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. 601, § 51)
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§ 51. Withdrawal of member municipality
A member municipality may vote to withdraw from the District if one year has elapsed
since the District became a body politic and corporate, and if the District has not
voted to bond for construction and improvements or to authorize a long-term contract
pursuant to this chapter. If a majority of the voters of a member municipality present
and voting at a meeting of the municipality duly warned for the purpose vote to withdraw
from the District, the vote shall be certified by the clerk of that municipality to
the Board of Supervisors of the District. Thereafter, the Board of Supervisors shall
give notice to the remaining member municipalities of the vote to withdraw and shall
hold a meeting to determine if it is in the best interest of the District to continue
to exist. Representatives of the member municipalities shall be given an opportunity
to be heard at the meeting together with any other interested persons. After the meeting,
the Board of Supervisors may declare the District dissolved immediately or as soon
thereafter as the financial obligations of the District and of each member municipality
on account thereof have been satisfied, or it may declare that the District shall
continue to exist despite the withdrawal of the member municipality. The membership
of the withdrawing municipality shall terminate as of one year following the vote
to withdraw or as soon after the one year period as the financial obligations of the
withdrawing municipality have been paid to the District. A vote of withdrawal taken
after the District becomes a body politic and corporate but less than one year after
that date shall be null and void. A vote of withdrawal taken after the District has
voted to bond itself for construction and improvements or to authorize a long term
contract shall likewise be null and void. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)