§ 1. Village boundaries and establishment of body politic
All estate in the Town of Manchester, included in the following boundaries, is hereby
incorporated and shall hereafter be known as the Village of Manchester:
(1) Being all that part of the Town of Manchester in the County of Bennington, contained
within the bounds of Fire District Number Two as originally laid out and established
by the Selectboard of the Town of Manchester in 1878, and recorded in volume 19, pages
505 and 506 of the land records of the Town; and also lands added and included within
the limits of the Village in addition to limits specified in a former charter of the
Village, being No. 182 of the Acts of 1900, and described in the minutes of meetings
of the Village as follows: One hundred eleven acres of land of Robert T. Lincoln included
in the Village limits by a vote at a Village meeting on January 2, 1905 as described
in a plot on file in the Village records.
(2) Farms of Fred E. Fish and E.A. Wilcox lying west of the Battenkill River, included
in the Village limits by vote of a Village meeting held on August 25, 1902.
(3) Lands of R.D. Brown, C.F. Orvis, W.G. Beebe, A.L. Mosley, R.E. Way, Nathan Cook, and
C.L. Towsley included in the Village limits by vote of a Village meeting held on June
25, 1906.
(4) The inhabitants within the bounds are constituted a body politic and corporate with
all of the usual powers incident to public corporations, to be known by the name of
the Village of Manchester. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 1.)
§ 2. Alteration of Village boundaries
The inhabitants of the Village may alter the bounds of the Village with the written
consent of the persons owning real estate that will be included or excluded thereby,
the written consent and alteration being first recorded in the office of the Town
Clerk of the Town of Manchester, and with the approval of the Town of Manchester as
evidenced by the majority vote of the Town in Town meeting duly warned therefor. If
the Town of Manchester votes its approval, the consent, alteration, and the vote of
the Town of Manchester shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Village,
and upon recording, the alterations in the bounds of the Village so made shall become
effective. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 2.)
§ 3. Powers of Village; general authority
The Village shall have and is hereby granted the authority to exercise all powers
relating to municipal affairs and no enumeration of powers in this chapter shall be
deemed to limit or restrict the general grant of authority hereby conferred; but this
grant of authority shall not be deemed to limit the authority of the Legislature to
alter, amend, or repeal this charter; or to limit the right to hereafter pass general
laws applicable alike to this and all other municipal corporations of the State; nor
shall this grant of authority be deemed to limit the patronage or control of the State
with respect to the Village. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 3.)
§ 4. Village powers; specific authority
The generality of the preceding section and the grant of powers therein made, but
as a more specific designation of some of the powers conferred upon the Village, the
Village of Manchester has authority:
(1) To levy, assess, and collect taxes, in order to carry out its powers; to appropriate
and to borrow money, within the limits prescribed by law; and to levy and collect
special assessments for benefits conferred.
(2) To purchase, hold, and convey real and personal property and to purchase, erect, and
keep in repair buildings and other structures for Village purposes; to furnish all
local public services; to purchase, hire, construct, own, maintain, and operate, or
lease local public utilities, including aqueducts, reservoirs, a water supply system,
and an electric light and power system; to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise,
within or without the corporate limits, property necessary for any public utility
and other Village purposes, subject to restrictions imposed by law.
(3) To make local public improvements and to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, property
within its corporate limits necessary for the improvements; and also to acquire an
excess over that needed for the improvements, and to sell or lease the excess property
with restrictions, in order to protect and preserve the improvements.
(4) To issue and sell bonds as permitted by the laws of this State without specific security
therefor.
(5) To purchase or lease lands within or without the corporate limits of the Village;
to lay out, alter, and discontinue streets, highways, lanes, commons, alleys, and
walks; to provide places of healthful recreation in summer or in winter such as a
skating rink, a swimming pool, a playing field, and a public park; to provide for
and maintain tourist camp sites, airports, aviation landing fields, a municipal forest
reserve, and all other municipal undertakings and services authorized by law.
(6) To adopt and enforce within its limits building, police, sanitary, zoning, Village
planning, and other similar regulations and ordinances not in conflict with law.
