clerk, four aldermen, a City Treasurer, one Constable, three listers, three auditors, and three grand jurors, who shall hold…

§ 7. Mayor and Board of Aldermen as City Council The administration of all fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of said City, and the government thereof, shall be vested in the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. The Board of Aldermen shall consist of four aldermen, who shall elect…

§ 8. Officers appointed by City Council The City Council shall appoint, and may remove at its pleasure and appoint others in their stead, the following officers, none of whom shall be members of the City Council, viz: a Collector of Taxes, a Superintendent of Streets and Waterwor…

§ 9. Powers of Mayor; City Council to establish water rates The Mayor shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the City. He or she shall use his or her best efforts to see that the laws and City ordinances are enforced and that the duties of all subordinate officers are faithfully…

§ 1.1. Legislative authority The City of Rutland is incorporated and granted the following charter.

§ 1.2. Description of boundaries The municipal corporation known as the City of Rutland shall include inhabitants within the following boundaries: (1) Beginning at the point in the east line of what was formerly School District No. 3 where the south line of the James M. Fisk farm…

§ 1.3. Wards (a) The City of Rutland may be divided into wards by ordinance. (b) The Board of Aldermen is empowered to make such changes in the number and boundaries of the several wards of the City as they may deem proper, having regard, so far as practicable and convenient, to …

§ 10.1. As disbursing officer (a) The City Treasurer shall be the disbursing officer of the City. All bills legally contracted by any officer or Board of said City and approved by a majority of the Board of Finance, shall be paid by warrant directed to said Treasurer and drawn to…

§ 10.2. Bonds and notes The City Treasurer shall keep a record of every note or bond issued under the provisions of this charter, therein stating the number and the denomination of each note or bond, when and where payable, to whom and for what purpose issued, and the rate of int…

§ 10.3. Statutory powers The City Treasurer shall have the same powers and be subject to the same liabilities, as are prescribed by the laws of this State for town treasurers; shall perform all duties relating to bonds to retire outstanding indebtedness, and such other duties as …

§ 10.4. School monies and bonds The City Treasurer shall keep a separate account of all the monies appropriated for the use of schools which monies shall consist of the income accruing in every legal way and the City Treasurer shall pay out of any monies mentioned in this section…

§ 10.5. Assistant City Treasurer The City Treasurer may appoint an Assistant City Treasurer who shall hold office at the pleasure of the City Treasurer, and whose compensation shall be fixed by the Board of Aldermen. The Assistant City Treasurer shall render such service to the C…

§ 10.6. Constable/tax collector The City Treasurer shall also act as Constable and Tax Collector for the City of Rutland with all the duties and powers conferred upon a constable or tax collector as provided by Vermont State law, but the fees allowed to the Tax Collector or Const…

§ 11.1. Fiscal year The fiscal year of all departments of the City government shall commence upon the first day of July and end on the 30th day of June in each year.

§ 11.2. Budget estimate Except for the Board of School Commissioners, it shall be the duty of any person who is authorized to incur any indebtedness chargeable to the City, to prepare each October 1 a detailed line-item budget estimate for each department for the upcoming fiscal …

§ 11.3. City budget The Mayor shall annually before each November 1 prepare and submit to the Board of Aldermen a proposed budget predicated as necessary to operate all branches of City government. The Board of Aldermen may reduce the proposed budget but may not increase it. (Ame…

§ 11.4. Annual appropriations The Board of Aldermen shall finalize the General Fund budget and publish to the voters of the City before each December 31. The General Fund budget shall then be promptly warned and placed on the ballot each March for voter approval. (Amended 2009, N…

§ 11.5. City report The City report shall be published annually, on or before the 15th day of November each year, by the direction of the Mayor. It shall contain a clear statement of the financial affairs of the City, including a record of all expenditures, receipts, and disburse…

§ 11.6. City indebtedness (a) The credit of the City, other than by temporary loans for a period of not more than one year, shall not be pledged by the Board of Aldermen nor by any officer of said City unless by vote of the legal voters of the City. (b) If the legal voters of the…

§ 13.1. Powers and duties The City Assessor, elected for a term of two years, shall have the same powers, discharge the same duties, proceed in the discharge thereof in the same manner, and be subjected to the same liabilities as are prescribed for listers, except as herein other…

§ 15.1. Boards and commissions There shall be maintained in the City an Assessor, a Board of Health, a Board of Planning Commissioners, a Board of Cemetery Commissioners, a Board of Finance, a Board of Highway Commissioners, a Board of Sewage Disposal Commissioners, a Board of Zo…