Vermont § 1423 - Town committees; joint plan for consolidation

§ 1423. Town committees; joint plan for consolidation

• (a) Any committee appointed at the suggestion of the assistant judges shall meet and confer
  with the committee of the town proposing consolidation, and the two committees acting
  jointly, if they determine that a consolidation would promote the interests of the
  residents of the areas to be consolidated and that greater governmental efficiency
  would result, shall draw a detailed plan for a consolidation, setting forth the boundaries
  of the areas to be consolidated, scheduling and listing land, buildings, and equipment
  owned by each town which will not be needed after consolidation and placing a fair
  market value thereon and scheduling and listing land, buildings, and equipment deemed
  necessary for the areas to be consolidated. They shall also schedule and list the
  liabilities of each town and draw up a balance sheet showing the true assets and liabilities
  of the proposed consolidated town taking into consideration the value of the land,
  buildings, and equipment which will not be needed after consolidation. (b) Any plan for consolidation may provide for the establishment of one or more of the
  towns consolidating as a village within the consolidated town, and for the continuance
  of any zoning ordinances in effect in such town as village ordinances and, in case
  such town has a bonded debt, for special village tax levies for the payment thereof.
  Any plan may also provide that school districts within the areas to be consolidated
  may be established as incorporated school districts within the consolidated town. (Added 1963, No. 146, § 3.)