The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
002
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MUNICIPAL POWERS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 111, § 201)
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§ 201. Town powers
The Town of Chester may exercise the following powers and functions in addition to
those already or otherwise conferred upon it by law:
(a) To establish and maintain a Police Department, to provide for the appointment of police
officers, who shall be sworn and who shall have the same powers as constables in the
service of civil and criminal process and such further special authority as may be
provided in any bylaws or ordinances of said Town enacted under authority of law.
(b) To acquire by gift or purchase, sell, convey, lease, assign, maintain, and service
real and personal property as may be necessary or incidental to the exercise of its
municipal powers, duties, and functions and to exercise in connection therewith any
incidental powers as may be necessary to preserve and maintain the value of any such
property once lawfully acquired.
(c) To establish and maintain a Fire Department.
(d) To establish, maintain, and keep in repair systems of sewers and drainage and to apportion
and assess the expenses thereof against property benefited thereby as hereinafter
provided.
(e) To light its highways and bridges and to lay dust on said highways and bridges by
sprinkling or otherwise, and to assess by vote of the Town such portion as may be
voted to the cost of sprinkling or otherwise laying the dust on the highways and bridges
against abutting land owners.
(f) To establish, maintain, and keep in repair the water system heretofore owned by the
Village of Chester and to provide the government and control of the same as hereinafter
is specifically provided.
(g) To provide for the collection and disposition of garbage, waste, and other refuse
material.