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.
§ 2601. Aid to hospitals
At any legal meeting thereof, a town or incorporated village may appropriate such
sums of money as it deems necessary for the erection, equipment, or support of any
nonsectarian hospital established within the county where such town is located, or
in an adjoining county, or in an adjoining county in another state.
§ 2602. Free hospital beds
A town may appropriate such sums of money, not exceeding $700.00, for a free hospital
bed or beds for a period of not less than one year and may appropriate such sum of
money, not exceeding $5,000.00, for the permanent endowment of a free hospital bed
or beds, as such town or city deems advisable, for the use of the inhabitants of such
municipality as are entitled to receive assistance by reason of their indigent circumstances.
§ 2603. Contract with hospital
The treasurer of a municipality making an appropriation, as provided in section 2602 of this title, may make a contract with such hospital concerning the admission of patients thereto.
The rate, rules, and regulations governing such admission shall be approved by the
selectboard of such town or the city council of such city before a payment is made
to such hospital.
§ 2604. Joint action by municipalities
A municipality may appropriate a sum of money to secure a licensed physician or a
registered nurse, or both, or provide ambulance service, and may join with adjacent
municipalities in providing these services. (Amended 1967, No. 327 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 23, 1968.)
§ 2605. Physician’s residence—Purchase
Municipalities, separately or by compact, may purchase and maintain a residence for
a physician, and may contract with the physician for his or her occupancy on a lease-purchase
option basis, upon approval of the question and the money therefor, by vote at a regular
or special meeting, duly warned for that purpose. (1967, No. 152, § 1, eff. April 15, 1967.)
§ 2606. Physician’s residence; financing
Municipalities and compacts may borrow the money so voted upon notes signed by the
treasurer of the municipality or compact. (Added 1967, No. 152, § 2, eff. April 15, 1967; amended 2017, No. 74, § 101.)
§ 2607. Appropriation for traveling nurse
Towns, incorporated villages, and incorporated school districts may appropriate a
sum for the purpose of employing a registered nurse within such municipality or may
join with other adjoining municipalities in employing a registered nurse. The provisions
of this section shall not apply to municipal corporations whose charters make provisions
for the employment of school, district, or traveling nurses.
§ 2608. Appropriations for hospitals; cities may make
When the charter of a city provides that a board or body, other than the legal voters
in city meeting assembled, may assess taxes and appropriate money, such board or body
may assess taxes and appropriate such sums of money as it deems necessary for the
support of a nonsectarian hospital established in such city and incorporated and existing
under and by virtue of the laws of the State.