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.
Subchapter
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ADOPTION, ADMINISTRATION, AND ENFORCEMENT
(Cite as: 24 V.S.A. § 4440)
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§ 4440. Administration; finance
(a) Appropriations may be made by any municipality to finance the work of planning commissions,
regional planning commissions, administrative officers, appropriate municipal panels,
and other officials in the preparation, adoption, administration, and enforcement
of development plans and supporting plans, bylaws, capital budgets and programs, and
other regulatory and nonregulatory efforts to implement the municipal plan, and to
support or oppose, upon appeal to the courts, decisions of an appropriate municipal
panel. For these same purposes, any municipality may accept gifts and grants of money
and services from private sources and from the State and federal governments.
(b) The legislative body may prescribe reasonable fees to be charged with respect to the
administration of bylaws and for the administration of development review. These fees
may include the cost of posting and publishing notices and holding public hearings
and the cost of conducting periodic inspections during the installation of public
improvements. These fees may be required to be payable by the applicant upon submission
of the application or prior to issuance of permits or certificates of occupancy.
(c) The legislative body may set reasonable fees for filing of notices of appeal and for
other acts as it deems proper, the payment of which shall be a condition to the validity
of the filing or act under this chapter.
(d) The legislative body may establish procedures and standards for requiring an applicant
to pay for reasonable costs of an independent technical review of the application. (Added 2003, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 99.)