The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
§ 15-1. Establishment of District
All of the Town of Bennington which is included within the limits of the incorporated
Village of North Bennington is hereby constituted a school district in the Town by
the name of the North Bennington Graded School District and the Graded School District
shall have all the powers and privileges and shall be subject to all the duties and
liabilities that are incident to school districts as established under the laws of
this State.
§ 15-2. Prudential Committee
The Prudential Committee shall consist of five persons, and at the annual meeting
of the District, vacancies occasioned by the expiration of the term of office of members
of the Committee shall be filled by the election of members for the term of three
years each; and all vacancies on the Committee caused by resignation, death, removal
from the District, or other cause shall be filled at an annual or special meeting
warned for that purpose for the unexpired term of such members only.
§ 15-3. Authority to make rules and establish schools
The Graded School District may make 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 and of such grade or grades and for teaching
therein such branches of knowledge as it may deem expedient.
§ 15-4. Distribution of public funds
In the distribution of public moneys, that portion which may be divided among the
several districts, irrespective of the number of scholars or their attendance at school,
shall be so divided as to give the Graded School District the shares of the several
original districts of which it is or shall be composed.
§ 15-5. Additional districts
If any other school district or districts in the Town of Bennington or in the adjoining
Town of Shaftsbury shall at any time, by their vote at a meeting duly warned for that
purpose, signify their desire to become united with the Graded School District, and
if the Graded School District at a meeting duly warned for that purpose shall vote
to agree to the union, the additional District shall to all intents and purposes become
and form a part of the North Bennington Graded School District, and the union of the
districts may be made upon the terms in regard to the school property of each as may
be mutually agreed upon by the districts.