The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
004
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FIRE PROTECTION
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 219, § 9)
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§ 9. Corporate powers
The corporation may purchase, hold, and convey any real estate, and erect and keep
in repair any building necessary for their purposes; may construct, maintain, or purchase
such aqueducts and reservoirs as they may judge best; may make bylaws regulating zoning
and development; may adopt municipal ordinances for the erection of dwelling houses
and other buildings; may make such bylaws and regulations as they shall deem proper
to restrain all nuisances, or abate the same; direct the clearing, repairing, and
improvement of streets, highways, commons, or walks, and protect the same from injury,
light the same, keep a watch, restrain cattle, horses, sheep, swine, geese, and other
creatures from running at large, or permit the same to run at large under such restrictions
as they may provide; provide for the planting and preservation of shade and other
trees, lay out, grade, fence, and otherwise improve all public parks and commons;
and may impose any fine not exceeding $500.00 for a breach of any bylaws, which fines,
and all others prosecuted within six months from the time they accrue, in the name
of the corporation, may be recovered in the District Court of the State, in an action
of debt, declaring generally for a breach of the bylaws or of this charter. (Added 1886, No. 195, § 9; amended 1908, No. 267, § 1; 1961, No. 312, § 1; 1989, No. M-26 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 2007, No. M-22 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. May 19, 2008.)