(7) Subject always to the Constitution and laws of this State and of the United States,
and to the limitations of section 3 of this charter, to enact, adopt, repeal, alter,
or amend ordinances, bylaws, and other regulations respecting the following matters
within the Village limits:
(A) The construction, establishment, use, operation, and licensing of markets dealing
in food stuffs, slaughterhouses, restaurants, and other eating establishments; manufacturing
establishments; advertising billboards, signs; lunch carts, bowling alleys, moving
picture houses, public garages, hog pens, poultry houses, dog kennels, stables, gasoline
filling stations, private drains, sewers, and public dumps.
(B) The suppression of disorderly and public gambling houses, loafing, obscenity, disturbances,
noises, vagrancy, and smoke nuisances.
(C) The protection of buildings against fire by precautionary measures and inspection,
the maintenance, replacement, and repair of stovepipes, furnaces, chimneys, electric
wiring, and all other instrumentalities capable of causing damage by fire, and the
erection and repair of buildings within fire limits as designated and prescribed by
Village ordinances.
(D) Vagrants, mendicants, peddlers, itinerant vendors, and transient business establishments.
(E) The water supply for the protection of the Village against fire and for other purposes,
and to regulate the use of the same.
(F) The erection of poles and the placing of wires, cables, pipes, and electrical conduits,
and the use of the same; the suspension, putting up, or removal of any sign or awning
in or over any street, alley, highway, walk, park, common, or other public place,
the clearing, repairing, and improvement of streets, alleys, highways, parks, commons,
and other public places, and the use of the same; the planting, preservation, maintenance,
and removal of shade and other trees; and the prohibiting and punishing of damage
or injury to the same; the use of rockets, squibs, firecrackers, and all other fireworks
in public places; preventing the practice of any amusement in any public place tending
to injure or annoy any person therein or to endanger the security of property, coasting
or skiing on all public places; the removal of snow, ice, garbage, refuse, and dirt
from sidewalks and gutters by the owners or occupants of the premises upon which those
sidewalks and gutters abut; and the cutting and removal of grass, thistles, or weeds,
growing or being on those sidewalks and gutters by those owners and occupants. The
regulation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, parking, the erection and maintenance
of guide posts, street signs, street safety devices; and the regulation of taxicabs,
other vehicles, and animals used in the transportation or conveyance of persons or
goods for hire. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 4.)
§ 5. Village meetings
(a) The annual meetings of the Village shall be on the second Monday of July in each year
at the place within the Village and at the hour as may be named in the warning therefor
for the purpose of electing the officers hereinafter named, and for the purpose of
transacting business specified in the warning, which warning shall be signed by the
Clerk, or, in the absence of the Clerk, by one of the trustees, and shall be posted
in at least three public places within the limits of the Village, not less than six
nor more than 20 days before the time of holding the meeting.
(b) Special Village meetings may be called at any time by the Clerk under the direction
of the trustees or a majority of them, to fill vacancies which may occur in any of
the offices, by death, resignation, or otherwise, and for the transaction of any business
proper to be considered at a special meeting of the corporation.
(c) The trustees shall, upon written application by ten legal voters of the Village, stating
the purpose for which they wish it called, direct that a special meeting be called.
All special meetings shall be called by warnings in the same manner as annual meetings.
At all meetings, persons residing in the Village, who are legal voters in Town meeting
in the Town of Manchester, shall be qualified to vote, provided they have resided
in the Village for three months next prior to the meeting. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 5.)
§ 6. Election of Village officials
(a) At the annual meeting to be held on the second Monday of July, the Village shall,
by ballot, if called for by three or more legal voters in the meeting, elect for the
ensuing year, and, until their successors are chosen; a President, who shall preside
at all Village meetings, and be vested with the powers of a moderator at town meeting
and who shall be, by virtue of this office, one of the trustees of the Village and
President of the Board of Trustees; a Clerk; a Treasurer; and a Tax Collector; and
the Treasurer and Tax Collector shall give bonds for the faithful performance of their
duties in the sums as the trustees shall direct; and if a Treasurer or Collector shall
fail to give the bonds within 10 days after election or appointment, the office shall
be vacant; three auditors, who shall have the powers and perform the duties in the
Village which town auditors perform in towns; and the corporation at each annual meeting
shall elect two trustees for a term of two years; the trustees shall have charge of
the prudential affairs of the corporation, with powers necessary for that purpose,
and may fill all vacancies in the offices of the corporation and may act by a majority,
and of whom the elder of those oldest in office present at any Village meeting, shall
act in the absence of the President.
