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.
§ 19-1. Incorporation of district
School Districts Number 2 of Jericho and Number 3 of Underhill are hereby incorporated
as a graded school district, by the name of the Underhill Graded School District,
and shall have all the powers, duties, and privileges granted by law to graded school
districts.
§ 19-2. Officers
The officers of the graded school district shall be the same as are or may be provided
by law for other school districts in the State, and shall have the same power and
perform the same duties as the same officers in other school districts, except as
hereinafter limited.
§ 19-3. First election
The first election of officers of the Graded School District may be held at a special
meeting duly warned by the District Clerk of District Number 2 in Jericho or of Number
3 in Underhill by both of the District Clerks, on a petition signed by seven legal
voters in the Graded School District, under the laws governing the warning of special
school meetings in other districts, and the officers so elected shall hold their respective
offices until their successors are elected at the next annual school meeting.
§ 19-4. Annual meeting
The annual meeting of the Graded School District shall be held each year on the second
Tuesday of March.
§ 19-5. Adoption of rules and bylaws; acceptance of scholars
The Prudential Committee of the Graded School District, may make such bylaws, rules,
and regulations as may be deemed expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of this
State, and may establish the grade for the admission of all scholars.
§ 19-6. Transfer of property
The Trustees of Bell Institute are hereby authorized, by a vote at a meeting duly
warned for that purpose, to transfer by deed or lease the academy building of the
institution and all the property appertaining thereto, to the Graded School District,
provided the Graded School District, at a school meeting lawfully warned for that
purpose, shall vote to accept the property for school purposes.
§ 19-7. Effective date
This act shall take effect from passage.