Vermont § 4 - Village powers; specific authority The generality of the preceding section and the grant of powers therein made, but as a more specific designation of some of the powers conferred upon the Village, the

§ 4. Village powers; specific authority The generality of the preceding section and the grant of powers therein made, but as a more specific designation of some of the powers conferred upon the Village, the

• Village of Manchester has authority: (1) To levy, assess, and collect taxes, in order to carry out its powers; to appropriate
  and to borrow money, within the limits prescribed by law; and to levy and collect
  special assessments for benefits conferred. (2) To purchase, hold, and convey real and personal property and to purchase, erect, and
  keep in repair buildings and other structures for Village purposes; to furnish all
  local public services; to purchase, hire, construct, own, maintain, and operate, or
  lease local public utilities, including aqueducts, reservoirs, a water supply system,
  and an electric light and power system; to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise,
  within or without the corporate limits, property necessary for any public utility
  and other Village purposes, subject to restrictions imposed by law. (3) To make local public improvements and to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, property
  within its corporate limits necessary for the improvements; and also to acquire an
  excess over that needed for the improvements, and to sell or lease the excess property
  with restrictions, in order to protect and preserve the improvements. (4) To issue and sell bonds as permitted by the laws of this State without specific security
  therefor. (5) To purchase or lease lands within or without the corporate limits of the Village;
  to lay out, alter, and discontinue streets, highways, lanes, commons, alleys, and
  walks; to provide places of healthful recreation in summer or in winter such as a
  skating rink, a swimming pool, a playing field, and a public park; to provide for
  and maintain tourist camp sites, airports, aviation landing fields, a municipal forest
  reserve, and all other municipal undertakings and services authorized by law. (6) To adopt and enforce within its limits building, police, sanitary, zoning, Village
  planning, and other similar regulations and ordinances not in conflict with law. (7) Subject always to the Constitution and laws of this State and of the United States,
  and to the limitations of section 3 of this charter, to enact, adopt, repeal, alter,
  or amend ordinances, bylaws, and other regulations respecting the following matters
  within the Village limits: (A) The construction, establishment, use, operation, and licensing of markets dealing
  in food stuffs, slaughterhouses, restaurants, and other eating establishments; manufacturing
  establishments; advertising billboards, signs; lunch carts, bowling alleys, moving
  picture houses, public garages, hog pens, poultry houses, dog kennels, stables, gasoline
  filling stations, private drains, sewers, and public dumps. (B) The suppression of disorderly and public gambling houses, loafing, obscenity, disturbances,
  noises, vagrancy, and smoke nuisances. (C) The protection of buildings against fire by precautionary measures and inspection,
  the maintenance, replacement, and repair of stovepipes, furnaces, chimneys, electric
  wiring, and all other instrumentalities capable of causing damage by fire, and the
  erection and repair of buildings within fire limits as designated and prescribed by
  Village ordinances. (D) Vagrants, mendicants, peddlers, itinerant vendors, and transient business establishments. (E) The water supply for the protection of the Village against fire and for other purposes,
  and to regulate the use of the same. (F) The erection of poles and the placing of wires, cables, pipes, and electrical conduits,
  and the use of the same; the suspension, putting up, or removal of any sign or awning
  in or over any street, alley, highway, walk, park, common, or other public place,
  the clearing, repairing, and improvement of streets, alleys, highways, parks, commons,
  and other public places, and the use of the same; the planting, preservation, maintenance,
  and removal of shade and other trees; and the prohibiting and punishing of damage
  or injury to the same; the use of rockets, squibs, firecrackers, and all other fireworks
  in public places; preventing the practice of any amusement in any public place tending
  to injure or annoy any person therein or to endanger the security of property, coasting
  or skiing on all public places; the removal of snow, ice, garbage, refuse, and dirt
  from sidewalks and gutters by the owners or occupants of the premises upon which those
  sidewalks and gutters abut; and the cutting and removal of grass, thistles, or weeds,
  growing or being on those sidewalks and gutters by those owners and occupants. The
  regulation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, parking, the erection and maintenance
  of guide posts, street signs, street safety devices; and the regulation of taxicabs,
  other vehicles, and animals used in the transportation or conveyance of persons or
  goods for hire. (Added 1943, No. 183, § 4.)