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
005
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OFFICERS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 3, § 129)
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§ 129. Appointing body or person has power to remove
The City Council with Mayor presiding shall have power, for such causes of incapacity,
negligence, or bad conduct as to it shall seem sufficient, to suspend or remove from
any office any City officer who may be appointed by the City Council with Mayor presiding
and to fill all vacancies in any such office from whatever cause arising. The Mayor
and each board shall have like power of removal in respect to any officers who may
be appointed by them, except as herein otherwise provided, and provided that in case
the appointment of such officer is made subject to the approval of the City Council
or City Council with Mayor presiding, the removal of such officer shall likewise be
made subject to the approval of the City Council or City Council with Mayor presiding,
as such appointment was made. Additionally, the City Council may, on the initiative
of the Mayor, by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of its entire number,
remove at any time at its pleasure any City officer or department head it should determine
is no longer effectively serving the City, and all City officers and department heads
shall take and hold office subject to this authority. (Amended 2001, No. M-6, § 2.)