Vermont Statutes Title 32. Taxation and Finance, § 611. Consolidated town fee report and request

(1) “Cost” shall be narrowly construed and may include reasonable and directly related costs of administration, maintenance, and other expenses due to providing the service or product or performing the regulatory function.

(2) “Fee” means a monetary charge collected by or on behalf of a town for a service or product provided to, or the regulation of, specified classes of individuals or entities.

(3) “Town” means a town, city, unorganized town or gore, and the unified towns and gores in Essex County.

(1) its statutory authorization and termination date, if any;

(2) its current rate or amount and the date it was last set or adjusted by the General Assembly;

(3) the fund into which its revenues are deposited; and

(4) for each town, in each of the two previous fiscal years, the revenues derived from each fee.

(1) an account of the amounts retained and spent from each town's Restoration and Preservation Reserve Fund in the three prior fiscal years; and

(2) a summary of each town's plan to digitize records using funds appropriated from the town's Restoration and Preservation Reserve Fund.

(1) Create a new fee, or change, reauthorize, or terminate an existing fee, which shall include a description of the services provided or the function performed.

(2) Set a new or adjust an existing fee rate or amount. Each new or adjusted fee rate shall be accompanied by information justifying the rate, which may include:

(3) Designate, or redesignate, the fund into which revenue from a fee is to be deposited.