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. 703, § 17)
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§ 17. Changes in membership; inclusion of additional towns
(a) When a majority of voters of a town present and voting at a meeting duly warned for
that purpose shall vote to apply to the District for admission as a member of the
District, such vote shall thereupon be certified by the clerk of the town to the Clerk
of the District and to the Secretary of State. Such vote and certification, if accepted
by the District within two years after the date of said vote shall be binding on said
town without the subsequent vote in the town contemplated in subsection (c) of this
section.
(b) When it appears to the Board of Water Commissioners that the boundaries of the District
should be changed to include another town, they may insert an article fully describing
the proposed change in the warning for a regular or special meeting of the District,
which proposed change shall state the number of additional members to be added to
the Board of Water Commissioners if such change is approved.
(c) When a majority of the voters voting at such meeting vote to include an additional
town within the boundaries of the District as a member thereof, the Board of Water
Commissioners shall notify the legislative body of such additional town of such vote.
Thereupon the legislative body of the additional town proposed to be included shall
duly warn a meeting thereof, setting forth in such warning the vote of the District
and the proposed change in its boundaries. If a majority of the voters voting at
the meeting of the additional town vote to be included within the District, the result
of such vote and the result of the vote already taken by the District shall be certified
to the Secretary of State. A certificate of such record shall immediately be filed
by the Secretary of State in the office of the Clerk of the District and of any additional
Town to be included therein as a member thereof, which filing shall be notice to all
parties of such addition to the District.
(d) The District as so enlarged shall thereupon have all the powers and responsibilities
given it by this chapter. Any vacancy on the Board of Water Commissioners created
as a result of the increase in the number thereof shall be filled as provided in 24 V.S.A. § 3343. The additional member town shall share in all existing expenses, including bonded
indebtedness, in the proportion provided in this chapter for other members. (Added 1971, No. 135, § 17.)