Title 16APPENDIX, Education Charters and Agreements

§ 1-13. Repeal of inconsistent law All of an act entitled “An Act to Establish the Vermont Agricultural College,” approved November 22, 1864, which is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, is hereby repealed.

§ 1-14. Vermont Agricultural College The divisions of the Vermont Agricultural College set forth in section 4488 of Vermont Statutes, Revision of 1947, shall be continued as divisions of and in the name of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, and all referenc…

§ 1-15. Tax exemption Real and personal property now held or owned or hereafter acquired by the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College for educational purposes shall be exempt from taxation.

§ 1-15a. Statutory purposes The statutory purpose of the exemption for the University of Vermont in section 1-15 of this chapter is to allow institutions providing higher education to deploy more of their financial resources to their educational missions. (Added 2013, No. 200 (Ad…

§ 1-16. Amendment of charter This charter may be amended from time to time by the General Assembly to provide for the more perfect and effective accomplishment of its objects.

§ 1-2. Board of Trustees; membership, terms of service; presiding chair The Board of Trustees of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College shall be composed of 25 members, whose term of office shall be six years, except as to those who are members ex officio and to…

§ 1-3. Conferral of degrees; election of officers; governance The Board of Trustees, a majority of whom may constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, may confer such honors and degrees as are usually given in colleges and universities and any other appropriate degrees,…

§ 1-4. Control of lands and rents; rights and obligations Except as otherwise provided by Sec. 4 of No. 66 of the Acts of 1955, the Board of Trustees shall have the right to use, control, sell, or dispose of all the real estate and personal property now or hereafter belonging to …

§ 1-5. Curriculum to be maintained There shall, at all times, be maintained, in the institution hereby created, such instruction, in the various branches of learning, as is contemplated in the several charters of each of the institutions hereby united; and more particularly inclu…

§ 1-6. Experimental farm The Trustees may, in their discretion, obtain by gift, grant, or otherwise, a tract of land which, together with the land now owned by the University of Vermont, shall amount to at least 100 acres, to be used as an experimental farm, whereon they may make…

§ 1-7. Congressional fund; interest income Whenever this corporation shall have been duly organized, there shall be appropriated and paid to its Treasurer annually, for the purpose herein mentioned, on the warrant of the Governor, the interest or the income which may be received …

§ 1-8. Legislative reports; Board of Visitors The corporation hereby created shall make annual reports to the Legislature of this State, of its condition, financially and otherwise, and make and distribute the reports required by the act of Congress, herein referred to, and the L…

§ 1-9. Permanent location The permanent location of the institution hereby created, shall be in Burlington, in the State of Vermont, and the first meeting of the Board of Trustees shall be there held on November 15 next, at 7:00 P.M., or if the meeting shall not be held at that t…

§ 2-1. Meetings and elections (a) The first Tuesday in March shall be the date for the annual election of School District officers and for voting upon all questions to be decided by Australian ballot. Polls shall be open no less than nine consecutive hours. The School Board may d…

§ 2-2. Warnings (a) Public notice of every annual or special School District meeting or election shall be given by a warning posted in at least five public places in the District at least 12 days prior to the meeting; and published two times, on the same day of the week for two c…

§ 2-3. Reconsideration of actions taken on the budget Reconsideration of actions, as applied to the budgetary process, shall not be permitted.

§ 3-1. Incorporation of district Such portions of the Town of Barton as lie within the present limits of School District Number One and the inhabitants thereof are hereby incorporated and constituted a school district of the Town of Barton, by the name of the Barton Academy and G…

§ 3-2. Districts may merge If any other school district or districts in the Town of Barton shall at any time, by their vote at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, signify their desire to become united with the Barton Academy and Graded School District, and if the Barton Acade…

§ 3-3. Transfer of property; assumption of debts; rent payments All property of whatever character, belonging to the Barton Academy, an institution incorporated by the Legislature by act approved November 14, 1854, shall become the property of the Barton Academy and Graded School…

§ 3-4. Officers and trustees Instead of the prudential committee required by law to be elected, the Academy and Graded 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…

§ 3-5. Annual meeting The time of holding the annual meeting in the Graded School District shall be the same as now is or hereafter shall be fixed by law for all school districts in the State; and in accordance therewith the first meeting for the election of Trustees as hereinbef…

§ 3-6. Adoption of bylaws and rules The Barton Academy and Graded 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, …

