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Subchapter
006
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MISCELLANEOUS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 403, § 54)
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§ 54. Withdrawal of member municipality
A member municipality may withdraw from the District upon the following terms and
conditions:
(1) Withdrawal prior to the District incurring bonded indebtedness or entering long-term
contracts.
(A) The Board of Supervisors shall not enter into any long-term contract, or call a special
meeting on incurring long-term debt for a period of 18 months from the date of establishment
of the District.
(B) No member municipality may withdraw from the District for a period of one year from
the date of establishment of the District.
(C) Prior to the District incurring bonded indebtedness or entering into a long-term contract,
a member municipality may vote to withdraw in the same manner as the vote for adoption
of this chapter by such member municipality. If a majority of the voters of a member
municipality present and voting at a meeting duly warned for that purpose may vote
to withdraw from the District, the vote may be certified by the clerk of that municipality
and presented to the Board of Supervisors. The membership of the withdrawing municipality
shall terminate as soon after the vote to withdraw as the financial obligations of
the withdrawing municipality have been paid to the District.
(2) Withdrawal after the District has incurred bonded indebtedness or entered into long-term
contract. After the District has incurred bonded indebtedness or entered into a long-term
contract, a member municipality may vote to withdraw in the same manner as the vote
for adoption of this chapter by such member municipality. It shall be a condition
that the withdrawing municipality shall enter into a written agreement with the District
in which the chapter and withdrawing municipality shall be obligated to continue to
pay its share of the debt incurred by the District for the remaining bonding term
or contract term. In addition, the withdrawing municipality shall obligate itself
to pay the cost of redesigning and rebuilding any facility of the District occasioned
because of the reduced volume of solid waste. The cost shall be determined by an
independent engineering firm hired by the Board of Supervisors. These additional
costs shall be paid either in a lump sum or in installments at such times and in such
amounts as required by the Board of Supervisors. In addition, in the event there
is a resource recovery facility, if the withdrawal of a municipality will reduce the
minimum volume of solid waste required to meet the District’s long-term contractual
commitments, no withdrawal of a member municipality shall be permitted during the
period of such commitments.
(3) Determination of withdrawal. No withdrawal of a municipality shall become effective
or deemed conclusive until such time as there shall be filed by the Clerk of the District
in the records of the District a certificate attesting to the satisfaction of every
condition set forth in subdivision 54(1)(C) or (2) of this chapter, whichever is applicable,
as determined and approved by the Board of Supervisors. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 164.)