Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 2002. Operations The City Manager shall manage, and be responsible for, the administrative operation of the Water Department, including maintenance, repair, replacement, and expansion of the water system and purchasing. He or she shall generally perform the management and other…

§ 2003. Accounts The City Manager shall be responsible for the accounting and billing to the Water Department, subject to the supervision and authority of the water commissioners.

§ 2004. Board of Water Commissioners The City Council shall constitute the Board of Water Commissioners, with authority to exercise all powers granted to water commissions under the general laws of the State. (Amended 1997, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 6.)

§ 2101. Authority to amend This charter may be amended in the manner provided by the laws of the State of Vermont for the amendment of municipal charters.

§ 301. Officers; general provisions The officers of the City of South Burlington shall be those provided by law for towns, except as otherwise provided by this charter. The officers shall have all the powers and duties necessary to carry out the provisions of this charter as well…

§ 302. City Council; number; terms of office; election (a) There shall be a City Council consisting of five members. (b) Three members shall have terms of office of three years; two members shall have terms of office of two years. (c) All present Selectboard members shall serve a…

§ 303. Organization (a) Forthwith after its election and qualification, the Council shall organize and elect a Chair, a Vice Chair and a Clerk by a majority vote of the entire Council and file a certificate of such election for record in the Office Of the City Clerk. (b) The Chai…

§ 304. Vacancies When a vacancy occurs on the City Council, the remaining members may fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting when the City shall fill the vacancy.

§ 305. Meetings (a) As soon as possible after the election of the Chair and Vice Chair, the Council shall fix the time and place of its regular meetings, and such meetings shall be held at least twice a month. (b) The Council shall determine its own rules and order of business. (…

§ 306. Records of proceedings (a) It shall be the duty of the City Council to keep an official record of its proceedings, which shall be open for public inspection. (b) The minutes of each meeting shall be approved by the Council at the next meeting and official copy authenticate…

§ 307. Appointments (a) The Council shall appoint and may remove the members of the following commissions and boards provided for in this charter or by State laws: (1) Development Review Board. (2) Planning Commission. (3) Board of Library Trustees, but in no event shall one-half…

§ 308. Jurisdiction over other officers or employees Neither the City Council nor any of its members shall direct or request the appointment, by any other officer or employee of the City, of any person to office or employment, or his or her suspension or removal therefrom, or in …

§ 309. Compensation of Council members; appointees (a) Compensation to be paid to the Council members shall be set forth in the proposed budget of the City. (b) The Council shall fix the compensation of all officers and employees, except as otherwise provided in this charter.

§ 310. Powers and duties (a) The members of the Council shall be and constitute the legislative body of the City of South Burlington for all purposes required by statutes and except as otherwise herein specifically provided, shall have all powers and authority given to, and perfo…

§ 311. Board of School Directors; number; terms of office; election (a) There shall be a Board of School Directors consisting of seven members. (b) Four members shall have terms of office of three years; three members shall have terms of office of two years. (c) All present Schoo…

§ 501. Application of general laws Provisions of the laws of the State of Vermont relating to the qualifications of electors, the manner of voting, the duties of elections officers, and all other particulars respective to preparation for, conducting, and management of elections, …

§ 502. Time of holding (a) The annual City meetings of the City and the South Burlington School District for the election of officers, the voting on the budgets, and any other business included in the warnings for the meetings shall be on a date established and legally warned by …

§ 503. Special City and School District meetings Special City meetings, and special School District meetings, shall be called in the manner provided by the laws of the State, and the voting on all questions shall be by the Australian ballot system.

§ 504. Polling places In any annual or special City or School District meeting, for the purpose of the election of officers and the voting on all questions to be decided by Australian ballot, there shall be polling places that shall be the polling places designated for the electi…

§ 505. Rescission of ordinances All ordinances shall be subject to rescission by a special City meeting, as follows: if, within 10 days after final passage by the Council of any such ordinance, a petition signed by electors of the City not less in number than 10 percent of the nu…

§ 506. Petition for enactment of ordinance; special meeting (a) Subject to the provisions of section 505 of this charter, voters of the City may at any time petition in the same manner as in section 505 of this charter for the enactment of any proposed lawful ordinance by filing …

§ 701. Planning Commission (a) The Planning Commission shall consist of seven persons appointed by the Council. In addition, the City Manager shall serve as a member ex-officio without vote. (b) Four commissioners shall have terms of four years and three commissioners shall have …

§ 702. Powers and duties (a) The Planning Commission shall exercise all powers and duties as provided for Planning Commissions by the laws of the State for a municipality that has established a development review board under 24 V.S.A. chapter 117. The Commission may appoint subco…

§ 901. Appointment The Council shall appoint a City Manager for an indefinite term.

