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
006
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PROCEDURAL MATTERS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 173, § 31)
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§ 31. Conflict of interest
(a) If there is a specific written complaint of conflict of interest, the Selectboard
shall conduct an investigation in accordance with the ordinance that states the procedure
and arrive at a decision.
(b) No elected or appointed officer or employee of the Town shall be beneficially interested
directly or indirectly in any contract with the Town, regardless of amount, or furnish
any material, or perform any labor, except in the discharge of his or her official
duties, unless such contract shall have been awarded upon bids advertised for by publication.
Such publication shall appear at least two times in a newspaper having general circulation
in the Town; the second publication shall be at least seven days prior to the opening
of such bids. No officer or employee of the Town shall take part in any decision concerning
the business of the Town in which the officer or employee has a direct or indirect
financial interest, aside from his or her salary as an officer or employee, greater
than that of any other citizen or taxpayer in the Town. Nothing in this section shall
prohibit the Town Administrator from hiring the best available service provider in
an emergency situation. (Amended 2005, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 14, eff. May 17, 2006.)