{"data":{"id":"us-vt/24-v.s.a.-app.-ch.-505-2","jurisdiction":"us-vt","citation":"24 V.S.A. App. ch. 505, § 2","heading":"Body corporate and corporate limits","body":"(a) The legal voters of the District shall be a body corporate. The corporate limits shall be the boundary lines of the Town of Williamstown, being bounded as follows: easterly by the line of Washington; southerly by the lines of Chelsea and Brookfield; westerly by the lines of Northfield and Berlin; and northerly by the lines of Berlin and Barre.\n(b) While the District encompasses the same area as the Town of Williamstown, it shall be a corporate body separate from the Town of Williamstown. It shall elect its own officers, vote its own taxes, and manage its own affairs as follows:\n(1) The Fire District Prudential Committee shall, for the Fire District, set a Fire District tax rate in the same manner that the Selectboard set the Town tax rate as provided by 17 V.S.A § 2664.\n(2) The Prudential Committee shall make contact with the Town for the collection of Fire District taxes.","path":["Title 24 Appendix: Municipal Charters","Chapter 505: Williamstown Fire District Charter"],"source_url":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/24APPENDIX/505/00002","current_through":"2025 session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:17:07Z","sha256":"378898a0b565691d9900f5286adb00d5ffbf518b02b27b1f60f4ec5cbec9fb8b","source_id":"us-vt","stale":false,"prev":"us-vt/24-v.s.a.-app.-ch.-505-1","next":"us-vt/24-v.s.a.-app.-ch.-505-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}