Vermont § 15 - Voting

§ 15. Voting

• (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, each member of the Board of Supervisors
  shall be entitled to cast one vote for every 1,000 population, or part thereof, in
  the municipality that the Supervisor represents; provided, however, no member municipality
  or supervisor shall be entitled to more than 20 votes, regardless of the population
  of the municipality. A member of the Board of Supervisors may not split its votes.
  The determinations of population shall be made based upon the latest census provided
  by the Vermont Department of Health. (b) The vote of the Board of Supervisors approving the siting of any solid waste disposal
  facility, including a landfill, incinerator, gasifier, plasma arc conversion facility,
  or a facility using similar technologies that rely on extremely high temperature heating
  of high carbon feedstocks, any other similar facility that poses a potential for risk
  to the environment or the public; or a biosolids facility shall require an affirmative
  recorded vote of the supervisor representing the town or city in which such facility
  is to be located, in addition to approval by two-thirds vote of the entire Board of
  Supervisors. (c) The vote of the Board of Supervisors approving the siting of a resource recovery facility,
  including a recycling, transfer, or composting facility shall require an affirmative
  recorded vote of the supervisor representing the town or city in which the facility
  is to be located, in addition to approval by two-thirds vote of the entire Board of
  Supervisors. (d) The District may not enter into any contract with nonmember municipalities or private
  entities for the management of solid waste generated outside the boundaries of the
  District, unless the contract is deemed to be in the best interests of the District,
  and approved by a two-thirds majority of the Board of Supervisors. (Amended 2017, No. M-1, § 1.)