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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
In addition to powers otherwise conferred upon it by law, the Town is, for the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, welfare, and convenience, authorized to adopt and enforce ordinances, rules, and regulations concerning any matter or activity permitted by general law, including:
(1) making and installing local improvements, including curbs, sidewalks, and storm drains in a manner specified by the Town as a condition precedent to the issuance of a building permit;
(2) regulating the parking, operation, and speed of motor vehicles upon Town and Vermont State aid streets and highways;
(3) regulating or providing for the storage, accumulation, collection, removal, and disposal of garbage, ashes, rubbish, refuse, and other waste materials, including contracting with third parties for any or all of those services and establishing service rates for those services;
(4) establishing and maintaining a Police Department and adopting policies pertaining to that Department;
(5) establishing and maintaining a Fire Department and adopting policies pertaining to that Department;
(6) establishing and maintaining an ambulance service and adopting policies pertaining to that service;
(7) establishing and maintaining a Water Department financed by an enterprise fund and adopting policies pertaining to that Department;
(8) establishing and maintaining a Wastewater Department financed by an enterprise fund and adopting policies pertaining to that Department;
(9) establishing and maintaining a Highway Department and adopting policies pertaining to that Department;
(10) regulating the moving of buildings in the streets or public highways of the Town;
(11) regulating the holding of public meetings in the streets, highways, or on public property of the Town;
(12) regulating riots, noises, disturbances, and disorderly assembly and adopting pertinent policies;
(13) establishing and maintaining control of domestic animals within the Town and adopting pertinent policies;
(14) establishing and maintaining a Financial Services Department;
(15) establishing and maintaining a Planning and Development Department;
(16) establishing and maintaining a Park and Recreation Department;
(17) establishing and maintaining any other proper and lawful Town departments or services as deemed necessary, including the establishment of enterprise funds.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Vermont Statutes Title 24 (Appendix). Municipal Charters, App. c. 123A § 103. Particular powers - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/vt/title-24-app-municipal-charters/vt-st-tit-24-app-c-123a-sect-103/
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