Vermont § 2291 - Enumeration of powers For the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, welfare, and convenience, a town, city, or incorporated village shall have the following powers:

§ 2291. Enumeration of powers For the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, welfare, and convenience, a town, city, or incorporated village shall have the following powers:

• (1) To set off portions of public highways of the municipality for sidewalks and bicycle
  paths and to regulate their installation and use. (2) To provide for the removal of snow and ice from sidewalks by the owner, occupant,
  or person having charge of abutting property. (3) To provide for the location, protection, maintenance, and removal of trees, plants,
  and shrubs and buildings or other structures on or above public highways, sidewalks,
  or other property of the municipality. (4) To regulate the operation and use of vehicles of every kind including the power to
  erect traffic signs and signals, to regulate the speed of vehicles subject to 23 V.S.A. chapter 13, subchapter 12, to implement traffic-calming devices, to regulate or exclude the
  parking of all vehicles, and to provide for waiver of the right of appearance and
  arraignment in court by persons charged with parking violations by payment of specified
  fines within a stated period of time. (5) To establish rules for pedestrian traffic on public highways and to establish crosswalks. (6) To regulate the location, installation, maintenance, repair, and removal of utility
  poles, wires and conduits, water pipes or mains, storm drains, or gas mains and sewers,
  upon, under, or above public highways or public property of the municipality. (7) To regulate or prohibit the erection, size, structure, contents, and location of signs,
  posters, or displays on or above any public highway, sidewalk, lane, or alleyway of
  the municipality and to regulate the use, size, structure, contents, and location
  of signs on private buildings or structures. (8) To regulate or prohibit the use or discharge, but not possession, of firearms within
  the municipality or specified portions thereof, provided that an ordinance adopted
  under this subdivision shall be consistent with section 2295 of this title and shall not prohibit, reduce, or limit discharge at any existing sport shooting
  range, as that term is defined in 10 V.S.A. § 5227. (9) To license or regulate itinerant vendors, peddlers, door-to-door salesmen, and those
  selling goods, wares, merchandise, or services who engage in a transient or temporary
  business, or who sell from an automobile, truck, wagon, or other conveyance, excepting
  persons selling fruits, vegetables, or other farm produce. (10) To regulate the keeping of dogs, and to provide for their licensing, leashing, muzzling,
  restraint, impoundment, and destruction. (11) To regulate, license, tax, or prohibit circuses, carnivals, and menageries and all
  plays, concerts, entertainments, or exhibitions of any kind for which money is received. (12) To regulate or prohibit the storage or dumping of solid waste, as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6602. These regulations may require the separation of specified components of the waste
  stream. (13) To compel the cleaning or repair of any premises that in the judgment of the legislative
  body is dangerous to the health or safety of the public and to establish health and
  safety standards for premises within the municipality in order to protect the public
  or prevent physical injury to other properties in the vicinity. (14) To define what constitutes a public nuisance, and to provide procedures and take action
  for its abatement or removal as the public health, safety, or welfare may require. (15) To provide for penalties for violation of any ordinance or rule adopted under the
  authority of this section. (16) To name and rename streets and to number and renumber lots pursuant to section 4463 of this title and to require the owner of a house or other building to which a number has been
  assigned to affix the number, including the assigned 911 address, to the structure,
  sign, or number post so that it is clearly visible from the road. (17) To regulate or prohibit possession of open or unsealed containers of alcoholic beverages
  in public places. (18) To regulate or prohibit consumption of alcoholic beverages in public places. (19) To regulate the construction, alteration, development, and decommissioning or dismantling
  of wireless telecommunications facilities and ancillary improvements where the city,
  town, or village has not adopted zoning or where those activities are not regulated
  pursuant to a duly adopted zoning bylaw. Regulations regarding the decommissioning
  or dismantling of telecommunications facilities and ancillary structures may include
  requirements that bond be posted, or other security acceptable to the legislative
  body, in order to finance facility decommissioning or dismantling activities. These
  regulations are not intended to prohibit seamless coverage of wireless telecommunications
  services. With respect to the construction or alteration of wireless telecommunications
  facilities subject to regulation granted in this section, the town, city, or incorporated
  village shall vest in its local regulatory authority the power to determine whether
  the installation of a wireless telecommunications facility, whatever its size, will
  impose no impact or merely a de minimis impact on the surrounding area and the overall
  pattern of land development, and if the local regulatory authority, originally or
  on appeal, determines that the facility will impose no impact or a de minimis impact,
  it shall issue a permit. No ordinance authorized by this section, except to the extent
  structured to protect historic landmarks and structures listed on the State or National
  Register of Historic Places, may have the purpose or effect of limiting or prohibiting
  a property owner’s ability to place or allow placement of antennae used to transmit,
  receive, or transmit and receive communications signals on that property owner’s premises
  if the aggregate area of the largest faces of the antennae is not more than eight
  square feet, and if the antennae and the mast to which they are attached do not extend
  more than 12 feet above the roof of that portion of the building to which they are
  attached. (20) [Repealed.] (21) To regulate, by means of a civil ordinance adopted pursuant to chapter 59 of this
  title, subject to the limitations of 13 V.S.A. § 351b and the requirement of 13 V.S.A. § 354(a), and consistent with the rules adopted by the Secretary of Agriculture, Food and
  Markets, pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 352b(a), the welfare of animals in the municipality. Such ordinance may be enforced by humane
  officers as defined in 13 V.S.A. § 351, if authorized to do so by the municipality. (22) To regulate the sale and conveyance of sewage capacity to users, including phasing
  provisions and other conditions based on the impact of residential, commercial, or
  industrial growth within a town, in accord with principles in a duly adopted town
  plan. (23) Acting individually or in concert with other towns, cities, or incorporated villages
  and pursuant to chapter 87, subchapter 2 of this title, to incur indebtedness for
  or otherwise finance by any means permitted under chapter 53 of this title projects
  relating to renewable energy, as defined in 30 V.S.A. § 8002(17), or to eligible energy efficiency projects undertaken by owners of real property
  within the boundaries of the town, city, or incorporated village. Energy efficiency
  projects shall be those that are eligible under section 3267 of this title. (24) Upon the determination by a municipal building inspector, health officer, or fire
  marshal that a building within the boundaries of the town, city, or incorporated village
  is uninhabitable, to recover all expenses incident to the maintenance of the uninhabitable
  building with the expenses to constitute a lien on the property in the same manner
  and to the same extent as taxes assessed on the grand list, and all procedures and
  remedies for the collection of taxes shall apply to the collection of those expenses;
  provided, however, that the town, city, or incorporated village has adopted rules
  to determine the habitability of a building, including provisions for notice in accordance
  with 32 V.S.A. § 5252(3) to the building’s owner prior to incurring expenses and including provisions for
  an administrative appeals process. [Subdivision (25) effective until January 1, 2028; see also subdivision (25) effective
  January 1, 2028 set out below.] (25) To regulate by means of an ordinance or bylaw development in a flood hazard area,
  river corridor protection area, or other hazard area consistent with the requirements
  of section 4424 of this title and the National Flood Insurance Program. Such an ordinance or bylaw may regulate
  accessory dwelling units in flood hazard and fluvial erosion areas. However, such
  an ordinance or bylaw shall not require the filing of an application or the issuance
  of a permit or other approval by the municipality for a planting project considered
  to have a permit by operation of subsection 4424