2011 Vermont Code
Title 24 Appendix Municipal Charters
Chapter 17 CITY OF WINOOSKI
§ 7.01 City elections

§ 17-7.1. City elections

(a) Regular elections. Annually on the first Tuesday in March, a meeting of the legal voters of said city shall be held at seven o'clock in the forenoon at a place to be designated by the city council. Notice of said meeting shall be posted in at least three public places within said city not less than 14 days nor more than 25 days prior thereto. Such notices shall be signed by the city clerk and in case of the clerk's failure to do so, by the mayor. If the annual meeting shall fail to be held for want of notice, the officers of the city may, at any time thereafter be elected at a special meeting called for that purpose. The several officers shall be elected by ballot, using the Australian system, and the ballot boxes shall remain open until seven o'clock in the afternoon for all offices and on all other questions to be voted upon, notwithstanding any state law to the contrary.

(b) Qualified voters. The qualifications of voters in the city meetings shall be the same as those prescribed by law for voters in town meetings.

(c) Special elections. The city clerk shall, when directed by the city council or when requested in writing by the voters of the city as provided by statutes, call a special meeting of the legal voters of said city at such time and place as the city council may direct. Should the clerk fail to call a meeting as aforesaid, this duty shall be performed by the mayor. The warning for such special meeting shall state the purpose for which it is called, shall designate the time and place thereof, shall be posted in the same manner as the warning for the annual city meeting and shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks on the same day of the week in a newspaper published or having general circulation in the city. Voting shall be on printed ballots prepared by the city council. The city checklist used at the last annual city meeting preceding such a special city meeting shall be used in voting. Only voters qualified to have their names appear on the checklist of the last annu

al city meeting preceding such a special city meeting shall be entitled to have their names added to the checklist to be used in special city meetings. Any petition, however, for the calling of any special meeting for the resubmission, reconsideration or rescission of any question previously submitted to the legal voters of said city shall be filed not more than 30 days after such previous submission, and no question previously submitted or presented for reconsideration or rescission except upon request of the city council by resolution.

(d) Checklist. Preceding each annual or special meeting of said city the city council shall, at least 15 days before the annual or special city meeting, prepare and correct, except as herein otherwise provided, in the manner provided for the preparation and correction of checklists to be used in town meetings, and shall forthwith cause copies of such list to be posted by or under the direction of the city clerk in two or more public places in such city and a copy to be filed in the city clerk's office.

(e) Conduct of elections. Except as otherwise provided by this charter, the provisions of the general election laws of the state for town meetings and the election of town officers shall apply to elections held under this charter. For the conduct of city elections, for the prevention of fraud in such elections and for the recount of ballots in cases of doubt or fraud, the council shall adopt by ordinance all regulations which it considers desirable, consistent with law and this charter.