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
004
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UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS
(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 760)
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§ 760. Bond issues; debt limit
(a) A union elementary or union high school district may make improvements, as defined
by 24 V.S.A. § 1751, and may incur indebtedness for the improvements as provided in 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 1.
(b) The debt limit of the union elementary or union high school district shall be 10 times
the total of the education grand lists of the member districts of the union school
district. The existing indebtedness of a union elementary or union high school district
incurred to finance any project approved under sections 3447 to 3456 of this title shall not be considered a part of the indebtedness of the union elementary or union
high school district for purposes of determining its debt limit for a new proposed
bond issue. An obligation incurred by a union elementary or union high school district
pursuant to this chapter shall be the joint and several obligation of the union school
district and each of its member districts. Any joint or several obligation incurred
by a member district pursuant to this subsection shall not be considered in determining
the debt limit for the separate purposes of the member district.
(c) Bond issues under this section shall be determined by Australian ballot and shall
proceed pursuant to sections 755 (warnings of union elementary school district and
union high school district meetings) and 757–759 (vote by Australian ballot) of this
subchapter. Ballots shall be commingled before counting. (Added 2021, No. 176 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. June 7, 2022.)