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Subchapter
010
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ADDENDUM A; REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETINGS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 107, § 10.08)
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§ 10.8. Referendum
No article in the warning shall at any Representative Town Meeting be finally disposed
of by a vote to pass over, to lay upon the table, to postpone indefinitely, or take
no action thereon. No vote passed at any Representative Town Meeting under any article
in the warning, except a vote to adjourn, or a vote for the temporary borrowing of
money in anticipation of taxes, shall be operative until the expiration of five days,
exclusive of Sundays and holidays, from the adjournment of the meeting. If within
said five days a petition, signed by not fewer than 250 voters of the Town, including
at least 50 from each district, containing their names and addresses as they appear
on the check list, or signed by not fewer than 50 Town Meeting members, be filed with
the Selectboard requesting that the question or questions involved in such vote be
submitted to the voters of the Town at large, then the Selectboard, within 14 days
after the filing of the petition, shall call a special Town Meeting, which shall be
held within 10 days after the issuing of the call for the sole purpose of presenting
to the voters at large the question or questions so involved. The polls shall be opened
not later than 10 o’clock in the forenoon and shall be closed not earlier than six
o’clock in the evening, and all votes upon any questions so submitted shall be taken
by ballot, and the check list shall be used in the several district meetings in the
same manner as in the election of Town officers. The questions so submitted shall
be determined by vote of the same proportion of voters at large voting thereon as
would have been required by law of the Town Meeting members had the question been
finally determined at a Representative Town Meeting. The question so submitted shall
be stated upon the ballot in the same language and form in which it was stated when
presented to said Representative Town Meeting by the Moderator as appears from the
records of the said meeting. If such petition be not filed within the said period
of five days, the vote of the Representative Town Meeting shall become operative upon
the expiration of the said period. (Amended 2003, No. M-6, § 2.)