§ 48. Enumerated
The City Council shall have power:
(1) To establish and regulate a market and to regulate, license, tax, or prohibit the
selling or peddling of meat, fish, or other provisions on foot or from vehicles about
the City, except that the City Council shall not have power to license, tax, or prohibit
farmers selling the produce of their own farm.
(2) To restrain and prohibit all descriptions of gaming, to order the destruction of all
instruments and devices used for that purpose, and to license or tax any such devices
or instruments the usage of which is now, or may hereafter be, permissible under the
laws of the State and to license or tax any mechanical or electrical amusement devices
or the places wherein the same may be located.
(3) To regulate, license, tax, or prohibit the exhibition of common showmen, circuses,
menageries, carnivals, and shows of every kind, and all plays, athletic contests,
exhibitions, or entertainments for money, including the power to tax admissions to
the same except such as may be conducted by educational or nonprofit institutions
or organizations or wholly for charitable purposes; to provide a system of examination,
approval, and regulation of motion picture films, reels, or stereopticon views or
slides and of banners, posters, and other like advertising matter used in connection
therewith; to create and establish a Board of Censors to administer such system within
the limits of said City and to define and prescribe their duties and powers and to
regulate, restrict, or prevent attendance of minors at exhibitions of films, reels,
or stereopticon views.
(4) To regulate, license, tax, or prohibit itinerant vendors, peddlers, street musicians,
transient auctioneers, and itinerant photographers, provided the City Council shall
not have the power to license, tax, or prohibit farmers selling the produce of their
own farm.
(5) To prevent riots, noises, disturbances, or disorderly assemblages.
(6) To abate and remove nuisances; to regulate or prohibit the storage and accumulation
on premises within the City of garbage, ashes, rubbish, refuse, and waste materials;
to tax or license for revenue and regulate or prohibit the collection and removal
of such materials from such premises and the disposal of the same by private persons
or agencies; to compel and regulate the removal and disposal of such materials by
owners, tenants, and occupants of such premises; to require and provide for the collection,
removal, and disposal of such materials by the City at its expense by contract with
some private individual or agency or by some City officer, officers, or department
either existing, or hereafter created and established by the City Council for that
purpose; to establish, in case the collection, removal, and disposal of such materials
is done at the expense of the City, service rates to be paid to the City by the owners,
tenants, or occupants of premises from which said materials are collected and removed
for services rendered by the City in collecting, removing, and disposing of such materials,
to compensate the City for the cost and expense of those services. All service rates
against owners or others shall be collected and enforced under such regulations and
ordinances as the City Council shall prescribe.
(7) [Repealed.]
(8) To compel the owner or occupant of any unwholesome, noisome, or offensive house or
place to remove or cleanse the same from time to time, so far as may be necessary
for the health or comfort of the inhabitants of said City.
(9) To direct the location and management of all slaughterhouses, markets, steam mills,
blacksmith shops, sewers, and all private drains and to compel the construction of
drains within the limits of the City, under such inspection regulations as the City
Council may adopt.
(10) To regulate the use in blasting, the manufacture, and the keeping of gunpowder and
all other combustible and dangerous materials.
(11) To regulate the making of alterations and repairs of stovepipes, furnaces, fireplaces,
and other things from which damage by fire may be apprehended and also to regulate
the use of buildings in crowded localities for hazardous purposes; to provide for
the preservation of buildings from fires by precautionary measures and inspections.
(12) To establish and regulate a Fire Department and fire alarm system, and fire companies,
except as herein otherwise provided.
(13) To regulate the size, height, material, and manner of erecting and constructing new
buildings and repairing of buildings already constructed in said City or in certain
prescribed localities therein and to regulate the use of streets for building purposes.
(14) To prescribe the duties and powers of inspectors of buildings and fire wardens and
to provide penalties for any refusal or neglect to comply with the orders of said
inspectors and fire wardens made by virtue of any resolution or ordinance passed by
said City Council.
(15) [Repealed.]
(16) To prevent encumbering the streets, sidewalks, and public alleys with firewood, lumber,
carriages, boxes, or other things.
(17) To provide for the care, preservation, and improvement of public grounds, except as
herein otherwise provided.
(18) To restrain and punish vagrants.
(19) To make regulations respecting paupers, except as herein otherwise provided.
