Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 24 Sec. 3251

  • Municipality: shall include a city, town, town school district, incorporated school or fire district or incorporated village, and all other governmental incorporated units. See
  • real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein, and pews or slips in places of public worship shall be treated as real estate. See

§ 3251. Definitions

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Legislative body” means “legislative body” as defined in section 2001 of this title.

(2) “Property” means real estate.

(3) “Sewage system” means “sewage system” as defined in subdivision 3501(6) of this title.

(4) “Special assessment” means a tax assessed against one or more properties receiving the benefit of a particular public improvement, as distinguished from a tax on the entire grand list of a municipality.

(5) “Water system” means “water system” as defined in subdivision 3341(b)(2) of this title without reference to any determination by the water commission. (Added 1969, No. 170 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. March 2, 1970.)