2011 Vermont Code
Title 24 Appendix Municipal Charters
Chapter 251 VILLAGE OF NORTH BENNINGTON
§ 201 Authorization for the assessment and collection of property taxes

§ 251-201. Authorization for the assessment and collection of property taxes

(a) Said village may, at an annual or special meeting warned for that purpose as herein provided, lay a tax upon the polls of the inhabitants of said village, and the ratable estate within the same, whether of residents or nonresidents, for any of the purposes herein mentioned, and the board of trustees shall make out a rate bill accordingly and deliver the same to the collector, who shall have the same power to collect such tax as the collector of town taxes has to collect like taxes in the towns and may in like manner levy on and sell property to satisfy the same and for want thereof may upon proper warrant commit any person to jail against whom the collector has such a tax and it shall hereafter be the duty of the listers of said town of Bennington in making the grand list of said town to designate therein such of the ratable estate thereof as shall be within the limits of said village and also the polls of such persons as therein reside.

(b) The village may vote to adopt the provisions of chapter 30 of Vermont Statutes and amendments thereto relating to the collection of taxes by the village treasurer.