§ 3-7. Courses of study; acceptance of scholars The Trustees may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations, for the gradation, instruction, and management of the Academy and Graded School, and for the care of the property of the District, as they may deem expedient not inconsisten…

§ 3-8. Acceptance of endowments and legacies The Academy and Graded School district is hereby empowered to receive any endowment fund or legacy in fee or in trust, that may be donated as an endowment toward the support or for the use of the Academy and Graded School, on such term…

§ 3-9. Distribution of public moneys In the distribution of the public moneys, that portion which may be divided among the several school districts, irrespective of the number of scholars or the attendance at school, shall be so divided as to give the Barton Academy and Graded Sc…

§ 5-1. Districts authorized to dissolve and merge Bennington Graded School District, Inc., incorporated by No. 121 of the Acts of 1870, and Greater Bennington Schools, Inc., incorporated by Nos. 240 and 241 of the Acts of 1935, are hereby authorized and enabled to surrender their…

§ 5-10. First annual meeting of district.

§ 5-11. Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) directors elected at large The two Directors of Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) elected by Bennington Graded School District, Inc. and the two Directors of the Union District elected by Greater Bennington Sch…

§ 5-12. Organization of Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) validated The organization and operation of Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14), consisting of Bennington Graded School District, Inc., Greater Bennington Schools, Inc., North Bennington Graded Sc…

§ 5-2. Merger to constitute incorporation of new district If Bennington Graded School District, Inc. and Greater Bennington School, Inc. vote to surrender their respective charters and dissolve and thereby merge, this chapter shall constitute the incorporating charter of Benningt…

§ 5-3. New district to own all property of old districts All real estate and other property and all assets of Bennington Graded School District, Inc. and Greater Bennington Schools, Inc. shall become the property of Bennington School District Incorporated on July 1 in the year fo…

§ 5-4. New district to provide public schools for grades kindergarten through sixth (a) The Bennington School District Incorporated shall provide for the elementary education of students within the territorial limits of the District for grades kindergarten through sixth. (b) Sixt…

§ 5-5. New district responsible for Mt. Anthony Union High School District (No. 14) expenses of old districts.

§ 5-6. New district responsible for debts and liabilities of old districts.

§ 5-7. New district to vote a tax on the combined grand list of old districts; fiscal year (a) The taxable estates within the territorial limits of Bennington School District Incorporated shall be combined into one grand list. The Bennington School District Incorporated may vote …

§ 5-8. When new district becomes body politic and old districts cease to exist; joint board governs affairs of new district during interim.

§ 5-9. Officers of new district (a) The officers of Bennington School District Incorporated shall be a Moderator, Clerk, Board of School Directors, and Treasurer. (b) The Board of School Directors of Bennington School District Incorporated shall have seven members who shall be el…

§ 7-1. Incorporation of district Such portions of the Town of Bradford as lie within the present limits of School District Number 2 and within the present limits of School District Number 12, and the inhabitants thereof, are hereby incorporated and constituted a school district o…

§ 7-10. Acceptance of endowments or legacies The Bradford Academy and Graded School District is hereby empowered to receive any endowment, fund, or legacy in fee or in trust that may be devoted as an endowment toward the support or for the use of the Academy and Graded School on …

§ 7-11. Public acts; first meeting This chapter shall be under the control of future legislatures to alter or amend as the public good may require, and shall take effect on March 1 next. The first annual meeting of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District shall be held at …

§ 7-2. District boundaries If any other school district or districts in the Town of Bradford shall at any time, by their vote at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, signify their desire to become united with the Bradford Academy and Graded School District, and if the Bradford…

§ 7-3. Officers and trustees Instead of a prudential committee now required by law to be elected, the Bradford Academy and Graded 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 o…

§ 7-4. Annual meeting The time for holding the annual meetings and elections shall be the same as now is or hereafter shall be fixed by law for all school districts in the State; and the first annual meeting under this charter shall be holden on the last Tuesday of March A.D. 189…

§ 7-5. Transfer of property The Trustees of the Bradford Academy, an institution located at Bradford, in the county of Orange, established by an act of the Legislature of November 2, 1820, are hereby authorized to transfer by deed the Academy building and all the property apperta…

§ 7-6. Library and Library Committee Within ten days after the first annual meeting of the Bradford Academy and Graded School District the Trustees shall appoint a Library Committee of three persons, one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the ter…

§ 7-7. Transfer deed The deed referred to in section 5 of this charter may, on the part and in behalf of the Trustees of the Bradford Academy, be executed by one of their number who may be authorized so to do by a vote of a majority or the Board of Trustees.