§ 902. Qualifications The Manager shall be chosen solely on the basis of his or her executive and administrative and professional qualifications.

§ 903. Oath; bond Before entering upon his or her duties, the Manager shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his or her duties by the City Clerk and shall give a bond to the City in such amount and with such sureties as the Council may require.

§ 904. Powers and duties (a) The Manager shall carry out the policies laid down by the Council and to that end he or she shall be the Chief Executive Officer and the head of the administrative branch of the City government and shall be responsible to the Council for the efficient…

§ 905. Compensation The Managers shall receive such pay as may be fixed by the Council.

§ 906. Removal (a) On 90 days’ notice, the Manager may be removed without cause by a majority of Council so voting. He or she may be suspended during this period, but his or her pay shall continue until his or her removal. (b) Notwithstanding the above, the Council may adopt a re…

§ 1. City; how constituted That all the freemen of this State, inhabitants of said New Haven, Panton, and Ferrisburgh dwelling and inhabiting within the following bounds, viz: beginning on the line between Ferrisburgh and New Haven at the southeast corner of the town plot in said…

§ 10. Highways, etc The City Council is hereby authorized and empowered to lay out new highways, streets, public walks, and squares, for the use of said City, or to alter those already laid out; and to regulate and pave streets or highways and construct common sewers therein and …

§ 11. Ordinances and regulations (a) The City Council shall (subject to the right of said corporation to alter, amend, or repeal the same at any annual or special meeting) have power to make, establish, alter, amend, or repeal ordinances, regulations, and bylaws for the following…

§ 12. Taxes The City Council shall lay a tax not exceeding 300 cents on the dollar of the grand list of said City on the ratable estate within the same, whether of residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, and shall make out a rate bill accordingl…

§ 13. Official bonds The Treasurer, Constable, and collectors shall severally give good and sufficient bonds to the City to be approved by the City Council, in such sums as may be fixed by said Council, and in case of their failure to give bonds as aforesaid within 10 days after …

§ 14. Water The City Manager and the aldermen who are designated as water commissioners are hereby empowered to enter in the daytime any premises or buildings in said City in which City water may be used, for the purpose of determining how much of said water is used and for the r…

§ 15. Bonded debt [Transitional Provisions]

§ 16. City Court There may be holden in said City, from time to time, as occasion arises, a City Court, which shall be a court of record, presided over by a justice of the peace who shall be designated by the City Council as judge thereof; of which court the City Clerk shall be t…

§ 2. Voters in City meetings (a) A male or female citizen, 21 years of age, who has taken the freeman’s oath and whose list is taken in a Town at the annual assessment preceding a Town meeting, and whose flood tax due such Town, was paid prior to the 15th day of February precedin…

§ 26. Sales, etc (a) All sales, leases, or grants of any real estate belonging to the City shall be signed by the Mayor thereof, and sealed with the City Seal, and any conveyance so executed, if approved by a meeting of the citizens of the City legally assembled, and recorded in …

§ 27. Resignation of Mayor The Mayor of said City may, at any time, resign his or her office by filing his or her resignation with the Clerk of the City.

§ 28. Freemen The freemen of the City shall have the right to choose a Representative to represent the same in the General Assembly of this State and shall also have the same right to vote at elections for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, members of Congress, and all other officers…

§§ 29-30. [Transitional Provisions.]

§ 3. City meetings (a) On the 10th day of April, A.D. 1893, and annually thereafter on the first Tuesday of March, a meeting of the legal voters of said City shall be held at a place to be appointed by the City Council of said City, of which notice shall be posted in at least thr…

§ 4. Election of officers On the first Tuesday in March 1973, and biennially thereafter, the legal voters of said corporation shall elect from among their number a Mayor, who shall hold office for two years, and until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified. On the sa…

§ 5. Method of voting (a) The annual meeting of said corporation, for the election of officers and for voting by printed ballot on questions to be decided, shall be called at nine o’clock in the forenoon and, for the transaction of other business, at seven-thirty o’clock in the e…

§ 51. Creation A Traffic Court for the City of Vergennes is hereby created and established with the sole jurisdiction of receiving waiver of process and trial, admission of violation, and fines from violators of the provisions of parking and traffic ordinances of said City of Ver…