§ 10. Highway district taxes All the territory embraced within the limits of the Village is hereby constituted a highway district of the Town of Troy, and all the highway taxes assessed upon the ratable estate therein shall be paid in money; and the Selectboard of the Town of Troy shall make out a tax […]
§ 11. Roads, sidewalks, and assessments The trustees of the Village may lay out, alter, maintain, and discontinue any street, road, lane, alley, or walk in the Village, and appraise and settle the damages therefor, causing their proceedings to be recorded in the Town Clerk’s office in the Town; provided, that any person aggrieved by […]
§ 12. Licensing authority The trustees of the Village shall have the sole power of granting licenses and vacating the same, within the limits of the Village, agreeably to the bylaws, rules, and ordinances thereof that the selectboard has by Titles 7 and 24 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated and all moneys received for such […]
§ 13. Fire Warden The fire wardens of the Village shall be present at all fires, having some distinguishing badge, fixed upon by the corporation; and the wardens, in time of fire, are hereby empowered to demand reasonable assistance from the inhabitants of the Village or any of them, and all persons who may be […]
§ 14. Hook and ladder company The trustees of the Village may organize one fire and hook and ladder company in the Village, for the purpose of preventing fires, and at the expense of the Village may purchase a fire engine and other necessary implements; provided, the corporation shall so direct by vote at a […]
§ 15. Grand list The trustees may make a grand list for the Village at any time prior to voting a tax, on the following basis: the Town grand list of Troy, comprised within the limits of the Village, shall constitute such grand list, and the trustees shall deduct therefrom all real estate lying and […]
§ 16. Competency to hold Village office No member of the Village shall be deemed thereby incompetent to act as judge, justice of the peace, juror, sheriff, or constable in any cause or proceeding in which the corporation shall be interested.
§ 17. Date of annual meeting The annual meeting of the corporation for the choice of officers and for the transaction of any business specified in the warning of the meeting shall be held in the Village of North Troy, on the third Tuesday of March of each year, or such other day that the […]
§ 20. Village Constable An office of Village Constable is established in the Village of North Troy. The Village Constable shall be appointed by the Village Trustees and serve at the pleasure of the Trustees. If the Village Constable is certified as a Level II or Level III law enforcement officer under 20 V.S.A. § […]
§ 4. Qualified voters Every person who resides within the limits of the Village, and is a legal voter in Town meetings in the Town of Troy, shall be entitled to vote in any Village meeting.
§ 5. Elections at meeting At every annual meeting of the Village, the qualified electors of the Village shall, by ballot if called for, elect from their number a Moderator, a Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, three trustees, three fire wardens, and an Attorney. The Trustees elected at the last Village meeting shall […]
§ 6. Village Moderator It shall be the duty of the Moderator to preside at all the meetings of the Village, and he or she shall have the same power as a Moderator of Town meetings.
§ 8. Village Treasurer and Collector The Treasurer and Collector shall perform for the corporation the same duties required by law respectively of a town treasurer and a collector of town taxes, and shall have the same powers, shall proceed in the same manner, be subject to the same liabilities, and give like bonds to […]
§ 9. Village trustees The trustees shall have the general care and management of the prudential interest of the Village; shall make out all taxes, and direct the expenditures of all moneys belonging to the Village, and shall draw all orders upon the Treasurer, and generally shall perform all duties legally enjoined upon them by […]
