The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 19, § 603)
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§ 603. Personnel system
(a) Merit principle. All appointments and promotions of City officers and employees shall be made solely
on the basis of merit and fitness demonstrated by examination or other evidence of
competence.
(b) [Repealed.]
(c) [Repealed.]
(d) Personnel policies. The City Manager shall prepare personnel policies. The personnel rules shall be proposed
to the Council, and the Council may adopt them with or without amendment. These rules
shall provide for:
(1) the classification of all City positions, based on the duties, authority, and responsibility
of each position, with adequate provision for reclassification of any position whenever
warranted by changed circumstances; and
(2) compensation, benefits, work rules, hiring and termination, grievance procedures,
and other matters required by law, collective bargaining, or deemed appropriate by
the City Council. (Added 2013, No. M-9, § 3, eff. June 4, 2013; amended 2015, No. M-19 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 17, 2016; 2021, No. M-6, § 2, eff. June 24, 2021.)