2013 Vermont Statutes
Title 24 Appendix Municipal Charters
Chapter 5 CITY OF MONTPELIER
§ 501 City meetings

5-501. City meetings

(a) On the first Tuesday of March in each year, a meeting of legal voters of said City shall be held as designated on the warning for such meeting, at a place or places to be appointed by the City Council of said City, and a warning shall be posted in at least three public places within the limits of said City, and at least 12 days previous thereto, which warning shall be signed by the City Clerk, or, in case of the City Clerk's failure, by the Mayor, provided that, if the annual meeting shall fail to be held for want of warning before mentioned, or for any other cause, the City shall not be thereby prejudiced, and the several officers hereinafter mentioned may, at any time thereafter, be elected at a special meeting, called for that purpose, as hereinafter provided; and provided, further, that any business required by this charter or the general law to be transacted at the annual City meeting may be transacted at such special meeting.

(b) The warning for annual and special City meetings shall, by separate articles, specifically indicate the business to be transacted, including the offices and the questions to be voted upon. The warning also shall contain any legally binding article or articles requested by 10 percent of the registered voters of the City or any nonlegally binding article or articles requested by five percent of the registered voters of the City and filed with the City Clerk not fewer than 40 days before the day of the meeting.

(c) A vote taken at an annual or special meeting shall remain in effect unless rescinded or amended. (Amended 2011, No. M-15 (Adj. Sess.), 2, eff. May 7, 2012.)