§ 1. Incorporation of Village and boundaries The ratable and all other estate included within the limits of School District Number One in Newbury, in the County of Orange, is hereby incorporated, and shall hereafter be known by the name of the Village of Wells River; and the inhabitants of the Village are constituted a […]
§ 10. Collector of Village Taxes The Collector of Village Taxes shall discharge the usual duties of such office, and shall have the same power and be subject to the same liabilities as are prescribed by law for collectors of town taxes. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 10.)
§ 11. Bonds for Village Treasurer and Collector of Taxes The Treasurer and Collector of Taxes shall give bonds for the faithful performance of their duties in such sums as the trustees shall direct. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 11.)
§ 12. Village auditors The auditors shall settle the accounts of the Treasurer, trustees, and Collector of Taxes, and shall make an annual report in writing, and no account shall be allowed by such auditors without the production of proper vouchers therefor. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 12.)
§ 13. Village trustees The trustees shall be the governing board of the Village and shall have power to make, establish, amend, or repeal ordinances and impose regulations not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of Vermont, or of the United States, or of the municipal charter and bylaws of the Village, and to provide […]
§ 14. Village trustees; fiscal oversight The trustees shall audit, and in their discretion allow, the claim of any person against the Village for money paid or services performed, and for any debt contracted or obligation incurred by the trustees for and in behalf of the Village for any matter within the proper scope of […]
§ 15. Chief Engineer and Fire Department (a) The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department and the Chief’s assistants shall be ex officio fire wardens of the Village and the duties of the Engineer shall be such as may be prescribed by the bylaws and ordinances of the Village. (b) The Chief Engineer, and in […]
§ 16. Village trustees; power to appoint The trustees shall have authority to appoint annually and to prescribe the duties of a Chief of Police and police officers; the superintendents of the Village departments; a Building Inspector; and such other Village officials as they may judge necessary for the welfare of the Village; and the […]
§ 17. Police officers The police officers shall have the same power and authority as conservators of the peace within the Village as that of town constables. They may serve any criminal process for any offense against the laws of the State committed within the Village, and may serve subpoenas for witnesses in such cases; […]
§ 18. Superintendents of Village departments The superintendents of Village departments shall be immediately under the supervision of the trustees and shall perform the work customary to their offices. (Added 1937, No. 301, § 18.)
§ 19. Village Building Inspector Within the Village limits, the Building Inspector shall have authority to oversee the location and construction of all buildings and all repairs on buildings already constructed, and shall oversee the construction and repairs of elevators, oil storage tanks, fire places, stoves, flues, and chimneys and all electrical wiring; and may […]
§ 2. Alteration of boundaries The inhabitants of the Village may alter the bounds of the Village with the written consent of the persons whose residence or property will be included or excluded thereby, such written consent and alteration being first recorded in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Newbury, and […]
§ 20. Village trustee meetings The trustees shall meet regularly at suitable times to enact ordinances and to transact any and all other proper business, and at such meetings shall give audience to all complaints and protests, and shall cause a record of their proceedings to be kept by the Village Clerk. (Added 1937, No. […]
§ 21. Village ordinances taking effect (a) No ordinance passed by the trustees shall be enforceable until notice thereof has been posted in four public places, within the bounds of the Village, for a period of two weeks, and published in a newspaper printed in the Village, or, if no such newspaper be printed, in […]
§ 22. Ordinances and bylaws; inconsistencies All regulations enacted and adopted by the inhabitants of the Village for the government thereof shall be known as “bylaws.” All regulations passed and published by the trustees of the Village for the government thereof shall be deemed to be and shall be known as “ordinances.” In the case […]
§ 23. Village and Town residents; public office The inhabitants of the Village shall belong to and remain inhabitants of the Town of Newbury. No person being a resident or taxpayer of the Village shall be deemed thereby incompetent or disqualified to act as judge, justice, juror, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer, or witness […]
§ 24. Highway district All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Newbury and all the highway taxes assessed upon the ratable estate thereof shall be paid in money, and the Selectboard of the Town of Newbury shall make out a tax bill […]
§ 25. Roads, walkways, and sewers (a) The trustees of the Village may lay out, grade, alter, maintain, and discontinue any street, road, lane, alley, sewer, or walk in the Village, and appraise and settle the damages thereof, causing their proceedings to be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Town of Newbury, […]
§ 26. Property tax The Village may, at any annual meeting, or special meeting called for that purpose, as hereinbefore provided, lay a tax on the ratable estate within the same, whether of residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, and the trustees shall make out a rate bill accordingly and deliver […]
§ 27. Village water supply All water rents and charges due the Village for the use of the Village water supply or the Village aqueduct system in case of nonpayment thereof shall be and remain a lien in the nature of a tax upon the real estate so supplied with water, whether such rents or […]
