§ 705.
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§ 705. Fire District; process for abolition
The St. Johnsbury Center Fire District No. 1 is abolished when a majority of the legal voters of said Fire District present and voting on the question at a regular or special meeting of said Fire District warned for said purpose so vote and shall thereupon cease to exist as a political entity and body corporate. All the property and funds of said Fire District shall on such date be vested in the Town of St. Johnsbury and the Town of St. Johnsbury shall thereupon assume all indebtedness and obligations of said Fire District unless said liabilities and obligations exceed said assets in which case said Fire District shall continue to exist until such excess is paid unless the Town of St.
Johnsbury votes otherwise at a regular or special meeting warned for said purpose. Any existing debt service shall be assessed as a special assessment to those properties within the Fire District. (Renumbered from 24A V.S.A. § 151-6 by 2023, No. M-27 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. May 30, 2024.)