The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
002
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OATHS; BONDS
(Cite as: 24 V.S.A. § 832)
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§ 832. Bonds; requirements
Before the school directors, constable, road commissioner, collector of taxes, treasurer,
assistant treasurer when appointed by the selectboard, clerk, and any other officer
or employee of the town who has authority to receive or disburse town funds enter
upon the duties of their offices, the selectboard shall require each to have crime
insurance coverage or give a bond conditioned for the faithful performance of his
or her duties: the school directors, to the town school district; the other named
officers, to the town. The treasurer, assistant treasurer when appointed by the selectboard,
and collector shall also be required to have crime insurance coverage or give a bond
to the town school district for like purpose. All such crime insurance coverage or
bonds shall be in sufficient sums and with sufficient sureties as prescribed and approved
by the selectboard. If the selectboard at any time considers the crime insurance coverage
or a bond of any such officer or employee to be insufficient, it may require, by written
order, the officer or employee to give an additional bond in such sum as it deems
necessary. If an officer or employee, so required, neglects for 10 days after such
request to give such original or additional bond, his or her office shall be vacant.
A bond or crime insurance coverage furnished pursuant to the provisions of this section
shall not be valid if signed by any other officer of the same municipality as surety
thereon. (Amended 1959, No. 183, § 2; 1967, No. 147, § 36, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; 2011, No. 155 (Adj. Sess.), § 25; 2021, No. 179 (Adj. Sess.), § 21, eff. July 1, 2022.)