The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
002
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INCORPORATED SCHOOL DISTRICTS
(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 471)
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§ 471. Application of other laws
(a) The provisions of this title relating to the administration and maintenance of public
schools; to school meetings and voting; to grand lists; to the raising and expending
of school monies; to monies apportioned by the State Board; to sharing in other State
aid; to the election, appointment, powers, duties, and liabilities of school officers;
to elementary and higher instruction; to transportation, board, and attendance of
students; to truancy and truant officers; to furnishing of textbooks and appliances;
and to all other matters pertaining to schools in a town district, unless otherwise
provided, and if not inconsistent with the rights granted by their charters, shall
apply to schools maintained, similar school officers, and all matters pertaining to
schools in incorporated school districts.
(b) An incorporated school district, if it is so voted at an annual or special meeting
duly warned for that purpose, may elect to be governed by any one or more provisions
of this title in lieu of any inconsistent provisions of special legislation relating
to such district. Provisions of this title adopted by a district shall continue to
apply unless the vote is rescinded at an annual or special meeting duly warned for
that purpose. (Amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 49, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 61.)