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.
(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 780)
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§ 780. Applicability of New Hampshire laws—Article X
A. General School Laws. With respect to the operation and maintenance of any school of the district located
in New Hampshire, the provisions of New Hampshire law shall apply except as otherwise
provided in this compact and except that the powers and duties of the school board
shall be exercised and discharged by the interstate board and the powers and duties
of the union superintendent shall be exercised and discharged by the interstate district
superintendent.
B. New Hampshire State Aid. A New Hampshire school district shall be entitled to receive an amount of state aid
for operating expenditures as though its share of the interstate district’s expenses
were the expenses of the New Hampshire member district, and as though the New Hampshire
member district pupils attending the interstate school were attending a New Hampshire
cooperative school district’s school. The state aid shall be paid to the New Hampshire
member school district to reduce the sums which would otherwise be required to be
raised by taxation within the member district.
C. Continued Existence of the New Hampshire Member School District. A New Hampshire member school district shall continue in existence, and shall have
all of the powers and be subject to all of the obligations imposed by law and not
herein delegated to the interstate district. If the interstate district incorporates
only a part of the schools in the member school district, then the school board of
the member school district shall continue in existence and it shall have all of the
powers and be subject to all of the obligations imposed by law on it and not herein
delegated to the district. However, if all of the schools in the member school district
are incorporated into the interstate school district, then the member or members of
the interstate board representing the member district shall have all of the powers
and be subject to all of the obligations imposed by law on the members of a school
board for the member district and not herein delegated to the interstate district.
The New Hampshire member school district shall remain liable on its existing indebtedness;
and the interstate school district shall not become liable therefor, unless the indebtedness
is specifically assumed in accordance with the articles of agreement. Any trust funds
or capital reserve funds and any property not taken over by the interstate district
shall be retained by the New Hampshire member district and held or disposed of according
to law. If all of the schools in a member district are incorporated into an interstate
district, then no annual meeting of the member district shall be required unless the
members of the interstate board from the member district shall determine that there
is occasion for such an annual meeting.
D. Suit and Service of Process in New Hampshire. The courts of New Hampshire shall have the same jurisdiction over the district as
though a New Hampshire member district were a party instead of the interstate district.
The service necessary to institute suit in New Hampshire shall be made on the district
by leaving a copy of the writ or other proceedings in hand or at the last and usual
place of abode of one of the directors who reside in New Hampshire, and by mailing
a like copy to the clerk and to one other director by certified mail with return receipt
requested.
E. Employment. Each employee of an interstate district assigned to a school located in New Hampshire
shall be considered an employee of a New Hampshire school district for the purpose
of the New Hampshire teachers’ retirement system, the New Hampshire state employees’
retirement system, the New Hampshire workers’ compensation law and any other law relating
to the regulation of employment or the provision of benefits for employees of New
Hampshire school districts except as follows:
1. A teacher in a New Hampshire member district may elect to remain a member of the New
Hampshire teachers’ retirement system, even though assigned to teach in an interstate
school in Vermont.
2. Employees of interstate districts designated as professional or instructional staff
members, as defined in article I hereof, may elect to participate in the teachers’
retirement system of either the State of New Hampshire or the State of Vermont but
in no case will they participate in both retirement systems simultaneously.
3. It shall be the duty of the superintendent in an interstate district to: (a) advise
teachers and other professional staff employees contracted for the district about
the terms of the contract and the policies and procedure of the retirement systems;
(b) see that each teacher or professional staff employee selects the retirement system
of his or her choice at the time his or her contract is signed; (c) provide the commissioners
of education in New Hampshire and in Vermont with the names and other pertinent information
regarding each staff member under his or her jurisdiction so that each may be enrolled
in the retirement system of his or her preference. (Added 1967, No. 243 (Adj. Sess.); amended 1981, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)