24 App. V.S.A. ch. 409, § 201 Authority
201. Authority
All power and authority of the District shall be exercised by the Board except as provided in subchapter 5 of this chapter.
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in effect24 App. V.S.A. ch. 409, § 202 Composition
202. Composition
Each member of the District shall have one supervisor on the Board for each nine votes, or portion thereof to which it is entitled under section 208 of this chapter. Each supervisor must be a resident of his or her municipality, entitled to vote in municipal elections.
24 App. V.S.A. ch. 409, § 203 Selection of supervisors
203. Selection of supervisors
(a) Initial Board. The initial Board shall be appointed by the legislative body of each member. Appointments shall be made within 30 days of the effective date of this agreement and certified by the clerk of each member to the Clerk of the District.
(b) Subsequent Boards. For subsequent Boards, the voters of each member shall decide the method by which its supervisor(s) shall be chosen. Unless the voters of a member decide at a regular or special meeting warned for that purpose to have their supervisor(s) appointed by the legislative body of the member, their supervisor(s) shall be elected at their annual meeting for the term specified in this section.
(c) Terms. Supervisors on the initial Board shall serve for a term ending with the appointment or election of the Board in 1990. In order to stagger the terms of the supervisors on the second Board, the initial Board at their organizational meeting shall draw by lot the terms that the supervisors from their respective municipalities shall hold upon election or appointment to the second Board. At least half the supervisors of the second Board shall serve two-year terms, and the remainder shall serve one-year terms. Thereafter, all terms shall be for two years.
(d) Elections. Elections for supervisor(s) shall take place biennially (except for the election following a one-year term of a supervisor to the second Board) at the annual meeting of each member in the same manner as elections for the legislative body of the member. Results of the election shall be certified by the clerk of each member to the Clerk of the District.
(e) Appointments. If a member chooses to have its legislative body appoint its supervisor(s) to the District, the legislative body shall make its appointment by the end of March in the year in which the term of the preceding supervisor for that member expires. The clerk of each member shall certify its appointment to the Clerk of the District.
(f) Oath of office. All supervisor(s) shall take an oath of office similar to that taken by members of legislative bodies of municipalities, as in 24 V.S.A. § 831. The oath shall be administered by the clerk of the supervisor’s municipality.
24 App. V.S.A. ch. 409, § 204 Organizational meeting
204. Organizational meeting
Within 60 days of the effective date of this chapter, the Chairperson of the Lamoille County Planning Commission shall designate a time and place for the organizational meeting of the initial Board. Annually thereafter, on the first Wednesday in April, the Board shall hold its organizational meeting at a time and place designated by the Board Chairperson. At the organization meeting, the Board shall elect from among its membership a Chairperson and a Vice Chairperson, each of whom shall hold office for one year and until a successor is duly elected and qualified. For this election each supervisor present shall cast one vote, except that no supervisor shall be elected Chairperson for more than three consecutive terms unless 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) shall so vote. The Chairperson and Vice Chairperson who are elected at the organizational meeting of the Initial Board shall hold office until the second Board elects their successors.
24 App. V.S.A. ch. 409, § 205 Regular meetings
205. Regular meetings
A schedule of regular meetings of the Board shall be established at its annual organizational meeting. The schedule shall be sent to the clerk of each member for posting.
24 App. V.S.A. ch. 409, § 206 Special meetings
206. Special meetings
Special meetings of the Board may be called at any time by the Chairperson and shall be called by the Clerk upon written request of a majority of the members of the Board. Each supervisor shall be given at least 24-hours’ notice of any special meeting by telephone, or by written notice delivered personally, or by regular mail. Notice by mail is effective upon deposit in the mail at least 72 hours before the special meeting. Supervisors waive the notice requirements if they attend the special meeting, unless attendance is for the sole purpose of protesting the holding of the meeting. No action may be taken at a special meeting that is not warned specifically in the notice.
24 App. V.S.A. ch. 409, § 207 Quorum
207. Quorum
To transact business, supervisors who represent more than one-half of the members and whose votes constitute more than 50 percent of the total votes of all supervisors must be present. No proxies shall be allowed. A smaller number may adjourn to a later date, provided notice is given to all members as if such adjourned meeting were a special meeting. If a quorum is not attained at two consecutive regular meetings, a quorum may be attained at the next regular meeting by the presence of either supervisors from one-half of the members or supervisors whose votes constitute 50 percent of the total votes of all supervisors.
24 App. V.S.A. ch. 409, § 208 Voting
208. Voting
(a) Each member shall be entitled to one vote plus one vote for each 1,500 people or any portion thereof of its population. The number of votes entitled to be cast on behalf of any member entitled to more than one supervisor shall be divided equally among its supervisors. Fractional votes, if any, shall be taken into account. No supervisor(s) may split votes. No proxies shall be allowed. Population shall be determined as follows until the results of the 1990 U.S. census are available for the members:
Town | Population
Belvidere | 237
Cambridge | 2,289
Craftsbury | 875
Eden | 715
Elmore | 487
Hyde Park | 2,182
Johnson | 2,728
Morristown | 4,546
Stowe | 3,296
Waterville | 521
Wolcott | 1,091
Worcester | 814
(b) When the results of the 1990 census are available, and decennially thereafter when new U.S. decennial census data are available, the number of votes granted to each member shall be determined at the next organizational meeting. Any action adopted by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the Board at which a quorum is present shall be the action of the Board. Approval of the siting of any District facility or of the condemnation by eminent domain of any property by the District shall require approval by 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.
24 App. V.S.A. ch. 409, § 209 Vacancy
209. Vacancy
(a) A supervisor may resign at any time by notice to the chairperson of the legislative body of the municipality represented. The Board shall declare, by written certification to the legislative body of a member municipality, a vacancy for the position of the supervisor from that member municipality after the supervisor has failed to attend three consecutive meetings of the Board within one year beginning in March and ending in February of the subsequent year.
(b) Upon resignation, death, certification of vacancy by the Board, or removal from the municipality by a supervisor the legislative body of that member shall appoint a supervisor for the remainder of the term of such supervisor within 45 days. The appointment shall be certified by the clerk of the member to the Clerk of the District.
(c) For any vacancy, the number of votes attributable to such municipality shall not be counted for purposes of determining a quorum or the number of votes eligible to be cast by the Board during the period of such vacancy.
24 App. V.S.A. ch. 409, § 210 Compensation
210. Compensation
Each member shall pay to its supervisor such reimbursement of expenses or stipend as the member shall determine.
Source: Vermont General Assembly (legislature.vermont.gov)URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/chapter/24APPENDIX/409Fetched: 10/21/2026