The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
005
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SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETING
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 417, § 54)
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§ 54. Validation of District meetings
When any of the requirements as to notice or warning of a special District meeting
have been omitted or not complied with, the omission or noncompliance, if the meeting
and the business transacted at it is otherwise legal and within the scope of the District
powers, may be corrected and legalized by vote at a special meeting of the District
called and duly warned for that purpose. The question to be voted upon shall substantially
be, “Shall the action taken at the meeting of this District held on (state date) in
spite of the fact that (state the error or omission), and any act or action of the
District officers of agents pursuant thereto be readopted, ratified, or confirmed.”
Error or omissions in the conduct of an original meeting that are not the result of
an unlawful notice or warning or noncompliance within the scope of the warning may
be cured by a resolution of the Board of Supervisors of the District by a vote of
two-thirds of all the votes entitled to be cast at a regular meeting or a special
meeting called for that purpose, stating the defect was the result of an oversight,
inadvertence, or mistake. When an error or omission of this nature has been thus
corrected by resolution, all business within the terms of the action of the qualified
voters shall be as valid as if the requirements had been initially complied with upon
condition, however, that the original action thereby corrected by the Board of Supervisors
was in compliance with the legal exercise of its corporate powers. (Amended 2011, No. M-11 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. July 12, 2012.)