(b) In case of failure to elect any or all of the officers at an annual meeting, they
may be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 7.)
§ 7. Village Clerk
The Clerk shall keep records of all Village meetings, all trustees meetings when requested
so to do, and other proceedings of the Village. The ordinances and regulations of
the Village shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk, and the Clerk’s certificate
that the ordinances and regulations of the Village were adopted at a meeting of the
trustees called and held for that purpose, shall be prima facie evidence of the fact
in any court in this State, and certified copies of the bylaws, ordinances, and regulations,
and Clerk’s certificates shall also be received as evidence in all courts in this
State. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 7.)
§ 8. Village trustees; powers
(a) The trustees shall have the same powers to lay out, alter, and discontinue streets
and highways in the Village as are vested by law in the selectboard of towns, and
all proceedings in respect to laying out, altering, or discontinuing streets and highways
in the Village shall be had in the same manner as is prescribed by law in respect
to these matters in towns.
(b) The trustees shall have power to enact, amend, alter, or repeal bylaws, ordinances,
and regulations, not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State and of the
United States, or to the charter of this Village, and to enforce the same by fine,
penalty, forfeiture, or any other proper remedy, and shall have the other powers as
are stated in this chapter.
(c) The trustees shall assess all taxes required by law or by vote of the Village, and
shall direct the expenditure of all monies belonging to the Village, and shall draw
orders for all monies disbursed by them, and generally shall perform all duties enjoined
upon them by the Village. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 8.)
§ 9. Village trustees; appointments
The trustees shall have authority to appoint annually and to prescribe the duties
of a Chief of Police and police officers; of a Chief Engineer and the assistant engineers
of the Fire Department; of the superintendents of the Village departments; of a Building
Inspector; and of other Village officials as they may judge necessary for the welfare
of the Village; and the number of police officers, engineers, and Village firemen
and other employees shall be within the discretion of the trustees. Those officers
as the trustees may direct shall be qualified by taking appropriate oaths of office,
and their appointments and the certificates of their oaths shall be recorded by the
Village Clerk. The appointments may be revoked at the pleasure of the trustees, and
the trustees may make rules and regulations governing the activities of these officers
and of all other Village employees. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 9.)
§ 10. Fire Department; Chief Engineer
The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department and the Chief’s assistants shall be ex officio
fire wardens of the Village, and the duties of the Engineer shall be those as may
be prescribed by the bylaws, ordinances, and regulations of the Village. The Chief
Engineer, and in the Chief’s absence the acting chief designated by the Trustees,
shall have charge of all machines and apparatus within the Village for the prevention
and extinguishment of fires. On the occasion of any fire in the Village, the Chief
Engineer shall have control of both the regular Fire Department and all volunteer
fire companies, and may demand the assistance of any person present in order to extinguish
the fire; the Chief Engineer shall have the power to cause to be pulled down, blown
up, or removed any building that the Chief Engineer may deem necessary for the suppression,
or to prevent the extension, of the fire, and neither the Chief Engineer, nor anyone
obeying the Chief Engineer’s orders, shall be liable personally for any property damage
done thereby. The Chief Engineer may work in conjunction with the Building Inspector,
as the Trustees may direct, and may have the authority of the Building Inspector in
the discretion of the trustees. The engineers when on duty shall wear conspicuously
on their person a badge of office, with their respective rank inscribed thereon, without
which no person shall be bound to obey their directions. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 10.)
§ 11. Building Inspector
Within the Village limits, the Building Inspector shall have authority to oversee
the location and construction of all buildings, and all repairs on buildings already
constructed, and shall oversee the construction and repair of elevators, oil storage
tanks, fireplaces, stoves, flues, chimneys, and all electrical wiring. The Building
Inspector may order the occupants or owners of any building or premises to repair
the same, or any elevator, oil storage tank, fireplace, stove, flue, chimney, or electrical
wiring that, in the opinion of the trustees is unsafe or dangerous; and the Building
Inspector may inspect the manner of manufacture and keeping of all explosives and
combustibles. No building shall be located, built, constructed, or reconstructed until
the plans of the building have first been submitted to and approved by the Building
Inspector, if the trustees by proper ordinance shall so order and require. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 11.)
