Vermont Statutes
Chapter 113 - Town of Colchester
App § 104. Additional powers

§ 104. Additional powers
In addition to powers otherwise conferred upon it by law, the Town is authorized:
(1) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to making and installing local improvements including curbs, sidewalks, storm drains, and water and sanitary waste systems; apportioning part of the expense of such improvements against property owners who benefit thereby; providing for the collection of such assessments and penalties for nonpayment; provided however:
(A) That, in absence of an ordinance, no assessment shall be made by the Selectboard until it has received a petition in writing from 50 percent of the owners of property fronting on such local improvements as proposed. Upon receiving such petition, the Selectboard may order the proposed improvements to be made.
(B) That no assessment shall be made in excess of the actual benefit to the land so assessed as determined by the Selectboard after notice to and hearing of the owners of the property assessed.
(C) That the total assessment made on account of any such improvements shall not exceed 50 percent of the cost of such improvement and the remaining cost of such improvement shall be borne by the Town.
(2) To adopt and enforce ordinances requiring the installation of curbs, sidewalks, and storm drains in a manner specified by the Town as a condition precedent to the issuance of a building permit.
(3) To adopt and enforce ordinances regulating signs and billboards.
(4) To adopt and enforce police ordinances regulating the parking, operation, and speed of motor vehicles upon Town and State aid streets and highways; to adopt police ordinances regulating the use of firearms, air rifles, and devices having a capacity to inflict personal injury; to adopt and enforce police ordinances prohibiting the use of firearms, air rifles, and devices having a capacity to inflict personal injury in specified areas, but only with approval of the voters.
(5) To adopt and enforce ordinances relating to regulation, licensing, or prohibition of the storage and accumulation of garbage, ashes, rubbish, refuse, and waste materials.
(6) To create and maintain a Police Department.
(7) To establish a policy whereby the Selectboard may determine it to be in the public interest to plow those private roads serving two or more year-round residences, which had previous to January 1, 1997, have the Town providing winter road maintenance. (Amended 2015, No. M-1, § 2, eff. Jan. 27, 2015.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters

Chapter 113 - Town of Colchester

App § 101. Corporate existence retained

App § 102. General law; application

App § 103. Powers of the Town

App § 104. Additional powers

App § 105. Ordinances; enforcement; adoption

App § 106. Introduction; first and second readings; public hearing

App § 107. Further consideration; final passage

App § 108. Effective date

App § 109. Filing

App § 110. Annual Town report

App § 111. Reservation of powers to the Town

App § 201. Officers generally

App § 202. Elective officers; generally

App § 203. Recall

App § 204. Vacancies

App § 205. Selectboard; organization

App § 206. Meetings of the Selectboard

App § 207. Record of proceedings

App § 208. Appointments

App § 209. Jurisdiction over other officers or employees

App § 210. Compensation of Selectboard; appointees

App § 211. Powers and duties

App § 301. Application of general laws

App § 302. Time of holding

App § 303. Eligible voters

App § 304. Budget

App § 305. Overrule of ordinances

App § 306. Petition for enactment of ordinance; special meeting

App § 401. Appointment

App § 402. Qualifications

App § 403. Oath

App § 404. Powers and duties

App § 405. Compensation

App § 406. Removal

App § 501. Department of Assessment

App § 502. Appraisal of property

App § 503. Duties

App § 504. Appeal

App § 601. Fiscal year

App § 602. Preparation and submission

App § 603. Town meeting and budget

App § 604. Appropriation

App § 605. Amount to be raised by taxation

App § 606. Departmental budget

App § 607. Transfers of appropriation

App § 608. Capital budgeting for voter approved funding

App § 701. Taxes on real and personal property

App § 702. Penalty; interest; Treasurer’s powers

App § 703. Local sales, rooms, and meals and alcohol beverages tax

App § 801. Appointment and removal

App § 802. Personnel rules and regulations

App § 803. Prohibitions

App § 901. Ethical conduct

App § 902. Conflict of interest policy

App § 1001. Amendment of charter

App § 1002. Existing ordinances and contracts

App § 1003. Continuation of existing officers’ terms