Vermont Statutes
Chapter 117 - Municipal and Regional Planning and Development
§ 4451. Enforcement; penalties

§ 4451. Enforcement; penalties
(a) Any person who violates any bylaw after it has been adopted under this chapter or who violates a comparable ordinance or regulation adopted under prior enabling laws shall be fined not more than $200.00 for each offense. No action may be brought under this section unless the alleged offender has had at least seven days’ warning notice by certified mail. An action may be brought without the seven-day notice and opportunity to cure if the alleged offender repeats the violation of the bylaw or ordinance after the seven-day notice period and within the next succeeding 12 months.
(1) The seven-day warning notice shall state that a violation exists, that the alleged offender has an opportunity to cure the violation within the seven days, and that the alleged offender will not be entitled to an additional warning notice for a violation occurring after the seven days.
(2) A notice of violation issued under this chapter also shall state:
(A) the bylaw or municipal land use permit condition alleged to have been violated;
(B) the facts giving rise to the alleged violation;
(C) to whom appeal may be taken and the period of time for taking an appeal; and
(D) that failure to file an appeal within that period will render the notice of violation the final decision on the violation addressed in the notice.
(3) In default of payment of the fine, the person, the members of any partnership, or the principal officers of the corporation shall each pay double the amount of the fine. Each day that a violation is continued shall constitute a separate offense. All fines collected for the violation of bylaws shall be paid over to the municipality whose bylaw has been violated.
(b) Any person who, being the owner or agent of the owner of any lot, tract, or parcel of land, lays out, constructs, opens, or dedicates any street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water main, or other improvements for public use, travel, or other purposes or for the common use of occupants of buildings abutting thereon, or sells, transfers, or agrees or enters into an agreement to sell any land in a subdivision or land development whether by reference to or by other use of a plat of that subdivision or land development or otherwise, or erects any structure on that land, unless a final plat has been prepared in full compliance with this chapter and the bylaws adopted under this chapter and has been recorded as provided in this chapter, shall be fined not more than $200.00, and each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or agreed or included in a contract to be sold shall be deemed a separate violation. All fines collected for these violations shall be paid over to the municipality whose bylaw has been violated. The description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the seller or transferor from these penalties or from the remedies provided in this chapter. (Added 2003, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 101; amended 2011, No. 155 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 2013, No. 146 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. May 27, 2014.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 24 - Municipal and County Government

Chapter 117 - Municipal and Regional Planning and Development

§ 4301. Short title

§ 4302. Purpose; goals

§ 4303. Definitions

§ 4303a. Computation of time

§ 4304. Planning and land use manual

§ 4306. Municipal and Regional Planning Fund

§ 4307. Municipal Bylaw Modernization Grants

§ 4321. Creation of planning commissions

§ 4322. Planning commission; membership

§ 4323. Appointment, term, and vacancy; rules

§ 4324. Existing commissions

§ 4325. Powers and duties of planning commissions

§ 4326. Appropriations, reports, and records

§ 4327. Joint planning commissions

§ 4328. Terms of office inconsistent with charter provisions

§ 4341. Creation of regional planning commissions

§ 4341a. Performance grants for regional planning service

§ 4342. Regional planning commissions; membership

§ 4343. Appointment, term, and vacancy; rules

§ 4345. Optional powers and duties of regional planning commissions

§ 4345a. Duties of regional planning commissions

§ 4345b. Intermunicipal service agreements

§ 4346. Appropriations

§ 4347. Purposes of regional plan

§ 4348. Adoption and amendment of regional plan

§ 4348a. Elements of a regional plan

§ 4348b. Readoption of regional plans

§ 4349. Regional plan; adoption by municipality

§ 4350. Review and consultation regarding municipal planning effort

§ 4351. Review by Commissioner of Housing and Community Development

§ 4352. Optional determination of energy compliance; enhanced energy planning

§ 4362. Appropriations

§ 4381. Authorization

§ 4382. The plan for a municipality

§ 4384. Preparation of plan; hearings by planning commission

§ 4385. Adoption and amendment of plans; hearing by legislative body

§ 4387. Readoption of plans

§ 4401. Purpose and authority

§ 4402. Bylaws and regulatory implementation tools authorized

§ 4403. Nonregulatory implementation tools

§ 4404. State designation; implementation of municipal plan

§ 4410. Regulatory implementation of the municipal plan

§ 4411. Zoning bylaws

§ 4412. Required provisions and prohibited effects

§ 4413. Limitations on municipal bylaws

§ 4414. Zoning; permissible types of regulations

§ 4415. Interim bylaws

§ 4416. Site plan review

§ 4417. Planned unit development

§ 4418. Subdivision bylaws

§ 4419. Unified development bylaws

§ 4420. Local Act 250 review of municipal impacts

§ 4421. Official map

§ 4422. Adequate public facilities; phasing

§ 4423. Transfer of development rights

§ 4424. Shorelands; river corridor protection areas; flood or hazard area; special or freestanding bylaws

§ 4427. Persons eligible to apply for permits

§ 4430. Capital budget and program

§ 4431. Purchase or acceptance of development rights

§ 4432. Supporting plans

§ 4433. Advisory commissions and committees

§ 4440. Administration; finance

§ 4441. Preparation of bylaws and regulatory tools; amendment or repeal

§ 4442. Adoption of bylaws and related regulatory tools; amendment or repeal

§ 4443. Adoption, amendment, or repeal of capital budget and program

§ 4444. Public hearing notice for adoption, amendment, or repeal of bylaw and other regulatory tools

§ 4445. Availability and distribution of documents

§ 4446. Bylaws; effect of adoption

§ 4447. Clerk’s certificate

§ 4448. Appointment and powers of administrative officer

§ 4449. Zoning permit, certificate of occupancy, and municipal land use permit

§ 4450. Eligibility to apply for permits

§ 4451. Enforcement; penalties

§ 4452. Enforcement; remedies

§ 4453. Challenges to housing provisions in bylaws

§ 4454. Enforcement; limitations

§ 4455. Revocation

§ 4460. Appropriate municipal panels

§ 4461. Development review procedures

§ 4462. Combined review

§ 4463. Subdivision review

§ 4464. Hearing and notice requirements; decisions and conditions; administrative review; role of advisory commissions in development review

§ 4465. Appeals of decisions of the administrative officer

§ 4466. Notice of appeal

§ 4468. Hearing on appeal

§ 4469. Appeal; variances

§ 4470. Successive appeals; requests for reconsideration to an appropriate municipal panel

§ 4470a. Misrepresentation; material fact

§ 4471. Appeal to Environmental Division

§ 4472. Exclusivity of remedy; finality

§ 4473. Purpose; limitation

§ 4474. Clerk’s certificate

§ 4476. Formal review of regional planning commission decisions

§ 4480. Construction of chapter

§ 4481. Saving clause

§ 4482. Severability

§ 4483. Construction; limitation

§ 4498. Housing budget and investment reports