2025 Vermont Statutes
Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters
Chapter 103 - Town of Bennington
App § 406. Removal

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24A VT Stats § 406
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§ 406. Removal

(a) On 90 days’ written notice from the Select Board, the Town Manager may be removed without cause by a majority of the Select Board at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on removal. During the 90-day period, the Town Manager may be suspended with pay.

(b) The Select Board may adopt at any time a resolution stating its intention to remove the Town Manager and the reasons therefore, a copy of which shall be sent to the Town Manager. The Town Manager may, within 10 days after such notice is sent, request a hearing. The hearing shall be held by the Select Board not less than 10 days nor more than 20 days from the date of such request, after which the Select Board may dismiss the Town Manager. If no request for a hearing is filed in accordance with the foregoing, the Select Board may dismiss the Town Manager immediately. During the period after the resolution of intention is adopted and until the Town Manager’s dismissal, he or she may be suspended with pay. (Amended 2019, No. M-8, § 1, eff. June 10, 2019.)

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