The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
003
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FIRE MUTUAL AID SYSTEMS
(Cite as: 20 V.S.A. § 2987)
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§ 2987. Organization
Upon receipt of a petition pursuant to section 2986 of this subchapter, the State
Fire Marshal shall call the first or organization meeting of the system by giving
written notice to the chief of each fire department in the system and may invite private
fire departments within the designated area to join in the meeting by giving similar
notice to them. Each fire department shall send one delegate to the organization and
subsequent meetings and shall be entitled to one vote in all proceedings. The delegate
shall be the chief of each fire department or his or her designee. At the organization
meeting, the members of the system shall adopt articles of association and bylaws
and rules for the future government and operation of the system that shall take effect
upon submission to and approval by the Attorney General, who shall cause them to be
recorded by the Secretary of State. The system shall be deemed to be formally established
upon that recording. The organization meeting shall also elect a board of directors
consisting of such number as the delegates determine. Delegates and directors need
not be residents. The board of directors shall be the governing body of the system
and shall serve for terms of one year and until their successors are elected and qualify.
The delegates shall choose from their number the officers of the system, except that
a secretary or a treasurer, or both, may be nondelegates. All officers shall have
such duties and powers as the bylaws provide. Within the limits of available funds,
the directors may employ and fix the compensation of agents and other necessary personnel
who shall serve at their pleasure and have and exercise such powers and authority
as they may delegate to them. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 7, eff. Feb. 20, 1968; amended 1979, No. 31; 2021, No. 20, § 183.)