§ 1151. Certificate of election; oath A town clerk shall file with the county clerk a certificate of his or her election or appointment and a copy of his or her official oath on or before six days after election or appointment. The moderator shall sign the certificate if the clerk is elected at an […]
§ 1152. Record of proceedings of meetings The clerk shall record all proceedings of all town meetings and his or her record shall be deemed to be the true and official record of all action taken at that meeting provided it has been approved and attested by any two of the following town officers present […]
§ 1153. Card indices All general indices required by law to be kept by a town or city clerk may be kept by the card index system, with the consent and approval of the selectboard or board of aldermen. When so kept, such card index shall provide as full and complete information as is now […]
§ 1154. Records; copies (a) A town clerk shall record in the land records, at length or by accurate, legible copy, in books to be furnished by the town: (1) deeds; (2) instruments or evidences respecting real estate; (3) writs of execution, other writs or the substance thereof, and the returns thereon; (4) hazardous waste […]
§ 1154a. Records; return postage Whenever an instrument listed in section 1154 of this chapter is filed or left for record with the town clerk, the town shall bear the costs of returning the original copy of the instrument to the person who filed or left the instrument for record. (Added 2019, No. 38, § […]
§ 1155. Record of trust mortgage Trust mortgages may be recorded by furnishing the clerk with a printed copy thereof on not smaller than 8 1/4 by 10 3/4 nor larger than 10 1/2 by 16 ledger paper of good quality with good cloth binding which volume after being duly compared with the original mortgage […]
§ 1156. Chattel mortgages; conditional sales; discharge of lien Within 15 days after a chattel mortgage, a sufficient memorandum of a conditional vendor’s lien, or a memorandum of a discharge of such mortgage or lien has been delivered to a town clerk for recording, accompanied by the recording fee provided in 32 V.S.A. § 1671, […]
§ 1157. Duties of town clerk as to chattel mortgages A town clerk shall procure and keep a book of records for mortgages of personal property and shall keep an alphabetical index of mortgagors and mortgagees. The record and index shall be open to public inspection. The clerk shall record in the book any mortgage, […]
§ 1158. Assignment or discharge of mortgage or judgment lien An assignment or discharge of a mortgage or judgment lien shall be duly recorded in the records of the town. A mortgage or judgment lien may be discharged by the mortgagee, judgment creditor, or assignee of such mortgage or judgment lien in writing on the […]
§ 1159. Indorsement of time of receiving instruments (a) An instrument shall be deemed recorded when the town clerk: (1) receives the instrument, the recording fee provided in 32 V.S.A. § 1671, and all supporting documents required by statute; and (2) indorses a certificate of the date and time of reception on the instrument. (b) […]
§ 1160. Acknowledgements; oath (a) A town clerk, commissioned as a notary public pursuant to 26 V.S.A. chapter 103, may take acknowledgements of deeds and other instruments throughout his or her county. (b) In his or her county, he or she may administer oaths in all cases where an oath is required, without being commissioned […]
§ 1161. General index (a)(1) A town clerk shall keep a general index of transactions affecting the title to real estate wherein he or she shall enter in one column, in alphabetical order, the name of the grantor to the grantee and, in a parallel column, the name of the grantee from the grantor, of […]
§ 1162. Indices; liability of clerk and town A town clerk who neglects to keep in his or her office the indices required by law to be kept by him or her shall be fined $20.00 for each six months’ neglect. A town which, upon such neglect of its town clerk, delays for six months […]
§ 1163. Index of attachments A town clerk shall keep a book in which shall be alphabetically indexed all attachments of personal property lodged in his or her office. Such index shall show the names of the parties to the action in which the attachment is made, the court and date of the court to […]
§ 1164. Certified copies; form (a) A town clerk shall furnish certified copies of any instrument on record in his or her office, or any instrument or paper filed in his or her office pursuant to law, on the tender of fees therefor, and his or her attestation shall be a sufficient authentication of the […]
§ 1165. Files and records available; when The files and records in the office of the clerk shall be available for inspection upon proper request at all reasonable hours.
§ 1166. Return of name of town treasurer to State Treasurer Annually, on or before July 1, a town clerk shall transmit to the State Treasurer the name of the town treasurer.
§ 1167. Certification of votes When at an annual or special meeting a town votes to raise a tax, to borrow money, or to make any appropriation of money, the clerk of such town, within five days thereafter, shall certify such vote to the treasurer of the town and to the chair of the selectboard.
§ 1168. Return of names of listers to Director of the Division of Property Valuation and Review After each annual meeting, a town clerk shall report forthwith electronically to the Director of the Division of Property Valuation and Review the name of each lister in the town, his or her post office address, and the […]
§ 1169. Name and address of first constable to county clerk After each annual meeting, a town clerk shall certify forthwith to the county clerk the name and post office address of the person elected first constable at such meeting.
