The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
003
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OFFICERS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 127, § 302)
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§ 302. Elective officers
(a) The officers elected by the Town at its annual meeting shall be:
(1) Five Selectboard members.
(2) Town Meeting Moderator.
(3) Five trustees of the Ilsley Library.
(4) Three listers.
(5) Three auditors, unless the Town has voted to eliminate the Office of Auditor pursuant
to 17 V.S.A. § 2651b.
(6) Town Clerk.
(7) [Repealed.]
(8) Members of the Prudential Committee of Middlebury Incorporated School District No.
4.
(9) Middlebury members of the Board of Union School District No. 3.
The number of such officers to be elected at each annual meeting shall be as hereafter
set forth.
(b) All elected officers shall be chosen from the legally qualified voters of the Town
and shall hold office for the terms hereafter specified and until their successors
are elected and qualified.
(c) All officers shall be elected by Australian ballot.
(d) When an elected officer specified in subdivisions 302(a)(1) through (7) of this charter
resigns, makes another Town his or her residence, dies, or becomes incapacitated,
his or her office shall become vacant and the Selectboard shall appoint an eligible
person to fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting. The person elected shall
at the annual meeting serve until his or her predecessor’s term expires. Incapacity
shall include the failure of a Selectboard member to attend 50 percent of the meetings
of the Board in any calendar year.
(e) If the Town so votes at its annual meeting, two additional Selectboard members may
be elected from the legally qualified voters of the Town for a term of three years
each, the first such election to take place at the annual meeting following the annual
meeting at which the additional offices are created. A vote so taken in favor of additional
Selectboard members shall not be rescinded. (Amended 2015, No. M-12, § 2, eff. May 26, 2015; 2023, No. M-6, § 2, eff. May 25, 2023.)