§ 12. Trustee meetings
The trustees shall meet regularly at suitable times to enact ordinances and to transact
any and all other proper business, and at those meetings shall give audience to all
complaints and protests. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 12.)
§ 13. Ordinances
(a) No ordinance passed by the trustees shall be enforceable until notice thereof has
been posted in four public places, within the bounds of the Village, for a period
of two weeks and published twice within the period of two weeks in a newspaper printed
in the Village, or, if no newspaper be printed, in a newspaper of general circulation
within the Village.
(b) If during the two weeks’ period a petition signed by 10 or more qualified voters of
the Village be presented to the trustees objecting to an ordinance so passed and published
by the trustees, the question of the approval of the ordinance shall be submitted
to any annual or special meeting of the Village; and when approved by a majority vote
of the meeting, and not otherwise, the ordinance so approved shall become an ordinance
of the Village.
(c) If at any time subsequent to the period of two weeks for publication, a petition signed
by 10 or more qualified voters of the Village be presented to the trustees requesting
the repeal of any ordinance, the question of the repeal or approval of the ordinance
shall be submitted to a meeting of the Village duly warned for that purpose. If at
the meeting the ordinance be approved by a majority vote of the meeting, the ordinance
so approved shall remain an ordinance of the Village. If the ordinance so voted upon
shall fail to be approved, the ordinance shall be deemed to be repealed and shall
thereupon be and become null and void and of no subsequent legal effect whatsoever.
But, fines and penalties imposed, judgments and decrees entered, prosecutions and
legal proceedings instituted prior to the repeal of the ordinance shall not be vacated,
set aside, or otherwise affected by the repeal. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 13.)
§ 14. Village as Town highway district
(a) All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted
a highway district of the Town of Manchester, and the Selectboard of the Town shall,
on or before the first day of September of each year, draw an order on the Treasurer
of the Town, to the Treasurer of the Village for five-eighths of the amount of taxes
raised or assessed upon the grand list of the Village during the fiscal year next
prior to September 1, and expended or used for the highway purposes hereinafter specified
by or under the direction of the Town Road Commissioner, the Town Selectboard, or
the Town Manager, excepting payments made to the State as provided under sections
4702 and 4703 of the Public Laws and any future revision or amendments thereto or
any acts hereafter passed for similar purpose.
(b) The highway purposes herein intended are: construction and maintenance of the highways
outside the limits of the Village, including bridges, brooks, and culverts, calcium
chloride and other binders; winter road and snow removal and sanding, turning water
and opening ditches; highway tools and supplies; new highway equipment and repairs
and maintenance of tools and equipment, including gasoline and oil used in operation
of the equipment.
(c) The amount due to the Village shall be determined at the end of the fiscal year of
the Town by the Town auditors and Selectboard, and the trustees of the Village, and
in the event of disagreement, by three arbitrators, one chosen by the Town Selectboard,
one by the Village trustees, and a third by the two arbitrators chosen by the Town
and Village, and their decision shall be final.
(d) The Selectboard of the Town of Manchester shall also, on or before September 1 of
each year, draw an order on the Treasurer of the Town to the Treasurer of the Village
for an amount equal to eight percent of the amount paid to the State during the fiscal
year of the Town prior to September 1 under sections 4702 and 4703 of the Public Laws
and under any future revisions of amendments thereto or any acts hereinafter passed
for similar purposes. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 14.)
§ 15. Village trustees; license granting authority
The trustees of the Village shall have the same power of granting licenses and vacating
the same within the limits of the Village, agreeably to the bylaws, ordinances, and
regulations that the selectboard has by law. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 15.)
§ 16. Village taxing authority on ratable estate
(a) The Village may, at any annual meeting or special meeting called for that purpose,
as hereinbefore provided, lay a tax upon the ratable estate within the Village, whether
of residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, and
the trustees shall make out a rate bill accordingly and deliver the same to the Collector,
who shall have the same power to collect the tax as the collector of town taxes, and
may in like manner sell property to satisfy the same, and for want thereof, commit
to jail any person against whom he or she has a delinquent tax.
(b) The grand list of the ratable estate within the Village, as made out by the listers
of the Town of Manchester and filed by them in the office of the Clerk of the Town,
shall be the grand list of the Village, and the trustees shall cause a copy of the
list to be made and filed in the office of the Clerk of the Village within 10 days
after the same shall be completed and filed by the listers in the Town Clerk’s office. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 16.)
