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.
Subchapter
002
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POWERS, STRUCTURE, AND AUTHORITY OF THE TOWN
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 109, § 29)
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§ 29. Special districts
(a) According to law, the Selectboard may designate areas apart from the rest of the Town
as a special service district and may provide that the area of the voters therein
shall be provided with special services not common to all the voters of the Town,
provided that the majority of the voters residing in the respective designated areas
are present and voting at a special district meeting on the subject shall have approved
of such resolution.
(b) Such areas shall be reasonable geographically, taking into account the areas and persons
actually benefited, the types of services to be provided, and the fact that the efficiency
of providing multiple services in a single, special service district might outweigh
the fact that the areas and voters benefiting from the respective services might not
coincide exactly. All costs required to support a given special service shall be
paid for by the taxpayers receiving the service, by a tax on the grand list in the
special service district involved, to be assessed annually by the Selectboard, or
in such other manner as the Selectboard determines. If the costs are to be paid by
a tax, the tax shall be paid and collected in the same manner as other taxes, and
the tax assessed on any part of the grand list shall be in lien thereon. All funds
of any special service shall be kept in a special fund, no part of which may be used
for any other purpose.
(c) The warning for each annual or special district meeting may contain appropriate articles
under which the legal voters residing at any special service district may separately
vote.