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
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INCORPORATION AND GRANT OF POWERS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 123, § 118)
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§ 118. Special service district
(a) By ordinance, enacted as herein provided, the Town of Hardwick may designate, establish,
enlarge, and modify the boundaries of certain special service districts, in which
are provided municipal services not available elsewhere in the Town. For the cost
of providing such municipal services, including the cost of financing capital improvements
relating to such services, the Town may assess, levy, and collect annually a special
benefit tax upon all property within such special service district.
(b) No such special service district may be designated, established, enlarged, or modified
without the approval of the residents in said district as existing or proposed, expressed
by the affirmative vote of a majority of those residents within said district present
and voting at a special meeting thereof.
(c) Regular water and sewer charges, fees, and rates shall not be considered a special
benefit tax within the meaning of this section, and shall be assessed and collected
as provided by general law.