(20) To restrain or regulate the keeping and running at large of poultry, cattle, horses,
swine, sheep, goats, and dogs. And in addition to the tax now imposed by the laws
of this State upon the owner or keeper of dogs, to impose upon or require of the owner
or keeper of any dog or dogs such additional tax or license fee for the keeping thereof,
and prescribe such penalties in default thereof, as may be deemed necessary. And all
monies received hereunder shall be paid into the City Treasury and belong to said
City.
(21) To provide a supply of water for the protection of the City against fire and for the
distribution and sale of water for private and public purposes to persons and corporations
both within and without the City, and to regulate the use of the same; to establish
and maintain reservoirs, aqueducts, water pipes, hydrants, or any other apparatus
necessary for such purposes, upon, in, and through the lands of individuals and corporations
both within and without the City, on making compensation therefor; but the City Council,
in providing such supply of water and establishing and maintaining reservoirs, aqueducts,
water pipes, hydrants, and other apparatus, as hereinbefore provided, for the distribution
and sale of water outside of the City, shall not incur any expense for the same that
cannot be paid from the current net earnings of the Water Resources Department above
the necessary operating expenses, and the necessary cost of maintaining, improving,
and adding to the property and equipment of that Department within the City, unless
authorized by the legal voters so to do, and to raise the necessary funds to pay for
the same.
(22) To regulate and determine the time or place of bathing in any of the public waters
within said City, or adjacent thereto, and to prevent the same.
(23) To compel all persons to remove from the sidewalks and gutters in front of the premises
owned or occupied by them all snow, ice, dirt, and garbage, and to keep such sidewalks
and gutters clean, and to compel the owners or occupants of any land or premises in
the City to cut and remove from the streets and sidewalks in front of such land or
premises all grass, brush, thistles, and weeds growing or being thereon, under such
regulations as may be prescribed therefor, except as herein otherwise provided.
(24) To regulate and license innkeepers, keepers of saloons, victualing houses, billiard
saloons, billiard tables, bowling alleys, places of amusement, and auctioneers, or
to tax the same, under such regulations as shall be prescribed therefor; and all monies
paid for such licenses or taxes shall belong to the City and be paid into the City
Treasury.
(25) To regulate or restrain the use of rockets, squibs, firecrackers, or other fireworks
in the streets or commons, and to prevent the practicing therein of any amusements
having a tendency to injure or annoy persons passing therein or to endanger the security
of property.
(26) To regulate gauging; the place and manner of selling and weighing hay, packing, inspecting,
and branding meats and produce; and of selling, measuring, and weighing wood, lime,
coal, and petroleum products; and to appoint suitable persons to superintend and conduct
the same.
(27) To regulate and license porters and cartmen who receive or discharge their loads within
the City; to regulate and license the owners and drivers of taxicabs, jitneys, and
motor vehicles for hire, receiving, or discharging passengers, with or without baggage,
within the City, whether or not such vehicles are engaged in carrying passengers entirely
within the City; to prescribe the duties and privileges of such owners and drivers;
to fix and regulate rates of fare, including maximum and minimum rate or rates, for
any such transportation of passengers within the City; to license and regulate all
such vehicles; to rescind any and all licenses granted hereunder, and to prohibit
the operation of such vehicles upon the streets of the City when either the owners
or the drivers thereof have not complied with all the provisions of ordinances duly
enacted hereunder; provided, however, that no license shall be granted hereunder unless
the applicant has first complied with all the requirements of the laws of the State
of Vermont relative to the registration and operation of motor vehicles to enable
the applicant to use the license for which he or she applies; and to limit and restrict
the use of its streets and highways by such motor vehicles in such manner as will
promote the safety and general welfare of the public.
(28) To prescribe the powers and duties of watchmen and police officers of said City.
(29) To regulate, establish, and alter the grade of streets and the grade and width of
sidewalks, and the construction thereof, and prescribe the material to be used therein.
(30) To provide for lighting of the City.
(31) To provide for removing and trimming shade, fruit, and ornamental trees in the public
streets and parks whenever the public good or convenience requires the same to be
done, except as herein otherwise provided.
(32) To prohibit and punish willful injuries to shade, ornamental, and fruit trees standing
on public or private lands.
(33) To prevent and punish trespasses or willful injuries to or upon public buildings,
squares, commons, cemeteries, fountains, statues, or other property.
(34) To establish and maintain a public library.
(35) To regulate the time and manner in which examinations of public documents, land records,
and other public records shall be made.
(36) To establish, manage, and control public cemeteries, parks, commons, or any other
public place in said City, and to regulate the use of the same by the public, except
as herein otherwise provided.
