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: 24 V.S.A. § 1423)
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§ 1423. Town committees; joint plan for consolidation
(a) Any committee appointed at the suggestion of the assistant judges shall meet and confer
with the committee of the town proposing consolidation, and the two committees acting
jointly, if they determine that a consolidation would promote the interests of the
residents of the areas to be consolidated and that greater governmental efficiency
would result, shall draw a detailed plan for a consolidation, setting forth the boundaries
of the areas to be consolidated, scheduling and listing land, buildings, and equipment
owned by each town which will not be needed after consolidation and placing a fair
market value thereon and scheduling and listing land, buildings, and equipment deemed
necessary for the areas to be consolidated. They shall also schedule and list the
liabilities of each town and draw up a balance sheet showing the true assets and liabilities
of the proposed consolidated town taking into consideration the value of the land,
buildings, and equipment which will not be needed after consolidation.
(b) Any plan for consolidation may provide for the establishment of one or more of the
towns consolidating as a village within the consolidated town, and for the continuance
of any zoning ordinances in effect in such town as village ordinances and, in case
such town has a bonded debt, for special village tax levies for the payment thereof.
Any plan may also provide that school districts within the areas to be consolidated
may be established as incorporated school districts within the consolidated town. (Added 1963, No. 146, § 3.)