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2011 Vermont Code
Title 24 Appendix Municipal Charters
Chapter 123A TOWN OF HARTFORD
§ 102 General powers


24 VT Stats App. § 123A-102. (2011 through Adj Sess) What's This?

§ 123A-102. General powers

(a) All provisions of the Constitution and Laws of the State of Vermont relating to towns, villages and school districts shall apply to the town and the school district, except as otherwise provided by this chapter.

(b) The town and school district shall have all the powers and functions conferred upon towns and school districts by the Constitution and Laws of the State of Vermont and shall also have all implied powers necessary to implement those powers and functions.

(c) The powers and functions conferred upon the town and school district by this chapter shall be separate and be in addition to the powers and functions conferred upon the town and school district by laws now in force or hereafter enacted. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as a limitation upon these previously specified powers and functions.

(d) The town or school district may acquire real property for any town or school district purpose, in fee simple or lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise, or lease, and may sell, lease, hold, manage, and control real property as its interests may require. The town or school district may further acquire property within its legal limits by condemnation where that authority is granted to towns and school districts by state statutes. A petition for rescission shall be filed within 10 days from the posting of approved selectboard or school board minutes related to the property decision, and the petition shall be signed by no less than 350 registered voters.

(e) In this charter, no mention of a particular power shall be construed to be exclusive or to restrict the scope of the powers which the town or school district would have if the particular power were not mentioned. The selectboard and the school board shall operate as separate and independent entities. Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted as allowing either one to inhibit or infringe upon the rights, powers, or privileges of the other.

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