§ 17. Borrowing funds
The Village at any annual meeting, or any special meeting called for that purpose,
is authorized and empowered to vote to borrow money for any of the purposes herein
mentioned, and to issue its orders therefor, which orders shall be signed by the trustees
and countersigned by the Treasurer of the Village, and payable at the time or times
as the Village may direct; provided, however, that no vote to borrow money, or for
the issue of orders therefor, shall be taken at any meeting for which the purpose
is not specified in the call or warrants. Before the orders shall issue, a record
thereof shall be made in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the Treasurer
of the Village. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 17.)
§ 18. Abatement of taxes; remittance of fines or forfeitures
The trustees of the Village shall have power to abate taxes paid or assessed by virtue
of this charter, to remit fines or forfeitures imposed for violation of this charter
or bylaws, ordinances, or regulations of the Village, and to discharge the offenders
from imprisonment for same. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 18.)
§ 19. Conflict of interest
No person being a resident or taxpayer of the Village shall thereby be deemed disqualified
to act as judge, justice, juror, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or police officer
in any matter, cause, or proceeding in which the Village shall be interested. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 19.)
§ 20. Imposition of fines and forfeitures
(a) Fines, penalties, and forfeitures up to and including $200.00 for each breach of an
ordinance or bylaw may be established by the trustees or by a properly warned Village
meeting.
(b) The fines, penalties, and forfeitures may be recovered in an action of tort brought
in the name of the Village, and in the action a general complaint relying on the ordinance
or the bylaw shall be sufficient.
(c) The process may issue either against the body or the property of the defendant, and
if the defendant is found guilty, and if it is found by the court that the cause of
action arose from the defendant’s willful or malicious act or neglect, it shall so
adjudge, and shall further adjudge that the defendant be confined in close jail, and
may issue execution against the defendant’s body with the certificate of the findings
endorsed thereon; and the execution with the certificate thereon shall have the same
effect as an execution issued on a judgment founded upon tort having a like certificate
endorsed thereon.
(d) A person who refuses to comply with a Village ordinance or bylaw relating to the person’s
business may be enjoined by a proper action in chancery brought in the name of the
Village, from continuing the business in violation of the ordinance or bylaw, and
in the action a bill relying on the ordinance or bylaws shall be sufficient.
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Village from having and
exercising other powers as may be proper to enforce obedience to its ordinances and
bylaws and to punish violations thereof. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 20.)
§ 21. Violations of Village ordinances
Violations of the Village ordinances and bylaws may be prosecuted in behalf of the
Village by its Attorney or police officers or by any other duly authorized prosecuting
officer before the Bennington Municipal Court or before a justice of the peace of
the County of Bennington. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 21.)
§ 22. Village Manager
The Village may at a properly warned Village meeting vote to accept a Village Manager,
who shall have the same power and be subject to the same liabilities as town managers
as provided by the laws of the State. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 22.)
§ 23. Aqueducts and reservoirs
(a) The corporation may purchase, construct, and maintain the aqueducts and reservoirs
and build and lay the pipes and conduits as may be required for the purpose of furnishing
the Village with suitable protection from fire, and for sewer purposes and sprinkling
streets, for furnishing the inhabitants of the Village with water for household, culinary,
and other purposes; and for the purposes stated in this subsection may purchase and
hold lands, and springs and streams of water, and may erect and maintain buildings
and hydrants, and purchase and hold fire apparatus and property; and may also lease
from a person or corporation now or hereafter having a water system sufficient for
any or all of the purposes enumerated in this subsection.
(b) A person who shall maliciously disturb, damage, or injure in any manner whatever the
aqueducts and reservoirs and appurtenances, springs, ponds, lakes, fountains, or streams,
or any connecting appurtenances, enclosures, or works thereof, or pollute or swim
and bathe in the waters or any of them, shall be liable to prosecution therefor by
the grand juror of the town or the State’s Attorney of the county wherein the offense
shall be committed by information complaint or indictment, and on conviction thereof
shall be fined not more than $100.00 nor less than $5.00 and costs of prosecution
and shall also be liable to the Village for all damages resulting to it by reason
of the injury, pollution, or disturbance together with full costs, the same to be
recovered by the Village in an action of tort founded on this section. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 23.)
