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. 123B, § 3)
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§ 3 Powers of the Town
(a) The Town of Jamaica shall have all the powers granted to towns and municipal corporations
by the Constitution and laws of this State and this charter, together with all the
implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers granted. The Town
of Jamaica may enact ordinances not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of
the State of Vermont or with this charter, and impose penalties for violation thereof.
(b) The Town may acquire real property within or without its corporate limits necessary
or convenient for any lawful purpose, in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate,
by purchase, gift, devise, lease, or otherwise, consistent with the Constitution and
laws of the State of Vermont and may sell, lease, mortgage, hold, manage, and control
such property as its interest may require consistent with the Constitution and laws
of the State by vote of a majority of the voters present and voting at a duly warned
meeting. Once the voters have approved the sale, lease, or mortgage of property of
the Town of Jamaica, the Selectboard shall have the full authority to sign all conveyances
and legal documents in the name of the Town to complete the transaction.
(c) In this charter, no mention of a particular power shall be construed to be exclusive
or to restrict the scope of the powers that the Town would have if the particular
powers were not mentioned, unless this charter otherwise provides. (Added 2011, No. M-2, § 2, eff. Feb. 16, 2011.)