(37) To permit, regulate, license, tax, or prohibit, except as herein otherwise provided,
the suspending, putting up, or continuance of any sign or awning in or over any street,
lane, alley, common, or other public place in said City; and whenever the public good
may require, to order and direct that any such sign or awning heretofore erected or
suspended as aforesaid shall be changed, taken down, or removed; and to order and
direct the removal of any sign or awning upon which any license fee or tax levied
under the provisions hereof shall not have been paid.
(38)(A) To provide for assessing owners of land and buildings thereon abutting any street,
alley, or lane in said City such sum as said land and buildings shall be benefited
by raising or lowering the surface of said street or highway and also to award such
damages to such owners as they shall suffer in consequence of raising or lowering
the surface of said street or highway as aforesaid.
(B) The same proceedings shall be had in respect to said award of damages and assessment
as are herein provided in case the owners of lands are dissatisfied with the award
of damages or amount of assessment in laying out or altering streets or highways and
said assessment shall be a lien in the nature of a tax on the lands and buildings
so assessed, and may be collected or enforced in the same manner herein provided for
assessments made in laying out, altering, or resurveying any street or highway in
said City.
(39) To provide for indexing any part or all of the records of deeds and of any or all
public records of said City of Burlington, and like records of the former Town of
Burlington, by the “card index,” so-called, or any other like system. Such “card index”
or other like system may be employed in addition to or in lieu of the manner of indexing
now required by the laws of this State.
(40)(A) To fix, demand, impose, and enforce such terms, conditions, and regulations for the
use or occupation of any street or highway in said City by any street railroad, traction,
telegraph, telephone, electric, gas, electric lighting, electric power, or other company
or any person enjoying the privileges, or exercising the functions of any such company
aforesaid, as shall be just and reasonable, including any sum or sums of money to
be paid to said City for the use of any street or highway by any or all of said companies
for the purpose of laying, maintaining, and operating any street railway therein,
or for the purpose of therein erecting and maintaining any poles, wires, or any other
apparatus in or under the surface of said street and to prohibit the use of such street
by any such company or person until such terms have been complied with.
(B) In case any such company or person cannot agree with said City upon such terms, said
company or person may apply by petition to the county court within and for the County
of Chittenden, and said court shall thereupon, after hearing all parties interested
therein, fix such terms as shall be just and reasonable and make all necessary orders
for carrying its decision therein into effect.
(C) Provided, however, that no special franchise shall be granted by said City Council
for a longer term than 30 years, and further provided that at the expiration of any
franchise, or at any time thereafter, the City shall have the right to acquire the
title to and take over the property employed or used in the business for which such
franchise was granted, upon the payment to the owner of the same of the fair value
of the physical properties at that time employed or used in such business, and that
in case the City is unable to agree with the owners as to the value of such physical
properties, then said property may be condemned and taken for public use, and the
value thereof ascertained and awarded as compensation therefor to the owner of the
same in the manner, as near as may be, provided in the general laws of the State for
the determination of the damages to be awarded persons aggrieved or damaged by the
construction or operation of a street railway, and further provided that the grant
of every such special franchise shall contain provisions embodying the foregoing conditions
and limitations. Provided, notwithstanding the foregoing, the City Council shall not
have authority to increase the level of any franchise fee enacted pursuant hereto
without first receiving approval by a majority of the voters present and voting at
an annual or special City meeting duly warned for this purpose.
(41) To prescribe the duties of the Inspector of Electrical Wiring Apparatus and the installation
and maintenance thereof, to regulate and require licenses for all persons engaged
in the business or trade of selling electrical apparatus and supplies and in the business
or trade of installing and repairing electrical wiring and apparatus but not including
telephone or telegraph wires or apparatus, and to regulate and require licenses for
all persons engaged in the business or trade of plumbing or house drainage within
the limits of said City and to fix and impose the terms, conditions, and fees for
all such licenses.
(42) To purchase, construct, and maintain a public wharf.
(43) [Reserved.]
(44) To acquire voting machines, so-called, and prescribe the use thereof in any or all
elections held within said City.
(45) To order any streets or part of a street sprinkled, sprayed, or treated with water,
tarvia, or any other materials when in its judgment the public good requires.
(46) To enact and enforce rules for its government and for the government of the City Council.
Notwithstanding 1 V.S.A. § 172, the City Council may enact rules providing that, as long as a quorum exists, a valid
majority for taking action may be a concurrence of a majority of those present and
voting.
