App § 25.5. Procedure
§ 25.5. Procedure Whenever under the provisions of this charter the Board of Highway Commissioners is required to give notice of the time and place of any examination or hearing before it touching the laying out, altering, or discontinuing any street or public highway in the City, or the award of any damages therefor, a […]
App § 25.6. Notice, citation, service
§ 25.6. Notice, citation, service (a) The citation shall be made at least 21 days prior to the time appointed for such examination or hearing, except when otherwise specially provided for in this charter. (b) Service of the citation may be accepted by any or all persons therein named, by endorsing their acceptance in writing […]
App § 25.7. Nonresident service
§ 25.7. Nonresident service (a) The citation may be served by the sheriff or constable upon a person not an inhabitant of this State by leaving a true and attested copy of the citation with his or her return endorsed, with, or at the residence of, his or her known agent or attorney, if he […]
App § 24.5. Water rates
§ 24.5. Water rates (a) The Board of Aldermen shall establish rates to be paid for the use of water supplied by the City water works, which shall be called “service rates.” Such service rates shall be a lien in the nature of a tax upon the real estate so supplied with water and shall […]
App § 24.6. Sewers
§ 24.6. Sewers The Board of Aldermen is authorized and empowered to establish, construct, and maintain public sewers in said City, and may establish, construct, and maintain public sewers in and through the lands of individuals and corporations, on making compensation therefor in the same manner as provided by law in the laying out and […]
App § 24.7. City Engineer
§ 24.7. City Engineer The City Engineer shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Public Works for an indefinite period. The Engineer shall be a professional civil engineer licensed in the State of Vermont whose duties shall include: (1) responsibility for all public surveys of the public streets, water courses, water works, bridges and culverts, […]
App § 25.1. Membership and duties
§ 25.1. Membership and duties The Commissioner of Public Works, President of the Board of Aldermen, and the Mayor shall constitute the Board of Highway Commissioners and shall have the same power to lay out, alter, resurvey, and discontinue streets and highways as is vested by law in selectboards of towns except as otherwise provided […]
App § 25.2. Acceptance of streets
§ 25.2. Acceptance of streets (a) Streets and highways in the City may be laid out, opened, accepted, and established by the Board of Highway Commissioners, provided the owners having a majority of the frontage on the proposed street or highway file their petition therefor with the Clerk of the City. Such petition shall be […]
App § 23.4. Regular firemen; appointment
§ 23.4. Regular firemen; appointment (a) All applicants for position with the Fire Department, except for the position of Chief Engineer, shall file with the Chief Engineer an application in writing on forms approved by the Chief Engineer, and shall be examined in such manner as he or she may prescribe, with the approval of […]
App § 23.6. Call firemen
§ 23.6. Call firemen The Chief Engineer shall have sole power to appoint such number of call firemen as he or she may consider necessary for the proper protection of the City. Call firemen shall be subject to the call of the Chief Engineer of such Department when in his or her opinion the use […]