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
001
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CORPORATE EXISTENCE AND BOUNDARIES
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 253, § 2)
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§ 2. Authority of Village
By that name may have perpetual succession, and be capable of suing and being sued,
may prosecute and defend in any court, may have a common seal, and the same alter
at pleasure, and shall be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying real and personal
estate for the use of the Village; and may, at any annual or special meeting warned
for that purpose, as provided in this chapter, lay a tax upon the ratable estate within
the same, whether residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes herein mentioned,
and the trustees shall make out a rate bill accordingly and deliver the same to the
Collector, who shall have the same power to collect such tax as the collector of town
taxes, and may in like manner levy on and sell property to satisfy the same, and for
want thereof may commit any person to jail against whom the Collector has such a tax.