(47) To appropriate money in excess of the amount required by law to be raised for highways,
which a town may now vote to raise at its annual meeting or at a special meeting duly
warned for that purpose, according to the provisions of the laws of the State relating
to highways, and to assess upon the grand list of the City a tax sufficient to raise
the amount of money so appropriated.
(48) To regulate the exposing for sale in the City and conveying through the streets of
the City of foodstuffs intended for human consumption to prevent contamination thereof.
(49) To fix, impose, and establish the terms, conditions, and regulations under which any
person or persons may exclusively occupy specified portion of any public street, lane,
alley, or other thoroughfare used for public travel, for the storage or sale of oil
or other merchandise, or for any other private purpose not affected with a public
interest, to fix and collect a fee for such occupancy, and to prohibit use or occupancy
of such specified portion for any other purpose.
(50) To acquire and hold by lease, purchase, or gift and to maintain within the limits
of said City, or within the limits of an adjoining town, a public aviation field and
municipal airport and to properly equip the same for use; to regulate the use of said
field and its equipment and to charge, receive, demand, and collect from time to time
reasonable compensation for use thereof and to manage and control such field and its
equipment, appoint proper officers to have charge of the same and to define their
duties; to provide for the establishment and maintenance of an airport police force
to provide security and law enforcement within the limits of the airport premises
and to lease to private parties for aviation purposes such part of said field and
buildings as in the judgment of the City Council is not for the time being required
by the City for the purposes of a public aviation field or municipal airport and for
such time as in the judgment of said Council the same is not so required.
(51) To acquire and hold by lease, purchase, or gift, and to maintain and operate within
or without the limits of said City, a stone quarry, a sand and gravel pit, and an
asphalt plant, and all lands and interests in lands, required for such purposes, and
to properly equip the same for use, and to engage the City in the business of selling
stone from such quarry, sand and gravel from such pit, and asphalt from such plant,
to persons and corporations both within and without said City and for public or private
purposes, said City being hereby authorized to maintain and operate such stone quarry,
sand and gravel pit, and asphalt plant for such purposes.
(52) To regulate and license junk dealers.
(53) To receive and hold grants, gifts, or bequests of money or other property, in trust,
the income or interest of which is to be used for the care, improvement, embellishment,
and repairs of its burial grounds, or of private lots within any such burial ground.
(54) To receive and hold grants, gifts, or bequests in money or other property, in trust,
for any governmental purpose, under the charter, and manage and use the same, its
income, or interest, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the trust.
(55) To provide for, create, establish, maintain, and regulate an insurance sinking or
reserve fund to be used for the purpose of compensating the City for any and all losses
and damages to City property by reason of fire, tornado, wind, flood, or other casualty
and for the purpose of paying to City employees, their dependents, executors, administrators,
and heirs, any and all compensation that may become their due from the City under
the provisions of the laws of the State relating to workers’ compensation.
(56) To control and regulate the use of any present or future harbor on Lake Champlain
in said City and to make and put into force and effect by proper ordinances all reasonable
rules and regulations not in conflict with the jurisdiction of the federal government,
governing the use of the waters of Lake Champlain within the City limits and the use
of any public pier, wharf, or dock within said City; the mooring and anchorage of
vessels within said harbors and at piers, docks, or wharfs within the City; trespasses
and nuisances upon public and privately owned wharfs, docks, and piers; and all other
proper and reasonable rules and regulations in the premises, tending to promote the
public safety, health, morals, convenience, utility, and the public welfare, and to
fix, determine, collect, and enforce reasonable charges for the use of any public
wharf, pier, or dock owned by the City, and to prescribe and enforce penalties for
violation of any and all of such rules and regulations.
(57) To enter into any agreement on behalf of the City with the United States, or any department,
subdivision, or agency thereof, to accept grants, loans, and assistance from the United
States, or any department, subdivision, or agency thereof, to make public improvements
within the City, or upon property of the City outside its corporate limits, and to
make appropriations consistent with the provisions of this charter to accomplish such
purpose.
(58)(A) To acquire and hold by lease, purchase, gift, condemnation under the provisions of
24 V.S.A. §§ 2805 through 2812, inclusive of the Vermont Statutes Annotated, as amended, or otherwise, and to maintain
and operate within the limits of Chittenden County, a municipal parking lot or lots,
a municipal parking garage or garages, and any other municipal parking structure(s),
and to alter, improve, extend, add to, construct, and reconstruct such lots or garages,
subject, however, to the provisions hereinafter contained in this subdivision (58).
