The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
005
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DISTRICT MEETINGS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 414, § 501)
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§ 501. Special meeting
(a)(1) The Board of Supervisors may call a special meeting of the District when it deems
it necessary or prudent to do so and shall call a special meeting of the District
when action by the voters of the District is necessary under this charter or applicable
law.
(2) The Board of Supervisors shall call a special meeting of the District if petitioned
to do so by not less than five percent of the legal voters of the District but only
for any legal purpose beyond the power and jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors.
(b) The Board of Supervisors may rescind the call of a special meeting called by them
but not a special meeting called on application of five percent of the legal voters
of the District.
(c) The Board shall endeavor to have the times of special meetings coincide with the times
of annual municipal meetings, primary elections, general elections, or similar meetings
when the electorate within the member municipalities will be voting on other matters. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)