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(Cite as: 24 V.S.A. § 3685)
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§ 3685. Changes in membership—Inclusion of additional towns
(a) When a majority of voters of a town, present and voting at a meeting duly warned for
that purpose, shall vote to apply to a neighboring consolidated sewer district for
admission as a member of the district, the vote shall thereupon be certified by the
clerk of the town to the clerk of the consolidated sewer district and to the Secretary
of State. Such vote and certification if accepted by the consolidated district within
two years after the date of the vote shall be binding on the town without the subsequent
vote in the town contemplated in subsection (b) of this section.
(b) When it appears to the board of sewer commissioners that the boundaries of the consolidated
sewer district should be changed to include another town, they may insert an article
fully describing the proposed change in the warning for a regular or special meeting
of the district, which proposed change shall state the number of additional members
to be added to the board of sewer commissioners if such change is approved.
(c) When a majority of the voters voting at such meeting vote to include an additional
town within the boundaries of the consolidated sewer district as a member thereof,
the board of sewer commissioners shall notify the legislative body of the additional
town of the vote. Thereupon the legislative body of the additional town shall duly
warn a meeting thereof, setting forth in such warning the vote of the consolidated
sewer district and the proposed change in its boundaries. If a majority of the voters
voting at the meeting of the additional town vote to be included within the district,
the result of the vote and the result of the vote already taken by the consolidated
sewer district shall be certified to the Secretary of State, who shall record the
same in his or her office. A certificate of such record shall immediately be filed
by the Secretary of State in the office of the clerk of the consolidated sewer district
and of any additional town to be included therein as a member thereof, which filing
shall be notice to all parties of the addition to the consolidated district.
(d) The consolidated sewer district as so enlarged shall thereupon have all the powers
and responsibilities given it by this chapter. Any vacancy on the board of sewer
commissioners created as a result of the increase in the number thereof shall be filled
as provided in section 3674 of this title. The additional member town shall share in the expenses of the district in the proportion
provided in this chapter for other member towns from the date the certificate of the
Secretary of State is filed in the office of the clerk of the district and the office
of the clerk of the additional town. (1967, No. 318 (Adj. Sess.), § 14, eff. March 22, 1968.)