§ 202.

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§ 202. Elective officers

(a)Officers. The officers elected at its annual meeting shall be:

(1)five selectpersons;

(2)Town Clerk;

(3)Town Treasurer;

(4)five library trustees;

(5)five school trustees; and

(6)Champlain Water District

(CWD)Representative.

(b)Candidate for office. No candidate for any office listed above that has multiple open seats for an election shall campaign for more than one seat. However, a candidate may campaign for multiple offices as allowed by law.

(c)Qualifications. All elected officers shall be chosen at large from the legally qualified voters at a legally warned Town meeting using the Australian ballot system. The elected officers shall hold office for the terms as set forth in section 203 and until their successors are elected and qualified.

(d)Bonding. All officers shall be sworn before entering their duties, and all officers as described in 24 V.S.A. § 832 shall give a bond conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties in an amount prescribed and approved by the Selectboard.

(e)Termination.

(1)When an elected officer specified in subsection

(a)of this section resigns, becomes domiciled in another town, dies, or is removed by recall, that office shall become vacant and the Selectboard, in the case of the Town, and the school trustees, in the case of the school, shall appoint an eligible person to fill the vacancy until the next legally warned annual meeting. The person appointed shall serve until the vacant term expires.

(2)If more than one vacancy occurs on the Selectboard or Board of School Trustees at the same time, then the respective board shall call a special election to fill the vacancies, unless there are fewer than 90 days until the annual meeting. (Amended 2013, No. M-14 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 9, 2014; 2017, No. 7, § 116; 2021, No. M-16 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 31, 2022.)