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.
Subchapter
001
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REPAIRS OF CHURCHES
(Cite as: 11 V.S.A. § 1475)
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§ 1475. Sale of pews for nonpayment
When the owner or occupant of a pew so assessed does not pay the assessment to the
person authorized by the meeting to collect the same, upon three weeks’ notice and
demand made after the completion of the repairs, which notice and demand shall be
made either in person or by publishing the same for three weeks successively in some
daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation in the town where such house of public
worship is situated, such collector may sell the pew of such delinquent person at
public auction to the highest bidder, upon giving notice thereof as is provided in
section 1471 of this title. The balance of the proceeds arising from the sale, if any, after the payment of
assessments, expenses of advertising, and fees equal to those allowed by law for the
collection of an execution, shall be paid to the owner of the pew so sold.