The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
003
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TOWN MEETINGS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 113, § 302)
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§ 302. Time of holding
(a) An annual Town meeting for the consideration of the budget and other Town business
shall be held on the first Tuesday in March unless otherwise legally warned by the
Selectboard. However, all business that may be decided without Australian ballot shall
take place on the evening before the first Tuesday in March and shall be adjourned
when all matters have been decided. The time shall be established by policy of the
Selectboard at its annual organizational meeting in consultation with the Colchester
School District.
(b) The election of officers and the voting on all other questions to be decided by the
Australian ballot system shall take place on the first Tuesday in March. The ballot
boxes shall be open between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. or as shall be determined and
warned by the Selectboard.
(c) The Selectboard shall determine which articles are to be voted upon by Australian
ballot and which articles are to be voted upon by other methods, and it shall indicate
in the warning the questions to be voted by Australian ballot. (Amended 2015, No. M-1, § 2, eff. Jan. 27, 2015.)