2011 Vermont Code
Title 24 Appendix Municipal Charters
Chapter 113 TOWN OF COLCHESTER
§ 305 Overrule of ordinances

§ 113-305. Overrule of ordinances

All ordinances shall be subject to overrule by a special town meeting, as follows; if, within twenty days after final passage by the selectmen of any such ordinance, a petition signed by voters of the town not less in number than ten percent of the largest number of votes cast by Australian ballot at the last annual town meeting is filed with the town clerk requesting its reference to a special town meeting, the selectmen shall fix the time and place of such meeting, which shall be not less than thirty nor more than forty days after the filing of the petition and notice thereof shall be given in the manner provided by law in the calling of a special town meeting. An ordinance so referred shall become effective upon the conclusion of such meeting unless voters not less in number than ten percent of the largest number of votes cast by Australian ballot at the last annual town meeting and constituting a majority of those voting thereon, shall have voted against the ordinance.