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Subchapter
002
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INCORPORATED SCHOOL DISTRICTS
(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 477)
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§ 477. Merger of town and incorporated school districts
(a) An incorporated school district, by a majority vote of the legal voters present and
voting at any meeting legally warned, may surrender its charter as a corporation for
the maintenance of public schools or such part of its charter as pertains to the maintenance
of public schools. Such surrender shall take effect not later than July 1 following
the vote so taken, and such school corporation shall cease to exist, and it shall
become thereby a part of the town school district. In the event of any such merger
notwithstanding the provisions of section 423 of this title, the directors of the incorporated school district holding office at the time of
the merger shall become members of the board of school directors of the town school
district and shall continue in that office until the expiration of the terms for which
they were elected by the incorporated school district.
(b) By a majority vote of the legal voters present and voting at any meeting legally warned,
a town district may become a part of an incorporated district, provided the incorporated
district, at a meeting legally warned, votes to accept such merger. Such merger shall
take effect July 1 following the vote so taken. When such a merger has occurred,
the incorporated district shall be considered a town district in all respects pertaining
to the maintenance and administration of its public schools.
(c) In case of a union of an incorporated district and a town district under either subsection
(a) or (b) of this section, each district shall settle its own business affairs and
pay all its indebtedness, except for repairs and new buildings, shall deposit its
records with the town clerk, and shall no longer exist except for the settlement of
its own pecuniary affairs. In effecting such settlement, a district may remain in
existence for not more than five years for the purpose only of voting, assessing,
and collecting a special tax annually to pay such indebtedness. (Amended 1964, No. 7 (Sp. Sess.), eff. March 4, 1964.)