The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
002
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TOWN MEETINGS AND LOCAL ELECTIONS IN GENERAL
(Cite as: 17 V.S.A. § 2643)
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§ 2643. Special meetings
(a) The legislative body may warn a special municipal meeting when it deems it necessary
and shall call a special meeting on the application of five percent of the voters.
A special meeting shall be warned within 60 days of receipt of the application by
the municipal clerk. A voter may withdraw his or her name from a petition for a special
meeting at any time prior to the signing of the warning by a majority of the legislative
body.
(b) [Repealed.]
(c) The legislative body may rescind the call of a special meeting called by them but
not a special meeting called on application of five percent of the voters. (Added 1977, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2013, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 47; 2015, No. 30, § 24, eff. May 26, 2015.)