Vermont § 107 - Ordinances; adoption by Selectboard

§ 107. Ordinances; adoption by Selectboard

• (a) If the Selectboard desires to adopt an ordinance, they shall cause it to be entered
  in the official record kept of their proceedings, and thereafter, they shall adopt
  it subject to final approval after the public hearing as hereafter set forth. The
  ordinance shall then be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town,
  together with a notice of the time and place of a public hearing to consider the ordinance
  for final passage, such publication to be on a day at least one week and not more
  than two weeks prior to the date of hearing. (b) At the public hearing or at any time and place to which the hearing may from time
  to time be adjourned, the ordinance shall be read in full, unless the Selectboard
  elects to read the ordinance by title; and after such reading, all persons interested
  shall be given an opportunity to be heard. (c) After the public hearing, the Selectboard may finally adopt the ordinance, with or
  without amendment. If they amend the ordinance prior to passage, they shall cause
  the amended ordinance to be entered in the official record of their proceedings and
  shall also cause the amended sections of the ordinance, as finally passed, to be published
  in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town on a day not more than 14 days after
  adoption. (d) Every ordinance shall become effective 40 days after adoption, unless the Selectboard
  specifies a longer period, or, if the ordinance is conditioned on approval by voters
  of the Town, then upon such voter approval. If within 40 days of adoption, a referendum
  petition is filed, the ordinance shall not become effective until after the question
  of repeal is voted. (e) The Town Clerk shall prepare and keep in the Town Clerk’s office and in all Town libraries
  a book of ordinances, which shall contain each Town ordinance, together with a complete
  index of the ordinances according to subject matter. Failure to comply with this provision
  shall not invalidate any Town ordinance lawfully passed.