In exercising the foregoing power, and notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the
City Council shall not, except pursuant to subdivision (50) of this section and section
276 of this charter, have authority to acquire any property outside the limits of
the City of Burlington through the use of the power of eminent domain or condemnation.
The City Council shall not be exempt from the responsibility for securing all applicable
permits from any community within Chittenden County outside the limits of Burlington
in which it desires to construct a parking lot or garage. Any parking lot or garage
constructed by the City outside the corporate limits of Burlington shall be subject
to the ad valorem property tax of the community in which it is located.
(B) The Board of Public Works Commissioners shall have general control, management, and
supervision of all municipal parking lots and garages. The Board shall have power
to make regulations with respect to the use of all such municipal parking lots and
garages, including reasonable terms, conditions, and charges, and shall also have
the power to regulate the parking, operation, and speed of vehicles and pedestrian
and vehicular traffic on the public highways of the City, including such ways, streets,
alleys, lanes, or other places as may be open to the public, to erect, maintain, and
operate equipment and systems for the regulation of parking of vehicles; to govern
and control the erection of guideposts, street signs, and street safety devices on
the highways; and to prescribe regulations and penalties for violation of the same
in respect to all of the matters and to remove and impound as a public nuisance, at
the expense of the owner, any vehicle found parking on a public highway or in a municipal
parking lot or garage in violation of any City ordinance or any regulation hereunder,
and to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the owner may redeem such vehicle
from the pound, which regulations, when published in the manner provided in section
49 of this charter for the publication of ordinances, shall have the force and effect
of ordinances of the City, and violations of which shall be subject to the penalties
provided in section 50 of this charter. All ordinances of the City, and all regulations
of the Board of Parking Commissioners, in effect prior to July 1, 1959, shall remain
in full force and effect notwithstanding that the subject matter thereof shall be
within the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Works Commissioners, unless and until
such Board shall, by regulation duly adopted and published, alter, amend, or repeal
the same.
(C) The Board shall also from time to time recommend to the City Council the acquisition
or construction of municipal parking lots or garages, and the City Council shall not
authorize such acquisition or construction without such recommendation, nor shall
the City Council dispose of or lease to others for operation any municipal parking
lot or garage without the recommendation of the Board.
(D) All receipts from the operation or lease of municipal parking lots and garages shall
be kept by the City Treasurer in a separate fund, to be known as the Parking Facilities
Fund and shall be used for the purpose of paying any and all expenses related to operating,
maintaining, acquiring, constructing, or expanding the lots and garages, including
any payments on any obligation incurred for construction or repair of those lots or
garages. Any amounts unused at the end of a fiscal year shall be carried over to the
next fiscal year. All revenues generated from on-street parking equipment and systems
shall be used by the City Council for traffic regulation and control, including acquisition
or maintenance of parking facilities; proper repair or construction of streets, sidewalks,
and bridges; traffic or parking demand management facilities, planning, or services;
traffic calming measures; and other transportation-related activities. In addition,
the City Council may vote to place any such revenues in the Parking Facilities Fund,
at its discretion.
(E) If it shall reasonably appear to the Board of Public Works Commissioners at any time
that the receipts from the existing municipal parking lots or garages are in excess
of the amounts required for the purposes enumerated in subdivision (D) of this subdivision
(58), and that the acquisition of further lots or garages is not required, they shall
cause rates and charges for the use of the lots and garages, or some of them, to be
reduced.
(F) If the Board of Public Works Commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of subdivision
(C) of this subdivision (58), has recommended the acquisition or construction of a
new parking lot or garage, the City Council may from time to time pledge, assign,
or otherwise hypothecate the net revenues from the lots or garages, after the payment
of operating expenses, and may mortgage any part or all of the lots or garages, including
personal property located therein, to secure the payment of the cost of purchasing,
acquiring, leasing, altering, improving, extending, adding to, constructing, or reconstructing
the lots or garages, but the City Council shall not pledge the credit of the City
for any of the purposes except in accordance with the provisions of section 62 of
this charter.
(59) To fix and establish, and to provide for the collection of, sewer rents and sewage
disposal charges, and to alter and amend the same, pursuant to the provisions of the
general laws of the State relating thereto. In addition, the City Council shall also
have the power to fix and establish by ordinance, and to alter and amend from time
to time thereafter, reasonable fees to be paid for new or amended uses of lands or
buildings that shall require a new or additional allocation of a portion of the City’s
wastewater collection system capacity, and/or wastewater treatment facilities capacity,
such fees to include capacity charges, connection fees, impact fees, or similar charges
related to the sewer system.
