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.
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 507, § 5)
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§ 5. Fees
(a) In addition to the specific powers conferred upon the District by statute, and by
resolutions of the Selectboards of the Towns of Dover and Wilmington, Cold Brook Fire
District No. 1 may, at a duly warned annual or special meeting, vote to impose the
following fees upon real property within the District:
(1) a general fee upon each unit within the District;
(2) a permitted use fee upon each unit within the District that has received either an
allocation for water or sewerage use or plan approval for future development from
a municipality or the State of Vermont; and
(3) a user fee upon each unit within the District that receives water or sewer services
or that has available an unused water or sewer connection.
(b) An improved parcel requiring a daily design flow of up to 450 gallons per day shall
constitute a unit. For improved parcels requiring additional design flow, the number
of additional units shall be determined by dividing the design flow by 450 gallons
and rounding the quotient to the first decimal place. An unimproved parcel of land
shall constitute one unit unless the parcel is subject to a subdivision plan, in which
case each lot identified in the subdivision shall constitute one or more units, in
accordance with the design flow criterion set forth in this subsection. The number
of units in an undeveloped townhouse village shall equal the number of units identified
on the 1971 survey plan for the townhouse village on record in the Town of Wilmington.
(c) In the first year following the effective date of this section, the District shall
impose the following fees: the general fee and the permitted use fee shall not exceed
$75.00, and the user fee shall not exceed $150.00. In any year thereafter, the fees
shall not increase by more than 10 percent from the previous year.
(d) The fees set forth in this section shall be a lien upon the assessed property in the
same manner and to the same effect as taxes are liens on real estate under 32 V.S.A. § 5061. The Prudential Committee and Collector shall have the same power in assessing, levying,
and collecting the fees as town officers have in assessing and collecting town taxes,
including the power to collect interest and penalties on overdue payments.