The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 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.
Title 31: Recreation and Sports
Chapter 005: Municipal Recreation
§ 201. Authority to appropriate for recreation
A city by its council or an incorporated village, at an annual meeting, may appropriate such sums of money as it deems best, not exceeding four percent of its grand list, for the purchase of public playgrounds and lands, and for the construction and maintenance of buildings and equipment on public playgrounds or lands, for public recreational purposes. This section shall not apply to a city or incorporated village whose charter or bylaws authorize the appropriation. (Amended 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 460, eff. July 1, 2024.)
§ 202. Authority to establish and finance recreation system
Municipalities, singly or jointly, may establish, maintain, and conduct a system of public recreation, including playgrounds; may set apart for that use any land or buildings owned or leased by it; may acquire land, buildings, and other recreational facilities by gift or purchase, and may issue bonds for these purposes as provided in 24 V.S.A. §§ 1751–1788 and equip and conduct the same; may employ a director of recreation and assistant; and may expend funds for these purposes. (Amended 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 460, eff. July 1, 2024.)
§ 203. Control and supervision of system
The legislative body may conduct the same through a department or bureau of recreation or may delegate the conduct of the system to a recreational board created by them, or to a school board or to any other appropriate existing board or commission. The members of the body first appointed shall be appointed for such terms that the term of one member shall expire annually. (Amended 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 460, eff. July 1, 2024.)
§ 204. Free musical entertainments
A municipality may appropriate sums of money not exceeding five percent of its grand list, when the grand list of the municipality does not exceed $20,000.00, and a sum not to exceed three percent of the grand list of the municipality, when the grand list exceeds $20,000.00, to pay the expenses of free musical entertainments, to be held within its limits, at such times and places as is directed by the vote. (Amended 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 460, eff. July 1, 2024.)
