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2011 Vermont Code
Title 24 Appendix Municipal Charters
Chapter 221 VILLAGE OF ESSEX JUNCTION
§ 4.03 Removal

Universal Citation:
24 VT Stats App. § 221-4.03. (2011 through Adj Sess)
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§ 221-4.03. Removal

(a) The Trustees may remove the manager from office for cause in accordance with the following procedures:

(1) The Trustees shall adopt by affirmative vote of a majority of all its members a preliminary resolution which must state the reasons for removal and may suspend the manager from duty for a period not to exceed 45 days. A copy of the resolution shall be delivered within three (3) days to the manager.

(2) Within five days after a copy of the resolution is delivered to the manager, he may file with the Trustees a written request for a hearing. Said hearing to be in a public or executive session by choice of the manager. This hearing shall be held at a special Trustees meeting not earlier than fifteen days nor later than thirty days after the request is filed. The manager may file with the Trustees a written reply not later than five days before the hearing.

(3) The Trustees may adopt a final resolution of removal, which may be made effective immediately, by affirmative vote of a majority of all its members at any time after five days from the date when a copy of the preliminary resolution was delivered to the manager, if he has not requested a public hearing, or at any time after the public hearing if he has requested one.

(b) The manager shall continue to receive his salary until the effective date of a final resolution of removal.

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