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Subchapter
006
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MISCELLANEOUS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 413, § 601)
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§ 601. Withdrawal of member municipality
A member municipality may withdraw from the District upon the terms and conditions
specified below:
(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 such purpose shall vote
to withdraw from the District, the vote shall be certified by the Clerk of that municipality
and presented to the Board of Supervisors. Thereafter, the Board shall give notice
to the remaining member municipalities of the vote to withdraw and shall hold a meeting
to determine if it is in the best interests of the District to continue to exist.
Representatives of the member municipalities shall be given an opportunity to be heard
at such meeting together with any other interested persons. After such a meeting,
the Board of Supervisors may declare the District dissolved immediately or as soon
thereafter as the financial obligations of the District and of each member municipality
on account thereof have been satisfied, or it may declare that the District shall
continue to exist despite the withdrawal of such member municipality. The membership
of the withdrawing municipality shall terminate as soon after such 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
whereby such 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 volume of solid waste below the
minimum 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.