(60) To exercise any powers now or hereafter granted to municipalities under the laws of
the State, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter; provided, however,
that in the event so granted to municipalities, excepting only those powers relating
to the amount of taxes that may be assessed upon the grand list, are more extensive
than the powers herein contained, the powers so granted shall control.
(61) To provide by ordinance minimum requirements and standards for the subdivision of
lands within the corporate limits of the City, including standards and requirements
for streets, services, and utilities in such subdivisions; to prescribe penalties
for the violation of such standards or requirements; to prohibit such subdivisions
and to prohibit the recording or filing of plans for such subdivisions as do not comply
with such standards or requirements; and to designate appropriate City officials to
pass upon such compliance; provided, however, that no ordinance shall be adopted hereunder
until after public hearing thereon. The term “subdivision” as used herein shall mean
the division of a tract or parcel of land into two or more lots for the purpose, whether
immediate or future, of sale or building development, excluding development for agriculture
purposes, and shall include resubdivision.
(62) To provide by ordinance a procedure for waiver of process and prosecution by an individual,
firm, or corporation notified or accused of a violation of a City of Burlington ordinance
by payment to the City of an amount fixed by ordinance, in lieu of such process and
prosecution.
(63)(A) To establish and maintain a unified Department of Public Works, the superintendent
of which will be designated Public Works Director, said Department to be managed and
controlled by the Mayor and City Council. The City Council may by resolution delegate
any of its powers relating to the Public Works Department to the Board of Public Works
Commissioners.
(B) The Board of Public Works Commissioners shall consist of seven legal voters of the
City of Burlington, who shall be appointed by the City Council to serve for the term
of three years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, except as
herein otherwise provided.
(C) The City Council with Mayor presiding shall appoint to the Public Works Commission
seven legal voters of the City of Burlington. On the first Monday in June, 1988, and
every three years thereafter, the City Council with Mayor presiding shall appoint
three commissioners to serve a term of three years. On the first Monday in June 1989,
and every three years thereafter, the City Council with Mayor presiding shall appoint
two commissioners to serve a term of three years. On the first Monday in June 1990,
and every three years thereafter, the City Council with Mayor presiding shall appoint
two commissioners to serve a term of three years.
(D) The Public Works Director shall have the special and immediate care and practical
supervision of the Public Works Department, its personnel, and its facilities and
equipment, subject to the authority of the Mayor as Chief Executive Officer and the
orders and ordinances of the City Council.
(E) Unless otherwise determined by resolution of the City Council, the Public Works Department
shall, in addition to the Director, consist of a Streets Division, Water Division,
Waste/Solid Waste Division, Traffic Division, Finance Division, Equipment Maintenance
Division/Engineering Division, and Construction Division, each of which shall include
a Manager who shall be hired as a City employee by the Director and shall serve subject
to the direction of the Director.
(64)(A) Where there is no written rental agreement and notwithstanding 9 V.S.A. § 4467(c), to prohibit, by ordinance, a landlord from terminating a tenancy of rental housing
within the City for no cause unless the landlord provides to the tenant written notice
of at least 90 days when the tenancy has been less than two years and of at least
120 days when the tenancy has been two years or more.
(B) Unless inconsistent with a written rental agreement or otherwise provided by law,
and notwithstanding the provisions of 9 V.S.A. § 4456(d), to require, by ordinance, tenants who wish to terminate a residential tenancy to
give actual notice to the landlord at least two rental periods prior to the termination
date specified in the notice.
(65) To prohibit increases in rent for rental housing within the City without advance written
notice of at least 90 days.
(66) To regulate thermal energy systems in residential and commercial buildings, including
assessing carbon impact or alternative compliance payments, for the purpose of reducing
greenhouse gas emissions throughout the City. No assessment of carbon impact or alternative
compliance payment shall be imposed unless previously authorized by a majority of
the legal voters of the City voting on the question at an annual or special City meeting
duly warned for that purpose. (Amended 1999, No. M-7, § 4, eff. May 19, 1999; 2003, No. M-14 (Adj. Sess.), § 1a; 2011, No. M-4, § 2, eff. April 4, 2011; 2017, No. M-7, § 2, eff. May 22, 2017; 2019, No. M-6, § 2, eff. May 23, 2019; 2021, No. M-9 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 20, 2022; 2021, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. June 7, 2022.)