The Vermont Statutes Online

Title 16 : Education

Chapter 011 : UNION SCHOOL DISTRICTS

Subchapter 004 : UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS

• § 756. Union district meetings conducted from the floor

  (a) Not later than the close of business on the day before the meeting, the town clerk of each member district of a union elementary or union high school district shall furnish to the union district clerk, at the expense of the union district, authenticated copies of the checklist of legal voters within the member district as the checklist appears after revisions are made pursuant to 17 V.S.A. §§ 2141–2150 (registration of voters). The checklist shall control for purposes of determining voter eligibility in the union elementary or union high school district.

  (b) During the annual or special meeting, one or more members of each town’s board of civil authority shall assist the union district clerk to determine voter eligibility and to supervise voting during the meeting.

  (c) Votes cast at an annual or special meeting shall be commingled and shall not be counted according to the town in which a voter resides.

  (d) The provisions of this section shall apply to all votes of the electorate in a union elementary or union high school district that do not proceed by Australian ballot; provided, however:

  (1) They shall not apply if Vermont statute explicitly permits or requires a different method for a specific type of question presented to the voters.

  (2) They shall not apply to a vote warned pursuant to subsection 755(f) (warnings of union elementary and union high school district meetings; members elected under proportional to town population model and by floor vote) of this chapter.

  (e) If a person who resides in a member district and is otherwise eligible to vote at a union elementary or union high school district meeting has not maintained residence in the member district for the requisite number of days but resided in another member district of the union elementary or union high school district for the requisite number of days, then the town clerk of the member district in which the person currently resides shall enter such person’s name on the checklist of legal voters if the person presents to that town clerk a certificate signed by the town clerk of the member district in which the person formally resided confirming that the person lived within the union elementary or union high school district for the requisite number of days. (Added 2021, No. 176 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. June 7, 2022.)