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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 24 Sec. 1622

  • Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
  • Town: shall include city and wards or precincts therein; "selectboard members" and "board of civil authority" shall extend to and include the mayor and aldermen of cities; "trustees" shall extend to and include bailiffs of incorporated villages; and the laws applicable to the inhabitants and officers of towns shall be applicable to the inhabitants and similar officers of all municipal corporations. See

§ 1622. Town orders; record

(a)(1) The chair of the selectboard shall keep or cause to be kept a single record of all orders drawn by the board showing the number, date, to whom payable, for what purpose, and the amount of each order.

(2) All other officers authorized by law to draw orders upon the town treasurer shall keep or cause to be kept a like record.

(b) Such records shall be submitted to the town auditors annually on or before February 1.

(c) If the records of orders named in this section are made by an assistant clerk, the assistant clerk shall not be the town treasurer or the spouse of the town treasurer or any person acting in the capacity of clerk for the town treasurer. (Amended 2017, No. 130 (Adj. Sess.), § 13.)