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Subchapter
003
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CITY COUNCIL WITH MAYOR PRESIDING AND CITY COUNCIL
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 3, § 43)
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§ 43. Composition; Board for Registration of Voters; duties; appointments; offices
(a)(1) The City Council with Mayor presiding shall constitute the Board of Civil Authority
for the City, except that all duties with respect to preparing checklists of voters
and making additions thereto or alterations or corrections thereon imposed upon the
Council by this charter or the provisions of the general statutes relating thereto
shall be performed by a board of 12 members, to be known as the Board for Registration
of Voters.
(2) Not more than six members of the Board shall at any one time be from the same political
party.
(b)(1) All members of the Board shall be legal voters of the City and shall serve a term
of five years.
(2) Terms shall be staggered so that in June in each year the City Council with Mayor
presiding shall appoint no more than three members of the Board depending upon the
expiration of terms to serve for a term of five years from the July first next succeeding
or until his or her or their successor(s) is or are duly appointed and qualified.
(3) Vacancies in the Board for any cause shall be filled by appointment by the City Council
with Mayor presiding for the balance of the unexpired term.
(c)(1) The records of the Board shall be maintained in an office in the City Hall of the
City or another location determined by the Chief Administrative Officer that is open
for business during the regular business hours of the City.
(2) The Board shall advise any petitioner whose application to vote has been rejected
or whose name has been removed from the checklist of his or her statutory right to
seek judicial review of such decision pursuant to 17 V.S.A. § 2148.
(3) The Board shall also appoint a Clerk, who need not be a member thereof, who shall
have such duties as the Board may assign.
(4) Records of the taking of voter’s oaths heretofore kept by the City Clerk shall be
transferred to the Clerk of the Board. (Amended 1997, No. M-18 (Adj. Sess.), § 26, eff. April 23, 1998; 2001, No. M-6, § 2; 2013, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 3, 2015; 2017, No. M-9, § 2, eff. May 22, 2017.)