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
002
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GENERAL POWERS OF THE TOWN
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 153, § 202)
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§ 202. Powers of the Town
(a) The Town shall have all of the powers granted to towns and municipal corporations
by the Constitution and laws of this State. It may enact ordinances, bylaws, and regulations
not inconsistent with the Constitution of Vermont or with this charter, and impose
penalties for the violation thereof.
(b) The Town may acquire real property within or without its corporate limits for any
Town purpose, in fee simple or lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise,
or lease, and may sell, lease, mortgage, hold, manage, and control such real property
as its interests may require. The Town may further acquire property within its corporate
limits by condemnation where such authority is granted to towns by the statutes of
the State of Vermont.
(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
power were not mentioned. (Amended 2001, No. M-7, § 2, eff. May 21, 2001; 2013, No. M-4, § 2, eff. May 8, 2013.)