Vermont § 602 - Admission of new member municipalities
Full text of Vermont Vermont Statutes Online § 602 — Admission of new member municipalities, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 602. Admission of new member municipalities
- (a) The Board of Supervisors may authorize the inclusion of additional member municipalities
in the District upon terms and conditions that it in its sole discretion shall deem
to be fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of the District. (b) The legislative body of any nonmember municipality that desires to be admitted to
the District shall make application for admission to the Board of Supervisors of the
District. (c)(1) The Board shall determine the effects and impacts that are likely to occur if the
municipality is admitted and shall either grant or deny authority for admission of
the petitioning municipality. (2) If the Board grants the authority, it shall also specify any terms and conditions,
including but not limited to financial obligations upon which the admission is predicated.
The petitioning municipality shall then comply with the approval procedures specified
in 24 V.S.A. § 4863. (d) If a majority of the voters of the petitioning municipality present and voting at
a meeting of the municipality duly warned for that purpose shall vote to approve this
charter and the terms and conditions for admission, the vote shall be certified by
the clerk of that municipality to the Board of Supervisors. Upon satisfactory performance
of the terms and conditions for admission, the municipality shall by resolution of
the Board of Supervisors be a member municipality of the District. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)
Source: official Vermont text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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