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.
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 207, § 5)
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§ 5. Elected officers’ terms and vacancies
(a) The officers of said corporation shall be a Moderator, a President, a Clerk, a Treasurer,
a Collector of Taxes, four Trustees, and three Auditors of Accounts. No person shall
hold office of Treasurer and Auditor of Accounts simultaneously.
(b) All officers of said Village shall be residents and elected at the annual meeting
of said Village, except Collector of Taxes, who shall be appointed by the Board of
Trustees.
(c) All officers of said Village, except the Trustees, shall hold office for one year
and until their successors shall be elected and qualified.
(d) At each annual meeting of said Village, there shall be elected two Trustees who shall
hold office for the term of two years and until their successors shall be elected
and qualified.
(e) When a vacancy occurs in any of the offices by reason of nonacceptance, death, removal,
refusal to act, moved from Village, inability to perform duties due to a mental condition
or psychiatric disability, or from any other cause, the corporation may fill the vacancy
by a new election, for the unexpired term at any legal meeting. The Board of Trustees
may, by temporary appointment, fill any vacancy, and the persons so appointed shall
hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. A record of the appointment
shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the corporation. (Amended 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 167.)