Vermont § 702 - Definitions As used in this chapter:

§ 702. Definitions As used in this chapter:

• (1) “Board clerk” means the individual selected to be clerk of the board of a union school
  district by the members of the board from among their number pursuant to the provisions
  of sections 714 (initial members of union school district board), 729 (unified union
  district board members), and 747 (union elementary and union high school district
  board members) of this chapter. (2) “District clerk” means the individual elected as clerk of a union school district
  by the voters of the district pursuant to the provisions of sections 715 (union school
  district organizational meeting), 735 (unified union school district officers and
  election), and 753 (union elementary and union high school district officers and election)
  of this chapter. (3) “Forming districts” means all school districts, including union school districts,
  that are located within the geographical boundaries of a proposed or voter-approved
  union school district prior to the operational date of the union school district,
  which will potentially merge or have merged to form the new union school district. (4) “Member district” means a school district, which can be a union school district, that
  is a member of a union elementary school district or a union high school district
  for certain grades, prekindergarten through grade 12, and is a distinct district organized
  to provide for the education of its resident students for all other grades, whether
  by operating one or more schools or paying tuition. (5) “Operational date” means the date on which a union school district formed pursuant
  to the provisions of this chapter assumes full and sole responsibility for the education
  of all resident students in the grades for which it is organized. (6) “School district” means a school district organized as a town school district, city
  school district, incorporated school district, or union school district, unless clearly
  inapplicable. (7) In addition to its plain meaning, “town” means a city or incorporated village. (8) In addition to its plain meaning, “town school district” means a city school district,
  or incorporated school district, and does not mean a union school district. (9) “Town within a unified union school district” means each town located inside the geographic
  boundaries of a unified union school district and in which the district’s resident
  students live. (10) “Transitional period” means the period of time beginning on the day on which a union
  school district becomes a legal entity pursuant to section 713 (certification of votes)
  of this chapter and continuing until its operational date. (11) “Unified union school district” means a union school district organized to provide
  for the education of the district’s resident students in all grades, prekindergarten
  through grade 12. (12) “Union elementary school district” and “union high school district” mean a union school
  district organized to provide for the education of the district’s resident students
  in fewer than all grades, prekindergarten through grade 12. (13)(A) “Union school district” means a municipality formed under the provisions of this chapter
  that is governed by a single publicly elected board and that is responsible for the
  education of students residing in two or more towns in the grades for which the district
  is organized by: