Annual and Special Meetings

V.S.A. tit. 24 Appendix, ch. 251, subch. 2

in effect

24 App. V.S.A. ch. 251, § 201 Authorization for the assessment and collection of property taxes

201. Authorization for the assessment and collection of property taxes The Village may, at an annual or special meeting warned for that purpose as provided in section 202 of this chapter, lay a tax upon the ratable estate within the same, whether of residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes set forth in this chapter, and the Board of Trustees shall make out a rate bill accordingly and deliver the same to the Treasurer, who shall have the same power to collect such tax as a town treasurer has to collect like taxes in the towns and may in like manner levy on and sell property to satisfy the same. It shall be the duty of the listers of the Town of Bennington in making the grand list of the Town to designate therein such of the ratable estate thereof as shall be within the limits of the Village. Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.

24 App. V.S.A. ch. 251, § 202 Warning of annual and special meetings

202. Warning of annual and special meetings (a)(1) The annual meeting of the legal voters of the Village shall be held therein on the third Tuesday of March of each year at seven-thirty o’clock in the afternoon at the Village hall or at such place as the Board of Trustees shall hereafter appoint. (2) The meeting shall be warned by posting in three public places in the Village, at least 12 days prior to the meeting, a notice calling the meeting and containing a statement of business to be transacted thereat. The notice shall be signed by the Clerk of the Village, or in case of his or her failure or neglect, by the Trustees. (3) If the annual meeting is not held, for want of the notice set forth in subdivision (2) of this subsection, or for any other cause, the Village shall not thereby be prejudiced. (b) In addition, whenever 10 legal voters of the Village shall so petition in writing, the Clerk, or upon the Clerk’s neglect or refusal, the Trustees, shall call a special meeting of the Village and give notice of the same as provided for annual meetings. (c) Any business may be transacted at an adjourned meeting, which under the warning might have been transacted at the original meeting. (d) In all meetings of the Village, none but the residents thereof qualified by law to vote in Village meetings shall be entitled to vote. Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.

24 App. V.S.A. ch. 251, § 203 Elections at annual meetings

203. Elections at annual meetings (a) The Village shall, at every annual meeting elect a Moderator, Clerk, Treasurer, three auditors, and the number of trustees as are necessary to fill vacancies where terms of office have expired or a member has resigned, died, or been removed in order to make a full board of five trustees. (b) The trustees shall be elected by ballot, and any of the other officers shall also be elected by ballot provided a writing demand therefor is filed with the Clerk before the meeting signed by not less than five legal voters therein. (c) Any person who receives the highest number of votes cast for a given office shall be elected thereto. Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.

24 App. V.S.A. ch. 251, § 204 Moderator Pro Tem

204. Moderator Pro Tem In case the Moderator shall be absent from any meeting, that member of the Board of Trustees present at such meeting whose name shall have precedence on the list of trustees as recorded in the minutes of election of the then existing Board of Trustees, shall act as a Moderator Pro Tem.

Source: Vermont General Assembly (legislature.vermont.gov)URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/chapter/24APPENDIX/251Fetched: 10/21/2026