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, § 6)
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§ 6. Board of Trustees’ duties
(a) The Board of Trustees shall have charge of all prudential affairs of said corporation
and perform the duties enjoined upon it by said corporation.
(b) The Board shall direct the expenditure of all monies belonging to the Village, and
no money shall be expended in any department of the Village except upon the order
of said Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees shall enforce the Village bylaws
and regulations and direct prosecutions for the breach of a bylaw or regulation. The
trustees shall have power to regulate the excavating of streets and the laying of
pipes in the streets and they may issue licenses for these purposes.
(c) In case of the illness or absence of the Clerk, it shall be the duty of the Board
of Trustees to warn meetings of said corporation.
(d) No member of the Board of Trustees shall hold the position of Superintendent of Sewerage
and Water, Chief of Police, Fire Chief, or Manager.
(e) It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees to annually make a list of the names
of such persons resident within the limits of said corporation as are legal voters
at Town meeting of the Town of Rockingham, at least 15 days before the annual meeting
of said corporation, and shall immediately cause copies thereof to be posted in two
or more public places in said corporation, and a copy to be filed with the Clerk thereof
and said list shall be revised by the Board of Trustees in the same manner as is now
provided by law for the revision of check lists of voters in town meeting. The Clerk,
or in the Clerk’s absence, one of the trustees of the Board of said corporation, shall
have such list present at any meeting of said corporation, and the same shall be used
in the same manner as provided by law for the use of town check lists. And no person
whose name is not on such list shall vote at any meeting of such corporation in which
such list is used, and the vote of no person whose name is on such list shall be rejected
if a resident of said corporation on the day on which such meeting is held. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 278, eff. July 1, 2023.)