The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
002
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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 403, § 15)
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§ 15. Voting
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, each member of the Board of Supervisors
shall be entitled to cast one vote for every 1,000 population, or part thereof, in
the municipality that the Supervisor represents; provided, however, no member municipality
or supervisor shall be entitled to more than 20 votes, regardless of the population
of the municipality. A member of the Board of Supervisors may not split its votes.
The determinations of population shall be made based upon the latest census provided
by the Vermont Department of Health.
(b) The vote of the Board of Supervisors approving the siting of any solid waste disposal
facility, including a landfill, incinerator, gasifier, plasma arc conversion facility,
or a facility using similar technologies that rely on extremely high temperature heating
of high carbon feedstocks, any other similar facility that poses a potential for risk
to the environment or the public; or a biosolids facility shall require an affirmative
recorded vote of the supervisor representing the town or city in which such facility
is to be located, in addition to approval by two-thirds vote of the entire Board of
Supervisors.
(c) The vote of the Board of Supervisors approving the siting of a resource recovery facility,
including a recycling, transfer, or composting facility shall require an affirmative
recorded vote of the supervisor representing the town or city in which the facility
is to be located, in addition to approval by two-thirds vote of the entire Board of
Supervisors.
(d) The District may not enter into any contract with nonmember municipalities or private
entities for the management of solid waste generated outside the boundaries of the
District, unless the contract is deemed to be in the best interests of the District,
and approved by a two-thirds majority of the Board of Supervisors. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)