2013 Vermont Statutes
Title 24 Appendix Municipal Charters
Chapter 19 CITY OF WINOOSKI
§ 101 Corporate existence retained; form of government

19-101. Corporate existence retained; form of government

(a) The City of Winooski as constituted by No. 314 of the Acts of 1921, as amended, is hereby continued to be incorporated as a body corporate and politic. The boundaries of the City are depicted on a plan recorded as Slide 10 Map 77-3 (formerly Book 2 Page 14), attached hereto as Exhibit A.

(b) The municipal government provided by this charter shall be known as a council-manager form of government. Pursuant to its provisions and subject only to the limitations imposed by the State Constitution and by this charter, all powers of the City shall be vested in an elective council, hereinafter referred to as "the Council," which shall enact ordinances, codes, and regulations, adopt budgets, determine policies, appoint the City Manager, and exercise the powers of a municipal legislative body. All powers of the City shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this charter or prescribed by ordinance or by resolution.

(c) Upon petition of a number of legal voters equal to four percent of the total vote cast for Governor at the last preceding general election, the legal voters of the City may, at any annual meeting or a special meeting duly warned and held for that purpose, vote to change the council-manager form of government to any other legal form. A majority of the legal votes cast shall be needed to effect a change of government. (Added 2013, No. M-9, 3, eff. June 4, 2013.)