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. 124, § 6)
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§ 6. Removal of elected Town officers
Any elected Town officer may be removed from office subject to the following conditions
and procedures:
(1) A written petition, signed by not less than 15 percent of the registered voters of
the Town, seeking the removal of such Town officer or officers, and requesting a vote
of the Town at a regular or special meeting called for the purpose, shall be filed
with the Selectboard and the Town Clerk.
(2) Within 15 days after receipt of the petition, the Selectboard shall warn a special
Town meeting, or if the annual meeting is to occur within 45 days of the filing of
the petition, include an article in the warning for the annual meeting, for the purpose
of voting, by Australian ballot, on whether the officer or officers shall be removed
from office.
(3) The officer or officers shall be removed from office only if at least as many registered
voters of the Town cast votes in the special Town meeting or annual meeting as voted
in the election wherein the officer subject to the vote of removal was originally
elected.
(4) Removal shall require a majority of the votes cast at the regular or special Town
meeting.
(5) If an officer is removed according to the foregoing procedure, the officer shall forthwith
cease to hold office and the office shall become vacant. The vacancy shall be filled
as provided by law and this charter.
(6) Only one petition for removal may be filed against any given elected officer during
any 12-month period of his or her term of office. (Added 2005, No. M-9 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2005.)