§ 24. Sewer and sewage system
(a) The legal voters of the Village at a meeting duly warned and held for that purpose
may vote to construct and maintain for the benefit of the Village a common sewer or
a sewerage system and extend the same through the highways, streets, and lanes of
the Village, and when necessary to obtain suitable grades, connections, water supply,
outlets for flushing, and discharges, may construct and extend the same through lands
of persons or corporations lying within or without the Village, upon paying suitable
compensation or damages therefor; and for this purpose may take the lands of individuals
or corporations.
(b) Pursuant to the vote of the Village, the trustees shall lay out and construct the
sewer and system of sewerage, and extend the same from time to time as voted by the
Village, and after they are constructed, they shall be under the care and control
of the trustees, who shall maintain, repair, and flush the same when necessary, and
for those purposes may take the lands of an individual or a corporation; and the trustees
shall proceed in the same manner as is prescribed by law for a selectboard in taking
lands for highways, and in awarding damages therefor. When a person or corporation
shall be dissatisfied with the decision of the trustees in the award of damages for
land taken for the sewer or drain, the person or corporation may petition the Bennington
County Superior Court for a reassessment of the damages or compensation, and any number
of persons aggrieved may join in the petition, but the petition shall not delay the
laying or repairing of the sewers or drain. The petition shall be served on the Clerk
of the Village within 60 days next after the award of damages shall be filed in the
Clerk’s office. The proceedings shall be had in the court on the petition as are provided
by law for the reassessment of damages for land taken for highways, except as herein
provided, and the commissioners therein provided by the court shall notify one of
the trustees of the Village of the time and place when they will hear the matter.
(c) Unless otherwise provided by the Village, when the trustees by vote of the Village,
as provided in this section, build or extend its sewer they may draw their orders
on the Treasurer of the Village in payment therefor, and when repairs are made on
the sewer, they may draw their order on the Treasurer therefor.
(d) When the public health requires it, the local Board of Health of the Village may order
that any hotel, dwelling house, or other building in the Village shall be connected
with the public sewer, and shall give notice in writing to the owner thereof of the
order, and if the owner neglects or refuses to comply with the order within a reasonable
time the owner shall be fined not more than $100.00 or less than $5.00, upon complaint
of the State’s Attorney or a grand juror of the Town of Manchester.
(e) The trustees of the Village may assess annually the owner of a building connected
with the sewer the sum as the trustees shall think just, as a sewer rental, to be
paid by the owner thereof within 60 days after notice in writing delivered to the
owner, or if the owner resides out of the Village, to the tenant of the owner, or
if the owner resides out of the Village and has no tenant, sent by mail to the owner
at the last known post office address. The sum shall be a debt in favor of the Village
against the owner of the building and may be recovered in an action of debt and shall
also be a lien on the building and the land on which it stands and so much around
it as is reasonably required for occupying the same. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 24.)
§ 25. Street lights and gas or electric plants
The Village may light its streets in the way as it may determine, and may construct,
own, and maintain gas or electric plants for lighting them, and furnishing its inhabitants
with light and power, and for this purpose, may purchase and hold real estate and
personal property as may be necessary, and it may contract with any person or corporation
for supplying light for the purposes of this section. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 25.)
§ 26. Property of Village under former charter
The property belonging to the Village of Manchester under its previous chapter and
owned by it at the time of the taking effect of this charter shall vest in the Village
of Manchester hereby constituted, and the Village shall be held for the liabilities
of the former Village of Manchester, outstanding at the time; and the Village, hereby
incorporated, shall succeed to all of the rights, powers, and privileges, and all
taxes receivable and other assets of the former Village of Manchester. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 26.)
§ 27. [Transitional provision related to repeal of former charter as amended.]
(Added 1943, No. 183, § 27.)
§ 28. [Transitional provision related to acceptance of charter by section and subdivision.]
(Added 1943, No. 183, § 28.)
§ 29. [Transitional provision related to Village officers serving at time the new charter
takes effect.]
(Added 1943, No. 183, § 29.)
§ 30. [Transitional provision relating to the effective date of sections 28 and 29.]
(Added 1943, No. 183, § 30.)