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Legislative Council briefs committee on municipal charters, Dillon's Rule and the charter process
Summary
Tucker Anderson of Legislative Council gave a 'charters 101' briefing covering the constitutional basis for municipal charters, the role of the General Assembly, Dillon's Rule, and procedural steps for charter adoption and review.
Tucker Anderson of the Legislative Council provided the committee with a primer on municipal charters and the General Assembly’s exclusive constitutional role in incorporation.
Anderson began by citing Vermont’s constitutional allocation of legislative power and described the General Assembly’s exclusive authority to grant municipal charters. He told the committee that “the simplest way to put that is that the General Assembly does not have the constitutional authority to incorporate corporations at large, but you do have the express and exclusive authority to incorporate municipal corporations, educational corporations, reformatory and penal corporations,”…
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